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Edwin Sutphen Photography Sydney-based freelance photographer specialising in weddings, events, people, travel and wildlife ph

01/01/2025

NYE Details 🎆
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I’m really happy with the first photo from my previous post, especially the neighbours on their balcony, in the foreground at the bottom of the frame, taking photos of the fireworks with their phones… but everything’s so small on here, so here’s some closer detail crops 😉

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31/12/2024

2 0 2 5
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Another year, another bunch of fireworks photos ❤️

My focus has remained on our not-so-little fella, as he grows and develops at breakneck speed. The new addition of two days at preschool has started to free me up, which has been really good, and it has also introduced many great, and some not so great, new behavioural challenges in Theo, which has been fuuuun! Will the never-ending barrage of sicknesses ever end? What an absolute rollercoaster ride.

2024 saw us make a second visit to Tasmania, followed by a second journey to North America to visit family, which included Theo’s FIRST live Phish show (my 51st!), battling our SECOND Canada-plans-ruining bout of COVID-19, and so much more.

Theo’s also READING EVERYTHING and starting to spell and write competently 🤯, building LEGO sets well above his age range, playing the drums, being totally comfortable and confident at preschool right from the start, getting to know schoolmates and already has a best friend 😍 He’s still swimming, scooting and riding his pedal bike with ease, both down and now up hills… he drives me crazy lately, but I could gush about this kid all day.

Three has definitely been a VERY challenging age, but despite a great deal of emotional battles, sickness and general turmoil, I cannot get over this kid’s developmental leaps and bounds over the past year.

I’m looking forward to the year ahead, with more days of preschool (which will give me further freedom to chip away at the past 4 years of personal backlog, and allow me to continue finding myself), as well as some very exciting travel plans.

Stay tuned… 2025 is shaping up to be one heck of a year! 🎆😀🎇

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01/11/2024

Happy Halloween 🎃☠️
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Another successful Halloween, with carved pumpkins, baked pies and pumpkin seeds, pirate costumes and trick-or-treating!

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05/09/2024

Waxing Crescent & Venus
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Living in a city is weird and wonderful.

Unless I go up on the roof, this is all of the sky that I can see from our flat - juuust enough, but also never enough.

Having this limited snippet of the horizon often presents fascinating juxtaposition, though, like the silhouettes of the neighbouring rooftops, low-hanging clouds, and a very large airplane departing Sydney Airport, backed by the glowing purple/orange gradient sunset sky, with the waxing crescent moon and Venus glowing brightly above… all briefly nestled together for one fleeting moment.

Witnessing these sporadic instances in time always brings a smile to my face, and capturing them brings me even greater joy. Like catching a frame of a wild animal out in nature, something about cityscape moments like these feels unique and special, despite the far more mundane subject matter and scenery depicted.

Perhaps it just feels nice to take a moment to notice the small, interesting things, document them, and share this fascination with others.

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01/09/2024

We’re Floating In Space
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5hrs away from Sydney, the stars are incredible. Despite the astonishing wind tonight, I was able to get a few clean, focused frames looking up at our impressive Milky Way Galaxy.

We don’t get out of the Big Smoke enough, but when we make it happen, it’s views like this that remind me why I need this time away - well, the views, and the terrific company of good mates that live out here.

One of my favourite things about Australia is the ability to get out into the middle of nowhere, or nearly nowhere, and really feel my insignificance.

We are tiny little specks, a conundrum on this little speck of a planet, floating around in this swirling speck of a galaxy, like all the other little twinkling specks out in this vast, endless expanse of space. It is truly incredible that we are simply able to exist.

All the daily repetition, frustrations, failures, and hardships we carry become far less important staring up at all these stars. It feels good to just look up and let go a little 🔭❤️

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28/08/2024

Sunset Hectic
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Whenever the weather gets weird, I always feel the need to get out into it and document it, and I am rarely disappointed.

The clouds to the south this evening just kept growing bigger, weirder, pinker, more ominous and more beautiful, as the tremendous wind tried to blow me off the roof, and the sunlight continued to fade 🌅💨

I introduced Theo to The Flaming Lips today, and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was the perfect musical backdrop to this stunning scene 💕

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31/12/2023

2 0 2 4
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Hah, I might just only post NYE fireworks once a year from now on 😛

Focus has remained on the little fella and his amazing, ever-changing, constantly developing personality.

It was a big year of firsts for Theo. A broken leg, FINALLY seeing Grandma & Grandpa in person for the first time, losing a cherished pet (miss you EVERY day, Mona ❤️), travelling overseas for the first time (we were FINALLY able to travel back to North America to visit family and friends after 5+ years apart!), battling COVID-19 for the first time, swimming on his own without any real assistance (this child is part fish!), continuing to blow our minds mentally, verbally, and emotionally, riding a pedal bike for the first time, without training wheels, and travelling confidently, unaided, for several meters, only the third time out on the bike…

Look, I’m SUPER proud of this kid and all he’s become in three short years. He has my heart and nearly all of my attention and energy, and I don’t think that’s something that’s likely to change anytime soon.

Take care of yourselves and each other, and we’ll see ya in 2025 😛

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