Mia Matthews

Gary brought his daughter Mia to me on a recommendation from another client. She was bubbly and friendly and we got some great images. Here's a little taster!

As always, feel free to leave a comment!!

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.

Walking and wotnots!!

The backs getting better, good enough to start walking again. I'm not doing my normal route, I thought I'd start gentle, which is probably just as well as I still get twinges if I twist or bend in the wrong direction. But it's nice to be out early in the morning again!

I'm shooting another wedding this weekend so hopefully the back will fare better than it has of late.

In the meantime, I've finally managed to get a photograph of my son, Justin. It's only taken me about 5 months, but at least I've done it now. And more importantly, he likes it!!

Here's a couple from the session.

As always, any comments are welcome.

Joseph

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

Any comments are always welcome.

It's a family thing!!

Pete and his family have been trying to get into the studio for months now. He'd recently had the dreaded school photo of his daughter, but it was a typical school photo!!
Eventually, we managed to get him and his family into the studio, (not an easy feat!!) Here are a couple of images just as a taster!

It's a birthday

I recently completed a portrait session for Gary, co owner of Counter Act Systems. (If ever you have a problem with your system, or backup issues, or indeed, anything computer related, Gary is your man!!) It was his twins birthday coming up and he thought about a small banner for their party.
As with kids, we couldn't do the twins without juat a little piccy for the smallest one!! 3 girls...he'll suffer for that when they're older!!

Comments welcome as always!

Not so young any more!

It's funny how, as parents, you go through life, keeping house, looking after your kids, and all that sort of thing.
My eldest, Brandon, (Well, of those still at home!), is just going through his exams, and my second eldest, Lauren, is just preparing for her work experience. But still they're just kids.
Then one day when you look at them you think that, well, maybe they arn't so small after all!!
I think Mum has mixed feelings about it. It's nice that they're finding themselves in that big wide world, but then she'll have no-one to "mumsy" over, especially when Justin reaches that moment in time too.
We won't know what to do with ourselves!!

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!

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?

They grow so fast!!!

So there you are, a proud parent, this little bundle of joy just popped into the world, all lungs blazing, and you don't know what's hit you. But you get used to it, and slowly your life becomes easier. And as your kids grow into their own little person, sometimes the fact that they're your kids blinds you to the change that's taking place right in front of you.
Then it dawns on you that your little gems may not be so little after all!!!