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Yesterday Anthony, I, my girls and my niece made the trek to Lismore to see the annual Lismore Lantern Parade. During the quiet part of the year (in terms of weddings) I really try to spend some quality time with my girls to hopefully make up for the many weekends I am working the rest of the year.

I also really wanted to spend some time practicing some of my night photography skills and what better way than at a Lantern Parade. In order to challenge myself further (and also for the mere fact I didn’t want to carry my entire photography kit) . I picked my camera body (Canon 5D for those who are interested), my flash (my flash Canon 580ex-really should learn how to use that thing better) and then I did something really wild. I shut my eyes, put my hand in my bag a pulled out a random lens. Seriously. I am that wild! I ended up taking the 50mm 1.2. Yay! I love that lens!

To start with, we have the Cast of Characters….and I mean characters!

My little girl, pose much?

Yamba Portrait Photographer

Yamba Portrait Photographer

My big girl, she’s growing up so fast and she is just such so lovely (I can say that, I’m her mum):

Yamba Portrait Photographer

My niece, Mik, she loves hanging out with my girls:

Yamba Portrait Photographer

Yamba Portrait Photographer

It is impossible to get a ‘normal’ photo of them at this stage in their life, I thought I would try again later:

Yamba Family Photographer

It didn’t get any better..what’s with the beanie OVER the hood Mik?

Yamba Family Photographer

The parade:

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

The dinosaurs from Erth made an appearance. I’ve seen these guys a few times and that are so talented!

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

Lismore Lantern Parade

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Reading my friend Karissa from Image Photography’s blog lately and I’ve been just a little envious of all the beautiful Autumn leaves she’s been photographing in and around Tamworth and Armidale. Since we don’t have many of those lovely trees in Yamba I used the opportunity of being in Graftons See Park today to grab some quick photos of my girls.

Most of the leaves had lost their gorgeous colour, but we managed to find a few nice golden ones. It was an impromptu shoot so the girls are styled in whatever they found clean this morning!

Grafton Portrait Photographer

Grafton Portrait Photographer

Grafton Portrait Photographer

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