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Hi and welcome to my home page. I hope you will take some time to browse my galleries as I add them and check out my photos. I am passionate about photography and love exploring the world of digital photography and the digital darkroom. Enjoy looking around and please leave me some feedback if you have the time.
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Kingdom Life Launch

Sunday February 10th saw the launch of City Church Kingdom Life. The p ...

Updated: Feb 11, 2013 5:42am PST

Christmas Joy : At Christmas our family are usually too busy eating, sharing presents and stories to take good photos. This weekend we decided to set up a make-shift 'studio' in Eliza & Kristian's home and do a fun Christmas photo-shoot. Well, setting things up with 3 little excited girls 'helping' proved to be quite a challenge but also a whole pile of fun!! Christmas baubles got thrown, stepped on and even attempted to be eaten by Missy. Tying the girls up with the Chrissy lights gave us some peaceful moments and some classic faces from Saffi!! Considering the less than favourable conditions, I think these photos really captured the joy, excitement and love of this precious family. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas filled with love and laughter. God Bless!

Christmas Joy

At Christmas our family are usually too busy eating, sharing presents ...

Updated: Dec 18, 2012 4:00am PST

Landscapes & Seascapes : I love getting outdoors and photographing our beautiful country. Living on the coast means that I especially love the beach and I have certainly captured my fair share of sunsets and sunrises. I was fortunate to visit Redcliffe on a day where a storm was raging out to sea. The shots of the ship wreck were taken there too. Climbing down a large rock wall with my camera in one hand was a bit scary but I made it down and up again safely...... the things we do for a good shot! The photos on page one of this gallery are some of my early landscape shots (hence the Glorious Photography (C))and the cows were photographed in South Australia.

Landscapes & Seascapes

I love getting outdoors and photographing our beautiful country. Livin ...

Updated: Nov 06, 2012 1:00am PST

Holiday highlights : My husband and I recently did a bit of a road trip holiday heading south down the NSW coast to Yamba, Port Macquarie, then inland to Cessnock, the Hunter Valley and surrounds where we stayed for a week. We then headed north through Armidale, Lismore, the Gold Coast and home to the Sunshine Coast. In that 10 days we saw such amazing diversity from stunning coastal scenery to vineyards and mountains speckled with quaint rural towns and villages. Our first day in the Hunter the temperature hit 37 degrees and yet we had the absolute delight of experiencing a solid snowfall around Armidale and Uralla only one week later!! These are just some of my favourite shots from the holiday and as you can see we saw some beautiful sights. We are so blessed to live in this amazing country. I hope that as you browse this gallery that you too experience the drama and emotion that these shots evoked in me. If you have the time, your comments are always welcomed. :-)

Holiday highlights

My husband and I recently did a bit of a road trip holiday heading sou ...

Updated: Oct 29, 2012 1:59am PST

Narnia : On the 12th October 2012 we drove into snow falling and spent the next two hours enjoying the wonder of it all. It started as we drove into Uralla NSW and continued as we travelled back up the New England Highway through Guyra and a little town called Ben Lomond. It truly was a once in a lifetime experience as apparently this area hasn't seen snow like this at this time of the year in over 100 years. I discovered that everything looks beautiful covered in white and the contrast of textures is quite magical. I'm so thankful for the experience and happy that I could capture some of its beauty and drama. It felt like I had stepped through the wardrobe into the land of Narnia as just days before we had been sweltering in 37 degrees heat.

Narnia

On the 12th October 2012 we drove into snow falling and spent the next ...

Updated: Oct 20, 2012 7:07am PST

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Mitchel's 18th

sat 1 September Mitchel Luther celebrated his 18th birthday with famil ...

Updated: Sep 02, 2012 6:03am PST

Perspective : Perspective influences the way we view ourselves and the world around us. This morning my plans changed and I found myself at home instead of down at the beach. I decided to pop on my macro lens and go exploring in my somewhat neglected garden. A whole new world opened up to me, and what first appeared to be a boring location suddenly came alive with possibilities. Keep in mind nothing you see here is bigger than the size of my fingernail, except the magnolia flowers, but I was actually capturing the diamonds created by the water droplets, not the flowers themselves. How much better would life be if we learnt to 'put on a different lens' and started to view the real beauty around us, even in the small, sometimes ugly and often unwanted things.

Perspective

Perspective influences the way we view ourselves and the world around ...

Updated: Aug 26, 2012 3:00am PST

South Australian Delights : A trip to S.A.'s Fleurieu Peninsula in 2010 allowed me to capture these images from places such as Normanville, Hahndorf, McLaren Vale, Willunga, Adelaide Central Markets and a personal favourite; Maggie Beer's Farmshop in the Barossa Valley

South Australian Delights

A trip to S.A.'s Fleurieu Peninsula in 2010 allowed me to capture thes ...

Updated: Aug 26, 2012 2:15am PST

Child's play : There is nothing I enjoy more than capturing delightful moments in the life of a child. Take a child outdoors and let them interact with their surroundings and you will have endless opportunities to capture precious moments. My favourite models are of course my gorgeous granddaughters.

Child's play

There is nothing I enjoy more than capturing delightful moments in the ...

Updated: Jul 01, 2012 6:40pm PST

Family Love : I love capturing the love shared within family relationships. I have had the pleasure of photographing several families, mostly out on location in some of their favourite places to spend quality time together. For many it's the beach, for others the 'bush' and for some it's their home. Families grow so quickly and the dynamics are always changing so make sure you take time to capture those precious memories along the way. I find it very difficult to pick 'favourites' out of my family photo-shoots but here are some that made me smile for all sorts of reasons. I hope they bring a smile to your face and that you too, feel the love.

Family Love

I love capturing the love shared within family relationships. I have h ...

Updated: Jul 01, 2012 6:12pm PST

Groovelab @ Palmwoods Hotel : I love it when Grrovelab play locally and I can get out to see them. Took my camera along and had some catching some shots of the boys and the crowd. Shame lead guitarist Dave Shirtliff couldn't make the gig - will catch him on camera next time. BTW Justin IS crazy!

Groovelab @ Palmwoods Hotel

I love it when Grrovelab play locally and I can get out to see them. T ...

Updated: Jun 23, 2012 5:22am PST

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MacFarlane Family Photoshoot

What a great way to spend an hour on a rainy day - create a studio ind ...

Updated: Feb 28, 2012 2:57am PST

The Holthausen Family : Had so much fun with this beautiful family. This gallery contains some pregnancy shots and introduces Tane Mercy Cortez.

The Holthausen Family

Had so much fun with this beautiful family. This gallery contains some ...

Updated: Oct 30, 2011 3:35am PST

Winter seascapes : Storms, amazing skies and beautiful coastline - I love the Sunny Coast in winter.

Winter seascapes

Storms, amazing skies and beautiful coastline - I love the Sunny Coast ...

Updated: Sep 10, 2011 1:09am PST

Rustic & Rural : I have a penchant, or perhaps an obsession, for shooting old, decaying things. Especially abandoned buildings, old doors or portals, cars and sheds. I think they hold a particular mystery and I always wonder about their story. I am also drawn by the texture and colour of these 'treasures'. Give me a bit of old timber with the paint peeling to reveal the natural hue and texture and I'm there. Show me that rusty old door fitting and I'm shooting in nice and close to reveal the beautiful colour and texture your naked eye probably overlooked. I guess I really do believe that everything is beautiful in its own way......

Rustic & Rural

I have a penchant, or perhaps an obsession, for shooting old, decaying ...

Updated: Mar 01, 2011 3:13am PST

Beautiful Blooms : These photographs were shot at two different locations, the Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane and The Laurel Banks Park, Toowoomba. All shot using natural light and edited in Lightroom 3.

Beautiful Blooms

These photographs were shot at two different locations, the Roma Stree ...

Updated: Feb 27, 2011 2:07am PST

My Smug Mug : Yeah, okay, so this photo is about 6 years old but I tend to be behind the camera instead of in front of it these days. Just how I like it!!!

My Smug Mug

Mitchel Luther Photo-shoot : Mitchel is a young musician who has recently recorded his first EP. He needed a photo for his album art so I took him to a favourite (secret) outdoors location of mine for the shoot. We went late afternoon and managed to catch an amazing sunset. Mitch ended up going with the shot of him sitting in the grass holding his guitar. You can check out the final album art on www.myspace.com/mitchelluther

Mitchel Luther Photo-shoot

Mitchel is a young musician who has recently recorded his first EP. He ...

Updated: Feb 26, 2011 8:15pm PST

Ivy Rose : Introducing beautiful Ivy Rose, my first newborn model. She was barely a week old and she is oh so gorgeous (just like her Mummy). I was so happy to capture some with her big beautiful eyes open. Thanks Mum & Dad for letting me capture some priceless moments with your Ivy Rose.

Ivy Rose

Introducing beautiful Ivy Rose, my first newborn model. She was barely ...

Updated: Feb 21, 2011 4:02am PST

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Belly Beautiful

This was my first pregnancy photo shoot and I couldn't have had a bett ...

Updated: Feb 11, 2011 4:30pm PST