Creating art from your every day
Jun 10
by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, documentary, Family, PK Photography 15 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.  […]
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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 […]
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Feb 07
by Penelope Hale in 10 o 10, Personal, PK Photography 12 comments tags: 10on10, blog circle, documentary family photography, hunter photographer, maitland photographer, Newcastle family photographer, newcastle photographer

10 on 10 | February

This year I am participating in a blog circle.  I was unable to post for January due to my computer being in a box in a shipping container in a warehouse so here I am with my first contribution!  I am proudly joining a group of photographers who either shoot ten images on the tenth day of each month or curate ten images from the previous month. Follow the link at the bottom of the post to keep making your way around the circle to the next photographer! My ten images for February are from the tenth of January.  I wanted to document how we were spending our days living in the temporary apartment accommodation.  While we tried to get out for a small adventure each day, this just happened to be a day we stayed in and looking back it seems that cabin fever was at its peak with emotions being high or low – there was no middle level. Don’t forget that this post is part of a monthly blog circle. To continue the circle, following a group of photographers all sharing ten images from either a theme or a day or simply the previous month, click here […]
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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 […]
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