Newborn Baby Photoshoot - Video

For those of you that follow me on Twitter or are a Fan on Facebook, you'll remember that I got really excited about a newborn baby shoot that I did recently!

Here is a short video to show off the adorable Gabriella, and I will do a proper blog post with my favourite images soon.

Lifestyle Family Shoot with Finley & Isabel

I had the great priviledge of being asked to photograph the Page Family a few weeks ago.

I went to see them back in January when little Finley was only about 5 weeks old and we scheduled in this session for early March. They had photographs done of Isabel when she was 6 weeks old and had bought a lovely acrylic multi-frame that is now the focal point of their lounge. They wanted to know if it would be possible to replace some of the images of Isabel in the frame, with ones of Finley. They also wanted some nice ones of the family and each little one individually. We discussed albums and other choices and I drove away really looking forward to their shoot in the not too distant future.

Fast forward 6 weeks, and finally it was the day of the shoot. We had a lot of fun playing inside, running outside, kicking the football and generally being silly ;-). We watered the bulbs, played hide and seek and explored down the side of the garden shed. All in all I think we had lots of giggles.

I will be showcasing a couple of the page layouts from the album in the next week or two, as I've just got too many favourite images to show them all here!

Here are a few of my favourite images from the day...

Guillaume & Family - Lifestyle Shoot

This is a post that has been loooong overdue, and I have got no excuse apart from the fact that life took over after Christmas...

So at the back end of November I was contacted by Guillaume's Mum to find out about doing a family shoot with the adorable Guillaume and his bigger sister Claire and brother Mathieu. I was absolutely delighted but also at the same time a little nervous ;-). I have met other French families abroad and know that they are very good at speaking mostly french at home, and although it is high on my list of things that I want to learn, my french doesn't really get me any further than ordering a hot chocolate in a cafe ;-).

We had a couple of false starts due to the snow and flooding that occurred before Xmas, and the fact that Mum works in the insurance industry and was called away to go and see to clients.

When we eventually managed to get together, all my nerves proved to be for nothing as the older children where fantastic with helping me communicate with Guillaume if he didn't understand what I wanted.

Between us G and I managed to have long conversations about animals and the noises they make, and I even managed to learn a couple of new words.

We did a series of portraits around the house before we headed out to go for a walk next to the river in Maidenhead. Unfortunately Bolter's Lock Island was still deemed to be unsafe due to the fast moving river and before mentioned flooding.

We did have fun feeding the (fast moving) ducks and geese on the river and I adapted a couple of precarious angles to capture some of the images through the railings... All in a days work ;-)

Here are a couple of my favourites from the day...