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I am Rana and what you will find here is part of who I am. I am a wife, mother, midwife, photographer, lover of chocolate, coffee, love joy & happiness.
I aim to capture those little moments of your life and share your love joy and happiness. Based on the Gold Coast, I am willing to travel to surrounding areas to spend time with you and capture those moments that matter most to you.
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Warning – cuteness overload about to come 
I have known Rachel since she was pregnant and was so excited to catch up with her today purely by chance, even better I had my camera in the car. So we found the closest park and let Miss Paulina charm us. She wasn’t very giving with the smiles when it came to me, but when it came to her mum, she had plenty.
Was just a quick session, but we got some utterly adorable shots
So happy to have caught up Rachel xx
Some people are just made to be parents I think. I have been so lucky to have been part of this family’s journey into parenthood and I am filled with love every time I get that infectious feeling of total utter joy from them. Gorgeous Joseph is a beautiful content boy, I think he knows how much he is loved. He didn’t really want to sleep during this mini session, but thats ok because it means I get to capture him in all his seriousness, with his never ending quirky expressions, those big fat cheeks and I even got to capture the dimple that I love so much.
Sorry Steve, but at this stage I am going to say this boy got his gorgeous looks from his mum!! Everytime I look at the photos I see you Nadine, must be those beautiful lips of his.
So glad to have met you guys, hope you love this sneak peak. Will have the rest to you soon.
So was very excited to met Steph at my local beach and get some beautiful maternity photos for her to send to her husband who is away with the army at the moment. The families of our soldiers are never far from my mind, what they do for our country is truly remarkable.
Steph, hope you love these and that your lovely man makes it home in time to see you still pregnant before bubs arrives!!
Some people just suit their names, when I look at this little man, I see a strong, noble warrior type of person, the way he stares intently, working things out, I can just envision him storming off to his sisters rescue. So I wasn’t surprised when I read that his name Uhlan has the meaning of calvary man. The perfect name for a little warrior Check out the photo of him flexing his warrior-like muscles!!
I was very privileged to be there to help welcome this beautiful boy into the world, so grateful to have met him and his family.
Eliza & Rick, was great to see you guys again, you have a beautiful family. Can’t wait to catch up again.
Hope you love these.
Eddie Eyelashes this boy should be called, you know the kind of eyelashes us girls would die for, this boy has them, so beautiful! A few from a recent mini session with this adorable snuggley wee man.
Mel hope you love these. Talk soon xx
I had the total pleasure of meeting Freddie today, he melted my heart What a gorgeous boy, guess he gets that from his parents, what a lovely warm family they were.
Freddie gave me lots of character and you can see that through these photos! ohhh I just want to eat him up!
Hope you love these guys, will be in contact with the rest of your gallery soon.
Those of you that are regulars to my blog will know how much of my life is involved in gymnastics. my 2 older children have been doing gymnastics for almost 3 years now, Cale has been training 16 hours a week and Ali trains 13. Gymnastics is not an extracurricular activity for us, its a part of our life.
I guess as children grow up, life starts to change and it is with a very heavy heart I write this post. Cale has made the decision to stop doing gymnastics, I like to say he has decided to take a break (this doesn’t sound as final to me).
So over the last few days I have gone through some of the photos from the last year and have put together this slideshow.
A slideshow, for me (and the rest of the family) to celebrate the journey we have taken, a slideshow as a tribute to Cale, to show how amazing he is, how proud we are of him and his achievements, a slideshow to say thank you to the awesome coaches and other staff at GCGC, a slideshow to share with my ABSOLUTELY AMAZING gym family, to all those mums and dads who I have sat feeling sick with waiting for comps to start, families I have spent more time with than my own in the last 3 years, the families who I love dearly and while I know we will stay in contact, I will miss sitting with you and watching our amazing boys.
Thank goodness Ali is still doing gym, or I would be an emotional mess right now! Ali you can’t take a break, ever 
So firstly Cale’s last competition, last apparatus, his all time fav and an outstanding personal best in vault -
Now I leave you with my boy – the amazing, awesome, talented Cale xxxx (you might want to pause it and let it load fully before watching it or it will stop and start)
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Today I photographed Adam & Belinda and their beautiful girl Mia. Belinda was the lucky winner of a voucher I donated to a raffle being run by Logan Hospital’s maternity ward, she won it when she was pregnant with Miss Mia, and decided to wait till she was born to get some photos. Mia is now 2 months old and looks like she is going to make herself known in this world!
Belinda was mainly after photos of them all together, rather than just photos of Mia, this was lucky as Mia was pretty determined to just be cuddled by her doting parents, I don’t blame her during this cold Qld winter!
Belinda and Adam, hope these are what you hoped for, will be in contact with your gallery soon.
Yesterday was the last of my school holiday sessions and we were blessed with a beautiful sunny winters afternoon. 2 gorgeous girls, a beautiful boy and their parents joined me at the beach and we had a bit of fun. I discovered a beautiful field of flowers which I had to get these girls to come and play in with me. We braved the bindis and I’m glad we did, check out the last image here, one of my favs, its not even my daughter and I can’t stop looking at the photo!
Anna & Tony, thanks for meeting me down at the beach, glad the weather finally co-operated. Will be in touch with the rest of your gallery soon.
And my fav from the day, with a bit of an arty feel
I was on facebook the other day and one of my friends posted a link to a photo slideshow her daughters best friend had made up of the photos of the two of them together, this year they are in yr 7 and next year they will be going to different schools, so Kiana wanted to show Tegan how special their friendship was. I was so touched by this that I contacted my friend and invited the girls out for a bit of fun with the camera, to create some more memories for them.
Do you remember what it was like, your BF and you, hours on the phone talking, even though you had spent all day together, sleepovers where you would just talk, about everything and everthing. Your best friend was the one you wanted to go to if you had to laugh, and they were always there when you wanted to cry. Nothing can compare to the love of best friends.
I remember my best friend from when I was these girls age, Rosanna and I were inseparable, man we had some fun.
Tegan & Kiana, was so lovely to see you guys having fun, hope you love these photos. All the best for next year xxxx
Have to credit the awesome Caroline for the inspiration behind the paper doll shot xx
by Rana
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