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Nomadic Love + One

“We are gonna build a life together
You and I for ever and ever
And we’ll, we’ll make babies on the beach
Under the stardust
And I’ll hear your voice come through the door
A thousand times, maybe more
And I’ll smile inside to know you’re mine
Completely”
— Angus and Julia Stone

I first came across this beautiful couple through singing lessons.  In the weeks leading up to the big day, I would head bayside to their rustic cottage once a week and sing my heart out practising and perfecting the song I had chosen to gift my soon to be husband.

Soon after the wedding, I traded singing lessons for pre-natal classes and had my babies in relatively quick succession.  Meanwhile, Danielle my gorgeous singing teacher and her fiancé Ryan headed out on an international adventure documenting their travels in their blog Nomadic Love!

When they returned home to start their family I was delighted that they chose me to capture their love.  They’re a very talented couple, Ryan is pretty handy with a camera too and there is some awesome time-lapse photography on their site check it out at www.nomadiclove.com.  

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Bairnsdale

“while we look not at things seen, but things unseen; for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:18 Weymouth New Testament

Just before Easter my Nanna passed away, she had lived a very long life and was in her 90's. I put together a slideshow of photographs for her funeral service and spent almost a full day sitting with my parents and aunt compiling all the photographs we could find of her life. 

I think naturally when someone passes away we reflect, this process of putting together a photographic story of my Nanna's life made me think.  How there is no number of photographs that could possibly capture a life, but also how much one picture can really matter.  My mother's father died when she was a child and as we combed through the photographs taken while he was alive we discovered that there is not one family photograph.   

It resonated with me because despite our access to camera phones and other photography these days I had just read this post from Cath from Words in Wonderland.  She writes about how her husband passed away on the day they were to have their family photos taken and the only photo they had of their family was a blurry snap taken by a stranger on holiday.  It breaks my heart and blows my mind that a family can go undocumented in that way. Perhaps that's the reason I chose to make these photographs of my family on the day of my Nanna's funeral because you never know what tomorrow holds, but I can capture today.

Cath has set up a charity that provides support to young families who have a parent diagnosed with a terminal illness you can find out more at Big Love Foundation.  

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