blue moments........

life's been a little blue lately!

memories of the day i lost my love,
my best friend, my warrior………

in these blue moments sometimes the waves hit and stay awhile and i am consumed by their strength. unable to create the ocean the only place that can heal me, a place to release my heart, illuminate to life's ebbs and flows and all her moods/colours,

a time for us

these were some special moments shared with my wild one on Magnetic island, a healing place that i am grateful to visit often and be reminded of my love and how he shines through our children in so many beautiful ways.....

on this stunning new moon i am feeling inspired again, grateful for the love and the light x

Annabelle

Had the best time creating a portfolio for the stunning Annabelle who was an absolute dream to shoot. I adore shooting beautiful women in beautiful places (especially the beach!!)
Annabelle is a Model to Brooke Lee Modelling Mackay and was keen to get some shoot experience and images together to take with her to Melbourne this May.

wishing you so much success for your modelling career….
pretty sure you are going to ROCK it x

Big Calm

can you believe its August…. this year is FLYING,
i actually feel like life is in fast forward for me at the moment….. anyone else feel like that?
as you may know i am the worlds worst blogger!
so much has happened in the last 2 years that i feel like a completely different person,
and unfortunately one that hasn’t had time to update her website so today i thought i would share what i have been up too…………….

I have been working as a freelance photoghrapher for many years trying out different genres to find my fit but when my husband Paul lost his 5 year battle to brain cancer in 2016 everything changed.
i lost my spark
and the one who really ‘seen’ me wasn’t here


the ocean was the place I ran to on a daily when I needed to scream or just feel her calm and quite authentically I developed this passion for underwater photography and for protecting the ocean.
the ocean will always inspire
she made me feel things,
love, sadness, anger, frustration, curiosity, inspiration and above all CALM
so i started shooting the ocean
not in a marine way or even particularly surf,
just started shooting the light….
It’s the way the water catches the light and how beautifully it can be portrayed.

at the end of 2021 i put together a proposal with the Mackay Regional Councils RADF (Regional arts developemnt fund) to produce an underwater photography exhibition to showcase a series of work i am creating titled ‘Big Calm’ which is about losing my best friend and how i feel about it.
Gratefully i was successful in obtaining a grant to help this dream become a reality.
Big Calm is to run in Mackay in 2022 (date to be announced very soon!!) and after much looking for the perfect place, researching, applications, emails, crying and beer
i am extremely excited to say that the venue has been found and Big calm has a stage!

all i can say about it is that despite my passion for the ocean and dedication to spread love and awareness for her it will be a love story like no other,
a healing journey where i will take the viewer to a place that has no limits, only emotions………………..

hope to see you there!

Thank you to the very talented Moon rabbit pictures for these beautiful images we shot on a new moon sunrise talking about Big calm and the one we miss the most

x

she is aRT

spent a rad day in the studio with this babe creating magic whilst chatting all things life……..

Cat is INCREDIBLE!!!!
not only gorgeous, amazing to shoot funny and authentic
but a genuine soul who exudes a unique quality and care for this world that is so refreshing

look out for this babe as we have some more funky collaborations coming up…..



thanks Cat for hanging out in Bimby + Roy intimates in my urban jungle
and to Moon rabbit pictures for capturing behind the scenes footage
i loved every minute

x

Halidazed........

beautiful morning lazing around Haliday Bay with my wild one and the most incredible light.
one of my absolute FAV places to let go, rest and create dreams for the future and all the beaches
i want to visit and shoot one day……………

its so important to recharge
to let your mind rest
fill your heart and find inspiration,
so your soul can speak

the ocean is this place for me,
what place do you visit to let go?

x

Byron baby!

beautiful byron……
the healing, the HEALING

i’m so bad at managing to edit and share personal images as there never seems time!
so this is a little late in getting here but this trip was such a personal, emotional and creative trip that changed us in ways we will never forget.
walked the lighthouse for my birthday sunrise, colours that warm your heart and offer hope for brighter tomorrows, turquoise salty swims and magical amethyst sunsets that you neve want to leave,
too beautiful not to give to others


THANK YOU to all who loved, shared and inspired us with their special messages that seem to come when you need it the most
the life changing message for me………… just do what you love

x

Fight like a girl.......

LOVED spending an afternoon at a dirty old Servo with these babes talking all things denim and hair!

I love the confidence, the sass
and the way these incredible young women know what they want and how to get it

the freedom
to be themselves and live their truth

the intelligence
to listen, learn and grow

So excited to see them use their feminine super powers and FIGHT LIKE A GIRL

x

Edge of Seventeen

‘Well he seemed broken hearted
something within him,
but that moment that I first laid eyes on him all alone
on the edge of Seventeen’

~ Stevie Nicks

These guys are THAT cute!
been hanging around them for months so I had to hit the streets and capture their love
how inspiring to watch this connection grow
their love of music, festivals & each other

makes me remember when I was on the edge of 17

x

Urban romance.....

What does it mean to call something romantic?
Does it mean flowers, chocolates or candlelit dinners with your honey
do you need a special occasion
a reason
or should it have to cost money?


Is romance for showing the person you love that your thinking about them or is it just for you, to feel womanly or pretty

what is romance to a woman?

being a woman is incredible
we are everything all at once
women love romance & its mysterious nature
the way it stirs our soul and makes us feel

to channel a goddess of years before her to aid in her expressing a part of herself that she never knew existed, to be her despite everything else she was committed too

Don’t wait for the tomorrows, the reasons, the partner, the money or the special occasion to celebrate romance. go after it EVERY SINGLE DAY
fall in love with yourself
be free
wear your favourite clothes and dance alone

There is nothing more beautiful than a woman being un-apologetically herself:
comfortable in her perfect imperfection

x

a lookout with my loves.....

LOVE a nature mission with my little eco warriors... we are actually nature addicts & there are so many beautiful places to be explored around Mackay

Walked up the Cape Hillsborough lookout for sunset recently
just can't get enough of this beauty
such grounding, inspiration and energy from walking this incredibly electric earth
to feel
to love
to connect

besides the health & mind benefits of being in nature i also love to teach my children about mother earth
about being open, kind and loving
to explore, breathe & release

to let go
to learn
to find our wild  x

 

HNY!!!!!

Can you believe its another fresh new year...... 2018 WOW!!!!
HNY to all,
I hope you've spent it with those you love, partied, ate and drank way to much, spent all your cash and are exercising like a maniac as your pants are too tight!
well that's my reality anyway

I just wanted to start the year with a message of LOVE
Love for yourself & what is that you do
This year I hope to focus on my passion.... Photography
my wild one is starting Kindy and my beauty is studying year 12.
All important things going on for us here
In our busy chaos though we always need to make space for the things we love, the things that drive us, light our soul and make this crazy world make sense
I love that a new year gives us all time to reflect on where we are & where we want to be
Inspired... yes I am

Whats your plans this year? Are you excited??
Hope to cross your path and make some magic together xx

 

ps. I am TOTALLY addicted to overalls!

Leah- HNY2 post.jpg

Finding beauty..........

my favourite thing is finding beauty in the everyday, the ordinary or the simple and to re-create, re-furb or just blend the old & the new..........

I shot the lovely Emma recently in a vacant house in my street, i'd been watching the grass get longer and the sun hitting it in afternoon light kept calling me over!
this is Em's first time in front of the camera and she totally ROCKED it

Local Mackay girl who I hope I have helped see herself for the incredible beautiful woman she is becoming. I always love to inspire and encourage women to believe in themselves and realize their own magic.

Stand in your power,
don't run from your fear
be yourself
love yourself for all the gifts you give to the world just by being you
 

be the girl who decided to go for it.....................

#woman #selflove #believeinyourself




 

my new everything

so here it is...... a new website, a fresh start, a creative space or just a new way to look at things. whatever the case, THIS IS IT!

another part of my crazy wild life ride has hit and I have grown AGAIN and photography is still part of who and why I am. Living in beautiful Mackay & having the Whitsundays as my backyard makes it hard not to want to pick my camera up and capture it all. i am alive when i make it a part of my every day

to kick start my new everything i thought it a good idea to start this website with a blog on the reason i picked up a camera in the first place and loved the feel..... my daughter, my muse
she is that incredible, i love to shoot her face and the many emotions i know so well from our many years together. without her i wouldn't be blabbing on here now about my passion and the reason (beside my babies) that I feel a connection with things and see a magic still in this world that makes me smile.
thank you beautiful girl for making me love you so much that i also found myself and what I wanted to give the world..............