Hi! Welcome to my blog. I am a portrait and wedding photographer based in Wollongong, NSW. I am also a mum, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a friend.
I love to photograph people, faces, relationships, details and emotions. I am in constant awe of the joy I get from spending time with the people I photograph, and the happiness I feel from being there to capture some of their precious moments together.
This blog is an opportunity for me to share a bit about my life, to showcase my recent work and as a place to share my sneak peeks for my clients. I hope you enjoy it and please feel free to leave a comment. Thanks for stopping by!
If you want to contact me to chat about your photography needs, you can email me at janine@janinekaye.com.au or calll me on 0412 850 010. My website, www.janinekaye.com.au, also has a lot of information about my sessions, pricing etc.if you want to check it out
Please note that all images on this site are © copyright janinekaye photography. Please do not use or reproduce any material on this site without my permission. Thanks!
This gorgeous lady won this mini session at my extended photography workshop final challenge. She is very good with a camera (and just needs to trust herself more) plus she has stunning eyes to boot! I had lots of fun playing on the beach with these guys, they were up for anything… I even convinced them to stand/crouch in the yukky weeds! Thanks for being willing subjects … Enjoy!!
another mini from the weekend. This gorgeous little girl goes to the childcare centre that my kids go to and I had the pleasure of photographing her for their school photos. She wasn’t so sure of me back then and I had to use stealth measures to get some images of her. She took a little bit to warm up to me this time but she soon decided it wasn’t so bad. Check out her spunky little brother too!! so cute! enjoy!
I had a mixed weekend of mini sessions. Some were postponed due to the rain and others went ahead. It was strange weather and I hope it doesn’t repeat itself next weekend.
So this gorgeous girl is a close friend of mine and I am putting her session up first because she is going away on holidays tomorrow and I don’t want her to miss out seeing her images before she goes. so enjoy Ally..and thanks for coming out in the weird weather with me!
I have heaps of mini sessions I want to share but I have to interupt normal scheduling for a very important message…
sometimes I feel I might be a bit overprotective as a mother. I think its my medical background. I don’t like to mess with people health, especially my families/kids. Jack has had a freckle on his gorgeous little milky coloured thigh for a while now. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that it had become a little darker and raised. I commented to my hubby and he said what I was thinking “probably just turning into a mole” ..But it bugged me everytime I changed his nappy. A tiny little speck but it bugged me. So today I took him along to the skin cancer clinic and Lucy, Jack and I had our skin checked. Lucy and I got the all clear but the moment the doctor saw Jacks freckle he said “thats got to come off”. quick, simple statement that made me freeze. He told me it was the most common sort of mole that becomes melanoma and the fact it was already changing was suspicious. He said he had seen a 9 year old last week with melanoma. So he took it off and it will be biopsied. Jack was so brave and now has a little stitch where his freckle (or prickle as he calls it) used to be. Covered with a bandaid, which he was hoping would be wiggles but got the plain brown variety instead. So the moral to my story..my baby is only 3 and he has fair skin that rarely sees the light of day without cover and sunscreen. My heart breaks for the possibility of “what if”. Brad told me he wouldn’t have thought to have it checked. I felt like I was being over protective and possibly silly dragging 2 kids off to the skin cancer clinic. I was wrong and right all at once. I am grateful for my intuition. I am grateful for that doctor. I am grateful for my son.
so make an appointment, GO, Have your skin checked and drag along the people you love, regardless of their age!
I will be back tomorrow with lots of shares from the mini sessions that didn’t get postponed by the rain on the weekend!
was quite sick with the flu and braved coming out in the wind and heat at the harbour, and even let me talk her into going into the “dodgy” area of town that has great painted walls…she was a real trooper and her family is so gorgeous. Her two little guys are so spunky. The 3 year old was so active and such a great poser! and the littlest guy had the most amazing eyes and eyelashes I have ever seen..I was so jealous (totally wasted on a boy..LOL!). Dad had a calm and relaxed way about him and they were a pleasure to spend some time with. I hope you like your sneak peek! Enjoy! 
