Remember Rhys and Jess? Well if you don’t click here.

I caught up with then last week and met their little Jin! He was a little sleepy but still could pull the cute when needed.

Clever girl, holding her own drinks now

I just discovered another blog post that somehow managed to get missed in the schedule. So here it is, Lennox and his parents Nick and Nikki. These guys had such a beautiful little garden up the back that I knew would look fantastic. We just had to wait for the sun to get some heat up first before we ventured out. Very glad we did. Congratulations again Nick and Nikki.

I can remember Andrew when he was running around in his nappies. He lived just up the street, our dad’s worked together and his grandfather used to cut my hair in his garage in front of an old bar heater. Flash forward a few years and I remember taking photos at Andrew and Clare’s wedding. Flash forward again and now i’m met their son in nappies. Hamish is a pretty great little guy. So much expression comes from his little face with those big eyes looking out, and neck strength for a 5 week old was pretty impressive. Congratulations again Andrew and Clare, and thanks for letting me come and meet your awesome little boy.

Samuel popped by the studio last week for his close up. You may remember him from when he was a Peanut. He did pretty well with his first big photo session, it was so exciting that he barely could keep his eyes closed.  I think everything was a bit interesting to look at, especially that big black thing I kept putting infront of my face.

Congratulations again Claire and Jason on your new little boy, good luck with the Christening on Sunday.

This session was as fun as it looks. Madeline first came in just before Charlie arrived, and through some work getting schedules to work we finally had the session. Charlie is a cheeky little dude with some snappy dress sence.

Proof yet again that Winter can be a fantastic time to have a family portrait. Don’t be scared of the weather!

Check out how fantastic they look in the Acrylic Blocks.

After some quick play with the make up brush, it was off to the park with Lila and her parents Craig and Monica. You might remember them from their wedding a couple of years ago. Catching up with previous wedding couple and meeting their little ones is on of the best parts of my job. Craig and Monica have been busy the last few years, the biggest thing after Lila would be co owning a couple of little resturaunts in Launceston. You may have heard of them, Black Cow and Stillwater. You can check out the resturants later, but for now enjoy Lila’s cuteness!

I’m not sure how this one missed getting posted. Ned is now a little older, he was only about 14 days old when we shot this. I do have a policy of not shooting babies in flowerpots or other such cheesey shots. That rule can be dropped if your Dad owns a brewery, and Ned’s dad Will does own a brewery. And a very good one at that!

It seems like only last year that Michael and Camille got married. Oh Yeah, it was and this year they welcomed Tilly into the world. As you can see, she is very pretty in pink. I don’t know about you, but a babies smile at the 7 week old stage is a little heart melting. We all ended up out at Josef Chromy Vineyard where we got the last shot, it was worth braving the hay fever conditions.

One of the best parts of being a photographer is meeting great people, and Brianna Tim and Annabelle fall squarely into the “glad to met them” basket. Locals who ran off to the big city and then are back to raise their little family. I dare you to not be a little gaga over how cute Annabelle looks in her grey hoodie. Brianna is also a fantastic make up artist, check out her facebook page here and if you are in need of wedding make up give her a call.

Dexter is their neighbour, like to pop over the fence to say hi.

I had such a fantastic time meeting and photographing Brad and Tenille, they are the proud parents of Aya (baby) and Millie (Cute mini puppy). Aya is such a beautiful little girl and full of life. Millie loves Aya as much as her parents, so cute seeing them together. Add in the fantastic home that Brad and Tenille have created and I just know Aya is such a lucky little girl.

Remember Brad and Elisha? If you don’t you should click here. But that is old news now as Willow is on the scene and calling the shots. She’s a bit on the cute side and i’m assured Brad has a shotgun so none of you little boys get any ideas ok.

Ave turned 7 yesterday, 7 days that it. Congratulations Amber on such a cute little girl!

It’s Brad and Elisha, you remember their wedding don’t you? (click here to know what all the cool kids already know)

Little shoot with the newest addition to the family, the very funky Willow. She is as awesome as her parents.

Another preview image is living on the Photobat facebook page, go check it out and like it if you wanna.

Renee and Nathan may look familiar to a few people, you may remember there from this wedding photo. That was years ago and now they have added Lachlan to the family. As per the wedding, standard location was thought about and then dismissed for something unique and a bit more meaningful. Enter Salamanca Market, the biggest and busiest market in Tasmania. So along with a cute 11 month old and 2 adoring parent we also had a few hundred Hobartians and tourists to work with. It was a bit of fun, one point I was walking backwards up the hill into a throng of small tourists who really were more interested in looking side to side at wooden fruit than straight ahead at the rapidlt approaching photographer in reverse mode.

Lachlan was awesome, such a great kid. This is really the best part of my job, hanging out with clients on their wedding days and then coming back and meeting the new additions when they turn up.

Ok, so this is a family portrait but I think you will agree that Max steels the show. He has the fortune to be both cute and adorable. A rare quality! I’ve known Jess since grade 7 where we were in the same class. Flash forward and we bumped into each other at a wedding and I was slightly distracted by the cute baby in her arms. Flash even more forward and Jess and Alister have moved into their new home and I was called on to help get something on the wall for the new family home.

Susanna and Dave dropped by for the standard planning session and in the usual chat the happens in every planning session it came out that David proposed on a roof top with a surprise picnic. Than it came out that they have had many other roof top picnics and experiences. It got me thinking about where we could do their first family portrait with Mariella. I didn’t have to think too much because outside the office window the view is dominated by the Mecure. A phone call and some meetings later and it was all set, sunset on the rooftop.

Susanna also took the nesting process to a whole new level turning their bed into a real nest with willow branches!

So, what about a different spot to do a portrait… how about Salamanca Market at lunchtime. Kinda hard to shoot, but lots of fun. More soon.

He’s actully really good at kicking the ball, sometimes the ball does need a little bit of fatherly help to keep it heading in the right direction.

Sid’s a bit cool. I like him heaps. Why? Not only because he has cool parents, who’s wedding I shot a few years back, but also he just has a heap of personality. Big eyes and smiles, that what he has going on. He’s going to be one for the ladies to look out for… that’s my prediction anyway!

I like Sid. I like Sid alot. He’s big on the presonality!

Richard and Rebecca got married a few years ago, about four if my memory is correct. It was a fantastic day, I was there to shoot that big day and was very honoured to meet Lily Anne a week after she entered this world. Fresh babies are great to shoot, you never know what they will do but you can be guarenteed that everything she does will be looked on proudly be her parents. Congratulations again Richard and Rebecca on your beautiful little girl.

Phone rings:

Me (answering): Hello

Kylie(voice on the other end of the line): Hi Alan, wanna come take some photos of Solomon?

Me: YES! This afternoon!

Ok, so there was a bit more chat and tooing and frowing of diaries but essentially we managed to fit it all together on the same day of the call.

Kylie and Trav have been getting shots done of Ava since she was about 10 weeks old, we started with Solomon at 10 days!

So here are some more of Solomon and a few thrown in to keep Ava happy as she is still very much super cute. Watch out for Ava’s smiley shot!

Congratulations to Andy and Katie on the safe arrival of Fin! More photos to follow in a couple of weeks.
You can leave a comment to say how cute he is!

A couple of weeks ago I headed up out early on a Saturday to shoot this gourgeous little family portrait. Little Liv was only about 12 weeks old and looking very cute, and if she is anything like her big sister Layla, the cuteness will be contunieing while she keeps growing.

Yes, I still have a thing for shoes, wedding season is nearly here so be expecting even more shoes being blogged soon.

She had so much fun just running around and around and around the curtain! So happy about it!

Mum Katy is a Naturapath and own Tonic Inspired Health up in Trevallyn, while Dad Jason runs around selling fantastic Pheonix drinks (the cola is my favourite)

Opps, nearly fell out of frame!

Yes, that is her nose.

How great is that vinyl birds on a wire, as soon as I saw this I knew it was going to feature.
Edit: I just found out it came from Wall Allure and is quite affordable.

Thanks again to all you guys for making a morning really bright.

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You may remember when Lucy was just a bump, but now she is a real life little girl. We had a shoot with her when she was 2 weeks old. The first couple of weeks are the best time for newborn shoots, genenrally lots more sleeping going on and you can get some really fantastic shots. I’m not sure what the dogs thought, but the kept looking in the window to see what we were up to.

 Congratulations again Lucy! You have found yourself some very cool parents who I can tell are going to be fantastic to you!

After a couple of postponements (sickness and weather, can’t wait for winter to go away with all it’s germy badness) we finally managed to get Em and Moosa’s engagement shoot done. Of course, this engagement shoot had the added bonus of the very adorable Tilly in attendance to add another layer of cuteness.

Trying to stop taking photos of Tilly was hard but we did managed to get a few shots of just the soon to be weds.

Em is a florist / interior designer and has done flowers for a few wedding and I’m really excited to be shooting the wedding later in the year. It’s also exciting as I’ll be tag teaming the wedding with the talented Belinda Fettke, we will both be shooting the wedding. Going to be a really fantastic day, full of beautiful vibes and beautiful people!

I first entered the Australian Professional Photography Awards in 2001, and got nothing. I had no idea what I was doing back then, I had talked to a photographer and sent in what I had. So nothing came of it, the next year I was a bit more on the ball and picked up a couple of awards, and have been getting some ever since.

This year I received the honour of Master of Photography with 1 Gold Bar from The Australian Institute of Professional Photography. I was presented during the awards ceremony in Sydney with a gold bar to be added onto my Masters ribbon.

How this all works is that for every silver award you get one point and ever gold award you get two points. If you receive 5 points with in 4 years you become an Associate, I received this in 2003. The next step is that if you receive 10 additional points within five years you become a Master of Photography, I received this in 2006. From then every additional 10 points gained within 5 years gets you an Gold Bar.

So after my name I get to put, Alan Moyle M Photog I

Just as a trip down memory lane I’ve put together a podcast of many of the award images over the years. These aren’t only APPA ones, they include images that have received awards all over the place.

Enjoy!

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More up soon, another preview over on the Photobat Facebook Page

 This is Tilly, I was shooting her parent’s engagement session, but really, most of it was all about Tilly!
More up soon, and another shot over at the Photobat Facebook Page

Nicole’s grandmother dropped down from Queensland last month and aranged Nicole’s first shoot. it was also her first trip to the Gorge.

She could’t get enough of that necklace.

You may remember Ava from her first shoot last year. Well now she has hit the big 1 and we had another visit to get some “grown up” shots. This time her grandparents were around to have some photos to, plus we caught up with those very cute animals again.

 
We discovered that the cows prefer to eat hay over babies. So Ava lived to take some very cute photos!

This is Ava’s mum’s bear that she has had all her life. I love little the little details that we sometimes find.

Apparently this one has a H because he has horns.

 Lucus was the other winner of the 7LA cutest kid competition from way back, we eventually got the shoot in early this month.

  He has such a great smile, but didn’t want to show it to me, so we had to tickle it out of him!

Saturday was the big wedding / naming day for Rosemary, Cameron and Abigail, and the weather was perfect. It has been really great to be a part of these guys recent lives, when we shot the engagement portrait it was really an engagement / pregnancy portrait, and then once little Abigail was with us we did their first family portrait

It all started with a fun, and slightly competative game of Mini Golf with the boys. It seemed that everyone was fairly well matched, like following a hole in one with hitting the maximum number of strokes on the next hole.

Abby was the perfect baby all day, just being content with looking about and sleeping. She slept most of the morning and then all the way through the ceremony.

And Rosemary looked stunning!

The ceremony took place in the rose garden near the Cenotaph. It turns out that is the spot where Cam proposed and as you may have gathered, Rosemary said yes!. I have not photographed a baby naming before, let along one that happens at the same time as a wedding. As always, Barb Youd held it all together well and made it a very special ceremony.

We took a few shots about Royal Park before heading off to Strathlynn for some more photos. Stathlynn is a fantastic spot, it always looks amazing in photos and the reception set up is always perfect.

How great are the flowers! Grant at Cache did another fantastic bouquet.

I love this shot of the “animals in the vineyard”.

Thanks again you guys for letting us take photos of your lives, you are on a fantastic journey and I can’t wait to show you even more photos soon.

Another shoot from way back that got missed in the batblog system. Its here now. Evie was great and so was that cool looking cat!

Just a quick look!

From a shoot last night…

It has been over a year since I first met Anthony and Amanda, at that time Amanda was quite pregnant and gave me a hand in updating my pregnancy folio. I have to say, both Anthony and Amanda are very special people, so friendly and I found myself staying a bit longer than normal for a chat at the end of the session. So now Ella is about and I have been back three times to photograph her so that we could put together an album showing her first 12 months. She is very very cute in both looks and in what she does, she is lucky to have such top parents who are completely in love and in awe of her!

 So below is the podcast that follows the Castray’s progress, from Pregnancy to just after Ella’s first birthday. It has been a preverlidge to spend time with this awesome family and I’m looking to catching up with them again soon, if only for a cup of tea!

Samantha and Simon’s little boy celebrating his second week in this world with a big yawn and a photoshoot.
More soon.