Allow me to introduce Daphne and Andrew, newlyweds. More to come from their beautiful wedding in Sydney!

Finalising our plans for the new space has taken a bit longer than we’d have liked, but now that we’re good to go, it’s time to announce course dates for the rest of 2010.

For the first time, we’re offering both a day course (10am-1pm) and a night course (6pm-9pm). They’ll both be starting on Thursdays from 26 August.

More information (including Term 4 dates and registration details) can be found here:

http://course.ofdphoto.com/

And because every post needs a photo or two, here are a few I took on a recent field trip. I love Morpeth

So, how’s this for a start: I’ll post randomly from my huge list of unblogged photos, until I’m all caught up. Chronological order? Completely overrated.

Today, I bring you 4 humans, 2 dogs and a lakeside park. I bet you can’t guess which girl is planning to become a vet

Can we believe it? Not really. I don’t think it could have gone much faster. (Certain aspects could perhaps have gone a little faster for Michelle, though )

Spew, poo and lack of sleep aside, we couldn’t have imagined just how awesome being Josiah’s parents would be, and we feel so blessed to have shared this past year with him. May we be able to say the same on many more July 18′s

Dear God, thank you for our little man.

PS: I think this might be Blog Revival Week. Stay tuned

My other presents were cool too. Like my Kindle from Michelle. And season 2 of The Office from Joey. The UK version, of course. He’s classy

Thanks, everyone!

(Then I remembered that 1 June is 2 days before 3 June, and 3 June is my birthday. And I felt better )

Sadly, the year hasn’t quite gone to plan so far; I’m still struggling to keep up with the demands of OFD, and in recent times I’ve started to accept the reality of depression’s role in this struggle. Happily, I’m getting help (with both the work and the illness) and everything is still moving forward, so there’s nothing to worry about! It’s nice to be on the cusp of dealing with the issues that have been holding me back, and meanwhile, my love of photography is only growing stronger

In other ways, 2010 has already been awesome. Josiah is now closing in on his 1st birthday and is the happiest little crawler and climber we’ve ever met … Michelle is coping really well with the huge demands of being a mum … Steph has been getting ever-more awesome at post production … our photography course is humming along nicely … I was lucky enough to meet, photograph and be inspired by Dainere … we’ve made a whole heap of new friends and taken thousands of photos that we love … there’s not a lot to complain about, really!

I won’t say much more, except that I’m taking each day one at a time, trying to get better at looking after myself, my family and my clients, and that I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to steadily increase my blog posts along the way.

I’ll leave you with a photo of Josiah. More to come from our 1-week break in the Gold Coast soon