Pebbles Photography: The Blog

Thanks for visiting my blog. This is where you can view examples of my recent work and where my lovely clients can see sneak peeks from their sessions. Feel free to leave lots of comments! I would love to hear from you! :-)

I shoot on location at your home, parks and gardens, beaches or other beautiful locations in Melbourne, Australia. Please visit my website to learn more about me and to view my portfolio including lots of gorgeous newborns, kids and families!

Yes! I also shoot weddings, with my husband Lars. To view our wedding portfolio click here

~ Fran Paysen

I asked them to sit still for a photo…

..and this is what I got. I think it’s hilarious. Gorgeous, gorgeous kids. :) Two are mine, and two are our neighbours kids.

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Ah…someone finally looked my way.

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Things did get better after that. :) This awesome family are our neighbours (kind of. They are not living next door right now, they are living in Adelaide while their new house is being built). Recently we flew over to Adelaide to visit them and had a fabulous time playing on the beach, which is practically on their doorstep the lucky things.

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Totally, like, awesome

Gosh I love photographing teens. It’s not only that they don’t run from my camera like little kids sometimes will, but it’s a beautiful time of their lives (which they may not appreciate until later, haha). For parents, I imagine, it’s a time of major headaches but also heartache to know their children are growing up and preparing to leave the nest. Which makes me realise how very important it is to have family portraits taken at this stage, to capture the beauty/awkwardness/confidence/insecurity of adolescence. This is my friend and fellow photographer, Hayley and her gorgeous family. We came up with the idea of taking each other’s family photos, so recently we travelled down to Phillip Island to have our photos taken on a farm adjacent to Hayley’s studio. (you can see my family shots here - thanks again Hayley!). Hope you like these ones. ;)

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Awarded

Recently I entered a bunch of prints into the 2010 AIPP Victorian Professional Photographer of the Year awards. I was sooo unsure how my prints would go….I had a (good) hunch about a couple of them…but it is really hard to know what the panel of judges would think of them, hard to be objective. One does become rather attached to one’s work! Anyway, I was thrilled to receive 2 silver awards (one in Portrait, one in Wedding) and 1 silver with distinction (Wedding).

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