A Little Hiatus.

Robuck Photography as a business, has been something that has kept me going for the last 5 years while I was completing a very intense double post-graduate degree. Some of you may not know that I have also been training as a psychologist and completed a PhD researching anxiety. Photography has always been my creative outlet, my connection to families and people that are in a happy point in their lives (a stark contrast to my clinical work at times) and a way to connect to some of the purest emotions - LOVE and JOY.  

Over the last couple of months, I have been finding it harder and harder to juggle the demands related to working clinically, working as a photographer, working at the university and also finding the time to be with my family, especially my beautiful little girl. The increasing demands of splitting myself in multiple directions is starting to impact on my own health and happiness. As the saying goes, something's got to give...

So it is with a great heaviness, that for this moment in time I will be putting my camera down (for a little) while I rest, recoup and reenergise. I need to learn how to love the craft of photography again, in a a more personal and engaging way. To be able to pick up my camera as a stress-relief, rather than causing stress or anxiety caused by my own perfectionistic tendencies and a need to deliver perfect images for others to love. I need to claim my nights back away from a computer screen not editing images, and learn how to be still. To be okay with just being, and not doing. 

I have loved every moment sharing intimate moments and making special memories with families, couples and many gorgeous children, some whom I knew already and some whom I had the pleasure of meeting over the last couple of years. For some families, I have even had the absolute privilege of watching children grow, watching families expand and documenting these changes again and again. These moments I will cherish. 

This is not a permanent goodbye, rather a small interlude, a little hiatus. I will be back, brighter, energised and with more creative flare, I just don't know exactly when.

For now, I want to leave you all with some of my favourite captured moments from the last nine months.
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Sarah x