Oh the pleasure of being able to celebrate with family and friends again after lockdowns and nervousness. It was such a delight to be invited to capture Juliet's memories of her 60th Birthday Party at Urban Tadka in Terrey Hills. She's decided on the location for the party a very long time ago, and it was set to be a much larger celebration with family flying in from Malaysia and a Bollywood theme. However, the pandemic got in the way, she the party was more intimate, but no less fun, and she even sent around a video of a Bollywood dance and asked the guests to learn it... which they did and had fun dancing to it after dinner!

A lovely evening filled with laughter and great food! Thank you for inviting me Juliet.

Little Olivia's Christening was held at St Peter's Cremorne, a lovely family feeling church. I've been lucky enough to photograph a number of family occasions for Olivia's family, its always a pleasure to work tith families and see how they change and grow. This family has expanded by a few little ones since the last occasion and the older children have grown quite a lot.

It was such a lovely day capturing this families celebration back at the family home, and getting to catch up with these lovely people!

I recently attended the MTHFR Methylation Summit in Sydney as the professional photography for the conference. I was booked for the event by an old colleague of mine from my Professional Conference Organising days Lisa Harrison from Urban Event Management who organised the Summit which ran seemlessly as any event Lisa manages does. 

My brief was the capture all aspects of the event both for the company running the event MTHFR Support and their exhibitors. This was an easy task as the conference was well attended and organised allowing plenty of time for the delegates to interact with each other and the exhibitors in breaks, plenty of room to absorb all the information in the conference sessions making notes and a good amount of question time allocated to each presentation. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend working in such a great atmosphere, and also found the content of the conference fascinating!

I was recently asked to cover an event for Suttons Motors to use for their business public relations. Suttons undertakes a number of charity initiatives and the most recent one was for the Fred Hollows Foundation. For the month of October they donated a percentage of sales from all car window tints to the foundation and I was there to photograph the presentation of the $30,500 cheque to the representative from the Fred Hollows Foundation. This was a wonderful initiative that from all accounts both management and the sales staff got a lot out of, and raised some much needed money for the foundation.  During the presentation there was also a surprise additional cheque from the parts department who had done their own fundraising to add to the donation.

While the whole team were together they also took the opportunity to update their corporate headshots which  I took very quick and efficiently utilising a lovey blue wall within the conference room :-)

Thanks Suttons for inviting me along to capture this, and for the great charity work you do. Looking forward to working with you again!
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The CSR Value Champions dinner is a wonderful event we get to photograph each year. In 2016 is was held at The Tea Room, Gunners' Barracks Mosman a stunning location overlooking Sydney Harbour with fabulous food. The theme this year was red and they did a lovely job theming the room while in keeping with its style.

The Value Champions dinner is about rewards CSR employees who go above and beyond in their jobs and they are voted on by their peers. The winners come to Sydney with their partners and spend the day doing fun activities and getting pampered before their awards night. We always comemorate the event with a couple photograph at the location of the dinner which they keep as a souvenir.

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Zara Turns One…. isn’t she adorable! She just like a doll, and such a smiley happy little girl with all her loving family around her. And what a stunning theming her very clever Mummy created for her first birthday party at Otto Ristorante in Wooloomooloo. The spring florals by @seedflora in a range of pinks and soft pastels looked amazing and also smelled fabulous, plus all the other lovely details.
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Duke's first birthday party was themed beautifully by his clever Mummy in a woodlands theme, which worked perfectly with the background of The Camperdown Commons. Duke's little Peter Rabbit outfit, plus the woodland critters were very cute. They also hired some soft play euipqment and ball pit which were set up in the courtyard and all the toddlers enjoyed playing in there.

Duke is a very lucky boys, first of the next generation for both sides of the family he is doted on my aunts, grand parents and great grandparents, which created a loving atmosphere for the party. Plus as you can see he REALLY enjoyed eating his birthday cake, love the facial expressions and the tongue!

Thanks for inviting me to capture your memories of this lovely birthday party Kristyl & Ben :-)
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Beautiful day last weekend for Charbel’s 1st Birthday party, beautifully themed by his talented Mummy @laurahazzouri who clearly has a designers eye with the amazing set up and colour palate for his wild theme.

I've been photographing this extended families celebrations for the last 6 years, they are always spectacular but the best thing about them is the love and warmth the whole family shows towards each other and everyone else. Its a pleasure to watch and capture. Thank you Hazzouri's!

Venue: @watsonsbayboutiquehotel

Kids tables set-up, design, complete papery set, favours, party hats, info graph, signage @paperplayground

Table Linen @mayronisevents

Balloon art @bubblemooballoons

Florist @vesnagrassofloraldesigner

Wall, plinths, signage @partyatmosphere

Props @prop.my.party

Cupcakes @dessertsbyjoey

#charbelturnsone #firstbirthday #partyphotographysydney #professionalpartyphotography #sydneyprofessionalphotographer #jrobertsphotography

We had a trial run with our girls and some friends for our Glitter Mini Sessions and everyone loved it.... Lets face it who doesn't love a bit of glitter?!?!? and a kilo is a lot to play with.... We put a bit of music on, danced, threw the glitter, lay in the glitter, and even created glitter angels.... They all felt very special and really enjoyed looking at the photos afterwards. The sparkle gives the photos that je ne sais quoi. Our trial day also taught us some tricks about dealing with all that glitter which we'll happily pass along.

Here are our girls in their own sessions, and together, plus Pippa with her bestie and her family together. 

If you'd like to book your own sessions please see our website - http://www.jrobertsphotography.com.au/glitterminisessions


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Annaleise's Christening Day

I've photographed many events for this extended family over the last few years and just love seeing this large family all together.

We started photographing Annaleise's christening day with some family portraits at the family home before heading off to Our Lady of Lebanon in Harris Park for the ceremony. It was a very hot afternoon and little Annaleise's fell asleep during the ceremony and didn't even wake up with the water was being poured over her head! She is just adorable and loved being handed around to all the family, and she's so photogenic I couldn't get enough of her.

After the ceremony the celebrations continued in Woolwich at Cucinetta's with a wonderful atmosphere and view across the harbour.

Thank you for inviting me again to capture this special time for your family guys x
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Sue's 50th Birthday party was supposed to be a garden party held on the Eucalypt Lawn at the Royal Botanic Gardens, a fabulous location with views of the Opera House and Harbour but unfortunately the weather was very wet in the lead up to the day and on the morning so the decision was to go with Plan B which was the Frisco Hotel in Wooloomooloo..... and what a great back up plan it was. Our on the verandah with the afternoon sun was a great location for all the guests.

Sue wanted to have all the important women in her life together for the afternoon, and her birthday wish was for a group photo with everyone.... so that's where I came in!

The atmosphere was very fun, with everyone chatting and catching up. The speeches were great too, then we headed down the road to the park for the big group photo and lots of little groups of people so that Sue can remember all the lovely people that were there. And I'm sure once I left the party went into full swing as the husbands and partners turned up to party the night away!

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So here are some highlights of a fabulous Bar Mitzvah celebration for Josh last weekend. The atmosphere was filled with fun, love and excitement, a joy to photograph ..... Mazel Tov Josh!

This was the first Bar Mitzvah celebration that I've photographed, they are so much fun, all the dancing and exciting for this proud family and young man it's lovely. The theming was superbly put together by Josh's Mum and the team at Funky Functions, such a lovely colour palette to work with, and the setting at Monash Country Club was pretty spectacular.

Thanks for inviting me to capture the day for you Carmel x

This is an 11 year old boys DREAM birthday party, I mean who would want a Jurassic World themed party complete with life size dinosaurs peering at you from every vantage point, blow up dinosaurs in the pool, a water slide, fabulous themed lolly bar and food.

The day started with showers and overcast which went perfectly with the theme of Jurassic World in the jungle and didn't deter the kids who went straight into the pool and had a ball. Then fabulous food and onto the home cinema for a viewing of Jurassic World the movie before cake and back to the pool as the sun had come out.

The whole event was amazingly themed by Zev's gorgeous Mum and the team at www.CateringByDesign.com.au Karin is great and the food was fabulous.

On request from the client, for privacy reasons, I can't show photos with any of the kids but thought you'd like to see the fab theming!

I was invited along to the Carlile Swimming Operations Managers Conference last month to capture some lovely friendly corporate headshots of their staff, and also photograph a session of their annual conference.

It was a beautiful winters morning down at Novotel Manly Beach, and I had a lovely time with their fantastic, friendly staff. I think we captured the essence of their personalities in their images below....

We were lucky enough to photograph Madison's parents wedding a couple of years ago, so when Rachel and Prentice contacted me and asked me to photograph their little girls baptism I was honoured to say yes. We were actually leaving on a family holiday that day, but with a little bit of flexibility we managed to fit photographing the Christening in first..... I wouldn't have missed it!

Congratulations guys she is just gorgeous and so easy going, just look how relaxed she was with the water. It was also lovely to see all your family again too x

Nicholas' Mum is a very old friend of mine, so I was honoured when she asked me to photograph his Christening & 1st Birthday Party!

The celebration was being held at the family home, so we arranged for me to arrive early to get a few family portraits before the guests started arriving, always a good idea. Nicholas is the smiliest 1 year old I know so he was easy, his big brother on the other hand was not so keen on the camera.... but very cheeky! And as you can see they are both besotted with their Grandma.

Then the party began with lots of family and friends around to help celebrate, and a lovely naming ceremony carried out by one of our favourite celebrants Elaine Searle, held on the deck with the lovely afternoon sun in the background.

A beautiful day, thanks for inviting me to "Capture Your Memories" guys x