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Hi, my name is Lauren and I would love to be your photographer – I love photographing anything that moves - Children, Weddings, Babies, Parties, Families, Pregnant Tummies, and even animals! Come to think of it, I’ll shoot it even if it doesn’t move!

A little about me - Ive been married to my beautiful husband Stuart for almost 5 years, and our first 'real' child will enter the world around Australia Day, 2008! Our other children - 5 year old Pepa the German Spitz X, and a 4 year old Corgie X Sheltie called Chewy - will be very, very put out! We got married in the Hunter Valley, and escape Sydney to get back there every chance we get!

I hope this blog gives you a better sense of who I am and what I love to do. To see more photos I’ve taken, please check out my website. Thanks for stopping by, please leave me a comment so I know you were here!

I hope to meet you soon!

Lauren.

Ph: 0416 006 779

lauren@tigerlilyphotography.com.au

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Baby Campbell

Last week, I met the most adorable little 2 1/2 week old little boy, called Campbell. My old buddy Graham called me the week before to tell me about his new little bundle of joy, and to see if I could fit them in for newborn photos. Now, ive known Graham for about 9 years, Graham owns GDK Signs at Castle Hill (ph: 9680 7446), and we met when I was working in Real Estate, when I was about 20. Graham was single, I was single, you’d think we would have put 2 and 2 together (no, we didn’t!), but I think our friendship was more about having fun, than anything else. Ah, we had some good times, god you used to make me laugh. Just take a look at him - see what I mean?

Enter Sarah. The perfect match for Graham. Its so beautiful watching these two people together, they just ‘get’ each other. And now they have a perfect little baby to love too. Have a look:

 

… ‘and smile guys’, one for the grandparents for Christmas!

Sarah & Graham, thank you for allowing me to photograph your new little prince (and letting me have a cuddle!). He is absolutely gorgeous, and Sarah, Im looking forward to lots of coffee’s & chats while we bounce our boys on our laps next year!

Lauren xx

 

Perfection….

Here I am, editing away on a Friday evening, just had to share a sneak from last Wednesdays newborn shoot, more photos to follow over the weekend.

He is the cutest little thing. More photos to follow, I promise!

L. xx

The Hoffman Family

I have known Leanne for probably about 10 years now thru my good friend Lisa. Gosh, we had some good times together, back in the single, party days!  Every time I flick thru old photo albums, Lea is always there. I think there was a stage there, where the 3 ‘L’s (Lea, Lisa & I), as well as a bunch of others, would go to Rydges on the 1st Friday of the month (yes, month after month….) for karaoke and a boogie! Leanne would always sing ‘You’re so Vain’ by Carly Simmons - ah, those were the days!

Anyway, to cut a long story short (and believe me, I have some tales to tell!), Leanne loved the photos from Lisas recent family shoot so much that she booked me for a session with her gorgeous family. Here is a sneak:

 

Leanne & Nige. I feel like i’ve known Nige for ever too! Don’t think he ever sang at Karaoke tho!

Ryan will be 6 early next year. He looks like an angel in this photo, but his mum assures me his middle name is TROUBLE!

And this is Ryan giving 4 year old Taylor a big hug!

Mummy & Ryan ‘big smile!”!

And you know its time to call it a day, when this happens!

Thank you Leanne for letting me take these photos of your gorgeous family! And Ryan & Taylor were awesome fun to hang out with for the morning. I cant wait for them to teach our little boy how to do ‘big wees!’ :) I hope you enjoy your first look at the photos, will get them all to you soon!

L. xx

Hamilton Island

Finally…. here are some photos of our holiday to Hamiltion Island. As you can see, the weather was a little overcast, but still hot enough to go swimming every day (which Daphne loved). I spared you all by not posting any photos of me being 26 weeks pregnant in a bikini, I did cop a few looks from some older people around the pool, but hey - 1) its natural, and 2) im never going to see those people again, so why not flaunt it! :)

Anyway, before we flew out, Stu & I took a walk around Manly, and he started going crazy at some big beefy guys holding some brown trophy… he begged me to take a photo of him holding it. He’s tried explaining to me what it is, but hey - im the girl that spent 80 minutes talking to girlfriends during this years footy grandfinal!

On to the holiday (after almost missing our flight… thats a whole other post!). This is the view from our room:

Day 2 of our holiday took us to Whitehaven Beach. Yes, it really is as magical as all the photos make it out to be, only trouble was the boat that got us there, dropped us off at the other end to all the beautiful sandbars you see in the advertising material (and told us that we didn’t have time to walk there and back), and then we were warned about swimming in the water, as the stingers were out this time of year (if you get stung, you stop breathing, not good for baby). So, we were stuck laying on a hot beach for 2 hours. And silly me forgot to take money for drinks. Oops. You live and learn. It was pretty special tho:

To kill some time, we did go for a short walk (so hard to go for a walk at the beach and NOT put your feet in the water!), and we ran into these guys on a canoe. Now, anyone that knows me will know that I struggle with accents, um, I think they were French? Seriously, you’d have to be from another country to canoe around the Whitsundays in 30+ temp! Anyway, they asked if I could take a photo of them with their camera, so then I asked if I could take one with mine. Lovely guys, I hope they made it to ‘honey island’, which im sure they said they were headed (Stu & I looked on a map, we couldn’t find it anywhere… um, good luck fellas!)

Stu went deep-sea fishing, and actually caught a fish! I was so proud of him, as I think he’s only caught 1 or 2 fish in his whole life! :) Check out his t-shirt… I tried to hide it when he got back to the unit, but oh-no, it managed to come home with us, stinking out the rest of the suitcase…..

And no holiday is complete without a lovely self-portrait of Stu & I (taken by Stu, with the point & shoot), just to prove we were actually there. Smile!

There you go, the Walkers have now down Hamilton Island!

lauren xx

Hayley & Iain = MARRIED!!

Last Saturday, the 11th of October, my good friends Iain & Hayley were married in a gorgeous ceremony at the Kings School Chapel, and then partied the night away at their reception at the Manly Pacific. I was a guest at the wedding, so I had the night off from my normal photographer duties, however I was asked to take some photos of Iain & his groomsmen before the ceremony….

The gorgeous Chapel:

Iain:

All the boys - sorry Haylz, couldn’t resist posting this photo! Only the boys will know which order they stood for this photo (and their wives, by looking at their butts!):

 

 As I mentioned, I was a guest at their wedding, so didn’t take many photos from my position in the pew (is that what they’re called?). I did however sneak out before the end of the ceremony (naughty, I know), to get some photos of Hayley & Iain exiting the church as man & wife:

The gorgeous Hayley:

Off to the Manly Pacific, I snapped this photo of Hayley with good friend & bridesmaid Kristie before we walked in - yes Kristie is glowing, and doesn’t look 25 weeks pregnant at all!

I then snuck up to Hayley & Iains room to steal a few photos before the reception started, I couldn’t work out which photo to post here, hence the storyboard!

I put the camera away for most of the reception, I just snapped a few photos with the cutting of the cake, and the first dance:

Haylz & E, you guys are absolutely gorgeous, thank you for inviting Stu & I to your wedding, and i’ll give you the disc for all of the photos I took, as soon as we can work out how many hours baby-sitting time you’re going to give me, he he. Enjoy WA, love you both!

L.

Ps - We flew out to Hamiltion Island the following day, had a terrific time, photos to come soon!

 

Holidays!

Hi, following on from my last post, Stus taking me to Hamilton Island this weekend, we leave on Sunday morning (after Hayley & Iain’s wedding), and return before next Saturdays wedding at Newcastle.  So…. I’ll be off the air for about a week. I will reply to all e-mails & phone calls when I return! Bye!