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| the year begins in the heat of north queensland |
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| my cousin and sister in the flooded park |
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| words for our future children |
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| taking pictures on the way from brisbane to toowoomba |
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| sleeping in a pitched tent in my grandparent's garden |
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| sunday morning at my aunt's house (before being jumped on by wide-awake children) |
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| belle riding on m's shoulders |
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| the super 8 that m picked up at a swapmeet |
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| a rainbow on valentine's (m cooked a picnic basket's worth of food and we took the girls to the park) |
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| sleepy sommer in the back of the car |
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| some old photographs from a wooden chest. left, my mother as a child and right, my young grandparents |
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| some angry geese we met on our adventures with the girls |
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| spiderbite sick belle getting cuddles from her mother |
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| dinner with maria- she'd flown me to victoria to shoot for her salon |
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| some art i liked pasted on the wall of an elevator in melbourne |
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| the beginning of our street when it wasn't yet ours |
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| a map of the town & the first inspection |
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| the first few nights spent on the cold floor (but we couldn't have cared less) |
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| making it home |
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| days later when m had finished putting the ikea furniture together |
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| our mountains |
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| our special place at the end of the street |
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| a place found while exploring |
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| on a ferry, taking sommer, belle and freya to luna park |
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| taking the three sisters to see the three sisters |
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| red dirt land |
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| adventure to a graveyard |
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| a late night swingset date with m |
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| painting the girl's bookcase & belle's picture for m |
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| leaving on the greyhound bus |
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| shooting danielle in front of the harbour bridge |
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| danielle asleep on the long train ride back from the city |
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| lighting the fireplace for the first time |
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| our day and night of snow |
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| m editing a short film i shot for a clothing label |
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| winter fog in katoomba |
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| two very magical lines |
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| sweet writing in m's journal |
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| shooting a lookbook for milk & honey |
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| early morning bondi |
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| m asleep beside his sister, ashlin |
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| taking m's sisters to the cinema in perth |
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| flying over sydney |
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| my gatepass |
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| one of the billabong models busking in a french train station |
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| fruit for dinner in paris (thank-you pregnancy cravings) |
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| m and his camera, at a restaurant in provence |
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| travelling across europe by train |
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| seaside cafes |
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| a boutique hotel in florence (and me hiding in my hair) |
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| the view from our balcony in cinque terre, italy |
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| the view from to the right, a garden of umbrellas |
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| m sleeping on the train back from the airport |
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| a train crushed by a falling tree when there were storms in the mountains |
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| a note m left on our blackboard after an argument |
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| the warmth that is us |
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| m's 21st birthday presents, a guitar and a banjo |
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| arriving in auckland, new zealand at night |
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| a monstrous rock at piha beach |
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| m in our hotel room |
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| later on in auckland, the image i'd shot for bic runga pasted on a wall |
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| a naked tree a few stations over |
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| picnic by a waterfall |
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| the only day of sun in many months of cold |
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| the pub down the street, with forever lit fireplaces |
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| me reading in a bookstore in the city |
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| interview in yen magazine |
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| the beginning of a belly at 18 weeks |
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| night trains through vietnam |
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| saigon through the taxi window |
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| our hotel room in nha trang |
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| restaurant by the river |
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| a cat startled by a family of scuttling crabs |
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| lazy beach days in hoi an |
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| summer fruit |
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| pre-meal uno ritual |
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| shopping for things for alba in markets |
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| a drawing and a tiny dress for alba |
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| alba's hammock & stuffed animals from saigon |
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| 25 weeks |
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| our new rocking chair, with car lights streaming through foliage onto our door |
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| spring flower picking |
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| wishing goodness for our baby |
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| 28 weeks and an iced chocolate from my favourite cafe |
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| making tiramisu to quieten cravings |
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| picking up my little brother from the station in the pouring rain |
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| monopoly with zake and m |
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| my favourite grocer in the world |
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| 30 weeks & lunch inbetween hypnobirthing classes with m |
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| late afternoon walks down our street |
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| photographing the lead singer of the preachers |
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| my early christmas present from my love |
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| my brother getting his first tattoo (a few days after a very messy 18th) |
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| zake's flying spaghetti monster tattoo |
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| in my best friend's pool in the townsville heat |
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| my sister and cousin painting me |
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| my rainbow belly |
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| watching the birds in the trees from our bed |
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| 35 weeks |
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| one month left |
pictures by me and by my love, taken on our iphones throughout the year.