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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. […]

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 […]

Oct 24

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Family, Newborn, PK Photography 0 comments tags: family documentary, family photography, family photojournalism, newborn, newcastle, pk photography

Kenzie | Newborn Documentary Session

Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart. – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh Kenzie, what a beautiful little girl you are. It is clear that you have taken up residence in a very large portion of Mum and Dad’s hearts. So much of new parenthood involves repetition; activities like pacing up and down the kitchen or hall or main room to lull a baby to sleep, rocking back and forth in a rocking or gliding chair while feeding and chatting. The beauty of a documentary newborn session is that those early days are captured as they were. When you have a newborn, often those days and weeks are lost to the fog of sleeplessness night and gazing in wonder at your creation. As these sessions are in-home, you don’t need to go anywhere or even worry about if/when they will be asleep. You will have a way to remember their nursery, the place you brought them home from the hospital to which may change due to moving or renovations as they grow up and a beautiful record of their very early life with you when you were discovering each other […]

Apr 03

by Penelope Hale in Babywearing, documentary, Family, PK Photography 0 comments tags: baby, blue mountains photographer, family documentary, family photography, pk photography, sydney

Steph, Josh and Emmett | Family Documentary

These guys actually live in Melbourne but were bringing their boy up to family for Christmas and asked me to spend some time with them capturing some family photos of their first family trip to Sydney. We started at Josh’s Mum’s place and headed to a nearby park for Emmett’s first go on a swing! After a little while in the park it was time to head back and get some food in to Emmett and of course I wanted to stick around for that! Thank you so much for having me come along to your Christmas holiday and photograph your gorgeous family!

Jan 23

by Penelope Hale in documentary, Family, PK Photography 0 comments tags: blue mountains, family documentary, memories, morning, photography, photos, pk photography, routine, school

Duck Family | Documentary Session

I spent a morning with the Duck family and it was such a hoot! I knew when mum, Lisa, approached me with her idea that this would be an excellent session. Lisa said she was having a quick shower one school morning and took a moment to look around her, thought about the kind of mornings they have before school and decided THAT is what she wants me to photograph. My eyes grew large and my smile even larger as she described a typical weekday morning at her house. I arrived before the kids had woken up. After a quick (and quiet) tour of the house, I got started. The kids had been told that I was coming to take photos and that they didn’t need to look at the camera or smile, just do their normal thing. Everyone was excellent at just being their normal, though I am told that the eldest isn’t usually so well behaved 😉 After viewing the images, Lisa affirmed why I find this style of photography so important. Saying she thought it wouldn’t be for another 30 years that she would look back fondly on these mornings but through the images I created she […]