{Lifestyle} Jessica & Harry at Cliveden

I love my job, and this shoot was one of those shoots that just brings it all home to me again.

I had the pleasure to photograph Jessica, Harry, Wendy and Stuart at Cliveden a few weeks ago, and we had an absolute blast! Brilliant weather, fantastic kids, good company and of course ICE CREAM!

Wendy and I have been discussing this shoot for a Very Long Time (over a year I think), but due to circumstances were only able to do it recently.
We went to Cliveden for the afternoon and explored everything that this fabulous venue has to offer. We wandered through the gardens and even played in the new woodland playground.

I was slightly confused when Stuart asked me how fast my camera was... but he soon explaned by saying " fast enough to capture flying children?" So I replied, let's have a go and see!"
Apparently one of Harry's favourite pastimes is to be thrown into the air before coming safely down to Daddy again, and he could do this all day. I positioned myself behind Stuart and left enough space above his head to make sure I captured all the action. Good thing really, because "Wow - that boy can fly!"
(The results are at the bottom of this post. Have a look.)

I want to thank Wendy and her family for a fantastic day out and I hope they love the photos as much as I do!

And without further ado...















The two images below are my ABSOLUTE favourites from the day!! They make me laugh out load everytime I see them.
What do you think? Leave me a comment!



{Lifestyle Photography Oxfordshire}

{Bump} The Adventurous Claire

A few weeks ago I photographed a very heavily pregnant Claire with just over a week to go before DUE-day. She was very relaxed and laid back and that was probably due to the fact that she's done it all before...

She has had 3 boys already (2 being twins) and guess what, the bump is another boy. I take my hat off to her, as I don't know how she does it. I only have one boy (and a girl) and he keeps me on my toes all the time.

I wanted to experiment with a couple of new ideas, so when I met Claire at a local toddler group I thought this was the perfect opportunity! I approached her and asked if she would consider having some maternity images done (and letting me experiment) in exchange for some photos. She jumped at the chance.

I think with Bump photos women tend to be divided into two camps:

"YES, I would quite like that" and they have maybe never thought about it

or "ABSOLUTELY NOT, I don't want a camera anywhere near me when I look like THIS!"

In both cases the reaction is very understandable. With my first pregnancy I loved being pregnant and I had a breeze. With my second (and last) he threw everything in the book at me and if somebody floated the idea of photos, I would have laughed at them. ;-)

Luckily Claire wanted some and here are just a couple from the day
(the rest were a bit too intimate to fit comfortably on this blog).

So what do you think? Would you, or did you have some done? Leave a comment and let me know...







This is my absolute favourite image from the day!! ;-)



{ Maternity and Baby Photographer Evesham }