Rae Fallon film maker photo taker

02/11/2021

One of my first shoots back will be at the delightful Dee’s for . It was one of my last shoots before maternity leave and the perfect way to emerge from the comfort of my cocoon - by stepping into hers and together finding the beauty in everyday home-making moments ✨

31/10/2021

Blue skies and babies are coming and I. Can’t. Wait.

06/10/2021

These little films made for koala eco make my heart sing. So simple and beautiful.

22/09/2021

My days are starting to find their rhythm. I do still feel like we’re in transition, still settling, and perhaps I’ll feel like that right up till I start back at work and see how all those pieces fall into place.

In the next couple days and weeks I’ll start to pop Nov/Dec/Jan shoot days in the calendar. I’m just taking on a limited number of clients to start to make sure everything still flows so if you’re hoping for a spot please reach out sooner rather than later. I can’t wait to see you all again! 🤗

Home days as seen through the lens of 🌱

20/09/2021

13/09/2021

Love love this product and making films for them!

12/09/2021

A little film for Koala Eco xx

01/09/2021

It’s not everyday you meet a person like Nilanthi. We met a couple years ago when I was searching far and wide for a postpartum doula. I thought I needed someone to help fold laundry and tidy the house, but instead I found a healer woman who would nourish my belly with delicious food, rub my aching body with beautiful oils and tend to my heart and soul with honest loving kindness.

Nilanthi has been by my side, by our sides, through the big stuff. For a good 24hrs straight she was either on the other end of the phone or with my physically rubbing my back and holding my hands, talking me through every step of birthing Tully. And just four weeks ago she arrived in time to catch Pax and give him the most beautiful entrance into this world.

But it’s not just these two big events that she’s been here for us. It’s all the in-between. It’s every embrace that is filled with so much warmth and love, every laugh shared about the silliest of things and every prayer I know she’s said on our behalf.

Happy birthday Nilanthi, and thank you a thousand times over for all the times you’ve been there for us in all the little ways xx

(I haven’t got photos from Pax’s birth, but these are from the archives of baby Tully’s entrance taken by 🧡)

23/08/2021

I was so honoured to be asked by Dee to make a dreamy little film to introduce her heart project, ! It’s ready! Well, the to fund the printing is ready, so jump over to her Insta to find the link and pre-order your copy now. As with everything Dee does, it’s so beautiful and sincere, full of quirk and love. Two years in the making, now it’s time to see this book come to life so we can all have one in our hands. 🧡

06/08/2021

Everything fell into place when he arrived. It all suddenly made sense, of course it was meant to be this way. Arriving early, (and even before the midwives!) our little Pax made a swift entrance on the evening of August 3rd.

My little guide, my humble teacher. I have learnt so much already. Together our family has started out on a new journey this week which feels so familiar and so right. We were taken to the edge, of course, the way pregnancies and births do, but there was no drop on the other side. The four of us, on the edge of free fall, caught and wrapped up, fully supported and fully ready and fully able. He arrived and brought us into balance.

Incredibly, my birth filmmaker made it in time to capture the birth and so I’ll share the full story soon. I can’t wait to see how it looked from outside my body, I can’t even imagine. It was pure magic from where I was standing.

We are all deeply in love, especially his doting big brother, and can’t wait to share this beautiful little sonshine of ours with you once we emerge from our cosy cocoon.

(Also, huge kudos to my darling husband for this beautiful photo, taken as Pax and I embark on our breastfeeding journey during , so special ✨)

03/08/2021

I’ve been wanting to share this story with you since forever, but I knew that was going to come over and document it for her project ‘these walls whisper’ and so I waited.

When we had to move from our rental in January one of the most important things was finding a home I felt comfortable and safe to birth in. There was that terrible rental crisis with people outbidding one another from out of state and we were pretty nervous about our options. Staying close to our community was so important to us, but we were well and truly priced out of that market.

Somehow our amazing community did pull through and because of the tireless work of a darling neighbour a new home was found. One of the first things she told me about was the incredible history of the place that the owner had shared with her.

There was this woman with five sons who lived in our three bed rental in 1908. Nurse Annie Sheedy. She was a midwife and after her husband passed she opened up her home, our home, as a maternity hospital for 12 years. Eventually, she moved up to a beautiful big property on Solomon St to continue her practice where she was said to have “birthed half of Fremantle”, often in exchange for fresh fish or vegetables.

For twelve years these walls that shelter my family now held the many women who moaned and groaned and roared their babies into this world. It was a refuge and a place of safety and warmth for birthing women, and it was written into their hearts and their stories like it hopefully will be ours. (How she fit five sons and those women in this space I’ll never know!)

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