The Photo Blog Of Susan D’Arcy

The session fee sale has received a great response.

For this reason I’d like to continue it for a further week! I still have many weekday opening for July and August and limited weekends available.

Book between now and JULY 7th (bookings to be held during July and August) and pay a session fee of

ONLY $50!!

Conditions do apply.

- All bookings by email is preferred (due to the fact I am going away tonight until Monday!, people will be phoned upon my return)

- Weekday sessions only - Saturday sessions are an additional $50

- No print credit included.

- Some suburbs may incur a travel fee, email to check.

- Session fee must be paid for upon booking.

- Limited bookings available - so get in quick!

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As mentioned above I am off for a trip with the family until next Monday the 7th of July. During this time I will not be able to respond to email or phone calls. You may phone to book and leave a message or you may email to book and I will be responding to all emails and calls by Tuesday the 8th July.

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Its been an eventful week in our household this week. Some of you may know my love for animals and that we have quite the menagerie here at home. This week we lost of our bunnies to unkown causes. He is now buried after a lovely ceremony with the children, in the backyard alongside our chook who also passed a few months back. So yesterday we postponed heading off on our holiday so that we could go and find our other bunny a new friend (Bunnies live much happier in pairs of the opposite sex, desexed of course!) We headed off down to the Keysborough Animal Shelter

where we found Stella (our current Bunny) a new mate ‘Jack’.

another recent newborn sweet little boy.

My GREEN link: Tree Planting

Check your local  council website to find out when a tree planting will be happening in your area and take the kids along to help out. Most have school holiday activities also.

For all past clients (conditions apply) prints from past completed sessions will be on sale at 50% off normal prices for 2 days only - June 27th - June 28th-

Sale is for ‘prints’ only. Does not include frames, albums or other products. Strictly the 2 days only. Orders can be made by email or phone. Please leave a message if phoning.

Reminder that the $50 session fee special is only available if you phone or email before midnight June 30th.

A gorgeous , not so small, newborn from this week.

My GREEN link: Eat Local

Find your closest farmers market.

I am running one of my best ever session fee specials for the next week only!

Book between now and June 30th (bookings to be held during July and August) and pay a session fee of

ONLY $50!!

Conditions do apply.

- Weekday sessions only - Saturday sessions are an additional $50

- No print credit included.

- Some suburbs not included, please email to find out if yours is included.

- Session fee must be paid for upon booking.

- Limited bookings available - so get in quick!

*For past clients check back early next week for discounts from past sessions*

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I have had many compliments on the music used on my website and many asking where they can purchase it.

Please either visit www.emmatonkin.com

or go to itunes and search Emma Tonkin as the CD is now available through itunes for a more than fair price.

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Remember this gorgeous pregnant woman?

As you see their gorgeous wee girl has since arrived…

My GREEN Link: Mobile Muster

Recycle your old mobile phones at a drop off point near you.

Just because I havent blogged for a while!

My GREEN link: Environmental Jobs Network

FAMILY:

I took the kids on a mini break down the beach. It was good for all of us. It was just myself and the children and one of the kids friends. We had a lovely time, we lit a fire, toasted marshmallows, watched dvds and explored rock pools and the local beaches. I had time to kick back and read a book and the kids had time to run and yell to their hearts content. We came home feeling rejuvenated and a lot more relaxed. It’s a good reminder to take time out and reconnect with yourself and your family.

COMMUNITY:

I live in the city of Greater Dandenong. Now I know some look down their nose at this area (and if you are one of those people shame on you for being so shallow!) but it is where my home is, where my children go to school and will most likely grow up and it is my community. The area actually has a lot of great things about it. Some great public schools, some fabulous parks and play grounds, a large shopping centre, a fabulous market (Dandenong Market), its very culturally diverse, has access to the city and beach or hills is easy from the many main roads and highways coming into the area, The Drum Theatre , it is a large business hub (known as Melbournes 2nd city) and more!

To read more about the area go here

In my 6 years of being in business I have photographed only 2 families in this area. The majority of clients reside in the inner suburbs, some in the western burbs and some in the north. Not many seem to come from my neck of the woods!

So to get to my point!

I will now be offering discounted sessions/packages for clients who reside in the City Of Greater Dandenong. If interested please email for more details through the contact page on my website.

Some images from our trip:

My eldest, aged 9 now, stuns me sometimes how fast they grow and change before our eyes!

Don’t ask… really.

‘Bushy Island’ created by Jaime age 6 years.

The ‘creator’ (she spent over an hour collecting things from the surrounding beach to build her work of art)

technically this sucks. But it doesnt matter, he’s my darling youngest, now aged 4 yrs. He was singing to me as i took this ‘ You are my sunshine, my berry sunshine’

My GREEN link: Dandenong Council Environment Events Program