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I love the surprising quality of the images this project leads me to capture.  I find myself starting the day with a vague idea of what i might like to make an image of, but then the day unfolds and each time hands me something different.

Yesterday, I wander about in the ocean with Mattea, and capture some gorgeous backlit, sealit,  celebrations of her beauty, and the enviable peaceful way she has of just meandering. And then I realise that I have forgotten my memory card, the images are on the camera hard drive, and I don’t have the necessary connective wires here to transfer them.

So later on I take the camera out to dinner with us. 2 frazzled parents, with four youngish children.  Arguments over drawing books and who put a snail on whose favourite page. A baby under the table, hitting his head and howling. Elmo singing “La  la la la, lalalala, Elmos world” intermittently. Sharing going on from everyone’s plate. Pasta, calamari and ice cream everywhere. To all the pretty young things around us, it probably looks like a living nightmare. I think it is a (champagne-assisted) bliss. I photograph Rupe eating textas, the girls bent over their ‘Find-a-word’, Archie talking talking talking, in his little-big white linen shirt.

As dessert arrives, I run outside to capture a photograph of all this Napoli-sauce-covered insanity from the other side of the lovely sandstone balcony of the old pub. The camera battery is dead.

We come home, and I immediately plug the battery into recharge. Get Rupert his bottle, change him, put him in bed. Hear Archie in Rupe’s room, making him laugh with his hilarious antics (which usually involve the word ‘boof’ and some exploding noises).. He asks to be put into Rupert’s cot, and as I walk back in to help him in, I see all Rupert, Archie and their 6 foot 3 inch daddy sitting in the cot. The fragile, rickety, second hand on ebay cot.

These are my boys and I love them all so dearly.

Image above  taken with Fuji X100 . All images are shot as jpg files, and this one did need just a little exposure bump and some colour popping (she says sheepishly).