Just got back from Auckland where I had an Engagement Photoshoot with uber-cool couple Emily and Dixon. I am SO excited about their wedding in March. Take a look at the website they designed and created themselves (as designer and web-developer super-pairing). I've seen quite a few 'getting married' couple websites in my time, but this is by far the best. Yeah, they just knocked this up in their spare time after working 2 full-time jobs and running their own business....

When I see a website like this I think wooohoo - the wedding is bound to be amazing! I just hope my engagement shots do them justice..! (to be blogged soon....)

It was great to catch up with Emma and Ben again at their wedding last month. Liana and I travelled up to Lauderdale Estate (beautiful by the way, with a gorgeous little wooden church, manicured lawns, old cottages for accommodation and reception venue) on a very hot and sunny day. I think it's always hot and sunny in Central Otago, no? Maybe it just seems like that to me because I live in a cloud on a hill by the sea..? Anyway, we've got lovely green grass...

I digress. The wedding was beautiful, and because it was all on one site, very chilled out, serene and stylish. It was warm enough to enjoy cricket on the lawn after dinner, watch the sunset whilst enjoying a drink or two and eat with the marquee sides open. Of course I wasn't doing any of this since I was too busy working!! haha. Except for the eating part actually, since Emma and Ben insisted we sit down and eat with everyone, and even made us our own personalised wedding favours.

Someone tell me this isn't a man who's been practicing his model looks infront of the mirror for weeks?? Ey??

Yes, that's right, you can now spend your days not only following my blog, but checking out Sinead Jenkins Photography on Facebook too! Especially if you have a very boring office job and your computer screen faces the corner of the room.

I'm going to be updating the Facebook page with all the latest blog posts, plus NEVER BEFORE SEEN photographs (yes!) and a few little extras that won't necessarily be on the old blog here. Excited? I thought so...

If you're a client and become a fan (and you so wish) I can upload some of my favourite images from your wedding/portrait session straight away so you can share them in an album with everyone. Easy!

Here you go:

Sinead Jenkins Photography on Facebook

Nathan and Nicola got married in Mosgiel on a perfectly hot and sunny day. They are so suited to eachother and make the cutest couple. The wedding was relaxed, happy and really good fun, which is pretty much what they were planning. Speeches were kept to a minimum so the party could start without delay...

Here are some of my favourites. Not much time to type since I'm just back from a wedding up in Hawkes Bay (Hastings area) and am off to another wedding today! In the meantime I'm off to cuddle my baby in the sun...

Well, we are 16 months into our little project here in the wilds of the south island (little project being shorthand for building a house and setting up a mini-farm...a lifestyle block if you're a kiwi...).

Its all going pretty well. Not exactly to plan, but then my ideal plan would have been a 3 day one;
Day 1 - Build the house;
Day 2 - Landscaping and fencing etc;
Day 3 - Tidy up and arrange the scatter cushions.

So going by that plan, we haven't got TOO far ahead of ourselves, but hey, we've started! The house is going pretty slowly, due to a number of reasons, chief among them having a baby. The weather has also been horrendous since September and the bank hasn't been as friendly as we hoped they'd be (cos you know, they're normally SUPER friendly...) Things are progressing, just a bit slower than expected. The foundations are almost finished (I think?) and the wood for the structure is arriving next month. We need to clear a space in the barn for all our straw bales too.

Today I walked around and took a few shots of us all. Did I say we got some ducks for Christmas from our lovely neighbours? Ducklings are SO cute!
 




We also had a new batch of chicken chicks, although yesterday we heard the international chicken distress call, went out to see what the problem was and saw a giant hawk flying out of their enclosure!! A big nasty hawk! After a chick count we noticed we were one chick down, always a shame, but numbers are still quite good so we're happy.

Ducks and chickens aren't the best of friends by the way. The introduction of the ducks has given Hussein something to look disdainful about, but looking disdainful is his favourite hobby so I think he's secretly content. He's not in the photograph below, since he's probably off sulking or wooing Mavis.




Pond below, that Steven created for the ducks. It needs regular cleaning since the ducks get in there to clean themselves, and to poo.