Meg was adopted by her Mummy and Daddy when she was just 9 months old. She had been rescued by the RSPCA from appalling conditions and was starved and infested with mites. Mummy and Daddy told me that “she had taken a long time to trust them but was now the most wonderful dog” But…
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Some weeks ago I posted this image on my Facebook page. Within 24 hours over 100 of you lovely people had liked, reacted or commented. And I was very, very touched. And at the same time equally saddened. Because getting a mummy in front of the camera like this is about…
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So – what does a wedding photographer think it takes to make a wedding beautiful? Stunning venue? Gorgeous Weather? Radiant Bride? Cute Bridesmaids? Or something else? Something less tangible? I have known Cas (or ‘Spankey’, for reasons now forgotten) for a long, long time. Cas is one of the ‘us’ – a close knit…
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Sometimes it is just super difficult to get to the studio for a Newborn Session. It is probably your first trip out with Baby since leaving hospital. And sometimes the very thought just fills you with utter dread. And this is never more so than when said Newborn is a second baby (or third, or…
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The Consultation is the posh description for what happens before your portrait session. Basically, we chat – sometimes on more than one occasion – about what it is you would love to happen on the day. About what you would love as a final set of images. About what you are worried about. About all…
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Being a photographer sometimes means you get to see exciting and beautiful things before the rest of the world. And a call from Claire meant this particular job was going to be just that! Claire was in the process of building a website and needed a library of images to start promoting a very new…
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Last week my Mum celebrated her 89th birthday. As a surprise I booked a few days away for the two of us in Hay-On-Wye. Hay-on-Wye, famous for it’s bookshops and the annual ‘Hay Festival’ – when 80,000 visitors descend on the sleepy little Welsh town to hear readings from some of the worlds Literary Giants…
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This morning I did something unbelievably special – I did a family portrait for FOUR generations! And as I watched the Little People sitting with their Great Grandparents I felt a very real weight of responsibility. The children were all super young (the oldest just four) and so WAY too young to realise how desperately…
Continue ReadingIf there is one thing you learn from being a family photographer it is that there is always a lot more to people than you just see at face value. What I see through the lens at that very first shoot with you is not always what I see further down the line. By the…
Continue ReadingI spoke to my Mum this morning…..this 75th anniversary of VE Day. She REMEMBERS the original one…..because, like she said, “We had jelly! You were never going to forget you had jelly!” She was just a normal little girl when the war kicked off. Exactly the same age as my little niece, Erin :- …
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