Lifestyle Photographer Sutherland Shire

Polly creates a relationship with children, talking to them, asking silly questions, and playing games to get those natural moments captured for a lifetime.

Lifestyle Maternity and Newborn Photography at home – Sydney

Lifestyle Maternity and Newborn Photography at Home – Sydney When this lovely couple booked me for their Lifestyle Maternity and Newborn Photography Sessions, I could tell just from their emails, they were smitten with the idea of becoming new parents. So when I first met them for their Maternity Session, I knew they both shared that feeling I remember so well, that feeling of butterflies in your stomach due to your excitement for this baby to be born. It was contagious, they made me feel it too, as though it was just yesterday. It’s a feeling that’s so strong that you think you might just burst, I will never forget…

Family | In Home

Moments the Matter – March 2018

Moments that matter – March 2018 I’ve been incredibly slack with taking personal photos lately. It feels like as the kids get older, life gets busier. Thats definitely how its feeling for me lately. I’m actually really annoyed at myself, I thought life would never get in the way of me documenting my boys childhood, and it has. I see moments all the time that I want to grab my camera for, but it’s got to the point where I negotiate with myself about the fact that I probably wont have the time to edit the photos, so I don’t take any photos at all. I’m horrified I’m even saying…

Beach | Cronulla | Family | Sutherland Shire | Sydney

Sutherland Shire Family Photography – Lifestyle Beach Session

Lifestyle Family Photography at the Beach When the lovely Priscilla, from Priscilla Cork Photography asked me to do their Family Photography Session, I was delighted. Firstly, she is a very talented photographer and secondly, she is an absolute sweetheart and so is her beautiful family. We headed into the Royal National Park, in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, to an absolutely stunning beach. It was a little bit windy, so the beach was almost deserted. I love it when it’s a little windy during my Photography Sessions. I love how it adds movement and mood to the photographs. The wind also added the most amazing effect to the sea, with a salt…

Family | In Home

Moments that Matter – September 2017

Moments that Matter – September 2017 It’s been a month of illness for our family, so life was a little quieter in our home and my camera didn’t come out for personal work as often as it usually would. However, we did find a fantastic swing on our walk home from school which presented me with the perfect panning opportunity. I love it that my passion embraces everything thats fun about childhood. To celebrate the beginning of Spring, I took the boys to our local botanical gardens. They had so much fun discovering the different gardens. When we found the one with the most flowers, they were in heaven and…

Family | In Home

Moments That Matter – July 17

For the month of July, I decided to take a photo a day, to push my creativity and to take more personal photos. The last time I did this was almost two years ago. I found it so rewarding then and this time, it’s proved not to disappoint. I find committing to something like this can push you out of your comfort zone, rather than only shooting in good light, or only when you feel inspired to try new things. This challenge meant, I had to photograph in what I’d consider terrible light at times and also when I wasn’t feeling creative at all. The result being, I surprised…

Family | In Home

Moments that Matter – April 17

What a month it’s been. We finally welcomed the sunshine back after a very wet March. The boys have just returned to school after two and half weeks of school holidays, and gosh did we jam pack those weeks, full to the brim. We’re still discovering our new neighbourhood, so I took the boys to a new beach (at sunset of course) for a “play” 😉 The boys went through a short phase of acting like teenagers with headphones in and their dad’s old sunglasses on. Plus the “Teenager” attitude. This only lasted a few LONG days… thank goodness! Our six year old, who had a well loved trade…

Family

Moments that Matter – March 2017

I have been asked to join in with a group of talented photographers in sharing a personal blog once a month. A blog of images that I’ve taken throughout the month that are personal to me. I was really excited about the opportunity for many reasons, one being it will force me to take more photos of my two boys. Well, that was a much bigger challenge than I imagined. Lately, I’ve been taking less photos of my kids, purely because of life being so busy. It’s something I said I’d never do, let life get in the way of capturing my own memories. Yet in my heart, I…

Backyard | Family | In Home | Wollongong

New House- New Light – New Inspiration – Lifestyle Photography Sutherland Shire Sydney

Life has been a little hectic lately and it’s definitely caused me to share less on my blog and I’ve wondered if you’ve been thinking that I’d closed my blog due to neglect :-/ On the 1st of November we moved into our new home, a home we adore, our dream home. The last time we moved house was before kids, yet I was heavily pregnant, so I thought surely this move couldn’t be much harder than that move was, well wasn’t I wrong. The packing went on for months and then typical me, I predicted we’d be unpacked within 2 days after moving in. Well it took about…