GOLDEN AUTUMN LIGHT, WOOLLEN SWEATERS, A GARDEN IN FULL COLOUR AND TWO DOGS WHO BELONG IN EVERY FAMILY PORTRAIT. THIS IS AUTUMN IN THE HUNTER VALLEY.

These two border collies have grown old in this garden, a little greyer every autumn. The family's brief: a session that is a quiet record of that — a family, home, children and pets who won't be this age again, ever. Nothing announces itself as the last of its kind while it's happening. It just happens quietly, in an ordinary garden, on an ordinary morning — and then one day, it's the photograph you're glad exists.