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Announcing a new session bundle!

A full maternity session & a full newborn session, including $150 of print only credit, for $500.

These photographic sessions complement each other - capturing the anticpation of your pregnancy, and then the arrival of your new baby. With the nature of these sessions, we take things at your pace, and your comfort level ensuring you are left with images you're not only proud to display in your home, but with renewed appreciation and joy for this very special time in your life.

Maternity : Amanda at 36 weeks

This has been a long time coming, and both Amanda and I have been busting to work together on this session. Considering how close we are, it was something very special to do together and it made Amanda very comfortable, and so she was up for pretty much anything! :)

Another fabulous thing that must be mentioned, is that Amanda has an amazing view about her pregnant body. While she's not completely thrilled about the three little stretch marks that just recently appeared on her belly, she accepts that its all a part of being pregnant and that her body is doing such an amazing thing right now, that a few stretch marks really pale in comparison.

It is something very special to photograph a pregnant woman on the brink of bringing a new life into this world, especially when the woman walks away saying how much fun she had working together and how great the session made her feel about herself and her pregnant body, but photographing your closest friend at this life changing moment and having her feel those same things is indeed extra special and a pretty amazing experience.

So ... here she is!

Technically not a maternity photograph, but she is pregnant and I think its such a beautiful image of the two of them.

LOVE, LOVE this image!

We headed to the beach to capture a few shots we'd spoken about for months, but the weather did not want to cooperate - it was overcast and windy and the water was so choppy, but Amanda and Michael worked with it and we made some great images!

(Amanda wore this fabulous red dress, so I had to throw a few colour images in there!)

As we were heading back to the car to leave, we stumbled across this gorgeous area sitting right behind the dunes! We had to stop and make a few images, and again - look at this place, how could we not take a few in colour?!!

I love every single one of these images, I love that Amanda and Michael are so comfortable in front of my camera that I can get images like this just brimming with their love for each other and their new baby girl about to make her grand entrance.

Now ... Amanda has been very gracious in allowing me to use the following images here. They are not technically maternity photographs, more intimate or "boudiour", but to have them made when you are a full 8 months pregnant I think is pretty special. I think Amanda's words were that these shots made her feel "minxy" and "sexy", and I am so happy I have made images that make her feel like this. (She's wearing Michael's shirt he wore at their wedding).

Maternity : Amanda at 8 Months

Amanda at 8 months! This is the last session in our maternity progress shoot, so we'll decide on one pose and frame up the images from each month in one frame to show the progress.

Maternity : Amanda at 7 Months

This is a long time over due, but here is Amanda and Grace at 7 months along ..... starting to notice a big difference now ...

Now I have been doing these progress photos for a few months now, and we are able to knock over the session pretty quickly these days, and the photos all look much the same (as intended), but there is something about this particular image of Amanda that I just adore ...

Maternity : Amanda at 6 Months

Amanda at 6 months!

I got my first official "kick and swim" from her cheeky little girl this day!!

Not long to go now ..... :)

Maternity : Naree at 38 weeks

These are images from a maternity session with one of my oldest friends, Naree and her husband Lee. We had our session together with Naree just 18 days from her due date, and at the same place were Lee & Naree were married earlier this year.


We had a great time together during our session, and I'm so happy that Naree & Lee are happy with their photographs.


I'm even happier that Naree wrote the following piece about our session together, because this is exactly what I hope every pregnant woman I photograph feels after our session together ....



"Hi, my name is Naree. I'm 38 weeks pregnant and recently had a maternity photo shoot with Renee Caldwell. It was held on a beach at North Burleigh on the Gold Coast (the same spot I got married to my husband Lee)

When arriving at the beach, I was feeling very shy and insecure with my body and to be honest, dreading having my photo taken or being mistaken for a beached whale! With some much needed reassurance and support by Renee, within moments of the shoot beginning I felt at ease. She made sure that I was comfortable with whatever we were doing and let us be as natural as possible. I left the beach feeling liberated and proud to be pregnant. For the first time in months, I felt sexy pregnant and not just a big blob!

We would like to say thank you to Renee for making it such a wonderful experience and special moment for us. Naree and Lee Cousins"




My favourite! Such a 'celebration' of this time in her life - love it!

Maternity : Irene at 32 weeks

Meet Irene & Ala - family of a very good friend of mine. This is Irene at 32 weeks. And for someone who wasn't too keen on being included in these photographs, Ala did a great job.

Irene wearing traditional Tapa cloth from Paupa New Guinea...

And we had to get a shot of them in Ala's car ....