Very exciting news … after following a link from Flickr to an American site for donating your time as a photographer, I googled for a similar organisation here in Australia ….. and I found the same organisation. I have been accepted into the Australian Community of Child Photographers http://www.acocp.org.au/ This is a group of photographers that volunteers their time to photograph families that experience pre term labours, still births, sick children in Neo natal intensive care, and also for those families whose children have serious illness or are terminally ill. Some have wondered why you would do this, the reason was really so simple. When Charlotte (my miss 9) was sick and going through chemotherapy we really only existed day to day with hospital visits, chemo, xrays and at home we were busy keeping her well and not letting her central line get infected…. if treatment hadn’t gone as well as it did then we as a family would have had no photos at all of that year ……. When you have a seriously ill child making photographic memories is quite possibly the last thing on your mind, it certainly was with us. So this way I can offer that service to other parents who are rightly so all consumed with their child ….
So if you are a parent looking for this service please contact me through email, if you are a health care professional who might want to have more information please contact me or just to keep this in your mind if you ever come across this situation ….. or if you are photographer that would like to donate your time, please follow the link above to their website and application details are all there ……
And because a post is not complete without a photo …. I bought these beautiful Dahlia the other day ….
