With apologies to Tom Paxton, who wrote this Peter, Paul and Mary classic;

“We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo

How about you, you, you?

You can come too, too, too

We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo.”

So we went and returned. And here are some of my shots, just for fun!

Hope of www.hopealexander.com had popped over for a cuppa this afternoon and we went outside (just before the big storm hit) to size up her poster for fun. She’s not used to seeing herself “bigger than ben hur” at approximately 47 x 40 inches Just as well it was laminated! It started raining cats and dogs shortly after … it was laminated for the flight to Melbourne, but turns out the weather was far worse in Perth!

Ohh this was very exciting, but I couldn’t post until the conference was finished! Back late June, Hope Alexander Master Public Health of www.hopealexander.com booked me for a portrait session as part of a poster presentation for the “2011 Consumers Reforming Health Conference”. This was the inaugural international conference for community engagement in health care, in Melbourne, July 2011.  The conference photographic poster presentation in its finished state, was 1 x 1.2 metres.

Have you ever visited the doctor’s surgery and seen all those glossy posters up on the wall with healthy, vibrant and confident looking professional health care providers? Given the title of Hope’s poster presentation, “Yes, consumers can … the expert patient lives on!” I thought I would be cheeky, and run with that concept, except have the “patient” playing the part of the healthy, vibrant and confident looking health professional! The feedback was, that it worked very well!

R, A and lil L, such a beautiful young family I had the privilege to photograph a couple of weeks ago. We split the session between outdoors and indoors with a couple of different scene changes so I’ll post a couple of entries to show how well they did!

***Sigh*** sessions like these make me want to run out and have more babies, as I just love this age group when they are just starting to really check the world out with wide eyes and show their individual personality

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As is becoming the norm around here, the family woofer always gets first dibs for previews from a family session, after all as everyone knows, they run the show This energetic woofer settled right down when the lens came out and posed like a pro! We got the “contemplative canine” shot, the “hang-dog melancholy” shot, you get the picture! More Family shots to come soon …

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I hear the ONO Exhibition/Auction on Wednesday went well. Congratulations to all the Advanced Diploma of Photography students at CIT, TAFE, in Perth Western Australia. I submitted the framed prints below, and it  was lovely to get an email from a very happy successful bidder! If you missed out, there is still an opportunity to purchase your own prints in a variety of formats and finishes.

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