The Batblog by Photobat | Portrait and Wedding

Today Rob and Shannyn are getting married, so i’m off to get some great images around the city with them before their ceremony out at Elmslie.
A couple of weeks ago I had the fourtune to meet up with them out at Shannyn’s grandmothers home in Liffey to do an engagement shoot with a few nan/granddaughter shots thrown in too.

Congratulations Rob and Shannyn!

Let us know your best or worst story about you and your significant other’s attempts (good or bad) at home renovation, handyman work or gardening.

We will upload all the stories into a facebook gallery where you will be able to share your story with friends and family. The winner will be the story that gets the most likes.

This year our prize is a dinner for 2 at The Black Cow Bistro and a $1000 towards a luxury portrait session and artworks from Photobat.

You can use your $1000 towards a couple shoot, a family shoot, a natural light studio session or even some shots just for yourself. You will then be able to create some amazing artwork for your home.

How to enter:

Head over to: http://photobat.wufoo.com/forms/enter-photobats-2012-valentines-day-competition/

Enter your details and story in the form and you will be in the running. Voting will start Wednesday 8/2/2012 at 10am and finish at 7pm on Monday the 13th of February.

Some conditions: only likes on the images in the Photobat gallery will be counted, the image with the most likes at 7pm on the 13th of February 2012 will be the winner, winning couple must agree to have their photos be used on the blog/website.

Binalong Bay is an amazing piece of earth and sea. Situated on the East Coast of Tasmania, it’s white sands and orange lichen covered granite boulders are one of my favourite places to shoot. Mix the location with Sara, Dwayne, Ben and Cameron and you are guaranteed to get some amazing photos.

This was this guys 4^th shoot, initially there was the pregnancy session, followed by the Cam as a baby, Cam as a 2 year old and now Cam as a rather feisty little 4 year old. All the other shoots so far have been in Launceston but this time it was time to head East. As one of their favourite family holiday spots it proved to be the perfect location for Cam and Ben to expel a heap of energy, running, jumping and wrestling.

This time we also had the added bonus of having Sara’s dad Adrian down from Canada so we could do some shots of the three generations together. I love generational portraits, it’s so fantastic to see three generations in the one image.

This Valentines Day… what would you like?

A peck on the cheek?

A kiss and a cuddle?

Or having people around you telling you to GET A ROOM!

We have three HOT SPECIALS from Photobat for you to give to your loved one this Valentine’s Day.
Each voucher comes with a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates and a card for you to write your special message.

You can use this towards couple shoot, a family shoot, a natural light studio session or even some shots of your other half.

Get in touch now by calling 6334 8789, emailing photobat@photobat.net or just head over to www.photobatshop.net and order online by heading to the product page.

The Peck on the Cheek.
Includes a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates and a card for you to write your special message.  Only $75 (valued at $175)

The Kiss and A Cuddle.
Includes a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates and a card for you to write your special message and $350 towards your artworks.  Only $150 (valued at $525)

 The Get A Room!
Includes a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates, a card for you to write your special message, $500 towards your artworks and a bottle of Josef Chromy wines. Only $195 (valued at $675)

Get in touch now by calling 6334 8789, emailing photobat@photobat.net or just head over to www.photobatshop.net and order online by heading to the product page.

Second Child Syndrome is somthing that, as the title suggests, effects the second child of a family. They have to put up with the fact that the first child was such a special addition to a family because it was the first. There are photos hanging everywhere but then when number 2 comes along the amount of photos tends to reduce. it’s not that the second child is any less important or special, its just the excitment of those first years of being a parent take over.

Jasper is a second child. Apparetnly one night when he was being soothed to sleep he kept looking at photos of the baby on the wall. It was his older brother Griffin. The other photos on the wall of the little boy playing with his parents was also Griffin. Jasper was missing. That has now been fixed when we delivered filled out Jasper’s a perscription of a shoot to help relieve the symptoms of 2nd Child Syndrome.

Admittidly, Griffin did star a bit while Jasper had a nap, he was especially good captaining the Explorer 200, his wave surfing ship.

If you or you know a family that has been affected by Second Child Syndrome, please let us know and we can send then a perscription to rectify the situation!

The break over summer gave me the chance to do so,me reading. I do read all year but the amount of time it takes to read a book greatly increases. I’ve just finished two pretty inspirational books, the first was The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner.

I saw the movie, but I knew there had to be some aspects that were more Hollywood than real story. The movie is actually only one year of his life and about a quarter of the book, there is so much more to the story. You can see that from a bad beginning with a abusive step father that Chris had to overcome more than homelessness to arrive at being a multi millionaire who now is helping to expand trade into developing countries. You can see that he learnt a lot from his upbringing and that focused him to be the best at whatever he was doing. It also shows his human failings which is good to see in a autobiography, if the whole book was “look how good I am” it would be a bit unbelievable. If you saw the movie, go grab the book and give it a read.

The second was always looking up by Michael J Fox. This is the follow up to Lucky Man, his first more show biz memoir that covers his early life and up to the diagnosis with Parkinson’s Disease. That was a fantastic book and the sequel takes off where Lucky Man left off. It’s not a showbiz autobiography, more of a life after showbiz, life with Parkinson’s Disease and how he started his research foundation, following on with his political activism, exploration of faith and his stories of family life. What I took away from this is his fantastic optimism towards life and his dedicated work towards informing and promoting the research into stem cell research. This can be a little clunky to read, the politics side can bit a bit dry but persevere because the family stories are fantastic at the end.

These two books are quite inspirational, and a fantastic way to get some perspective to start the year.

I’m currently onto the Steve Jobs autobiography, it’s not on the kindle and it’s a big book and will take a bit longer to read. The speed of reading is greatly increased when I can pop the ipad into a bag and open the kindle app where ever I am and read a little.

So, what books did you get into over the summer, anyone else reading the Steve Job’s biography? What should I be looking to read next?

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