Babes In Linen - Testimonial

“Christina is an absolute joy to work with and has such a beautiful eye for detail. I am a new small business owner and talking with Christina about the direction of Babes in Linen and how I wanted the bedding to be visually presented, she offered sound advice and ideas. Christina just knew how to capture what I was thinking. She is a great listener not to mention a very good business mentor too. After speaking with her I sent off a few bags of bedding from my linen range and Christina worked her styling magic. Within days I had photos. The most beautiful photos that were tastefully styled in settings that I had only ever dreamed of. Photos that showed the colours of the linen in true form and with such clarity. Christina is a brilliant photographer but she is also a great thinker and resourcer of props and shoot locations. I am so pleased that I get to work with her and look forward to what is to come. I suggest you do the same.”

Veronica Lang

Founder & Owner

BABES IN LINEN

Homelea Lass Photo Shoot

Client: Homelea Lass

Model + H&MU: Caroline

Location: My Bespoke Cabin, Mount Crosby

“I’m absolutely overjoyed with the photos Christina did for Homelea Lass. She captured the essence of my brand perfectly and her style is earthy, natural and beautiful. Communicating with Christina is a joy and the photoshoot was easy to arrange.” Lynda Rennick, Homelea Lass

Rembrandt Light

When I studied fine art at University I never imagined that I would one day see many of the images I'd seen in books and projected on screens in real life. Museums and galleries featured heavily on our six months of travels through Europe pre-children. Most notable perhaps the Mona Lisa in Paris, the Klimts in Vienna, the Van Goghs in Amsterdam and the happy accident of stumbling upon a Rembrandt and Carravagio exhibition showing in Amsterdam during our stay. 

I also never imagined that one day I would be inspired by that exhibition to use a DSLR to capture a similar style of light to those old masters. But oh, the light. The beautiful light.

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Teacup brought from White Pepper on our recent trip to the Sunshine Coast

Ceramic spoon Maxwell Williams

Vase thrifted, numbered and embossed on base, West Germany 

Wooden hand carved spoon Sapling Spoons

Sneak Peek - Foolhouse

 Client: Foolhouse

Models: Freya, Emerson, Oscar & Jonas

Location: My Bespoke Cabin, Mount Crosby

Recently, I had the joy of creating a photo shoot for Sarah at Foolhouse to capture lifestyle images of her sweet Door Jamb height charts. I had a really specific look in mind for the shoot and put a call out on Instagram for a location. I was rewarded with a link to My Bespoke Cabin. Swoon! (You may remember that I shared some photos of another one of Skye's cabins a few posts ago.)

I love how these shots turned out, and today I received the most lovely testimonial from Sarah -

 “I met Christina whilst doing Finders Keepers in Brisbane. We are both small artisan businesses doing what we love and it was not surprising that she nailed my brief with ease. I am based in Sydney but geography was no problem as I sent my product to her. She understood the look and feel that I wanted my product to instil and chose the perfect location in which to shoot. It is hard to do everything yourself when running your own business, but goodness knows you try! I realised that I needed to concentrate on what I do well and hand over the jobs that I am not trained for, to someone who is. Photographs of my product in its’ natural habitat was one thing I had not given time to and one thing that was imperative to showcase so that I was not only showing my product but telling a story about it through pictures. Christina perfectly matched my product to the lifestyle visuals i had in my head, which is no mean feat! She managed to capture photos that explain my product to my chosen target audience and now I have a palette to choose from for social media and editorials. The photos tell a charming story across a continuum instead of my disparate unconnected iPhone snaps and for a very reasonable budget I look a whole lot more professional and wonder why I didn’t do it sooner!” - Sarah Lamond, Foolhouse

 Thanks Sarah! xx

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Interested in your own collection of lifestyle images? Get in touch!

Recording our learning

I keep a 'Natural Learning Diary' to 'plan from behind' what my children have been doing, as a way to unschool and satisfy our state homeschooling requirements. It lists the subject areas on one page and child-initiated activities on the other page - like craft, hobbies & interests, reading. It made me wonder about keeping a learning diary of my own, if I had the diligence. Wouldn't that be interesting to look back upon? A way to track the rabbit holes one falls down. To try to discern how one topic evolves into another, and how old passions reawaken and new interests fade? I've never thought to record my own learning before. Have you?

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Experimenting with light and dark in my photography.

Dried berries, tiny Shakespeare books, eggs and parsley seed heads.

If you are looking for a photographer for your next project, please get in touch. xx

Screen Detox Fail

How is it that my children come down with a tummy bug, throw up a few times, eat hydrolite iceblocks and then they are fine again? Meanwhile, I come down with the same bug, spend an entire night in the bathroom and two days in bed feeling like pummeled playdough? Not that I would wish my horrid level of the illness upon them, rather I wish I had gotten off a little lighter! Our 'screen detox' had been going quite well until that point. Emergency measures needed to be taken. "Watch tv, play iPad, play PlayStation, just please let Mama rest!" Interestingly enough by the second day, they were getting quite bored of the unlimited screen time. Back to the detox now until the end of the month and then time for a family meeting to discuss how we all felt about the time off and how we wish to go forward.

Before Emerson and I were hit by the bug took a wander with my camera. The boys had come down sick that morning and we had been tending to them, so when Dada came home from work we escaped for a girls camera date. In the dying afternoon light, we visited this bougainvillaea I have been admiring. Last week it was covered in an even greater profusion of purple flowers. I must remember to seek it out again next year. I loved these two shots of my soon to be seven year old, with her blonde mermaid hair, and the flower she picked for herself.

The children are now back to normal. I'm still feeling frayed around the edges, but inspired by the amount of Pinterest I scrolled through whist resting. My brain was too foggy to read anything from the pile on my nightstand. Thank goodness for podcasts, Pinterest and PlayStation... in moderation.  

Test shoot - Milk Bath

I have long wanted to experiment with milk bath photography and recently my little muse was keen to collaborate with me- though I think she may have just wanted to pour the milk in the bath! I have another project in mind and wanted to create some test shots and check the lighting, props etc. What you can't see in these photos is that Emerson was giggling and mucking around the whole time and in quick moments I was able to ask her to give me a small smile, or a relaxed face and direct her poses. 

I really adore how these turned out. I love that I captured several 'looks' in the same series of images that I can work on developing for the final shoot. And I love that I have these sweet, ethereal photos of my daughter, who is turning seven next week. I think the first and last image are my favourites.