Capture what your family feels like
Family Documentary Photography
Helping you to freeze time, capturing you and your family exactly how they are among the beautiful everyday chaos.
So that in years to come you can relive these precious, fleeting days and feel the memories..
Hello!
I’m Courtney, a Nelson based family documentary photographer, a pretty chilled mum of two wee boys who’ve filled my world and heart to the brim. My phone’s camera roll is jam packed with photos and videos of my boys, cos I don’t want to forget a thing! Big time nostalgia nerd over here!
Family documentary photography tells the story of what your family feels like,
..it’s highlighting the beauty of the details in your everyday; those messy mealtimes with little chubby faces covered in food, it’s their sense of wonder in their new world, the rollercoaster of emotions, those big highs and big lows, it’s remembering how mums fluffy dressing gown feels after all those long snuggles on the couch, the memories of your back yard, the safety of their bedroom filled with their treasured things.
When you’re in the depths of raising little ones..
..it seems like the days blur into one big long never-ending day - especially if you’re still up with them in the night - I’ve never resonated with a saying as much as the one that goes “the days are long but the years are short…”. But you know how truely special these days are, how much you’ll want to remember these days of chaos, even if you’re surrounded by that pile of washing that never gets any smaller..
You’re perfect exactly as you are, just the way your kids love you,
Now, here’s to no more camera rolls filled with questionable selfies or only pictures of the kids, it’s time to get in the frame too (I’m looking at you Mums!) you’re perfect exactly as you are, just the way your kids love you.
Embrace the yoga pants, the messy hair and stained t shirts, this is about authenticity and being part of the memories, and this is about getting YOU in the photos too, yes you!
“Apart from some little chats with Courtney, I sometimes forgot she was even there, it all felt so natural. But when I received our gallery I was simply blown away. Like literally ‘wow’ just look at the realness of these images, look at ‘us’.
It felt very much like how we are; the images captured what this stage of our life feels like, and I truly believe that is worth so much.
I know I will look back on these in ten or twenty years time with so much warmness in my heart.
Thank you for capturing our beautiful chaos and freezing this point in our lives, Courtney, you’re truly amazing.”
— Olivia Buys
Packages
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Short + Sweet
1 hour photoshoot
Location: your home
Includes full gallery of beautifully edited images.
$380
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Daily Details
2 hour photoshoot
Location: your home
Includes full gallery of beautifully edited images.
$480
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Half Day Highlights
4 hour photoshoot
Location: your home and your choice of location that's significant to your family*
Includes full gallery of beautifully edited images.
$890
“It’s not about what your family life looks like, it’s what it feels like”
To photograph parenthood, childhood and homelife authentically, spontaneously and truthfully so that these fleeting moments of togetherness and love can be held forever. To capture the craziness, the chaos and your family bond, to show your kids in years to come, the full story of their childhood, a collection of images that transport you back to this time of tired simplicity, to give your family a sense of belonging together.
Let’s document your life as it is, it’s perfect as it is right now. You’ll never know just how precious these moments will be in years to come.