I’ve a lot of fabulous sessions to share with you, so this is going to be a large post full of awesome photos.

Meet little Georgia, what a beautiful family!

Meet little Reinhart, such a darling little boy!

I met up with Mandy and her family in Pretoria and had so much fun with these girls ♥

Meet Nhlahla & Pushe, such a beautiful couple ♥

and look at the perfect princess that was hiding inside ♥ oh my!  I’ve not yet finished this session so will share more later, I took way too may photos BUT I couldn’t help it!  sigh! perfection!

Little Rogan, aint he a cutie?

Another beautiful mommy ♥

♥ Little Lonwabo was hiding inside ♥

I think that’s enough for one post and little miss Boo is asking for her bottle, so I have to dash..
Enjoy the peeps, and I promise to load some new photos of Tae soon soon.

Much much love, always.

Tash
x ♥ x

Sorry I’ve been so quiet.  Been CRAZY here.
My daughter decided to come a little early, the day after we moved house, lol..  you can imagine it was a wee bit hectic.. ♥
We had a bit of a rocky start but we are finally finding our feet.
She is perfect and we are all absolutely smitten with her..

♥ Introducing Taeyah Rae ♥

My beautiful girls

I am back at work already and am looking forward to many great sessions to finish off the last part of 2010.

Please however be a little patient if I do not reply to your emails right away, we are all still adjusting to life with a baby ♥
I will reply as soon as I can.

Thanks so much

Much love

Tash

I met up with Anlie and her beautiful family at the Pretoria botanical gardens, there is only one word that can define our session…. F U N

Speechless…. do you get any more gorgeous?  wOw!

Another session at the PTA gardens, meet Imke and her beautiful family

Meet little Caleb and his big brother Jason… ♥ so much of love ♥

Recognise this family?  That is little Abigail… I photographed her when she was just a bump, then we did her newborn session, and her 1st birthday party… now we welcome her baby brother to the family… I’m off to photograph him on Sunday…  so blessed I am!

Meet beautiful Sonja and her gorgeous boys… with another little boy on the way!! WOW!!

Wendy and her stunning family drove out to Hartbeespoort for their session, so much of love

Introducing little Skye… isn’t she absolutely gorgeous?

Little Isabella, totally gorgeous!

Little Callum with a smile on his face..  blessed!

and last but certainly not least, meet teeny tiny little Declan… oh my!  he was sooooo very small!! ♥

I truly am blessed, I cannot wait for my little princess to get here ♥ Just over 7 weeks to go ♥

if you’d like more sneak peeps, be sure to pop over to my facebook fan page, I seem to update more often there, it’s jut easier to upload one photo there as I proof..

Till next time…
much much love
Tash
x ♥ x

1st place with 57 votes is No 7

2nd place with 40 votes is no 8

we have a tie for 3rd place with 37 votes each, no 22 and no 23

Thank you to everyone that took the time to vote and congratulations to the winners.
I will be in contact as soon as I get your mounts back from the lab.

Take care
Tash
xxx

Going to share the last of my february sessions, as you will see I had some amazing sessions last month.. wow!

♥ ♥ ♥ I am so very blessed to love what I do ♥ ♥ ♥
of course it also helps to have SUCH amazing clients too!

and that’s the end of February..  March… here we come..

take care

Tash

first up, two gorgeous bumps

and a sweet little boy…..

last session  for now, little Olivia…

Hope you enjoy them.

Thank you to everyone that has voted already in the competition ♥ keep the votes coming ♥

Take care

Tash
x ♥ x

On with the competition….

How it works

To enter you must vote by leaving a comment in this thread.
In the comment, list the number of the photo you want to win, the number is ON the photo.
You can vote for yourself.
You can only vote for ONE photo, ONCE.
Please make sure you leave a valid email address where asked.
Anyone can vote.
So email your friends, family, anyone you think will listen & ask them to come, look & place their vote!

What do you win?
First place – your image printed A2 and beautifully block mounted
Second place – your image printed A3 and beautifully block mounted
Third place – your image printed A4 and beautifully block mounted

When does it end?
The competition ends the 14th March 2010

Without further ado, here are the entries…
(click the thumbnail to see a larger image)

good luck to everyone..
happy voting!
xxx
p.s. sneak peeps from recent sessions coming soon.. much much love..

January 2010 is no over, can you believe it?
I had some fantastic sessions in January and I cant wait to share them with you.

First up, this gorgeous family is expecting another little girl, Olivia.. she is going to be gorgeous!!
I last met up with them in 2008 for a family session, I love being a part of these special moments.

Meet little Leah… we met up at the Walter Sisiulu botanical gardens to capture some beautiful portraits for her christening invitations…
I think we got some beautiful captures, and how could we not, look at her, oh my word, isn’t she just GORGEOUS!!!

Another beautiful bump… Monica.. she is also expecting a little girl any day now ♥ ♥ ♥

last but definitely not least, little Donte… I last saw her when she was just 2 weeks old… look at her now.. so big.. so beautiful. ♥

I will try add some more from these sessions later in the week, until then, take care, have a fantastic week.

Much love

♥

Happy New Year,  I hope your Christmas and New Year was blessed with lots of happy memories…
I can’t believe 2010 is already here.. another new year..  Loads happening this year for us…
We’re off to grade 2 and we have a new baby coming in June.. we are so very blessed ♥ ♥ ♥

I’ve a few sessions from last year to still share with you, but I’m only going to share one from each session as I still want to load the competition…

Meet Tanya and her BEAUTIFUL family.. wow, they are all so very gorgeous!!  and how perfectly dresses were they?

This little guy’s name is Alexandro and he is such a darling..  I cannot wait to meet his little brother or sister that’s soon to be here, hope you are keeping cool Monique.. this heat is awful!

I met up afterwards with this very trendy family.. Meet Natasha and her handsome boys…

And of course a little newborn to melt your heart… meet Imogen… oh my goodness, she is absolutely perfect! ♥ ♥ ♥

With those being the last of 2009, I’d like to take this time and thank you, my clients, for being such an awesome part of my year.  I’ve had so many fantastic sessions this year, I’ve grown not only as a photographer but also as a person, and you had a part of that.. Thank you! ♥ ♥ ♥
Last year I did the best of 2009 photo competition, but this year as I’ve had over 80 fantastic sessions, it’s IMPOSSIBLE for me to choose which ones to put to a vote.. so I’m going to hand it over to you, my clients.
If you’ve had a session with me in 2009 and would like to enter the competition, all you have to do is email me your favourite image from the session.
{ Please attach the image sized for the web (or you can email me the image number) and please put NWP 2009 Photo comp in your subject so I can make sure it doesn’t go to my junk folder }
Email them to Natasha@natashawhiteley.co.za
I will then upload the entries and put it to a public vote.
The portrait with the highest votes will win.
I will be giving away 3 prizes this year to the photos with the 3 highest votes.

First place – your image printed A2 and beautifully block mounted
Second place – your image printed A3 and beautifully block mounted
Third place – your image printed A4 and beautifully block mounted

Terms and conditions

Your entries must be submitted before the 14th February 2010
They will be loaded during that week and put up for voting
Voting will be open from the 21st February until the 14th March 2010
Please attach the image sized for the web (or you can email me the image number)
Please put NWP 2009 Photo comp as your email subject so I can make sure it doesn’t go to my junk folder
Email them to Natasha@natashawhiteley.co.za

good luck to everyone, I cannot wait to see which image was your favourite.

To end the year, here is a little slide show of  some of my sessions from 2009…  As you can see I was blessed with wonderful clients.. I wish I could include them all in the slideshow, but alas I had a very blessed year with over 80 clients..
I do hope you enjoy it… it’s about 10mbs in size, so might take a little bit to load…
take care and once again thank you..

♥ ♥ ♥

Click here to view the embedded video.

if you are struggling to view the video, you can download it to your computer here 2009 sessions

Just dropping a quick note to let you know that I will out of office today and tomorrow (15th and 16th December).
Will be back on the 17th and will reply to any emails / text / phone calls I receive then.

Will leave you with a quick image of this sweet little girl, Tayla.
♥ She really stole my heart ♥

The above image was taken in Tayla’s beautiful bedroom, I love that because I shoot in your home, I am able to combine these little things that are personal to your family.. it makes it *that* much more special, don’t you think?   Enjoy!

Will chat soon…
Take care.
xxx