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Nathan and Az, a special father and son session by Hobart photographer, Katinka Smith

I’d love you to meet Nathan and 5 year old Asaiah (Az). They have a wonderful father and son bond as you can see below.

It was wonderful meeting and photographing Nathan and Az. You can see how much Nathan enjoys being with son. Az is full of life, it is as though he is committed to squeezing every drop out of life, he’s going to live it all and leave no stone unturned. He is such an exciting little guy and a joy to be around. My aim for our session was to document Nathan and Az being a dad and a son. If you know my usual family imagery, then you know that I don’t want contrived, cheesy posed stuff that isn’t YOU. So as always, I wanted authentic and real interactions and images, only this time it felt more important than ever to capture these two people exactly as they are with each other, exactly as they would remember it themselves, because Nathan has aggressive brain cancer and so his time with Az might be short. He is already exceeding the life expectancy that he was given when he was diagnosed 3 years ago, so every day with Az is a real blessing.

So Nathan and Az played at the park, horsed around by the river, they played light sabres with sticks and rock paper scissors on the grass. Then we wrapped it up with an ice-cream and a stroll on Kingston beach. Even if I wasn’t there, I reckon they would have had a pretty cool father and son afternoon out.

Nathan has a Gofundme campaign to raise money to get them both to Queensland to live with his sister and brother in law and to provide for Az. You can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/fy4q27qc

Thanks for a great afternoon Nathan and Az, it was a pleasure.

Katinka xx

Katinka Smith is a portrait photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. Katinka specialises in creating emotive and meaningful imagery that is close to your heart with her aim to ensure sessions are ‘fun, emotive, you’. Katinka photographs babies and children of all ages, families, maternity, couples and weddings. Katinka can travel interstate for weddings or special commissions by negotiation. You can contact Katinka Smith via the contact form here and can stay up to date by ‘liking’ her Facebook page.

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Introducing sweet baby Caleb | Hobart newborn photographer, Katinka Smith

22 December 2014NewbornsHobart baby photographer, Hobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, newborn photography hobart tasmaniaKatinka

A little while ago I hung out with my good friend Kel and her family to capture some lifestyle images of sweet baby Caleb. Here are some images from our time together.

An afternoon with the Dillon family | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith.

9 August 2014Family photographyChildren photography, Hobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, Hobart photographer, Katinka Smith, photographer Hobart TasmaniaKatinka

Last Sunday I had the pleasure of spending some time with Bec, Chris and their lovely children. What a fun session we had, the boys were much fun to play with and they even managed to stay out of the MASSIVE puddles that remained from the week of rain and snow last week!

Katinka x

Katinka Smith is a portrait photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. Katinka specialises in creating emotive and meaningful imagery that is close to your heart with her aim to ensure sessions are ‘fun, emotive, you’. Katinka photographs babies and children of all ages, families, maternity, couples and weddings. Katinka can travel interstate for weddings or special commissions by negotiation. You can contact Katinka Smith via the contact form here and can stay up to date by ‘liking’ her Facebook page.

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The Dornan Family – at home | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith

26 July 2014Family photographyChildren photography, Hobart baby photographer, Hobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, Hobart photographer, Katinka SmithKatinka

A few weeks ago I visited Tim, Chantelle and their three children in their home. First off we set about capturing some studio portraits with the portable studio, and then we went outside to play in their ‘backyard’! How cool is this backyard – what children wouldn’t want to grow up in their own little piece of AWESOME! We had a lot of fun – here is a little overview of our time together.

Katinka Smith is a portrait photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. Katinka specialises in creating emotive and meaningful imagery that is close to your heart with her aim to ensure sessions are ‘fun, emotive, you’. Katinka photographs babies and children of all ages, families, maternity, couples and weddings. Katinka can travel interstate for weddings or special commissions by negotiation. You can contact Katinka Smith via the contact form here and can stay up to date by ‘liking’ her Facebook page.

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The Wakefield Family | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith

18 January 2014Family photographyHobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, photographer Hobart TasmaniaKatinka

Another shoot that I kept under wraps until the images were gifted as Christmas presets…so I’m pleased to share with you the Wakefield family!!

I have photographed Mark and Penni exchange vows at their wedding, have fun at the beach in a ‘trash the dress’ session, their anticipation in a maternity session, their new love in Louella’s newborn session and now as a growing family. They are just gorgeous and their love is wonderful. View the slideshow of images and some words to each other to witness just how much love they share. 🙂

Thank you again Mark, Penni, Loulou and Baxy!

Katinka x

Katinka Smith is a portrait photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. Katinka specialises in creating emotive and meaningful imagery that is close to your heart with her aim to ensure sessions are ‘fun, emotive, you’. Katinka photographs babies and children of all ages, families, maternity, couples and weddings. Katinka can travel interstate for weddings or special commissions by negotiation. You can contact Katinka Smith via the contact form here and can stay up to date by ‘liking’ her Facebook page.

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The Burke family, a wonderful day in Allen’s Rivulet | by Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith

25 July 2013Family photographyChildren photography, Hobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith, photographer Hobart TasmaniaKatinka

A few weeks ago I traveled down to Allens Rivulet, Tasmania, to photograph some dear friends of mine, Daniel and Anna, with their two children, Essie and Henry. I had my work cut out for me, it’s not everyday I set out to photograph a family with a nearly 3yo, a 15 month old, a dog and a horse! haha. I’m also allergic to horses and had a scary incident as a child, so you would think I would have gone prepared hey? Nope. in true Katinka fashion I completely forgot to take any kind of antihistamines with me and was left to just *hope* that I wouldn’t succumb to some kind of allergy attack. It turns out that over the years I have gotten better and I just had the regular kind of allergy reaction to Toby – runny nose and eyes etc. Phew! I even found out that I quite like horses, I just need to stay a number of metres away 🙂 Anna is an animal lover, so having two of her special fur children join in on the session was also very meaningful. Harvey the boxer is their ‘furry firstborn’ and Toby is Anna’s beloved horse. The location that we chose is where Toby is agisted and it allowed the children to run free in the paddocks, which is one of their favourite past times.

Daniel and I were great friends in high school, college and beyond. We used to go bushwalking a lot though we were often underprepared and usually freezing. Ha! So it was pretty clear that a location in the outdoors was going to be meaningful to Dan. I also met Anna in year 11 or 12. Dan and I were at Guildford Young in Glenorchy, and Anna was at the Hobart campus. As these things happen, activities span the campuses, friendships are made and Dan and Anna mixed in the same circles through mutual friends. In 2001, when we all had our licences and were adjusting to university life after graduating from GYC, Dan and Anna got together. And the rest, as they say, is history!

Dan and Anna are very good at teasing each other and most definitely aren’t into PDA, but it is obvious to anyone that they are a perfect pair and have a beautiful love. Over the years they have added dogs and cats and birds and a horse to their lives; gotten married; bought a house, sold a house and bought a house again; traveled overseas and most recently they have added two beautiful children to their incredible world, Essie and Henry.

I don’t need to tell you the rest, because a picture paints a thousand words…and there are a few thousand words below for you to enjoy. The slideshow contains many more images from the session as well as some extra words – Dan and Anna’s very own special words to each other and to their children.

Enjoy x

Master Seb, 3.5 and Miss Nina 1.5 | Children photography, Hobart Tasmania

26 November 2012My familyChildren photography, Hobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, Hobart photographer, Katinka SmithKatinka

Last Friday I very very excitedly purchased a new lens. This has been my dream lens FOREVER (well it feels like it, but really, it’s been about 5 years). A brand spanking new 70-200 2.8 IS II. Oh my goodness it is rocking my socks! I am in awe of the images I can now produce. I have an outdoor family session coming up this Saturday and so I have been practicing with it to really learn how to nail portraits with it. I am definitely glad that I decided to practice because it has taken some getting used to! All of my first images were very slightly out of focus, I was very disappointed, but even more determined. So I have taken my children to the Salmon Ponds two days in a row to practice on them. (The Salmon Ponds are so beautiful!). So here are some of my first shots out of my new lens. Please note I did not dress them with ‘photosession’ in mind, but rather ‘we are going to get messy today and mummy needs to practice on you!’ haha, so these are purely test images. But do I love them? heck yes! These will be going in the family album! Messy hair or not, we had a blast 🙂

I am so happy with the images from today, I nailed it every time, hooray! So look out Costin family on Saturday, you have lens awesomeness coming your way!

So, allow me to introduce MY children. Miss Nina is very defiant, independent and stubborn. I have NO IDEA where she got ANY of those traits from! You’ll notice a red spot on her lip. That is where she had an argument with the concrete on Saturday morning, right before our very own family photos – ARGH! Don’t be fooled by her tough exterior, she is super snuggly, loves to sing with me and her favourite place to be is in my arms, reading a book and snuggling her horsey.

Sebastian, master 3.5 is…well..THREE and all of the wonderful things that goes along with that. But underneath all of that he is SO helpful, caring and loving. His favourite place to be is right by my side offering to help in any way that he can, he is so sweet! He is also at that ‘pull silly faces’ stage. Can you tell? Yes, even photographers children go through that stage, as frustrating as it is 😉

Katinka

Too cool for school!!

We found a little birds nest! how cute is this!

The Nesbitt family | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith.

22 October 2012Family photographyHobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, Hobart photographerKatinka

Two Sundays ago I photographed this gorgeous family! It was a wonderfully fun session and we had amazing light and great conditions! We have had to reschedule this session so many times due to the weather or illness. In fact I went along to the session with a nice puffy swollen eye, hayfever induced I believe. But there was no way I was going to reschedule again, not when the weather was so amazing! Here is a little sneak peek of your images, I think it was worth the wait to make sure we had THIS light.

Some more images in the gallery:

A fresh winter outdoor family photography session | family photographer, Hobart Tasmania

14 July 2012Family photographyHobart children photographer, Hobart family photographer, Hobart photographerKatinka

On Sunday I met this lovely family for an outdoors lifestyle family photography session. I have known this family for nearly 3 years now! Crazy how fast it has gone! Big sister Lucy is just 2 weeks older than my son and 1 year old Alex is 4 weeks older than my daughter. We are in the same mother’s group (the best mother’s group EVER by the way) and have met almost weekly for nearly 3 years. It’s been wonderful.

I LOVE these types of sessions. It was a little bit chilly but that did not deter us! I phoned mum before the session and suggested a couple of wardrobe alterations – namely gumboots and coats! We had a blast and I am a dog person, so having the family dog along on the shoot was fabulous! Enjoy the sneak peek!

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