I have been doing family shoots with The Coleman Family since their first daughter was a bun in the oven. They love shooting at Balmoral Beach at sunset and so do I. They are such a loving, easy going bunch of humans and hanging out with them is always a pleasure.

It was a dreamy evening with perfect golden light and they were dressed perfectly, so perfect in fact that another Photographer tried to poach them as they were walking over to meet me! Luckily they chose to stick with me. LOL!

If you would like to book a sunset session at Balmoral Beach please get in touch at Beautiful little Things Photography

Bronwen, 41 & Archie 8, Sydney

“It’s made me realize how important it is to maintain friendships and really put in that effort because they’re the things that give your life meaning when you’re stuck in a box”.

Award winning journalist, Kate Mellis caught up with Bronwen for an over the phone interview.

I’m a single mum and until recently, my son, Archie and I had been living with my parents and my younger brother, all of us in the house together. About a week before Covid hit it big in Sydney, we moved into a little two bedroom apartment above a shop. It’s quite fortuitous because I’m a nurse, and very early on, I had flu-like symptoms and got sent home from work and had to isolate, which I wouldn’t have been able to do if I was living with my mum, dad, brother and son. I was self-isolating in my little apartment and my parents looked after my son for a couple of days. Luckily my test came back negative. There was one day, after three days of isolation, when a good friend just rang for no particular reason and we must have chatted for about an hour, which is unusual for me. I remember getting off the phone, and just feeling so grateful for the friendship and that they thought to call.

I work full-time with cancer patients. They have decided that anyone who’s not specifically frontline should work from home. In the event of exposure at work, those people that work from home can come in and cover nurses who have been exposed or can’t come into work because they’re unwell. It’s not really the type of job you can do from home because so much of what we do is hands-on and you need your eyes to assess the patients. I have a different job at the moment, it’s coordinating patient treatment, so I’ve been working from home for the last two or three weeks, which has been a really unusual situation. I’m probably doing about 75 percent of my job realistically, and you end up relying on the registered nurses who are there on the floor, to sort of pick up the pieces of the things I can’t do. It’s frustrating, because as a nurse so much of what we do, is face-to-face with patients, and particularly older patients, wouldn’t be used to everything being online and over the phone.

I still drop Archie to mum and dad’s house every day because obviously when school was on he was doing the school work and now it’s the holidays, he just goes and hangs out with them and I pick him up at the end of the day. He is, for the first time ever, missing school. And I thought I’d never hear him say that. He has days where he is much more frustrated than he normally would be. It’s a lot more unlimited screen time, which in some ways, he’s enjoying. He’s quite an active child and soccer season was just about to start, so he’s really missing the interaction of the sport. We are lucky, I guess, that we live in a time where kids can connect using Zoom and FaceTime and all those sorts of things, so Archie’s quite happy that he’s allowed to get online and speak to his friends for a lot longer. He’s actually very tactile. He’s always the one hugging all his buddies, so I guess he’s finding it pretty weird not to have that contact.

Using chalk to draw rainbows seems to be one of those things a lot of people are doing, trying to brighten things up outside their homes as much as possible. People in our area are also putting bears in the window so that young children can walk around doing bear hunts.

This pandemic is a great leveller in some ways, when you see that one thing can hit so many people around the world and it doesn’t distinguish between the types of people. It makes you realize the importance of connection with friends and family over everything. You wonder how we come out of it. What do things look like when everyone decides to go out? What’s left for individuals who have lost their jobs or small businesses? It’s hard to imagine, when I have a job, what it must be like to suddenly lose a job. That’s the devastation I don’t know how, as a community, we come back from.

When this is all over, I’m looking forward to things like going to watch my son play a game of soccer. Things like that seem like a real treat now. And just not everybody being frightened all the time. Hopefully life goes back to normal and we can just value any lessons that we’ve managed to learn from it. The best case scenario would be that the majority of us come out of this ok and we value friendship and humanity a little bit more, and not so much the material things.”

I had the pleasure of shooting my first newborn twins. I’ve never been that close to newborn twins so I was very excited! Twins are magical. They were constantly touching each other and entwining their limbs around one another and I couldn’t help but think how lucky they are to come into the world together. I really got to witness first hand why people say twins are so closely bonded. So cool.

The most beautiful home, the most beautiful light, the cutest little button. Enjoy.

Lara is one of my oldest and dearest friends. It’s a past life thing. She is one of the most pure hearted, generous, selfless souls I have ever had the pleasure of knowing and It was an honour to capture her beautiful family. Her eldest boy was just getting over an illness and he was out of sorts. We stopped, we started, we almost postponed the shoot for another day…and then magic happened. I was so glad we stuck it out. You can feel the love and joy between them when you look at the photos and that’s the gold. That’s the good stuff. That’s what I do this for. Enjoy.

I love taking photos of six month old bubs, they are so expressive and full of joy. He had been up for two hours the night before and we had to wake him from his nap when i got there. Regardless, he was such a trooper. Enjoy this beautiful, light filled shoot with the gorgeous lady in red, Emma, her lovely hubby Andy and their adorable baby boy, Finn.

From the moment I walked into their house I felt like we were old friends. Mum was in a t-shirt and undies and so comfortable in her own skin that she didn’t give a rats ass! I knew we were going to get along just fine. One of the best parts of my job is hanging out with cool people and getting a glimpse into their lives, it’s very intimate and such a privilege. I had so much fun shooting their beautiful and calm little boy. He was such a dream and so well behaved that his parents were wondering if he was just putting on a show for me. Lucky me!

My heart overflowed with joy for this family. This gorgeous couple tried for 5 years to have their little girl and she came out perfect in every way. Apparently she makes noises like a chicken but unfortunately she didn’t perform for me. Enjoy.