Thrill...

This sneak peek is especially for my dearest friend back in university years, Cik Da. It's been more than ten years since we've been dear friends and I just couldn't describe how happy I am to see her beautiful angels for the first time, and what more I got to take their photographs!

I thought I wanna wait for more pictures for the sneak peek, but I just couldn't wait to at least post one picture for my friend.

Here goes. This is her eldest, Syakirah... she's 6 ;)



And Syakirah with her little sister Safiah... who just turns 4 :)

Arif & Areena's Little Big Day

They had a beautiful birthday celebration with family and friends :)





And more updates soon...

Update on Casting Call (Free Session)

Thanks for those who have responded to my casting call. Many have inquired on how to write their stories. Well, it’s all up to you actually. It can be as simple as a sentence, or it can be a short story if you want to. Just to give you some ideas, all these simple sentences are accepted:

“Kitorang suka sangat wall climbing and our 7 year old son is starting to like it too. We want you to capture us doing our activity together!

“My hubby suka main skateboard and now my daughter pun dah start suka. It would be nice to take pix of them together doing just that.”

"We family love horse riding. Höw about that?"

"Our little daughter loves swimming!"


So, no worries, write your little story (or you request actually) the way you want it ;)


Looking forward to capture your little story ;)


And since this is a photo blog, it would not be complete without a picture, so here’s a snap of my darling daughter when she just turned two, back in 2008 :)




Oh btw, If you want to. you may send a snap of your family! I very much do welcome it :)


xoxo,
Milin.

Casting Call (FREE SESSION)!

Back in February this year, I’ve made a small step to quit from my job so that I get to pursue my passion in children’s photography. I wasn’t really letting go the job actually because I do still work, but on a part-time basis. Nonetheless, the small step I made opened more opportunities to meet new friends and their beautiful families, especially the little ones. It has been such a wonderful journey. And I realised it is about time that I make another little step.

This time I’m quitting for real. And the good news is I’m pursuing this dream of mine as a serious passion. Yippee! I have to admit I’m a bit nervous, but thrill I am about this new journey!

And there’s no better way to share my excitement than to share it with you. I wouldn’t have come this far without the support and encouragement I got all this while.

I have long waited for this, wanting to do it quite a while ago but just waiting for the right moment. And the time I guess has come.
I am going to make a casting call for a FAMILY PORTRAIT, or in other word a FREE SESSION. The idea is for you to tell a little story about your family, in particular about your little ones. Tell me a little story about your family that you hope to keep as a memorable, childhood treasure of your little ones. It could be just any little story, such as:

1) How close your little ones are as siblings, share me their stories, what they do together!
2) A story about a love of a mother
3) A hobby that you do as a family, gardening for example!
4) About your little one who just recently made his or her first step and now cutely toddling!
5) About how you treasure waking up on a Sunday morning with your little ones! And the things you do together - e.g. rolling with your little ones (still in the pyjamas!) on the fresh morning grass, splashing water on one another!
6) Etc, etc...

Surprise me with your stories, and what you hope me to capture. Or even more interesting, let say, if you hope for me to capture your family at your own home yard, you may want to send me a picture of your little home garden where you spend a splash time with your little ones! Tell me anything, what props you hope to bring on the session day; the theme for the session, etc! I very much do welcome creativity :)

Yes, I will only select one story for the free session; hence there will only be one winner. But the other good news is the 1st 20 entries will entitle them a 5 percent discount for their family portrait sessions with me. And the portrait session will be based on your little story, depending on suitability.

And this is also another way for me to thank my clients who have been dearly supporting me all this while. Hence my clients, who have had a session with me, and be among the 1st 20 entries will get a 10 percent discount for their family portrait session.

So, hurry send your entry now!




We have post-poned the free session date in December, hence the CLOSING DATE is extended to NOV 27th, 2009. More time for you to think of the idea for your family portrait :)

And yes it is okay... thanks for those who have sent more than one entry. I do think it's a wonderful idea to send more than an entry. Hence you can send as many as you want ;)


Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart :)

And I would like to leave you with a little story, a story of love. About a mom and her little ones spending their time together on one beautiful Sunday morning :)

These are the pictures of my dear friend, Rita and her loved ones taken quite some time ago.

Beautiful Day

This is especially for Ninie and family.
Thanks for such a wonderful time I had with you and family....
OPS my only problem was to choose pictures for the sneak peek, LOL I had a tough time since there are tonnes that I like!

But I couldn't wait any longer coz I know someone is dearly waiting for these...

Halloween Birthday Party

Hubbby and me went to cover a halloween birthday party last Saturday, celebrating Aidan's third birthday and Yi Jay's second. And I tell you it was such fun!
Thanks Amelia and family for a great time we had :)
Iffah had a blast too!

At the moment, enjoy a snippet of the celebration ;)

Someone is so eager...

She just can't wait to take off her shoes!



Guess why?



Well...



Her little toes just can't resist the water... she enjoyed it so much. The earlier plan was for her to run around the field during her portrait session, but when our little darling saw the water who can stop her? LOL

And our cheeky lil'' darling...

Finally, after quite a while, yesterday hubby and me managed to have a portrait session with our darling daughter, Nur Iffah. It was just the right time, though it was pretty late afternoon. Starting next weekeend mommy will be busy again with other sessions, so a quick 30-minute of the session was really something three of us were looking forward to! We had earlier promised for her own portrait session. Iffah and me was browsing through one of my fav photo blogs and there was this one picture that she liked so much, she told me she wanted to have a picture like that! I will post the picture - the one she posed just like a lil'girl in the blog - as well soon :)

This is the picture of her I like so much, she looks so chubby and sweet here :) And I love to see how her hair looks pretty long in this picture. Just like mine, her hair takes REALLY a long time to grow, and after three years finally Iffah has quite a pretty long hair now, yeay :)

And she's being very cheeky actually here. She was pretending she was listening to the music.
"Mommy, daddy look! Iffah is listening to the music!"

I will post more pictures of her soon, till then!

xoxo
Milin.

Awww... I just can't resist this little fella!

Isn't he such a charming little hero? Just look at his smiling eyes! His mom must be very proud of him... not only that Ammar Mikael is such a good-looking little guy but he is blessed with such a generous smile. His mom told me that no matter how tired or sleepy he is he won't stop smiling and entertaining his guests. Only when everybody goes home and the party is over that he will finally doze off to sleep. Awwww....

And wait until I put up his cheeky pose here!











Didn't I tell you? He's such a sweet and cheeky little guy! I can't wait for a session with him. These are the shots I took when I went for a Hari Raya Bersama SusuIbu.com organised by Nurturing Concepts Sdn Bhd. His mom said it will be just perfect when Ammar starts to walk. And that will be cute, watching him toddling! I'm counting the days now ;)

Oh btw, I will put up more pictures of the hari raya event @ my facebook :)

I'm excited!

Guess what?! I'm already at my 5 months pregnancy. And it is such a wonderful feeling! Not only that I can feel baby is kickin' and movin inside of me, but I can tell there is also somersault activities going on inside! Second trimester is always the best time for most pregnant moms. No more nausea and your tummy is not really that heavy that they say this is the best time for us to start cleaning all the dust and preparing the room for our baby.

And for me this is also the best time to share my excitement with other pregnant moms out there. With a baby inside me, I'm very eager now to do maternity portraiture. I have so many ideas inside my head that I can't wait to share them with you mommies! I'm also inspired by a dear friend of mine, Siew Kay, who triggers me to do more maternity porttraiture. Thanks dear :)

To all preggy moms out there, email me dear if you're in the same boat with me! I wanna hear your stories!
I'm available from November till December this year ;)

PS: The best time for maternity portraiture is when you're at your 3rd trimester :)

milin_photography@yahoo.com

Buah Hati Ibu...

See that proud look of Aniq! "I've got the best Ibu in the world."


And Almas so focus reading with her Ibu, enjoying every moment of it


Lil Rock Star...


One Curious Lil'Darling...