The ones you come home to
For families, maternity and motherhood. Quiet hours with the people who make a house feel full, kept before the season changes. Soft direction, room to play, and photographs that still feel like your home and heart years from now.
Book Your Session
The Process
1. Let’s Get to Know Each Other
Write when you are ready. Tell me who you are, what you hope to capture, and how you're envisioning your session. Share a little of the places you love and who will be in the frame. I will write back within 48 hours with our next steps.
2. The day is yours
Once we've confirmed your date, a contract and invoice is sent for your approval. When those are completed, we're officially booked in. We protect the time so the session can unfold at an easy pace, whether it is a short sunset or a longer story.
3. The quiet details
We talk through the location, light, outfits, and mood until the feeling of the day is clear. This can be done either by email, chat, or over a video call. I offer style notes and I listen first. The aim is that you arrive feeling comfortable and excited so the session unfolds naturally.
4. Finding the Feeling
In our chat, we settle the practical details. Timing, meeting points, travel, weather plans, and anything else that helps the day run smoothly. These notes stay in the background on purpose, so when we meet you can be present rather than managing a list.
5. Your session takes place
The session itself is unhurried and full of movement. Instead of stiff posing, I offer direction so your connection and personality can show. I watch the wide land and the small glances while you take your hands off the process and simply be.
6. Your gallery comes home
After your day, I choose each frame by hand and edit in a cinematic style that feels like a memory. Within 4 weeks, your gallery arrives online, ready to live with. If you have added film rolls or polaroids to your package, those pieces come home with the work as well.
Family Sessions
For the people who fill a house. Parents, children and the small habits between them, photographed with room to play and no need to line up.
Maternity & Motherhood
For the season of waiting, and the first months after. Soft light, room to be close, and photographs of a changing body, a new baby, and the quiet of being someone’s mother.
SESSION ADD-ONS
+ Extra roll of film: $120
+ Two extra rolls of film: $200
+ Polaroid pack (8 images): $60
+ Additional hour: $250
+ Priority delivery (1-3 days): $250
+ Travel Fee: $0.85/km for areas over 50km from Airlie Beach.
“Hayden made us feel so comfortable and the photos turned out absolutely beautiful, so natural and full of genuine moments.”
Sasha L.
