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Aug 10

by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, documentary, PK Photography 10 comments tags: documentary family photographer, documentary family photography, documentary photographer, documentary session, family photographer, hunter family photographer, hunter photographer, lake macquarie family photographer, Newcastle family photographer, newcastle photographer, pk photography

10 on 10 | August

The 10 on 10 is a blog circle project. The goal is to write a blog post to be published on the tenth day of the month and for the post to feature ten photographs taken on the same day or ten favourites from the previous month. The circle part comes in to it because each photographer links to another at the end of their post and you click through to the next photographer in the circle all the way around until you come back to where you started 🙂 You will see amazing talent so make sure you keep moving around the circle – the link is at the end of this post. Ah, Day in the Life sessions are amazing but SO HARD when you are both Mum and the photographer. I used to have limited success with my attempts anyway but after having a photographer shoot a for a whole day with us, my attempts at a DIY Day in the Life are even less successful. That saying. “If you want a job done well you should do i yourself” does not ring true for a full day of documentary photography! I always love looking […]

Jul 30

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Family, PK Photography 0 comments tags: documentary family photography, family photographer, lake macquarie family photographer, newcastle, Newcastle family photographer

The Baldwins | Sydney Documentary Family Photography Session

Meet the Baldwin Family Earlier this year I got to spend 8 hours with the Baldwin family and it was a whole lot of fun! I arrived at their home in Newtown, Sydney as they were eating lunch and stayed past dinner. Our time together was spent doing their usual things like a midday bath to wash off all the sand and dirt from a morning park trip (and wash off some lunch too), Luella playing board games with Dad while her brother Nikolas had a nap, hitting the main Newtown streets for gelato and to run some errands with Mum, a family park visit and then dinner. You can view a video slideshow of their session here or keep scrolling for some highlights of our day together. Ordinary days are spectacular, aren’t they! So much happens in a day and you don’t quiet realise until it is played back like this. What are some daily happenings that you would like recorded? Call me and we can have a chat!

Jul 10

by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, documentary, Family, PK Photography 12 comments tags: documentary family photographer, family photographer, lake macquarie, lake macquarie family photographer, newcastle, Newcastle family photographer

10 on 10 | July

The 10 on 10 is a blog circle project. The goal is to write a blog post to be published on the tenth day of the month and for the post to feature ten photographs taken on the same day or ten favourites from the previous month. The circle part comes in to it because each photographer links to another at the end of their post and you click through to the next in the circle all the way around until you come back to where you started 🙂 I haven’t picked up the camera too much this past month – we moved to a new place so there was all that packing and unpacking happening plus the end of term which always has me frazzled. An exciting thing about the new place is that a creek runs through the backyard! While it has rained for a large chunk of the time we have been living here, we got out to the creek on a sunny day and the water was flowing nicely. I plan to set aside a day this week for a Day in the Life (though it was sooooo much easier when we had […]

Jun 10

by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, documentary, Family, PK Photography 16 comments tags: blue mountains photographer, documentary, documentary family photographer, documentary family photography, documentary photographer, family documentary, family photographer, hunter family photographer, Newcastle family photographer, pk photography

10 on 10 | June

The 10 on 10 is a blog circle project for amateur and professional photographers alike. The goal is to write a blog post to be published on the tenth day of the month and for the post to feature ten photographs taken on the same day or ten favourites across the previous month. To keep moving your way around the circle, head to the clickable link to the next photographer at the end of this post. This month I chose ten images from a building project my daughters embarked up on while we were visiting my parents. They wanted to build my Mum (Granne) a club house. Evie was the project manager but my Dad (Pups) taught both girls how to remove nails from wood, showed them how to saw, got them to mark out the spots required for sawing and nails and taught them how to pre-drill holes when the spiral nails proved too hard to hammer in. We all delighted in their successes and final creation- even if it was heavily modified from the original idea due to a shortage of wood and energy. I felt Pups was VERY brave to hold the nail steady this way. […]

Apr 10

by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, documentary, Family, PK Photography 20 comments tags: blue mountains photographer, documentary, documentary family photographer, family photographer, lake macquarie photographer, newcastle photographer, pk photography

10 on 10 | April

This year I am participating in a blog circle where an international group of photographers post 10 images from the previous month on the 10th (get it – 10 on 10). To keep the circle going, head to the link at the bottom of the page and check out some serious talent! When we lived in the Blue Mountains, we would often visit my sister and her family in Canberra. Between the two of us there are four children who are all close in age and they get along really well and it has been awesome watching them grow up together despite living a few hours away. Since moving to Newcastle though, Canberra is little bit further away which means we can’t head down on a weekend or on a bit of a whim. During the longer Easter break though we bundled up in my parents’ car and all went down to Canberra together. We met up with my cousins for an Easter Saturday lunch at Cotter Dam and since it is quite an extended summer this year, the kids were able to paddle in the river trying to catch fish. The youngest in the fish search party wasn’t as […]

Mar 11

by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, documentary, Family, Monthly Favourites, Personal, PK Photography 16 comments tags: documentary family photographer, hunter family photographer, hunter photographer, newcastle, Newcastle family photographer

10 on 10 | March

10 on 10 | March Each month, on the tenth day, a group of photographers post ten images from the previous month. Each photographer links to another in their post which in the end comes full circle back to the photographer you started with. This is my contribution for March, using a collection of images from February. Don’t forget to follow through the circle with a clickable link at the end. February was a pretty quiet month for us here yet full on lots of new things, firsts and getting settled in to the new routine. I attempted a Day in the Life of our family on 27 Feb but didn’t make it much past school drop off… Evie is definitely a book worm. Olive is becoming more independent The beach is where Evie belongs. Evie was pleased to learn she hadn’t forgotten how to do up the zip on her dress during school holidays. To keep moving your way around the circle and see what the other 10 on 10 photographers got up to, head over to Jessica Dherari‘s 10 on 10 post.

Feb 26

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Family, Personal, PK Photography 0 comments tags: documentary family photographer, hunter family photographer, lake macquarie family photographer, Newcastle family photographer, newcastle photographer, pk photography

Relocation Part Three | Documenting the move to Newcastle

We have now moved in to a more permanent address (only slightly, as it was sold in the first week we had moved in after unsuccessfully being on the market for many months so we are on the move again mid-July). We have been here a little over a month now and I am still pinching myself that we live a 10 min drive from Redhead Beach! The removalists arrived as I was putting the key in the door . They were a little bit early so we didn’t get a chance to run around the empty house or explore before it was a hive of activity. I did manage to get a ‘calm before the storm’ shot though. I set the girls up with a drink and some morning shows on the balcony. I am not sure what your kids are like but mine seem to have a special skill at getting under your feet – especially if you are in a hurry or carrying something heavy. It won’t be the first time these words have been uttered (or shouted from a corner in desperation), “The boxes are never ending!” and it has sure felt like that! So sometimes, […]

Feb 18

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Personal 0 comments tags: documentary family photography, documentary session

My turn in front of the camera | Documentary Family Photography Session

Recently, a fellow documentary family photographer and I did a session trade. We swapped an eight hour documentary session of each other’s family. The Hales (that’s us) were up first as we were moving away shortly and Sharon (of Sharon Troy-Baldwin Photography) was able to fit us in before the move. It is something I will be forever grateful for because as a super sentimental and emotional person (I cry watching Christmas ads for not-for-profit organisations or reading about people being kind to each other), I really think it helped me process our move to a new area. The lead up to our session I was so excited! I couldn’t wait to see how another photographer photographed my family. Would she see different personality elements in the girls or find pockets of light I had never noticed because I had some ‘go to’ ones at various times of the day? What do I miss noticing because I am in the thick of this thing called parenting? Then it happened… All those little thoughts and fears I tell prospective clients to not worry about started creeping in. Worrying about the clutter/size/cleanliness of my our home, wondering if we are even very […]

Feb 05

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Family, PK Photography 7 comments tags: documentary family photography, documentary photographer, documentary session, family documentary, family photographer, hunter photographer, newcastle, newcastle photographer, pk photography

Relocation Part Two | Documenting the move to Newcastle

This post covers the period of time at our temporary accommodation. At this stage, we hadn’t secured a rental property so the length of stay here was unknown but to save space (and perhaps a touch of optimism) we packed a weeks worth of clothes, a few toys for the girls, a few books for me and Josh’s work clothes as he was due to start in a few days. It was a two bedroom serviced apartment and while the girls were excited to share and LOVE lifts, the lack of a backyard and lack of space meant cabin fever set in after days. So there were many emotional times and to keep it real, I shot through those as well. It mostly felt like a holiday to me initially as we were staying in what was effectively a hotel, going o the beach daily and exploring a new place. In hindsight (2.5 weeks in to unpacking a house), I am grateful for the temporary accommodation so I could enjoy the new area before feeling bogged down in the obligation of unpacking and the weight of all our stuff (seriously – I thought I had done a great job […]

Feb 04

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Family, Personal 0 comments tags: documentary photographer, family documentary, family documentary photographer, family photographer, family photojournalism, hunter family photographer, lake macquarie family photographer, maitland family photographer, moving house, Newcastle family photographer, relocation

Relocation Part One | Documenting the move to Newcastle

Relocation | Part One Moving house. Moving to a new house, new city, new school, new preschool, new everything. I wanted to make images of the move to use it as a way not only to document the process but to sort through the emotions I was anticipating. I am a sentimental and emotional person and thought this move out of our family home, the first place we brought our two babies to when they left the hospital, would really weigh me down. We really love our little spot in the Blue Mountains and while we are excited for things Newcastle has to offer that we don’t have here (beaches being the biggest and most exciting of them all), it will be quite an adjustment. I had planned in my head a whole bunch of photos of things like boxes being taped up and written on by the packing removalists but really didn’t want to get in their way so didn’t end up getting any of those. So here is a small sample of Part One aka Our Life in Boxes. A little bit of our own packing before the professionals came in. Escaping the hail storm outside and […]