Kapa’s Blog

I’ve finally finished refreshing the layout of my website, stage 1 at least. The main changes to note are:
- same colour scheme as the blog
- all images displayed are random, refresh the page for a new selection
- smarter “behind the scenes” coding

Check out my new photography website, or browse the boring old one here

Stage 2 is the difficult one, that’s updating the images and the gallery. Some of the images displayed on my website are more than seven years old, shot on film & scanned !!!!!! Can you spot them?

Today Laura got baptised at St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church at Gladesville. The traditions starts at home, this is when the godparents dress the baby in preparation for its baptism. I love this candid / photo journalistic style image. The godmother is looking at the baptismal dress that Laura is going to wear and if you look in the mirror you can see Laura’s mum holding it out showing it to her. If case you’re wondering, this wasn’t a set up shot.

Laura dressed in her outfit and laid out on her parents bed, she sat there like a little princess.

I grabbed a bunch of close ups, and I really wanted to show off her lovely big brown eyes. Decisions, decisions, couldn’t decide which photo I liked the most, couldn’t decide which treatment suited her best, so here is a combination of all.

Laura held by mum and dad standing right next to her during the baptism.

Outside as everyone was leaving, I grabbed Nadia (godmother) for an idea I got. It was a pearler of a day, sunshine, clouds to add perspective, an old sandstone church, what more could I ask for.

The beauty of a good flash, I manually pushed the output by two full stops to balance the very bright background with Nadia in the shadows.

At the reception, this little feller was being passed around for everyone to sign. A really cool outfit and a fine momemto for Laura to treasure.

Today at the St George Greek Orthodox Church in Rose Bay, Connie (Konstantina) was baptised. Right from the start I knew I was going to have a very photogenic child. Here she is with both her godparents, I took a shot before this one and as soon as she saw the flash the little model started posing for the camera.

As always, a black and white image of the baby in the baptismal font.

The following paragraph I have copied from New York / Long Island photographer and mate Christos, make sure you check out his site as well.

The child is then tonsured, cutting the hair in the form of a cross, in the name of the Holy trinity, for the hair is the symbol of strength. This also represents the very first offering of the new born Christian to God and his church. It is indicative of dedication, offering and sacrifice.

While the parents & godparents were in the office sorting out the paperwork, Connie was playing amongst the woodwork, my favourite pic amongst several I took.

Once again, fantastic eye contact from such a young child. She really loved the camera, or is it the camera loved her? Either way, some great expressions & looks.

Technically, nothing special about this image however it does happen to be one of my favourites for the day. I just love the expression on the faces of Connie & both her grandmothers, a photo I’m sure will be hanging on a wall or three.

One of the key ceremony’s during the Orthodox Baptism, is when the child is immersed in the baptismal font. If you have been following my blog, you will know that I have been focusing on capturing this moment, if you haven’t check out Anna, Steve and James. The feedback I get from the parents when they see these photographs is always positive, and here’s a couple more from recent events, Anastasios & Daphne.


Both these photo’s seem to be taken from the same position & angle, probably because they were both taken at St Catherine at Mascot. Looking at the hands it’s easy to see that different priests performed the ceremony, I just hope the first one was wearing a waterproof watch.