Families

Rachel works at Centennial Park and just loves Paperbark Grove & the Duck Pond areas. She knew without a doubt this was where she wanted to have spontaneous & fun shots of the family. Here are some of Rachel and our favourites.    Read more »

Noni (our Vision Personal Trainer) wanted to get her mum something really special for her birthday so arranged a Portrait Gift Certificate. The message Noni asked us to write on the Gift Certificate made both Israel & I cry. It was really appropriate when Noni’s family were able to get together on Valentines Day to [...]   Read more »

We photographed Anita & Patrick’s Wedding in May 2007, so we were very excited when they made a trip from Melbourne to Sydney & asked us to do their family portraits. This beautiful couple were always destined to be together and to be parents. As you’ll see from their portraits at Centennial Park, they are [...]   Read more »

We’ve became members of the Our Family Limited Edition Project because we wanted to ensure what we felt for Indrani & our family today did not fade with our memory over time! We chose Coogee Beach for our portrait session because it has special meaning to us – Israel & I got married on this beach [...]   Read more »

How blessed are we to experience this? It was wonderful photographing Claire’s stunning baby bump, and words really can’t describe how honoured we were to meet her beautiful Charlie. We just adore these family shots with Charlie being only a few weeks old. These intimate portraits were taken in our Studio at Coogee.    Read more »

This fun family of 5 have moved to Port Macquarie and are loving it. But they will never forget Bondi Beach with these stunning portraits. We could not have ordered a better sunset than this – the colours are deliciously warm. These portraits chosen by the family clearly show how much they love being outdoors [...]   Read more »

Meeting us down at Coogee Beach, Isabella wasted no time in turning on the charm and looking absolutely gorgeous! Honestly, kids like Isabella make our work easy. Susan and Isabella had some lovely intimate Mum & Daughter moments, and the warm colours and relaxed atmosphere of the beach helped us get a lovely series of [...]   Read more »

We first met Daniela years ago when Daniela was a bridesmaid at wedding we photographed. In 2007 we photographed Daniela and Michael’s special day. Now we are delighted to have been able to capture these beautiful moments at our Studio with their first baby Stella. Daniela says Israel Smith Photographers “are like family now”. [...]   Read more »

Carla’s young family are active so Bronte Beach was just a perfect setting for their family portraits. The beach and parkland provided plenty of space to run. Carla was amazed it took Israel only 45 minutes to capture so many amazing portraits of her family.    Read more »

On a lovely afternoon in March, Amanda and her family wandered down to Bronte beach so we could capture some portraits of this time in their life. The kids were full of energy, fun and enthusiasm… and even though they felt a little weird at first, they loosened up quickly and let me create some [...]   Read more »