Hyggelig Photography

Hyggelig Photography A photographer in love with the idea of documenting your world. Welcome to Hyggelig Photography—Where Cozy Chaos & Quirky Connection Collide! Hyggelig (pron.

I’m Janet, your storytelling sidekick, armed with a camera and a knack for finding the magic in life’s messy, beautiful moments. From epic love stories to everyday family chaos—I’m here to record the vibe and celebrate your world exactly as it is. Neurodivergent friendly, endlessly curious, and here for all the ways you do life your way.

❓ What is Hyggelig? hoo-ger-lee) is a Danish word for all t

hings loving, intimate, and comfortable. It’s that cozy, joy-filled feeling you get during life’s sweetest moments that bring a happy sigh and a big smile.

🐦‍⬛ The Swallow Symbol:
Our tattooesque swallow represents love, loyalty, and travel—always finding its way back home. It’s a nod to what matters most: connection, warmth, and those perfectly imperfect moments that make life beautiful. Like the swallow, we capture the essence of these moments and bring them back to you, creating a sense of home in your memories. Services We Offer:

💘 Love Stories: Weddings, elopements, and those “just us” moments. Intimate, heartfelt, and always genuine to you.

🌱 Life Stories: Family portraits, newborn sessions, births, and all those beautifully chaotic family moments. Neurodivergent-friendly and welcoming of every family’s unique rhythm.

📲 Living Stories: Content creation for small businesses and event vendors. Capturing your brand’s essence with personality, creativity, and inclusivity.

📸 Headshots for Humans: Simple, relaxed, and fuss-free headshots. Short and sweet—no frills, just face.

🖼️ Print Products & Gift Vouchers: Tangible keepsakes and gift options for life’s special moments.

🌟 Ready to capture your Hyggelig moments? Let’s make it happen!

📍 Melbourne-based, but always ready to wander.

🤘🏻🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Neurodivergent-friendly, LGBTQIA+ inclusive, and here for everyone’s beautifully unique story.

02/09/2026

Being invited as a guest to a restaurant will always be an exciting opportunity for our family.

Since the small human was even smaller, eating out has always been an adventure.

“Can we sit and eat there?”

I’m not sure if it was the cough lockdowns cough period where we couldn’t do it for so long that really ramped up her love of table service, or if it’s simply the dopamine hit of choosing something from a menu and eating somewhere new.

Probably both. 😂

So when Kaya at The Standard in Singapore invited us to come and dine with them in exchange for me creating some content, it felt like a pretty perfect way to round out our family adventure.

It had also been a while between decent restaurants after weeks on the road. 😂

Then I saw the menu was Japanese-inspired and knew kiddo would be stoked.

Quite literally everything we ate was amazing. And the space itself is SO good. Quirky, colourful and full of little details to look at. After weeks travelling through Europe surrounded by things that were old, historic and fascinating, Singapore suddenly felt very new and shiny — and Kaya somehow managed to be both shiny and full of personality.

My brutally honest (aka autistic 😂) child, walking through the hotel foyer:

“Oh, this is so cool. Why didn’t we stay here?”

Thanks kid. 😂

But perhaps the highest praise I can give Kaya is this:

Even if you only go for a drink, get the miso tiramisu.

Absolutely mouth-watering.

And we’d just been to Italy. 🤣

A very delicious little full stop on the end of our adventure. 🖤



Content created for Kaya at The Standard, Singapore.

Thank you Local Impact for giving me this opportunity! Loved working with the beautiful humans big and small The Venny I...
02/09/2026

Thank you Local Impact for giving me this opportunity!
Loved working with the beautiful humans big and small The Venny Inc

30/08/2026

Celebrating spring’s arrival with a little golden hour goodness. ☀️

Long native grasses, that delicious late afternoon light and, hopefully, Melbourne deciding it’s finally not too bloody cold to hang outside. 😂

I’ve opened up a handful of MINI sessions in Sunshine across some September dates

Timed for when the light starts dipping and everything gets a little bit glowy.
Perfect for families, couples, kids, dogs, or whoever makes up your crew.... maybe even update your headshot!

15ish minutes.
10 images included.
$250 + GST.

Times are listed and ready to book at the link. 👇
https://Hyggeligphotographyminisessions.as.me/
Come play in the grass with me. 🖤

Image description: A family of four walking together along a narrow path through long native grasses in Sunshine, Melbourne. Two young children walk and cuddle alongside their parents as low golden sunlight streams through the scene.

Proud of her. 🖤Incoming bunch of words. Long story short… 😏One of our last checklist items in France was Versailles. Ye...
28/08/2026

Proud of her. 🖤
Incoming bunch of words. Long story short… 😏

One of our last checklist items in France was Versailles. Yes, another castle. Cue eyeroll from the 9.5 year old. We had no plans to go inside, knowing crowds, cost and time would all be a factor, but it was still pretty grouse to wander around, admire the buildings and lightly explain who Queen Marie and King Louis were, and why the French eventually decided they'd had quite enough of them.

Kiddo found a graphic novel about Marie Antoinette and her early childhood and, quietly, I was thrilled she was interested. School work can really trigger this one's PDA, and there is a fairly firm "no facts" rule when she suspects we're trying to teach her something. 😂 The deal was we'd buy the book if she promised to read it before we got home to Australia.

Cue head in book for the next hour. By the time we'd made it around to the gardens and set up our picnic lunch, she'd finished it.

Fast forward to getting back to our apartment and realising that, because we were coming home early, she'd actually be home for Book Week, one of her favourite dress-up days.

"What if you went as Marie Antoinette?"
Eyes. Widened.
And so began the research. Hair. Dress. Makeup. Accessories...

And because apparently sourcing a Marie Antoinette costume across three countries is just a normal thing we do now… 😂

I happily jumped aboard the hyperfocus train and found a costume shop in Paris with a dress that would be perfect.
Dress in Paris, check.
Accessories in Singapore, check.
Baby powder from our first online Coles order back home, check.

This morning she woke early, as she always does when she's excited about something, and woke me up ready to get started. Breakfast first. Then I got to play hairdresser while she absolutely nailed her own makeup, particularly delighted that she got to accentuate her own beauty spots!

She was a little disappointed not to win a prize today. But she went to bed tonight knowing how bloody proud we were of her. Not because of a costume competition, but because the whole thing was hers.

She found something she was interested in. She read. She researched. She planned. She made choices. And then she pulled the whole thing together beautifully.
We may have sighed and smiled at each other tonight.
Because some days you get one of those sweet little wins. 🖤

Image description:
Black and white portrait of a young girl dressed as Marie Antoinette for Book Week, with her hair swept into an elaborate updo decorated with flowers, pearl necklaces and period-inspired makeup. She looks directly into the camera with a wonderfully serious expression, her natural beauty spots accentuated as part of the look.

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Home.That word feels different after chasing summer through Europe while Melbourne did its winter thing without us.There...
23/08/2026

Home.
That word feels different after chasing summer through Europe while Melbourne did its winter thing without us.

There’s so much to share. So much to catch up on. And a ridiculous number of photos to still work my way through.

But this one first.
I saw this photograph in my head before I took it. Kiddo was completely in awe of the view, dancing to the music and smiling at all the sparkles of the Eiffel Tower.

So I asked her to stop for literally one second.
And somehow, she stopped in exactly the right place, the one already in my head.

Sometimes they just give you the photograph.
And yes… after travelling around Europe for two months with cameras and lenses and all the things… I took this on my phone




Image description:
A black-and-white photograph of a young girl standing on the Champ de Mars at night, looking towards the illuminated Eiffel Tower. She stands in the foreground with her back to the camera, hands tucked into her pockets, while the tower glows against the dark sky and people gather beneath it.

Spiralling back down to earth (and reality as we wind up our adventures)…Here we have the Skovtårnet / Forest Tower, pre...
16/08/2026

Spiralling back down to earth (and reality as we wind up our adventures)…

Here we have the Skovtårnet / Forest Tower, pretty tall from memory (quick google confirms 45m), was a pretty ace view above the tree line. Denmark’s idea of drama is 45 metres of steel spiral, since the landscape itself won’t be offering much competition.

A holiday where we take bets on “will she or won’t she” be into this. It’s an interesting puzzle... so mental note: the best way to make sure she’s in like Flynn? Movement, and some sort of challenge. Add music and you’ll nail it. But I digress.

So when she said she wanted to run down by herself, we weren’t surprised. Maybe more surprised at how quick she did it, and how much she enjoyed watching her oldies descend to the bottom.

It’s been an interesting combination of phone & big camera photos on this trip… a little window into something I’m excited to share in the next month or so.

Meanwhile I’ll leave you with “the best camera is the one you’ve got on you” 😉

This bridge only exists in our trip because I was plotting the drive from Berlin to Prague.Well… that and the fact I wan...
10/08/2026

This bridge only exists in our trip because I was plotting the drive from Berlin to Prague.

Well… that and the fact I wanted an excuse to check out the Birkenstock factory. 😏

Somewhere between Google Maps rabbit holes and “that looks interesting,” I stumbled across Rakotzbrücke.

Built between 1866 and 1875, it wasn’t designed as an ordinary bridge at all. It was created as part of a romantic landscape, with one very specific purpose: when the water is still, its reflection completes a perfect circle.

That’s become a bit of a theme for this trip.

We’ve booked places to sleep and had a rough direction to head, but left plenty of room for curiosity. It’s the little discoveries between A and B that have become the best stories.

The other winner that day was Görlitz and its neighbouring Polish town, Zgorzelec. We wandered across the border for pierogi, discovered the streets where The Grand Budapest Hotel was filmed, and somehow turned “let’s grab lunch” into another unexpected highlight. There are definitely more photos from that little detour still to come.

For now though, we’re back in France for the final stretch. The countdown to home has quietly begun. We’re a little sun-kissed, a little sweaty, and making the most of every last croissant before swapping European summer for a Melbourne winter in just a couple of weeks.

This face…As I sit in a hotel lobby in Berlin, I’m reminding myself that it’s this face we do it for. Finding the fun on...
18/07/2026

This face…

As I sit in a hotel lobby in Berlin, I’m reminding myself that it’s this face we do it for. Finding the fun on the road is challenging, especially with a kiddo who has particular needs. This day, it was the exhilaration of jumping into a stack of hay.

She couldn’t care less that it was a barn built ATLEAST 500 years ago and rebuilt as part of the open-air museum in Copenhagen. But the fact that she was able to, and encouraged to, jump as many times as she wanted? That was everything. Within reason, of course, or we’d still be there. 🤣

Mind you, the shoes had to come off because she can’t deal with hay in her shoes or socks. But on her bare feet, it was manageable.

It’s in these moments that it all makes sense… We’re tired, we’re having fun, and we’re making memories. It just might look a little different some days.



Image Description
A smiling young girl with long brown hair sits barefoot on the edge of a hayloft inside a centuries-old wooden barn. Large stacks of golden hay fill the space beneath her, surrounded by rustic timber walls and a thatched roof.

It’s probably no surprise that I notice (and photograph) all the little differences as we travel.The roads.The trees.The...
08/07/2026

It’s probably no surprise that I notice (and photograph) all the little differences as we travel.

The roads.
The trees.
The houses.
The bakeries.

But babies?

They seem to speak exactly the same language everywhere 🇩🇰🤍



Image description
A smiling baby in a soft white dress lies on a grey couch, looking directly at the camera with bright eyes and one hand tucked near their mouth. While natural window light fills the room.

I aim for new BFFs after every session.Choose your own adventure?This one was chaotic. Sandy. Absolutely delighted by ab...
28/06/2026

I aim for new BFFs after every session.

Choose your own adventure?
This one was chaotic. Sandy. Absolutely delighted by absolutely everything.
Which, if we're being honest, is exactly how beach sessions should be.

Nobody worrying about the camera.
Nobody trying to keep the sand off.
Just a family hanging out while I quietly collect the bits they'll want to remember later.

💛 Just 2 days left of the EOFY sale.
Print Store discount codes and gift vouchers are waiting in the bio if you've been meaning to jump in.



Post description
Black and white series from a beach family session. A mum and toddler cheek to cheek in the sand, a toddler mid-laugh with sandy hands raised, and the whole family together with their daughter on dad's shoulders, everyone grinning. Rocky coastal backdrop, golden light, genuine chaos.

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