Alright, I will explain what KMU stands for as this is the most commonly asked question about my business and my logo. Are you ready for it? KMU is me, all me, Kristin Maree Upcroft, yep that is me in the pictures above this sentence. This does cause a bit of confusion as many people still know me by my maiden name of Kristin Byatt, even though I have been married for four years.

Whilst I am busily working on releasing the very first KMU Photography website I started this online diary to share with my fantastic clients and their family and friends Sneak Peeks from their sessions and a little bit about me and my business. Please check back regularly as I will be making some exciting changes in the next couple of weeks. Feel free to click on the ”Contact KMU” button if you would like any further information on the possibility of you seeing your own Sneek Peek here in the not to distant future. Fee free to leave me a comment below each post. I can also be contacted by phone on 0417677101.

It does feel a bit funny to be posting Melissa’s Year 10 formal images in late February, the night was at the beginning of December last year and I was far to busy to put them on the blog so thought today was as good a day as any. I was pleasantly surprised to see Melissa after such a long time and was blown away as to how she had grown into such a beautiful young lady. Not to mention last time I saw her she was a brunette, by the smile on her face I could see that maybe it is true that blondes do have more fun! Several years ago I photographed Melissa’s oldest sister Danielle for her Year 12 formal and then the middle daughter in the family Ashleigh for her Year 10 formal shortly after that.

Enjoy!

Kristin
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I hope you are enjoying seeing some of the shoots from late 2009 that I have wanted to share here for my regular visitors to my blog for a long, long time. Sarah is the age now that Cameron was back when I had not long been in business. It gives me such a thrill to see how much they have grown, I secretly think they have not changed from when I saw them last. Check out those curls, how adorable are they.

There is nothing that Cameron loves better than playing with his trains and Megan and Ashton said look we know he won’t sit still for photos and we love that you can just capture him as he is so we don’t mind it if his trains are in the photos. He was concentrating so hard on the trains at times that he didn’t realise that his little sister Sarah was also playing with them too. Until he decided to run over her fingers cause she put them on the track. Both sets of Grandparents were spoiled with a storyboard that I designed for them, I hear they really like it which makes me very happy!

Take care, talk soon.

Kristin
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Jamie and Jaime came to see me at the end of November to celebrate the safe arrival of baby Ella into their family. Campbell, Lilly and Lucas were pretty proud of their new baby sister and we had an adventure getting all four kids in the photos. Considering how chaotic it was at times during the shoot I really am happy with how they turned out. Once Ella went to sleep it made things a little easier. Poor Jamie I don’t think he knew what he was in for, you know a baby shoot often means no clothes and sometimes accidents do happen. He had to go straight to work after his time with me and lets just say he was able to wash his arm before he went.

Take care, talk soon.

Kristin
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Who knows if Kate and Rhys were planning on having photos taken professionally of their baby when it came into the world, they may not have even given it a thought but their friend Emma certainly did. You see when I photographed Emma’s baby over a year ago Kate was sitting with her while they called up the photos that I had put on the blog for them and in Emma’s words “we both balled our eyes out together”. So as soon as the baby shower came around she organised to surprise Kate with a gift voucher for me to give her the same excitement as she had.

These two friends go way back, and when Rhys had to go back to work before our shoot Emma offered to come and help out on the day, bringing her Charlie and Evie with her. Kate drove over an hour to see me and with a less than two week old baby beat her friend with time to spare. I had been warned that she was always late but Emma was proved wrong. Three year old Charlie was a bit confused as I was holding Tyler when they got there and of course was taking the photos of her the whole time so he assumed she was my baby. He was very concerned when they were leaving as to why Auntie Kate was taking the wady with the camera’s baby in her car.

Take care, talk soon.

Kristin
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