wow, it’s been so long since the sneak peek for this session was posted that i think i’d better share it again!

ok – now that’s out of the way 🙂 we had such a great time at the beach with the Koh family, who came all the way from Singapore to be my clients! ok, i might be slightly twisting the facts lol – they planned their holiday in NZ last summer and wanted family photos during the Auckland section of their family trip, so they contacted me from Singapore to book, and chose the location based on my recommendations & photos 🙂

by their own admission the Koh family are “pretty urban” in their lifestyle, and Karekare is about as opposite as you get – but they did great, coping with sand, wind, sun, dune-climbing, surf-and-river-wading like pros. and here’s the proof…

the boys got stuck into the sand pretty early on

so i grabbed a moment with mum & dad alone

we had the whole south end of the beach to ourselves

then it was time to clean up

this photo defines his character: he was the explorer, going in front & leading his family to the tops of dunes & into the river

one last photo – he’s pointing at their car! mum & dad were pretty worn out by now

it was lovely to meet you and i’m so honoured to have been able to make amazing holiday memories with you!

this lovely singapore-based family decided to spend new years in new zealand, and chose me to do their holiday portraits while they were here! so we headed out to karekare for some beach adventures. despite being (in their words) “very urbanised”, they adjusted well to the endless miles of sand, bush, dunes and big surf, and we had a fun afternoon together

here’s a sample of things to come…

yesterday was the real first break in the past week of rain, so we grabbed the opportunity to head to shakespear regional park for tea & family pics 🙂

and here’s a sneek peek – of people peeking!