A local photographer is offering a family a free photoshoot to replace treasured pictures lost in a fire yesterday. Full-time photographer Jess Barnes, of Blissful Photography, sent out the offer online to a Pāpāmoa couple whose home was destroyed in a "scary" fire yesterday morning.
Barnes' offer included a photoshootat a time and place of the family's choice.
She would put the images together in a personalised album, which was not something she did for clients, covering the costs herself.
"Online photos are one thing but a nice family photo album you can actually hold and go through together with the family is something completely different," she said.
"It's so important to capture families together and have those photos there to remind us that we will always have family, no matter what."
Barnes said the daughter of the couple responded to her offer with gratitude, confirming the house was "very much a family home", and family photos had been destroyed.
Others from the community had commented on Barnes' post, asking if there was anything else the family needed.
"The Pāpāmoa community is definitely coming together again to support this family," she said.
