Life With Lisa - Lisa Kelly Photography Blog

Mr. Wriggle

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:22:35 +0000

This tiny little man was such a wriggler, and all he could think about was food. So much so that when we were trying to get some family photos, he kept turning his head towards his mum’s chest for more food, hehe. Well he is a growing boy right! I knew if we were patient that the wriggling would eventually stop and I was so right. Mum and dad were such a laugh, we had a wonderful time together and I just cannot wait for them to see this sneak peek, I know they will be over the moon at how adorable their little man is…

Oh and I just adored his amazing hair, it looked so styled and trendy. He clearly is going to be a heartbreaker.

Perfect new lips…sigh…how beautiful

Enjoy J & C, and thank you so much for bringing your little boy to see me, he is adorable.

Two new brothers and a butterfly {canberra newborn photographer}

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:40:48 +0000

This was a beautiful session. Mum and dad were such wonderful people who had experienced the tragic loss of their baby girl last year. Not long after this time, they discovered to their amazement that a new blessing was on the way. Bittersweet I’m sure but such a wonderful gift to help with their healing. And here is the little blessing himself. Meet adorable baby C:-

Look at this amazing eye contact for such a new baby, amazing

I adore beautiful baby lips

And allow me to introduce the best 3 year old model ever, I cannot believe how sweet and good J was for me. And dad’s face watching his little supermodel work the camera, well it was priceless. Dad you made me smile with how proud you were of your little star

Look at this gorgeous family, I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed their company.

N & M, thanks so much for sharing your boys with me, and also telling me about your beautiful butterfly. I have thought about you often since the session and daresay you will stay in my thoughts for a long time to come. Enjoy this little preview.

A much wanted blessing {newborn photographer canberra}

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:53:12 +0000

Sigh….this little one was just perfect, so content and sleepy. He was just divine. He is sure to break some hearts when he is a big boy but for now, he’s just content to be loved by mummy and daddy. Thank you so much for sharing your perfect little miracle with me J & C, I’m so happy to be a part of your journey…

I love this shot with mum, she is just in heaven now that he is here…

This rug has special meaning because mum knitted it with her own two hands, can you believe how neat the stitches are, I was completely in awe…

Is that a tiny smile I see peeking out?

This session was go go go! {canberra family photographer}

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:36:36 +0000

I love toddlers - they are bursting with energy, love running and loud noises and they especially hate sitting still. This little guy was such a toddler, hehe. The best thing about toddlers for me is when all of the chasing and fun and games pays off and you get gorgeous images for mum and dad. We definitely got some beauties. And N had the most divine lashes, why do all the boys have such amazing lashes? It really isn’t fair.

His baby sister was much less active, sitting sweetly for me. She gave me lots of serious expressions which I adore and I am still in love with her stunning red dress (do they make them in my size, haha?). And her eyes, so big and bright and gorgeous.

Enjoy this little preview…

Look how long these lashes are…amazing!

That whistle, it was amazing to me how loudly he could blow it. I never knew it could be so loud, there were a few occasions where the grown ups may have actually have had to cover their ears, haha

The trip of a lifetime

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:29:39 +0000

I have the most exciting, amazing, wonderful, mindblowing news for you all…………The Kelly’s are off to the US at the end of September!!!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Now it might not be exciting news for all of you, but my oh my, it is a dream come true for me. I have always wanted to visit America and most especially to visit “The Happiest Place on Earth”, of course I mean Disneyland. I have wanted to go to Disneyland since I was 7 years old, have dreamt about it, talked about it, hoped upon hope that one day I could go and meet “the mouse”. So to now have the opportunity to take my babies there too, and see the whole thing through their eyes, well life does not get better than that my friends.

We leave on September 28 for 3 weeks and will be visiting LA & Anaheim, San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York. We only made the decision a week and a half ago and The Singing Chef and I were sitting having a few drinks later that night, talking about how excited we are to go on this trip, and after a few more drinks, and maybe another couple, we somehow managed to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets for his concert in New York in October. So the next day it dawned on me that we might need to buy some flights and organise some accommodation and now the whole trip is being planned around Bruce, hahahaha. Trust the Kelly’s to get things the wrong way around, but that is just how we do things.

The most exciting bit was trying to find a fun way to tell the children. I wanted to make it exciting so that they would always remember when they found out. They had been home sick last Thursday and Friday and so I decided to do a treasure hunt with cryptic clues, with the clues all printed on Disney character cards (see below).

I had everything ready and was anxiously waiting for The Singing Chef to get home so I could surprise them with this little game. It’s funny how slowly time moves when you are waiting. They were just so cute, squealing and running from one clue to the other. I made the clues a little tough actually so many hints were needed. Finally the last clue led them to a Hangman Game that spelled out “there is a present under your pillow”:-

Once they found the present, it had another clue on top:-

Inside the present was a Disney t-shirt and their passports. I must admit they were still looking a little bewildered so I then handed them a scroll with our itinerary on it telling them all about where we would be going and what we would be doing. I swear Olivia jumped around for an hour (just like Tigger, hehe) and Fraser was really excited too but maybe not as crazy as Olivia. Their faces when they read that there were only 101 more sleeps (we are now down to 96) were just priceless. I swear watching them enjoy that game and their excitement once they found out was so perfect, I barely need to go on the holiday, it really was one of the most wonderful moments ever. The trip will just be the icing on the cake.

Here they are in their new t-shirts…

Whew, I got tired just reading all of that myself, haha. It certainly is not an itinerary for the faint hearted. I am sure we will be dragging those kids around near the end but you just gotta pack as much in as you can right??? I can’t wait.

So that is my news. So much to organise and do and decide and stress about, and juggle this great business of mine and my family and friends, the next 3 months sure are going to be interesting. I don’t have to tell you what this trip away is going to do to my schedule in September/October. It will really limit how many sessions I can offer from September until the end of the year so if anyone reading this was considering booking a session before Christmas, please do it soon because I really will only have limited spaces this year. But I’m not going to stress about it, I can only do what I can do, and in the mean time, I will be having Disney dreams, hehe.

My favourite family

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:56:29 +0000

I’ve mentioned on this blog before how much I adore this family, and I was so excited to have them come back for their fourth session with me. I keep in contact me with them anyway, but it’s always nice to see the kids and how much they have grown. They are just so adorable, oh and the kids are pretty cute too, hehehe. And the thing I love about them the most is their love of Disneyland. When they first came to me when N was a newborn, their enthusiasm and love of Disneyland reignited a long held love of my own that I had tucked away from my childhood. They have been there so many times and I love hearing their stories. And to my complete surprise and joy they gave me a 2009 Disneyland ornament that they had purchased for me when they were there in December. I nearly had a little cry when they gave it to me, my two fave things, Disneyland and Christmas all rolled into one. They are so sweet to think of little ole me when they were visiting “the happiest place on earth” hehehe.

The session was busy and fun and filled with lots of cute shots, V & D thank you so much for again trusting me with the great privilege of capturing your gorgeous family, here’s a little preview…

Big boy N

Baby E, she is so sweet

A pirates life for thee

Miss Minnie (they brought along so many cute Disney things to be included in the images, I was in heaven)

Look at these adorable Mickey lollipops, soooo cute

A sneak peek

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:39:36 +0000

This little bub was just so cute, and she just loved loved loved to suck on her dummy and her hand and her own tongue and lips. Quite a few of her images were taken with someone whipping her dummy out and me shooting like crazy before she got riled up that we had taken it away, hehe. It was a system that worked well though as you can see from this little preview, she is just adorable…

The parents were surprised {newborn photography canberra}

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:11:22 +0000

SURPRISED at how many times she could poop that is, hehehehe. I wasn’t surprised at all, nothing to do with newborns surprises me now but it was funny to watch mum and dad’s shock. Pooping aside, she was just a little doll for me, so sweet and she had the cutest little frowny face that dad swears is just like mum, hehe. I won’t get into that debate, all I know is she was gorgeous, so yeah, I guess that does make her like her mum. Baby A was a little chunk (just like my Olivia was, in fact, exact same weight) so I was a bit partial to her, just wanted to snuggle with her forever. Thanks so much for sharing your precious new baby girl with me A & D, enjoy your sneak peek…

You know I love me a baby foot

I’m still here, I promise {baby photographer canberra}

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:56 +0000

Wow it’s been busy here and with the terrible Canberra weather (what is with this rain), rescheduling, fitting newborns in and life - blogging has been the last thing I could fit in. I have also just gotten back from an amazing 3 days away with my Olivia in Sydney to celebrate her 11th birthday (sob sob, where does the time go?) and let’s just say she shopped until she dropped. Wow, she is a shopping queen. I myself don’t really love aimless shopping for days on end but it was fun to watch her. She had a ton of birthday money from family and it was weird and hard to step back and just let her spend it however she wanted. I am such a control freak about that sort of stuff but I remembered what it was like to be young and just buying frivolous things that I might only wear once, just because I could. You remember that feeling right, not considering how each purchase will match in with the other items in your wardrobe so you get value for money, hehehe. At last count I think she bought 2 hats, 4 scarves, 1 pair of shoes, a new purse, a vest, earrings, necklace, tights, legwarmers, some new dancewear, a t-shirt, hair clips and I may have missed something. I bought a scarf, hahahahaha. And we had an amazing time on the ferry and the monorail is always good fun for seeing some different walks of life, hehe. Good food, great company and the whole thing ended with the PINK concert last night. Wow, we had seriously bad seats, LOL. Last row in the whole place and the flight of stairs to get to our seats were ridiculously steep and after 4 trips backwards and forwards, my legs were feeling the “burn”. I might have actually felt some chest pain after my last trek up those stairs, man what a workout. PINK was absolutely amazing as I knew she would be, I love love loved all of the amazing costumes and her acrobatic work is beyond words. She didn’t miss a note and the whole concert was a cross between a stage show and a rock concert. It was simply wonderful.

So I’m back and I’m tired but I’m happy and what a way to celebrate Liv’s birthday. This week is going to be so busy, shoots everyday, weather forecasts to make any natural light photographer cry and the kids with far too much stuff on so I will try my best to update the blog and to any of my clients waiting for sneak peeks, I promise I will share soon.

Thank goodness

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:42:18 +0000

When this new mummy rang me about a session for her new baby I was out of town for a week, fully booked and just felt I couldn’t fit the session into my schedule. I truly hate to turn people away but would prefer they go to another photographer within that sweet newborn time frame than wait until the baby is nearly 4 weeks old and have me do it. I recommended some other photographers and said if she had no luck to come back to me and we would do the best we could but the baby would be over 3 weeks old.

She ended up getting back in touch with me as she preferred my style and said she would be happy with any of the images i could get and if tiny squishy newborn ones were no longer possible she understood and was just content to capture this time in baby H’s life.

Well, thank goodness she did. I felt so lucky to capture this adorable little man and mum and dad were just so sweet and delightful I would’ve been the one who missed out on something special if they hadn’t persevered with me and my crazy schedule. Baby H was as divine as he could be and so many of the images are just beautiful. I know mum is stalking the blog for this sneak peek, and I love her enthusiasm so I thought I better get these images on there now, hehe. Enjoy C & P, and thank you so much for allowing me to spend time with your gorgeous boy…