Luxury London and Suffolk Wedding Photography: Queensberry parent and digital copy albums

Rain doesn’t usually call off family photography or children’s portraiture sessions for me – whether I am in Kensington or Chiswick in Central London,further out in Putney, Wimbledon or Richmond, in the countryside in and around suffolk or on the coast at Aldeburgh or Southwold, or indeed out in the home counties such as Buckinghamshire, [...]

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Things that are vanishing: capturing your children in photographs before they grow up

Henri Cartier-Bresson said: ‘Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again.’ Nothing could be more true than how we feel about our children and their childhood. In this post I’ve included some pictures I’ve taken of my [...]

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Photographing children: the decisive moment in the ordinary and everyday

When I’m photographing children, I always allow lots  of time so that I can maximise time observing them doing things that are natural to them and capture them within that. With younger children I mix it up -  positively joining in with their play and integrating into their activities as well as standing right back [...]

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Wall products for Family and Wedding clients: Canvas and MDF block Wrap

For today’s post I’m showcasing images of 2 wrap-style finished wall products in my range, and a variation on the mdf with a bevel edge.  All three products allow the image itself to do all the talking as essentially there is no frame. This results in a really simple but strong statement and because of [...]

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Family and baby portrait photography in Chiswick, West London W4: Twins!

As a London-based baby, children and family photographer, I regularly visit locations in West London and I was back in Chiswick in the London borough of Hounslow, W4 last week to photograph two very happy twin baby brothers. Apart from actually being twins, the two little chaps are real individuals in their own right both [...]

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Suffolk donkeys

All winter I have been hoping to photograph donkeys in the frost, and whenever I am in Suffolk setting my alarm before light, struggling out of bed just to check if we have any, and hoping in particular for that very magical hoar frost. But we haven’t had much frost this year, and now spring [...]

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