Tina and her family were the lucky winners, but it’s only recently that we have been able to get together, and we picked a fantastic sunny Sunday afternoon for their portraits!

They chose a location which is new for me, a lovely walk which starts at Debden Church and goes through the fields over a small lake and along the way contains lots of lovely locations for some fun portraits. It was so lovely and as it’s close to home it will be a great new walk for me to take Lily over the summer.

Here are some of my favourites from their session:

These two just love being in front of the camera, here’s a little series of them both that needed no direction from me  for them to ‘work it’!

If you would like a fun portrait session at a place that means something to you, get in touch.

We were capturing images for the forth coming Weddington Boots interview in it’s a Perfect Wedding Magazine (See April’s Edition). We got to play out in the mud, with a wedding dress and a horse!!

Anyway here is a sneak peek of our session:

This little beauty is not a wedding album but a stunning album of Ellen, Peter and Charlotte’s lifestyle portrait session. It’s always heart warming when clients want to do something special with their images and having a bespoke album created to record these special moments is super cool. It means instead of one or two images in frames or on the wall, you can have more and not only that, but they aren’t languishing on a hard drive rarely seeing the light of day. 

There is something really special about having an album that you can take anywhere and share with friends and family, curl up on the sofa looking at time and time again, or displaying proudly on your coffee table.  

Here it is in all it’s super cool glory:

These soft kiss albums have softer less rigid pages than the traditional kiss albums, but as you can see the pages are still beautiful made for turning.
 

 

Want to see inside? Here is a slide-show of their album so you can have a peek too:

If you would like to have an album of a special occassion or event please get in touch.

Unfortunately she used most of smiles when I arrived, instead of saving them for the camera. Ellen thinks probably because both her and Peter speak to Charlotte in Dutch and I came in speaking english and sounding very different.

A model in the making Charlotte has the ability to look very hard at the camera with a serious face.

Ellen and Peter wanted me to capture some natural shots of the 3 of them at home and to record Charlotte as she was then. She has already changed so much.

Big lovers of black and white images we did a mix in this session, here are the black and white images.

And now some beautiful colour images:

If you would like some natural images of your little one growing up please get in touch.

It was such a nice day with a really relaxed atmosphere, lots of laughter and good old girly chat, not to mention chocolate biscuits!

We’re doing it all again on the 21 November, so if you are interested in having some ‘you’ time before the Christmas chaos click here to book your place and recieve special discounted rates.

Here are some images from the day:

We had a couple of little visitors too:

Portrait Day

Using the best products on the market from Bobbi Brown, Mac, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dermalogica and more, Suzie will apply your make up in a relaxed atmosphere.  Take advantage of this great opportunity to have your make-up professionally applied, enhancing your natural beauty and receive some beautiful images.

Once your make up has been applied, I will take some contemporary, relaxed portriats to capture the moment and will  put you at ease to capture you beautifully.  

After the portrait day, you will receive a CD of your images to do whatever you like with them, the possibilities are endless!

Its a great way to boost your confidence and the perfect idea for family Christmas gifts.  You may want to indulge yourself and come alone, bring a friend, or you’re welcome to bring along children, partners for the portraits. 

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Time: Session time to be arranged after booking

Date: Saturday 24 October 2009

Price: Exclusively discounted – £25 booking/makeover fee

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 As a style coach and make up artist, Suzie runs a number of one to one services from selecting your wardrobe and applying your make up, to how to select the perfect wedding dress, hair and make up. Take a look at her website.

That’s exactly what happened when Jo got in touch with me. They were looking for a photographer who would come and spend an afternoon with them whilst they were playing, and help them create a photo collage of their boys and them as a family, that wasn’t forced or studio based. Ding! That is right up my street! So we planned an afternoon of fun and games, and I loved every minute of it.

Zach and Toby are fully of energy, fun and life. We had a fantastic afternoon climbing trees, bouncing on the trampoline, blowing bubbles and generally playing rough and tumble. I can honestly say I was sad to go home I had so much fun. (I’ve been invited back by the boys to play without my camera, and I think you’ll find me there one afternoon very soon).

Here are some glimpses at the fun we had.

Zach and his chin ups on the monkey rope

Zach showing his amazing confidence for climbing trees!

Catch those bubbles!

Let the trampoline fun begin!

Time for a bit of DIY.

More tree climbing in the park, in the secret den, sorry I can’t tell you where it is I am sworn to secrecy, but trust me it’s cool and very reminiscent of my childhood!

There is just so much cheekiness in this one I love it! Toby you never fail to make me smile!

 Climbing trees is a serious business!

Getting mum and dad on their own was a challenge, but we finally managed it.

Time to go home

The family are moving to Australia in September, Bryon family, I had a blast and I for one will miss you! Take care and have an amazing time down under. x

Olivia had a field day running around and exploring all that was on offer – and at one point took it upon herself to explore some very tall grass. If it wasn’t for her pretty pink top we could have lost sight of her in there.

Here are some of my favourites from the session:

Pat and Neil are both music teachers and are planning a small intimate wedding in August. Neil’s dad is the pastor at the church where they are getting married and he’ll be officiating the ceremony that day, so it’s going to be a really special ceremony.

Pat gave me free reign to be creative with the her photos, and present her with something different. Here are some of my favourites:

Choosing my favourites was really hard, but I just love these images in black and white.

We had so much fun, Gemma and Claire you were real super model stars!