Lifestyle Photography in Abu Dhabi

Lena - Oh my goodness Kirsty – i LOVE LOVE LOVE them! The last one is to die for! And love all the other lensbaby shots! I love them all! Great job as always – your girls are so lucky that you document every step of their lives!

Amy Lucy - Just absolutely stunning. xoxo

rowe - so beautiful kirsty… i LOVE the photos in and around that branch! i so want to go there to visit one day…

Louise - oh my goodness – that is beach bliss – how amazing for your girls… and how gorgeous is Indy????

Kate - I think I’m in love!!!!

steph - Absolutely beauty full as always K!

SarahInParis - Kirsty these photos are stunning and the sky is amazing! Wowzers.

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Mar 10 2012

Project 10 March | Abu Dhabi Photographer

It’s only the 10th of March and it’s been a busy one already – I managed to squeeze my Project 10 pictures in yesterday (thank goodness this is a lifestyle project, not about picture perfect portraits!!!) when we had a morning of hanging out at home with my parents followed by a trip into the desert for kite flying, dune running and a BBQ and campfire – a fab way to spend a Friday if you ask me!

Now follow on to see what Andrea got upto in Seattle this month…. and then follow the circle round

See you again in April, Kirsty x

(If you want to learn more about this fab project with 10 other photographers from around the world go here and go here to see last months)

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kati - I wanna come!! xxx

Jill - Did you stay over camping and thats a pretty good fire

Janine - Wow. Love seeing where you live. The dunes are beautiful. More please.

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Kirsten - Lovely photos as always – I love the bonfire photo.

Life with Kaishon - Absolutely perfect. Lifestyle photography is my favorite!

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Mette - I love the bonfire photo, and I love your site! Am actually moving to Abu Dhabi next year, so I love seing pictures taken there

Amy Lucy - Um, kites in the desert?! That looks amazing! What a fabulous day, indeed. Love your story, Kirsty! xoxo

Andrea - What a cool day…love the campfire in the desert. I love seeing your days over there…not really so different than here actually except for the sand dunes

robyn oakenfold - so lovely Kirsty!! looks like such a wonderful day! what are you bbqing?

Kirsty - Thanks everyone – Jill, we didn’t camp this time and Robyn, that’s hallumi – but we also had lots of veggie burgers and sausages too we love the dunes….

EFI - lovee it!! what an adventure!! i am so excited everytime i look at your 10 project !!

Sara T - I just bought the same kite. I adore your family 10′s. Gorgeous.

Jobrina Hofleit - What a great day Kirsty! I LOVE the desert dunes shots, so much FUN!!!!!!!

Val Spring - Oh girlie, your days are always so much fun! I think I wanna be you when I grow up ;P It indeed looks like the perfect Friday! Wonderful documentation and I bet your parents will treasure these for ever!

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Mar 07 2012

Family love | Abu Dhabi Family Photographer

I’ve been a bad blogger – but in my defence, only because I’m trying to be a good photographer and juggle photo shoots and orders and all the other things that come with this – I’d far rather my clients happily had their gorgeous images in their hands than only got to see them on my blog – and I’m sure they would too! But, there’s too much loveliness not to be shared… so here we go….

I got to know this family over their last year in Abu Dhabi and am so thankful I got to capture them here before they left

They were just the sweetest people to be around

I promise to try and share more loveliness soon – plus, I have my personal projects to catch up on so more of that coming soon too…. until then… Kirsty x

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jessica - Lovely images of a lovely family!

Cherilyn Haines {Baton Rouge Newborn Photographer} - Great pictures! I LOVE the last image of the family.

Meagan Baker - Vancouver Child Photographer - So beautiful – love these family portraits. The location looks amazing and i love the shot with the book. So cute.

robyn oakenfold - I agree with you, I have been relaxed at posted to my blog lately. But I am so glad you shared these, they are wonderful. I can’t pick a favorite because I love them all! Great job my friend!

laura - I love these! Such a cute family and lovely lighting!

Stephanie Moore {Tucson AZ Photographer} - Kirsty these are beautiful. you are so talented with pictures, I adore these!!!

kati - WOW!! Love all of these. And the sisters book! How clever!

Melanie - These are beautiful! That light is amazing! What a great session!

Amy Lucy - These are so beautiful, Kirsty. I want family photos like this!

Jenny - how great are these!?! I adore that shot of the girls reading SISTERS! Priceless!

Cara Harrison, Cincinnati OH family photographer - These are awesome! What a fun, relaxed session. gorgeous family, and beautiful colors.

Sara T - I love the light in these. Beautiful clean color and what a gorgeous family!

SarahInParis - Love them all and especially that last one!

Feb 18 2012

The Birthday Month-Part 2 | Personal Project | Abu Dhabi Photographer

This is a personal Photo Project I’m undertaking – a little challenge to myself – a set of goals to realise to help me grow, as a photographer and as a mother. It documents the month in our family where all three girls celebrate our birthdays and I’m documenting it as one picture a day of the little moments in our lives – especially in the lives of my girls. And to push myself to see things differently I’m doing it all in black and white – here are the second 10 days…

Thanks for looking and enjoying the little moments with me, Kirsty xx

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Janine - I LOVE these little moments…and b&w too. Beautiful

Efi - Love it! Cant tell my fav, love the b/w version .. It fits perfectly!

Lena - Love these Kirsty! You are SO GOOD at documenting your family images – you are inspiring me to do more of that myself:)

Feb 11 2012

Project 10 February | Abu Dhabi Lifestyle Photographer

We’re well into February already, and plans for the year are being made.. and it’s time for another instalment of the Project 10 (go here to find out how it started and how I’m involved with a fabulous group of photographers from around the globe, and here to see last months).

This month, rather than documenting a day in our lives, I documented a day in my own… just what I do.. and you know what, it was hard.. hard, mostly because it was actually quite dull!!!! Being a photographer isn’t all hanging out with rockstars and attending fashion shoots!!!! Being a Mummy business owner is pretty mundane when you combine it with school runs and laundry and lunchboxes and finding parking and sitting in traffic… but what you see is what on many days, it is….. starting with those afore mentioned lunchboxes and laundry!!!

Followed by a spot of packing up client orders – see my huge wardrobe full of packaging supplies?? That’s not even half of it!!!!

Sitting in traffic driving to make a delivery….

And a trip to the Post Office to collect and send some international orders

Aaaahhh, time to sit down – quick coffee and chat with a client/fellow businessMum…

Home again, album design and lunch

And time to ralk (yes, that’s a run/walk) to school to pick up the girls….

Oh the glamour!!!! I’ll be back with a far more exciting instalment in MarchUntil then pop over and see what the wonderful Robyn in Calgary has been upto – I’m pretty sure hers will show off her adorable kids!!! And then follow the circle around the globe… Kirsty

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Andrea - Is that all you eat for lunch? I love this…love to peek inside your life.

Janine - I love this peek into your daily routine. Great project

Kylie D - I love this post! I love the honesty and the perspective – soooo good! Kx

Farideh - You have to teach me time-management!

Val Spring - I don;t think a day in your like would ever seem dull to me. Love seeing more of your daily routine and I love how organized you are with your pacjaging supplies. I want a whole closset for it now Love your Starbucks shot!

Val Spring - *meant life

Nancy - Looks like an incredibly productive day, Kirsty!! Love the term “ralk”

indian wedding photography - Outstanding job once again. Thank you:)

Lena - Wow – what an awesome idea! Love to get a glimpse in your glamourous life:) And it was so cool to follow your fellow photographers around the globe! Cannot wait to see your March edition!

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Jobrina Hofleit - LOVE the way you have documented your “dull” day…..it so isn’t dull in the slightest way to me at all!!!!! Love your “ralk” image!!!!!

Feb 09 2012

The Birthday Month | Personal Project | Abu Dhabi Photographer

This is a personal Photo Project I’m undertaking – a little challenge to myself – a set of goals to realise to help me grow, as a photographer and as a mother. Most photographers have personal projects on the go, (you can see my Project 10 posts here where I document a day in our lives every month with 10 other photographers around the world) – I feel like if I’m not pushing myself to keep seeing in my personal life then I’ll reach a point where documenting things for my clients becomes stale – and I never want that to happen… so inspired by several of my photography friends (including Janine and Rebecca) who have been doing photo a day projects, this is a little project I’m doing called “The Birthday Month”.

We have a month in our family where all three girls celebrate our birthdays, so instead of starting on January 1st I’m doing it now and documenting it as one picture a day of the little moments in our lives – especially in the lives of my girls. And to push myself to see things differently I’m doing it all in black and white – I’ll write more about that in the next instalment, but for now, here are the first 10 days…

They’re not perfect pictures – they’re not all special “must get the camera out” celebrations – they’re not all posed or smile for the camera pictures – they’re pictures of the every day; the real moments of this month…. Here’s to the little moments… Kirsty x

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Rebecca - So amazing Kirsty! Can’t wait to follow along. I love the real moments the best. I think they are perfect! (such beautiful photos too).

Jo - Kirsty – I love these. The black and white style is amazing and a little glimpse into your everyday lives is very special for an Auntie who’s far away xxx

Louise - Very special everyday moments – love the Lost in music one! Perfect!

Kirsten - Stunning as always.

Carey - love upside down, backwards, to pieces. utterly impossible to choose a favorite one!!!

steph - LOVE!

Amy - Those girls are yours are so darling. I love getting a glimpse into your everyday, unposed moments. Love this birthday month project!

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Jan 31 2012

Fun Photo Project – Photobooth!

In much of the world people have rainy day fun projects – we have hot day indoor projects and I love doing fun photo projects with my kids that help to create memories for us all, not to mention fun things to hang on our walls – this was one we did one weekend last September when the temperatures were still in the high 40′s!!

We created photobooth photo strips for us all – one of each of us, and one of the girls together, one of me and T together and one of all of us and then I put them together into a photo collage!

The girls really didn’t quite understand the concept of a photo booth!! We just don’t have them here – if you want your passport pics doing in Abu Dhai you go to a photo studio!! I let each of us have only 6 photos (I know it’s usually only 4 but I had to give the kids a chance!!) the only stipulation being 1 had to be a nice one, and the others could be as goofy and funny as they liked! We then downloaded them and chose 4 for each strip and put them together in photoshop – we used these photostrip overlays (they work in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements) and put them all together. If you don’t have photoshop you could easily do it as a collage project, making a photostrip frame from black card and sticking the individual photos in. (Edited to add: the day after I published this post I spotted this photobooth website on Pinterest - another great alternative to making collages if you don’t have Photoshop!)

Here’s the final version…..

I printed the page up as a 12 x 16 and popped it into a nice simple Ikea frame – and hung it on one of our photo walls – voila! It makes me smile every time I walk by it

Have fun… Kirsty xx

PS For some more fun photo projects see my Instax Heart Project and the Christmas Glitter fun we had

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