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Family photo session

May 25, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Now the summer is nearly here and we're all enjoying being outside a lot more it's a great time to think about having a family photo session. My favourite type of session is to take a few pictures around your house, inside and out in the garden - you don't need much space or beautiful surroundings to get good pictures; I look for good light. Then I like to go for a little walk and again, the location doesn't need to be really beautiful as there are always lovely little spots we can find. Some tree shade is a real asset.

Here are a few pictures from a March family photo session I did in Malmesbury, long before the trees had leaves on them when the daffodils were still in full bloom.

Brother and sister sitting on chairs Brother and sisterThis is MY chair I often bring a pot of bubbles along for photo sessions with young children - I love bubbles too! But usually I would definitely NOT give the pot to a child this young as it's a sure fire way of emptying the pot of all its bubble mixture!

For more information about a family photo session with me please go to the portrait section of my website or email or phone me.

The advantages of having a second shooter

May 18, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Last weekend we photographed a wedding in the lovely May sunshine in Dorset. EVERYTHING was beautiful! I'm sharing a couple of pairs of pictures with you today that really show the benefit of having a second shooter to capture a different angle. My husband, Simon, helps me on weekend weddings, he drops me off with the women preparing for the big day while he goes off and photographs the groom and men getting ready. He then stands at the head of the church, or ceremony room, and photographs emotions that I have no idea about, standing at the end of the church where I'm able to take in the full view of the church and the proceedings. This is what I mean:

Just married couple at altar

Church wedding photographyJust married

Another example is the confetti throwing. This time, whilst I did my usual trick of walking backwards down the confetti tunnel trying my best not to crash in to guests, Simon went down the outside and because he is so tall, he managed to take pictures over the heads of most of the guests.

A confetti shotPetals everywhere!

I think I prefer Simon's shots - what do you think?

Portrait training at Lacock Photography

March 21, 2016 • 1 Comment

Lovely Leila modelled for us again yesterday at Lacock Photography. After a morning spent in the classroom going over the theory of taking great portrait pictures we ventured out around the village of Lacock for some photography practice with Leila. It's such a good way to try different things out and experiment and, from what I could see, the students all got some lovely images.

Here are a few of the pictures I grabbed:

Portrait courses Wiltshire Portrait modelling portrait model in Lacock bus shelter Model full length Lacock Photography Photography training course Lacock Outdoor photography modelling Photography course

Some very different images, and I really don't know which is my favourite!

Newborn baby photography

March 19, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Lovely little Theo was only a couple of weeks old when I went over to his house to photograph him recently. It's such a totally different style of photography than most of my other photography; it can take up to 4 hours to make sure the baby is really asleep to get those lovely naked, peaceful pictures that we strive for. We got a lovely selection with Theo, who was beautifully behaved and gorgeous.

Newborn baby photo newborn with cute hat Newborn baby awake Naked newborn baby Newborn baby hand detail

Romantic weddings

February 13, 2016 • 1 Comment

With Valentine's day coming up I was thinking about the most romantic weddings we've photographed and one of them has got to be this one.

Richard and Natasha met around 10 years previously when he used to travel to Russia for business and they finally decided that once Natasha retired they would get married and she would move to the UK. No guests were invited to their wedding as there were complications with family so I took Lexy along as my assistant so that she and I could be witnesses at the register office. Richard had sneaked a look in the wardrobe and seen the colour of Natasha's outfit before the wedding and ordered a bouquet that matched perfectly and was a surprise to her. We were only photographing for a couple of hours and so I decided that we would take a tour of Devizes and get some pictures in the best parts of town (there was no reception). As it was February the weather was cold and it was also very overcast on this day - not the best weather for outside wedding photography! But I brought a flash along so we could get some stronger lighting which I used in a few situations. Richard had made a "wedding breakfast" of smoked salmon sandwiches, a Jamaica ginger cake and some chocolate and he also brought a bottle of champagne along and 4 crystal glasses (bought from Oxfam as all the furniture was in storage) so that Lexy and I could join in their wedding breakfast, which we enjoyed sitting outside before the photography began.

The whole wedding was so simple but so lovely! And we got some beautiful pictures for Richard and Natasha to look back on.