Sam Bell

It's been quite a busy time with trying to get the weddings off to the lab, (All done now!!!), and the framing I've got to finish off. I started my Christmas promotion as well and that's looking promising, but adding to the workload. But at least it's working for me. If I could get just a day with no telephones I could make a huge dent in the work. At least half the calls are marketing/ad companies, and they're so rude that it puts you off your stride. One day I'll get an ad call that'll be useful to me.

Anyway, as a follow-on from the shoot with Sam and little Lexi a week or so ago. She's grown loads since the last time I photographed her!

This is a shot of Sam from the same session. She didn't expect to be on any of the photographs so it was a bit of a shock for her!!

As always, any comments are welcome.

Another day in the studio

It's been a week since my last post. I've been trying to get up to date on the last couple of weddings before the Christmas rush starts, as well as trying to complete the portraits and framing. I'm almost there now, so I'll be able to get some work done on my other little project of putting together some art images for the shop that wants to put them on sale.

Here are a couple of images from just one of todays shoots.

As always, any comments are always welcome.

Joseph

A quick slideshow of unedited images of Joseph's first cherubs session.

Any comments are always welcome.

Another day another doller!!

It's a new dawn of a new day, the studio is ready, I'm ready, it's another day of babies!!

Clickity click, loving it!!

Another day over!!

I love photographing children!

There's a innocent purity about them that you don't get with adults, (We have too many hang-ups!) It's only when we adults start to educate them that they themselves evolve in their own way, and the purity evaporates.

I still marvel at the way some parents demand that their babies perform for the camera on the spot so that they don't feel embarressed by them. But you know, as a parent myself, your kids have a way of choosing just the right time to let out the very thing you want to keep hidden!!

It's been a long day, and I'm shattered. But I'm happy in my work!

What's on today!!

Royce is looking forward to a day of shooting babies! The studios ready, cameras primed, and I'm raring to go!!
I wonder how I'll feel tonight when the last little cherub has left!!

From babysitter to mother!!

Isn't it funny how life goes on? In 1997 I was a single parent with two young babies, and this young lady, Sarah, used to babysit for me. Now here she is, married, and with her own little boy, Jay, coming back to our studio for her baby photographs. (We do her older sister Becky's kids too!) It doesn't seem like 5 minutes ago that she was just a young schoolgirl taking her exams!

I wonder if I'll still be around to do her grandkids?