Hi, I'm Rachael,

I am a mother first and foremost to two small boys. I have many other loves in life, bread baking, coffee drinking, lawn mowing and cold water swimming to name a few.

My husband makes wonderful ice cream and pastries at our shop in Ashburton, so you could say we're an avid food family that love where we live and the community that thrives here.

I studied Professional Photography some years ago, but went off on a wonderful tangent to become a coffee roaster, which has been my path for the last ten years.

Since becoming a mother during the lockdown of 2020, I have always had my cameras nearby, inspired by my own growing family and the merry go round of life that motherhood entails. Making images has become my passion, or maybe it never left me!

I shoot images mainly on 35mm & medium format film, with a bit of digital should it call for it. Film is not cheap but I do it anyway because I just LOVE it. The soft edges, the tones, it just feels like the way I need to see the world and how I want to show you and your family in your world too.

I am a fan of skin to skin, so am open to documenting babies and beautiful mothers bodies during photography sessions if that is of interest to you and don't worry if your older kids won't stay still for a shoot. Children are meant to move and climb and run! I will capture both the stillness and the movement with you.