Donté Smith is the name and he is the new kid on the block… Without any formal training Donté plays the piano, composes music and writes his own lyrics.

He has always been a big fan or R&B and so it comes as no surprise that his music falls right into the R&B genre and you can definitely put him right up there with artists like Neo and Justin Timberlake.

Donté stumbled onto his talent one day when he sat down in front of a keyboard and tried out some notes just for fun.  It just felt so right he told his mom and he hasn’t stopped playing since…

On average he can write one song a day (or more) when he really puts his mind to it.  Amazing hey?  He says that sometimes its like the typical thing of a song just randomly popping into his head and he needs to write it down, but more often than never he sits down and works it through at his own time.

When Donté sings it’s like a transformation that takes place within him, when you listen to his heartfelt lyrics you realize that it touches some part deep within your soul…

Donté I think you are heading for great things and I am privileged to have been a part of your journey so far and I look forward to creating your image with you creative input…!

Riani

I can’t believe that my little bot is already 7 years old!! I can still remember the day he was born – it really doesn’t feel like 7 years ago! He has grown into such a lovely boy and the benefit of him being 7 already is that we now enjoy wonderful conversations together. Jamie has such an inquiring mind and wants to know how everything works….. or rather has a theory about how everything works and loves to tell me all about it!

He also loves to read now that he can read himself and it’s so special to listen to him…. makes me so proud!!!

His favourite thing to do is play video games of course. So it’s no surprise that we bought him a new game for his birthday – he got the new Avatar game for his Nintendo Wii (which granny and grandad bought them for christmas 2 years ago) He loves it – it’s also their favourite programme at the moment. And we often have a slight disagreement at 6pm every night when Avatar starts and the boys get ready to watch because Demi has discovered Barney and she is not too fond of Avatar….. interesting times ahead of us!

Well, it’s days like these that make me so grateful to be a mother. I look at my children and see how quickly they are growing up and it reminds me to appreciate my time with them, but also tho appreciate each day and everything I do, because this is it! This is my life! And I better not miss it while I am making other plans….

So Happy Birthday my boy!! Mommy loves you lots and lots and lots and lots…….

Mwah!!

Besides of course the day of your wedding, having a baby can be one of the most memorable days of your life and one that will not require the hassles of trying to find good photographers, but will, however, come with its own set of challenges that will be important for you to address once you know you are going to have a child. The first thing people will ask you is whether or not it is a boy or a girl, and this will probably make you wonder, that is, if you want to know what gender the baby will be before it is born, as many couples decide to wait and just let it be a surprise, but otherwise thoughts will probably race through your head about what colors you will want the baby’s clothes and their room to be. You can go with the traditional colors of pink and blue if you want to, but you may also want to consider painting the room another color so that you don’t have to make gender so rigid or important to impose on your child. When going out and buying baby things, you will probably want to remember that many of the things you may purchase for your baby will most likely not be needed after a while, and buying too many of these things early on may be a waste of money so that you cannot buy or pay for something that he or she really may need in the future, so you should most certainly consider hand me down items from your older brother or sister or cousins or whoever if they are available to you and you can also get cheap toys at thrift shops that your child will have just as much fun playing with as other things that may be new or may be more expensive.

This may be the same idea for a lot of the baby clothes you will buy, because they will not fit well after a while,so make sure your child can grow into them, especially since some baby clothing items that may be enticingly cute will be expensive and will be a poor deal for the amount of time and use that your child gets out of them while they use them. That is not to say that there is anything at all wrong with splurging on your kid every once in a while, but the cost of having a child through the years is enormous and remember that they will want to go to college and have medical bills later on.

I just had to post a few photographs of my baby girl…. we went to visit granny and grandad the other day because my little brother Vince is visiting for 3 weeks (all the way from Liverpool in the UK).

As usual, the kids had a ball and Demi ended up in the plants first, eating all the sand and leaves and then in the box of water and finally in the pool with her granny. And boy did she love it…..

I just couldn’t resist and had my camera out like a shot – I am always taking photographs (wherever I go) but when it comes to taking photos of my baby girl, I am a sucker…. I just can’t help myself – she is sooo cute! Guess I will have to do another post of my other 2 babies and put up some photos of them too – they are really photogenic but then I am biased (lol).

Makes me think of my mom – Ryan always teases her because when we had Jamie – her first grandchild – she always used to say that he was so advanced! Then Mikey came along and she said the same thing. Then my brother JJ had Jordy (the cutest kid on the planet) and you guessed it – he was advanced too!!

So it was no surprise when Demi was declared advanced as well and granny still claims that they all are advanced and she doesn’t care what anyone else thinks! Guess that’s what grandparents are for…..

Every photoshoot is unique! That’s what I love about photography…. No matter how many maternity photoshoots I do, I find that each pregnant woman is beautiful in her own unique way and expresses herself differently too…

It’s such fun getting to meet new people and I love having the opportunity to find ways to express their personality in a photograph!

This is a photograph of an incredibly beautiful woman – 36 weeks pregnant – who is keeping the sex of her unborn baby a surprise…

Is it a boy or is it a girl? What will they name their beautiful baby? Will the baby come early? or go past it’s due date? All these exciting questions form part of the story…

And one day, when we look back at this photograph, all of these questions will have been answered.

But then there will be a whole new set of questions – what will this beautiful child grow up to be and do? Will they have children of their own? And will they have photographs as beautiful as these? Of course they will….