This time of year is always the busiest time for me, coming into beautiful spring and everyone wanting to take advantage of nature at its finest. I was lucky enough to be able to have one week of the school holidays off from shooting so I had a small getaway with my mum down at Point Lonsdale in my uncle's beach house. Meanwhile, I have been taking some extra time to get up to scratch technically with my shooting and workflow. I feel it is extremely important to continuously upgrade not only your equipment as a photographer but your skills, to keep improving your work. I joined an online photographer resource website that has some of the best worldwide photographers as mentors. On there they were giving tips and tricks to help pose, edit, and everything photography for us to see, observe, and learn from them whilst shooting in a session to practice and implement that into our work. It has been inspirational hearing their stories about how they first started and are now highly successful photographers who travel the world and mentor fellow professional photographers. This workshop has given me more excitement to get back out there and photograph as many families, babies, children, etc as I possibly can! The above photo is a self-portrait taken at the Queenscliffe dog beach and I am holding my two adorable dogs, Honey and Mylo. I haven't spoken of them yet, but I most likely will in many more blogs. Honey is the white dog on the left and believe it or not she is a mini groodle (golden retriever x poodle) and due to her coat normally being thick and woolly, I had to get her clipped and now she looks like a completely different dog! My other gorgeous fur baby is Mylo, he was the first dog Jarryd (my husband) and I got together and he is a mini labradoodle (lab x poodle) He is only 4 years old but I swear when I look into his beautiful eyes I see an old man's soul. These two dogs are so important to me, that I just had to have them included in this photograph. So there you have it! A little more insight into me and my family and what I have been up to during the last week :) xoxo
