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.

My husband Aaron thinks I am obsessed with kiddies toes, he often walks past the computer and mutters something like “more toes, are you obsessed with them or something”. I have to confess that yes I do love kiddies toes, but these are an added bonus as I am also obsessed with just watching kiddies entertain themselves and freeze those moments in time. You see Issy was a little over having her photos on her mum and dad’s bed so her mum Ellen gave her some of her bracelets to play with, she perched herself up on the bedside table and had no idea I was even taking these photos.

I thought it might be nice to share some samples of my work in between full blog posts. This is a storyboard that I designed for Raquel and Alan, they wanted something to put on a hall table they so they smile as soon as they walk into the house. It made me smile, I hope it does for them too!

Enjoy!
Kristin
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Several months ago I was asked to take part in a fundraising ladies night for Relay for Life at a local club. Straight away I said I would love to be a part of such a great cause and to have fun and meet people all at the same time. I had a little booth at the event and met some great people on the night and two of the Wells sisters came up and introduced themselves and we had a little chat. I explained to them that if anyone booked their own shoot with me on the night that I would donate a percentage of the fee directly to the Relay for Life event. Not long after that the girls dragged their mum Tracey over and they booked me on the spot.

What can I say about this family? Trevor, Tracey and their three adorable daughters were just the nicest people you could hope to meet. The day of our shoot was one of those dreaded hot, hot days before Christmas but they did not complain once! Well I should clarify that, there was no complaining but I think they though I was a little crazy several times during our time together. Poor Trevor didn’t know how hands on he would be during the shoot. First of all helping ALL four ladies up on the railway pillar on a rickidy baby chair and watching for cars when I had the girls under tunnel near the railway line!

I have also included a copy of the storyboard that I designed for the family based on their favourite images from the shoot. This is a 20×30 inch storyboard and it looks really great if I do say so myself!

Take care, talk soon.

Kristin
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I am sure I have shared here before that I am a perfectionist when it comes to my photography, my housework is another story though! I am feeling stressed out and tortured that I do not blog more often as I have so much to share. I thought I might try to illustrate the difficulty that I sometimes have when preparing a blog post, or editing a whole shoot for that matter.

I torment myself when I sit in front of the computer when I have three images, sometimes more like the ones below and for the life of me I can not choose which one to show. Sometimes they are so similar that I can not justify posting both as I try to show a variety of images from a collection. Yet each one is special for its own reason, is it the way she is holding her chubby hands, or the way she is scrunching up her nose when she is laughing. I literally just sit and stare at the screen not being able to bear closing one down. The thought goes through my mind something like this “If they don’t see the other two they won’t know that I only picked this one – but I will know”! The argument goes on in my head for ages and often it all gets too hard and I just get up and do something totally random rather than make a decision.

I would love to know your thoughts on what would make you pick one of the images below over the other. I would love this to be a discussion, feel free to post in the comments and I will get involved too. Maybe some feedback will help me in the future to figure it out and make it a little easier! Would you rather see two images that are “similar” but “different” or would you rather see more variety? Thanks in advance to anyone who decides to join in.

Take care, talk soon.
Kristin
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“When would be the next best age to get Evie with her brothers when they actually want to have anything to do with her?” was the question Emma asked me when Bubba Evie was two weeks old. Connor was happy to get in some pictures with her as he was a mature 5 years old at the time. Meanwhile, two year old Charlie was a different story, he did not want anything to do with his baby sister, especially not having his photo taken with her. “Take her back to where she came from” his dad Oz told me was what he kept saying to them. To answer Emma’s question I told her between 9 and 11 months and I am so glad she listened to me. Next time Oz might try not to be hungover as I put him to work as my assistant!

One of the biggest changes was now Charlie thought his baby sister Evie was pretty cool and was happy to play with her and therefore be in photos. Even saying excuse me haven’t you taken enough of her now it is MY turn! We had so much fun and had lots of laughs, I hope you can tell from the pictures. Emma has been one of my biggest fans and even gave my number to the dishwasher repair man which is very sweet. I know she has been patiently waiting along time to show off her adorable kids so I thank her for her patience.

Enjoy!

Kristin
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You never quite know what a kiddy is going to do, this is just as we moved the chair and got her to stand against the wall! Future ballet dancer in our midst?

How cool is the interaction in this one. I think this one image sums up Evie’s life with two big brothers!

This one made me giggle, I couldn’t resist showing you. If I could caption this one it would be “does my bum look big in this?”