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I'm a hopeless romantic who finds great joy in creating and capturing connections and beauty wherever I go.

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I'm Mandy and I'm so happy you found the Sugar Tree blog. Here you'll find posts from recent sessions, personal ramblings and tips and tricks on anything from taking better selfies, to how to get great snapshots of your kiddo's. Stay a while and say hello!

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Travel Series – Switzerland | Gruyères

Switzerland – Part 2 : Gruyères. If you have ever dreamed of visiting Europe and want to include magnificent scenery at every turn, gorgeous old castles and delicious food, then you have to make a stop in Switzerland. Granted I have not been to many European countries, but I have visited a few and none […]

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Travel Series – Switzerland | Part 1

Travel Series – Switzerland  Part 1: Ollon It has been a dream of mine to visit Switzerland since I was a little girl. In my childhood dreams it was always the beautiful snowcapped mountains that captured my imagination. Living in South Africa for most of my life, snow is not something we saw very often […]

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3 Social Media Timesavers

Social media…..love it or hate it, it’s a very big part of all of our daily lives in some shape or form. Every time you look around there is another platform that everyone’s using and you haven’t even mastered the ones you ARE on…never-mind keeping up with all the new things coming out!!! If you’re […]

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Cakes and Decor | Sydney photographer

  Whether it’s a birthday, baby shower, hen party, wedding or a girls get together, most functions have a theme and most importantly cake…and decor. And as women there’s often nothing we like more than to plan all the details down to the last teaspoon. We can spend hours on Pinterest, pinning gorgeous pictures of […]

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Canberra Lifestyle Session | Little Miss Kate

If you have ever had the privilege of hanging out with a 2 year old, you will know that no 2 minutes are ever the same and likewise no 2 minutes are ever really spent sitting in one place. The energy levels and inquisitive nature of a 2 year old are really something to be […]

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Newborn Sessions

Sweet Little Girls | Sydney Newborns

Sugar and Spice and all things nice…that’s what little girls are made of… or so the nursery rhyme goes and I must admit, these newborn baby girls with their silky soft skin, pink pouty lips and teeny tiny fingers and toes are the epitome of the nursery rhyme!! They are most definitely made of sugar […]

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Newborn Sessions

Sweet Sleeping Boys

  Sweet sleeping boys Who can resist sweet sleeping little babies. I absolutely love capturing newborn babies. I love their tiny little toes and gorgeous squishy cheeks. Their flakey skin and the soft fluffy hair on their backs and ears. Every time I pick up a teeny tiny baby during a newborn shoot, I am […]

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Cayla A Bat-mitzvah Celebration

  Last week you met Cayla and saw the fun shoots her folks arranged for her to have leading up to her Bat-Mitzvah, you can read the whole blog post here. Once the party was done and Cayla celebrated her actual birthday I was there to capture her step into adulthood. After 12 years of […]

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Cayla steps into adulthood

  It was such a joy to be able to capture these pictures for Cayla to celebrate her step into adulthood. As part of jewish tradition, every young jewish girl celebrates her 12th birthday with a bat-mitzvah as she is now old enough to accept her religious responsibilities. I have been taking pictures of Cayla […]

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Commercial Session

The Toy Cabin – Website Branding Shoot

I first met Cherie when a mutual friend gave her my number to capture pictures for her and her lovely family. We had such a great time at that first shoot. We had an instant connection and her littles were really the sweetest and most adorable cherubs. So when Cherie decided she was taking up […]

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