McCallum family portraits

On Christmas eve I had the pleasure of photographing the McCallum family in St Clair. They have 3 super cute dogs and this baby so I was in photography heaven! Look at those eyelashes!





He has the most expressive laugh!





Awww..



We had a stroll on the beach, and captured baby Ollie (who lives in the Uk with his parents) enjoying some time with his grandparents, who adore him.









I'm such an old romantic...





Two sisters:



Thanks McCallum family for being so friendly and hospitable. If anyone else fancies a portrait shoot in the Otago region just email me at sineadphotography@yahoo.com. You can choose from a print collection or a coffeetable album.

But which is cuter?

Bruce next door has some tiny new ducklings that are being looked after by one of his hens (hens make better mothers than ducks). If you go near them in their hutch they make little squeaking noises. So cute! Of course the other image is baby Matthew having a cuddle with his mum. A little napping baby.

More Barrett photos

What? 2 blog posts in one day? I know, but I need to make up for the terrible blog drought caused by my laptop being in for repair. She is back by the way (my laptop) with that niggling little problem fixed so all is well.

I have many many things to blog, but lets start with these photos I took a couple of weeks ago of Steven's sister's family when we almost did a proper photo session. As you can see, Liana and Nigel have managed to produce not one, but THREE very cute children. In certain lights the beautiful Alice looks spookily like Steven. I will have to dig out a photo and do a comparison here on the blog. My mother is hoping that I can produce equally cute children. Thanks mum, no pressure then. Here are the photos:













Like a little doll!! I'll probably put this on my website actually, being a sucker for anything a little kitsch!







The game we played to get Bradley and Alice's expressions in the following photo didn't quite work so well for tiny Matthew. Awww!



Alice's little hands holding her brother:



I have lots of other news, but will blog that in a couple of days time, so stay tuned....x

New baby Matthew

This is our new nephew Matthew at just 2 weeks old - isn't he gorgeous! We've been enjoying catching up with Alice and Bradley, his older brother and sister who we haven't seen for 3 years. They're great fun. Oh, and their parents too - Liana (Steven's sister) and Nigel, who are almost as much fun as their kids, ha ha. Although for some reason I didn't take any photos of them! Plenty of time for that though..









Steven has two children stuck to his arms:



Alice is such a character. Lush!



Bradley is soo cute. And already really good at art.



Alice showing me all the stuff in her little house in the garden.







We picked up the van by the way - I will take a couple of photos to put on here. It's so tall!

Nia

This is Nia who is just 8 months with her parents, Simon and Kate. We did a photo session in the house and then ventured out to the park. Nia was struggling with a cold but was such a little trooper, now and again she would find something random really funny and have a little giggle.











Reading about ducks, which can be worrying of course:



Getting ready to out - how cute is the green coat?!





Hanging out with mum and dad. I love these, and hopefully in years to come Nia can look at photographs like these and see how much her parents loved her from the start:











Bye!



What a gorgeous baby - I think she looks so patient here - "thanks camera lady, I've put up with you long enough but now I need a nap." Thanks guys x