Are you stuck for ideas on how to pose your children outside for photographs? Not sure how to position them, or how to direct them? Now we know that children aren’t always the most co-operative of subjects (I’m going to write a whole other blog post with tips for how to keep them interested) but …
HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR KIDS: NO CHEESE, PLEASE!
You’re out in the park with your child. He’s playing happily, you’re enjoying quality time as a family, everyone is beaming and laughing and you are struck with the dazzling beauty of your child’s smile. So you reach for your camera (or your phone) you call him sweetly to get his attention, and… …that brilliant, …
5 ideas for baby’s first birthday
It’s almost your baby’s first birthday! Has it really almost been a year already? How is that even possible? Around ten or eleven months ago, you brought a brand new human being into your world. A new life that you created and waited 9 long months to meet. You gave birth, you brought your baby …
photography as a healing tool
Open the photo gallery on your phone and scroll down to the oldest image you have saved. Now think about the story behind it. What happened that day? Who’s on that photo? Where were you? If you think about it for a moment, you can probably remember everything about it. The noises around you, people, …
Thinking about a photo book for your baby?
My Top 5 Tips For The Perfect Photo Book My babies are getting pretty grown up now – they’re currently 11 and 13 – and they love to look back through my photo books and talk about the pictures they see in them. There’s a cupboard in my bedroom which is packed with albums (usually …
logan’s first birthday cake smash – the jungle cake smash!
First birthday coming up? Did somebody say… cake?! This time last year I was photographing Logan as a newborn – isn’t he scrummy? That pout! It barely seems possible but he is now 11 months old, walking like a pro, and he’s back for his first birthday cake smash. Currently he’s obsessed with lions and …
DIY baby photographs during lockdown
Right now, the world is a very different place to anything we’ve known before. Lots of things we have been looking forward to, or enjoying, have been taken away from us. Now most of those things can easily be postponed until the world feels a bit more normal, but baby photographs just aren’t one of …
WALKTHROUGH A NEWBORN SESSION: PART 2
Welcome back to my Walkthrough a Newborn Session! In Part One I talked you through arriving, settling and parent shots. Now we’ll move on to the longest part of the newborn session – where your baby is the centre of attention! The newborn pictures Once we’ve done family pictures, you can sit back on my …
5 secrets your newborn photographer won’t tell you
Ever wondered what goes on in the mind of your newborn photographer before the photo shoot? Some of these might surprise you! 1. We get nervous before every photo shoot It’s not because we don’t know what we’re doing, or because we think we’ll mess up (not once we’ve got a few years’ experience under ...
Baby photos: what could possibly go wrong?
Professional baby photos are beautiful. We’ve all seen those gorgeous images of babies and toddlers smiling and cuddling their siblings like angels. But for every session booked, there are probably ten of you who can’t stop thinking about all the things that could go wrong. It’s a lot of money, for a start, and we …
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