What feels like a hundred years ago a portrait of a girl stopped me in my tracks. It was the summer of 1985 – and it was on the front cover of the National Geographic Magazine. And a very much younger Annie (not-even-Burbage) stood transfixed on a busy railway platform in London – oblivious to…
Continue ReadingThe Art of the Everyday – The Photographers Eye
Photographers see the world differently to other people. My sister-in-law said exactly this last night as we were watching my two year old nephew hurl his balance bike from one end of the yard to the other. She was wondering whether he would live long enough to see bath-time…… I was wondering if I’d got…
Continue ReadingA Portrait of Polly
Towards the end of last year Pollys Mum phoned. She told me that they weren’t the kind of family who had a lot a photographs. Photographs just weren’t their ‘thing’. She hadn’t even had a wedding photographer (#sobsquietly) However – 11 year old Polly was growing up. Moreover she had just won a music…
Continue ReadingA Portrait of a Wedding
Just over 12 months ago I was sitting quietly at my desk editing a portrait sitting when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a frantic female voice who – in the space of about three minutes – and without so much as pausing for breath – told me: She was…
Continue ReadingWhy You Didn’t Get A Christmas Card
Any photographer on the planet will tell you that the run-up to Christmas is manic. As in M.A.N.I.C At one point you could barely get through my front door for abandoned packaging waiting to go for recycling and for stacked, identical ‘white boxes’ waiting to go to clients as courier after courier arrived with orders….
Continue ReadingThe Reason You Should Never Marry A Photographer
Your average photographer (and we will mention no names here) has two projects at the start of 2016:- 1. Decorate and Completely Furnish Your New Front Room 2. Decorate and Completely Furnish Her New Studio Almost 12 months later (ie the week before Christmas) despite having known for some considerable time that she…
Continue ReadingThe Bringtons Remember
Six weeks ago I was very touched to be asked if I would cover the Remembrance weekend for my local village. Now – you have to understand that ‘my local village’, tucked away to the west of Northampton and lying in the shadow of Althorp House, is not exactly huge. The parish comprises…
Continue ReadingThe Farm Tog Blog – Spring Turnout
So spring is nearly springing here on the farm. And the Farm Tog has been helping the boys turn out the cows who are wintered inside in the warm and the dry. And when you’ve spent the whole winter inside can there really be anything nicer than getting out in the fresh air. And…
Continue ReadingDo You Believe In Magic (An Aunties Tale – Part II)
(For the story behind this post go to An Aunties Tale) Do you believe in magic?? Do you believe that you can tell your friends, colleagues, neighbours that you are thinking of holding a charity auction for Birmingham Childrens Hospital and they will get behind you 110%? Do you believe that, on a…
Continue ReadingLest We Forget
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be on a mentoring day with a photographer whose work I love and admire. One of the other delegates was a girl new to the world of photography…. a girl who had cut her teeth in the world of fashion. She was amazed! Coming from such…
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