Here's to preserving childhood, celebrating motherhood, and holding onto all the little moments.

I'm Elsa, a mother to two little boys, and if there's one thing motherhood has taught me, it's just how quickly everything changes. One day they're curled up in your arms, the next they're running ahead of you with endless independence. The wild curls grow out, the baby teeth fall away, the chubby hands disappear, and somehow the moments you thought you'd never forget become the ones you miss most.

After taking thousands of photographs of my own children, I realised I wasn't just documenting them, I was preserving pieces of our story. The chaos. The tenderness, the ordinary moments that would one day feel extraordinary. That's what I hope to give to the families I photograph. My sessions are relaxed and free from expectations. I don't need your children to sit still, smile on command or behave perfectly. Nor do I need you to have been a model in your past life. The magic lives in the genuine connection, the cuddles, the belly laughs, the windswept hair and everything in between.

Most of all, I'm here for mothers. Because so often we're the ones taking the photographs, not appearing in them. We're documenting everyone else's memories while quietly disappearing from our family albums. I want to create photographs that show your children not only who they were, but who helped them grow in to the person they are today. Photographs that take you back to that exact moment, photographs that tell the story of this season you're in, exactly as it feels right now - beautiful, messy, fleeting and full of love.

Serving the Nothern Rivers of NSW, I  photograph families from Alstonville and Ballina to Byron Bay and beyond.