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Chelsea Bauer Photography Capturing souls in the wild womb of nature🌿📸
Motherhood | Feminine Embodiment | Family | Love | Elopement
Stories that remember, Moments that breathe.

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Also an abstract artist working with expired film soup, decay, memories and movement.

One of the most beautiful gifts photography has given me is the ability to keep little pieces of the people I love. 🤎Not...
27/09/2026

One of the most beautiful gifts photography has given me is the ability to keep little pieces of the people I love. 🤎

Not to stop time — because we never could.

But to leave little windows into it.

This is my darling niece, Aoife, and getting to photograph her as she grows is something I don’t think I’ll ever take for granted.

I get to watch her change through the years, and every time I have my camera in my hands, I’m reminded just how quickly childhood moves.

The freckles scattered across her nose.
Her wild, golden hair.
The little dog she still carries close.
The quiet moments amongst the trees.
The little pieces of her personality that are so uniquely her.

These are the things that change so quietly with time.

One day she’ll be taller. Her face will be older. Her hands will be too big to carry her little dog through the forest, and she’ll have grown into someone I can’t quite picture yet.

But I’ll have these photographs.

Little pieces of who she was, tucked away in time.

And perhaps that’s what I love most about being a photographer. It’s not just getting to create beautiful images — it’s getting to witness people. To watch them grow, become themselves, and change through all the seasons of their lives, while quietly collecting the little pieces along the way.

And when that person is someone you love so deeply, it feels even more precious.

One day, I hope Aoife looks back at these photographs and sees herself through my eyes — exactly as I saw her here.

Beautiful. Wild. Soft. Still little.

And forever my darling niece. 🤎🌿

For all the little versions of you, Aoife. I hope I get to photograph every one.

There is something so beautiful about watching a family get to know their baby.For nine months, this little person has b...
23/09/2026

There is something so beautiful about watching a family get to know their baby.

For nine months, this little person has been loved, imagined and wondered about from the other side of the belly.

And then suddenly, they’re here.

So small. So new. Still figuring out this big, unfamiliar world — and yet already showing little glimpses of exactly who they are.

The sleepy yawns.
The tiny stretches.
The funny little expressions.
The way they curl into Mum’s arms, or reach out and hold onto a sibling’s finger.

And everyone is learning them.
Learning their face. Their sounds. Their little habits. The things that make them settle, smile, wriggle and wake.

There’s something incredibly emotional about finally being able to see the baby you’ve spent nine months waiting for. To hold them against your chest. To watch their siblings meet them. To realise that this tiny person you imagined for so long is now here — and already becoming completely, wonderfully themselves.

These first few months are the beginning of discovering who they are.
And what a beautiful thing it is to have photographs that let you remember those first little pieces of them.

This is why I love what I do — creating honest, soulful photographs that hold onto the little moments, the connections, and the people you were becoming together. 🤍

Chelsea Bauer Photography
Motherhood | Newborn | Family | Love

With love,
Chels xx

For a little while, you are their whole world. One day, those little arms won’t reach around you quite like this. So hol...
20/09/2026

For a little while, you are their whole world. One day, those little arms won’t reach around you quite like this. So hold them a little longer, take the photographs, and remember the little moments you never knew you’d miss. The tiny hands, the sleepy cuddles, the weight of them in your arms, and all those ordinary little pieces of life that somehow become the memories we treasure most.

Photographs have a funny way of reminding us just how quickly time passes — how small they once were, how perfectly they fit in our arms, and how much life can change between one photograph and the next. 🤍

This is why I love what I do. I get to preserve the little pieces of your life that you may not realise you’ll one day long to remember — the connection, the love, the laughter, and the way they fit into your arms right now. Because these moments are fleeting, but the memories can stay with you forever. 🌿

With love from Chels xx

Okay, so… here’s the part of life that usually doesn’t make it onto Instagram. 🤍I’ve had a bit of a rough time lately, a...
14/09/2026

Okay, so… here’s the part of life that usually doesn’t make it onto Instagram. 🤍

I’ve had a bit of a rough time lately, and while it’s easy to share the beautiful photographs, exciting moments and things that are going well, that isn’t the whole story.

Behind the photographs, the smiles, the beautiful moments and the little pieces of magic I share here, there have also been some really hard days.

The overwhelm.
The self-doubt.
The comparison.
The pressure to keep showing up when I didn’t really have anything left to give.

So, here are some of my recent lows.

Not for sympathy, but because I think we all need a reminder sometimes that what we see online is never the full picture.

I’m a photographer, but I’m also just a person trying to navigate life, creativity, business and all the messy bits in between.

I don’t want this space to only show the beautiful parts. I want it to be honest, too. 🌿

Life isn’t always a perfectly curated gallery.

Sometimes it’s messy, quiet, uncertain and a little bit heavy.

But I’m still here.
Still creating.
Still learning.
Still finding my way back to myself.

And maybe that’s enough for now. 🤍

Love from Chels xx

05/09/2026

Allow me to re-introduce myself.
Maybe you’re new here.
Maybe you’ve been quietly following along for a while.
Either way… hi, I’m Chelsea. 🤎

I’m the person behind the camera, usually somewhere between chasing beautiful light, getting my feet dirty in the forest, and telling stories through photographs.

I’ve always been drawn to the fleeting things — the moments that happen once and then disappear.

A hand reaching for yours.
A belly growing with new life.
A child’s laugh.
The way love looks when nobody is performing for the camera.

That’s what I want my photographs to hold.

Not perfection.
Not poses that don’t feel like you.
But feeling. Connection. Presence.

The kind of photographs you can return to years from now and still feel exactly what that moment felt like.

This is the heart behind Chelsea Bauer Photography. 🌿🤎

Auckland | North Shore
Motherhood • Feminine Embodiment • Families • Love Stories





There are moments in motherhood you wish you could fold up and keep somewhere safe.The sleepy breaths.The newborn curl.T...
05/09/2026

There are moments in motherhood you wish you could fold up and keep somewhere safe.

The sleepy breaths.
The newborn curl.
The tiny fingers wrapped around yours.
The weight of their little body against your chest.

Because one day, they won’t fit quite so perfectly in your arms. Their hands will be bigger. Their little noises will become distant memories.

But for now, they are still so close to the beginning — wrapped in warmth, held close, completely unaware of how deeply they are loved.

And these are the moments worth remembering. 🤎

She is becoming.Like the unfolding of a fern,the opening of a flower,the slow awakening of the earth after winter.Her si...
31/08/2026

She is becoming.

Like the unfolding of a fern,
the opening of a flower,
the slow awakening of the earth after winter.

Her silhouette softened by linen,
her changing body held gently between sunlight and shadow —
a quiet outline of the life growing within her.

Her body stretches toward new life,
softly becoming a home for someone she has not yet met.

And beneath the draped fabric, where sunlight dances across her skin,
a whole new world is taking shape.

Motherhood, before the first breath.
A beginning, before the beginning. 🌿🤍

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