It’s a wonderful time to get portraits done or plan your portraits for the future.
To help you out we are selling vouchers for a photo session plus 8×10 inch print for just $79 (valued at $300)
To purchase a voucher please fill in the form HERE and we will call you to arrange payment and booking you in.

Vouchers can be used for all types of photography sessions from pregnancy, newborn, baby or children, siblings, family, extended family, even the grand parents or your pets!

Vouchers are valid for 6 months from purchase date.

Vouchers will be emailed out once purchased.

My mother hated her photograph being taken, she avoided it. That saddens me today because whilst I have many memories in my head of her there are also many many things I can not remember. I have no photographs of me with my mother under the age of 18 months and then from 2 -30 yrs of age I have only a small handful. I worry, that over time my memories of her will fade.

I’m only able to show my children, her grand children, a small amount of photos of her from her life. We treasure those images greatly…. But there should be a lot more I can share with them.

I too, despise my photo being taken. Over the years since I’ve had children I put off getting a professional session done. I had every excuse needed in my mind…. I was going to lose weight, I was going to get my hair coloured, I looked too old, I felt too tired, I didn’t have enough money, there was never enough time…. Etc etc…

If the camera came out at parties, at home, with family I tended to duck away (like mother like daughter) or stand behind others or point blank refuse!

So how will my children remember me? How will their children know me? How will future generations get to see me? They won’t if I continued to hide.

Over the past 4 years I have had 2 professional sessions done. I LOVE the images in them. It’s me and my children. Am I perfect looking? NO. Did I lose weight first? NO. Did I have lots of disposable spare money? NO. I just decided it was important. And I did it.

When I look back at photographs of my mother and my grandmothers I never ever look them and think ‘Gee she was fat there’ ‘oh gosh you were grey’ ‘ Gosh how old do you look’. Those and any other negative emotions never ever enter my mind.

When I look back at photographs of my mother and my grandmothers I smile. I look for resemblances with myself, my siblings and my children. I wonder what they were like at that point in their life. What sort of things did they enjoy doing? How happy they looked. I look at the hair do’s and the fashion, it shows me a lot about the era and time the images were taken. I see them with their families and their friends enjoying life. And it makes me smile.

Our children don’t look at photos of us and think ‘gee mum you were fat/ugly/old (insert any other negative here)’ All they see is their mum. Someone who they love. Someone who makes them smile. Someone who loves them.

So I encourage you, don’t hide from the camera. Stop hiding behind it. Get in front of it. Let your kids snap your photo. Book a session with a professional photographer, jump in photos at get togethers and on family outings. Capture the every day. Because one day you won’t be here and your children deserve photographs to remember you by, your grand children deserve it and your grand children’s children deserve it!

You are who you are. Right now. And that is more than ok.

That’s me, with my mum and my grandmother.

We do have some suggestions for recommended ages to be photographed.

We begin with pregnancy photography , which we recommend photographing maternity sessions at around 32-36 weeks of pregnancy. This way you’ve got a nice bump but you hopefully are not too tired or feeling too bloated yet (and helps to capture those babies who are in a hurry to enter the world early!)

Next of course is the newborn photography session. This we recommend for as soon as you feel up to it. The advantage of us coming to your home to capture your images is you don’t have to stress about packing up everything and getting out the door with a new baby. We recommend photographing newborn babies at roughly 5-21 days of age. Most of our newborn clients book in for their photo shoot when they are still pregnant. We are then always flexible with moving dates if your baby arrives early or decides its too comfy inside to come out on time.

After newborn, the next step is baby photography, capturing your little baby between 5 and 8 months is ideal. At these ages we get to capture fabulous smiles and expressions. We photograph them playing with their toes, sitting and clapping, cuddling mum and dad and ofcourse much more. At 5-8 months we can photograph in your home or we can photograph outdoors or better still we can do a combination of both.

Then we have the next stage in baby photography. The 10 month to 18 month stage. This is the time where you child is pulling themselves up onto things, crawling and walking. Playing and laughing. Holding hands with mum and dad. The world has become a place they like to explore so we love to get outdoors for these photo sessions.

If your child is outside of any of these ages you can still have beautiful baby portraits captured of them. If you are not sure give us a call at the studio 9568 1441 and we can help you out.

Now to share a sweet little 11 month old we photographed recently. To view more images from this recent photo session please visit the February album on my Facebook page

Would you like a voucher for *$200 towards your photo order?

Sound good?

All you need to do is get 10 of your friends to ‘like’ our facebook page. Once ten of your friends have liked the page send me an email to studio @ susandarcy.com.au and we will email out your voucher!  (ask them to let you know they liked it)

ps. *standard session fees still apply to book in your session.

pps. not in melbourne? head on over to my facebook page and like it anyway and tell your melbourne friends about the offer!