Birthdays are always special, but for Eléonore her 2nd birthday marked the end of a sad and difficult year for both her and her mother Sarah. Eléonore’s father, Lodewijk, tragically lost his life in a cycling accident last year, just days after Eléonore’s1st birthday. When Sarah asked me to help her mark this special birthday […]

This is the last of 3 blogs following on from my recent trip to Aspire Photography Training in Cumbria – so keep scrolling down for the other installments! My last day with Aspire was a course with Lisa Aldersley to photograph women. We had two models – the bubbly Emily and the more rather camera-shy Andrea. It’s not easy […]

The second part of my training with Aspire was all about weddings. With the enthusiastic and inspiring  Lisa Aldersley, we were taken through the steps of a pre-wedding shoot and then a wedding itself. With wonderful models as well as vintage styling and make-up to match we were very spoilt! Thank you to the models […]

Three blog entries in one go is unusual for me ! However having just spent a few days with the lovely people at Aspire Photography Training in Cumbria I’ve been busy! On my first day there we photographed bumps and babies with Kate Hopewell-Smith, whose work I love – so it was a real pleasure […]

This family is becoming well practised at having their portrait taken! This time the shoot was with the other set of grandparents, over from Portugal for a couple of weeks. I started off by testing my new prime lens on Gil who absolutely wanted to be photographed in his “mega cool” shirt! He then turned […]

May is Communion time and so I was delighted to be asked to photograph my young friend here for exactly that purpose. The idea was to produce something posed, but natural and to move away from the more formal studio portraits used here for communions. With big brother and their lovely little dog in tow […]

This is the 4th year running that I have photographed Arthur. This year we started off with a walk/ cycle on a lovely sunny, if not bitterly cold, afternoon. Once home and warmed up we followed this with a few portaits of Pirate Arthur – serious business being a pirate.  Watch out Johnny Depp !

A perfect opportunity to do a portrait session with Stefania and Konstantina’s grandparents who were over from Athens for the Xmas and New Year holidays. Despite not being able to get out in the cold, we set up a mini studio in the living room and one of the bedrooms and set about capturing all […]