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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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…
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 :- …
Continue ReadingOn the 23rd March the UK locked down in an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19. Almost one month later – on the 22nd April – we are STILL locked down. And today is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Here’s a random thought from the Mad Tog of Haddon ; – what if those…
Continue ReadingLast night I was chatting with another newborn photographer and she sent me a little video link from ANOTHER newborn photographers Facebook page (Yes – there are a lot of us about!) It was a little ‘Behind the Scenes’ clip showing a newborn in the studio being photographed. The baby was in what we call …
Continue ReadingI didn’t send you a Christmas Card. Because all of this that I want to say to you wouldn’t fit in a Christmas Card…… I wanted to tell you how special it is to be a photographer. YOUR photographer. You don’t just ‘give me a job’ and expect me to turn up with a camera……it…
Continue ReadingThis was just too good an opportunity to miss! All the lads on the farm – now suddenly calling themselves Team Burbage – running in the Ram Run at Stoneleigh Park! Cameras thrown in the back of the car and off to offer some light heckling…..sorry…. support. It has to be said that there was…
Continue Reading“WHEN DID YOU STOP THINKING YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL?” Six weeks ago I asked that question on Social Media. It was a ‘just for fun’ questionnaire – not a competition. No prizes. The answers were anonymous. All I asked was that you ticked a box to let me know the age bracket that you fell into…
Continue ReadingThe first time I met Team Dolling they weren’t quite yet Team Dolling! Victoria was a bridesmaid at her best friends wedding and I was the photographer. Boyfriend Tom was a guest and their first baby, the adorable, sassy and spirited Nora-Rae was making her presence known but still to make an appearance on…
Continue ReadingWhat 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…
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