Liam's Beach Chair, age Five

When I started Liam's Beach Chair series five years ago, we were living with my in-laws at their seaside home. It was easy to pick a good day, when the beach wasn't too crowded, to take him down and do his pictures. The following years required a bit more planning, but as he was in preschool and I wasn't working, it was easy enough to do.

This year, however, I had him in full time school and me working every lunch time. It was a lot trickier to get him down to take his fifth year pictures, especially seeing as we've had one of the loveliest summers in years so weekends meant the beaches were packed! But, finally, I got him down to the beach and we did his shoot.

My little man, aged five.

Holly is Seven (and a half)

A few weeks ago we were having our first spell of beautiful weather, so I seized the day and took Holly out for her latest pink dress session. It really has been working well waiting for nice weather, rather than trying to shoot them in the middle of winter when it's her birthday. After struggling at first - her with knowing how to pose and me with trying to get something different - I put her new cow-girl hat on and she came alive! She can come across as shy at first, but deep down she loves to show off and perform, and with this hat on she just started playing and having fun.





She's growing up so quickly, I can't believe she's going to be eight on her next birthday!

Holly at six.
Holly at five.
Holly at four is right at the bottom of the blog page, and I wasn't blogging yet when I did her first three!

In Daddy's Tie

This is the same adorable boy baby in the round basket a few posts down. He is getting cuter and cuter by the day, and always has a huge smile for me when I say hello. I'm lucky enough to live across the way from him, so I get a smile often ;-)


{Because the dad is important, I got his face in one shot too!}


I saw this shot on a fellow photographer's blog ages ago, and kept it in mind for when a boy baby came along that was the right age for trying it out on. Thanks Liz and Steve, he's perfect!

Baby Sweetness in a Red Stripy Hat

Isn't this little cherub the sweetest thing ever in his red stripy hat? The very first time I saw him on the school run wearing it, I knew, I simply had to take his pictures and he had to be wearing his hat! It's a special little hat to his mum too, as it was the very first thing he wore, even before they'd cleaned him up and dressed him, the nurses asked for a hat for him because his little head was cold. What a darling, he was so sweet to photograph, and slept all morning.


Dimples! Oh how I love dimples!



I love the little details of newborns, the fuzzy hair that still softens their ears and foreheads and shoulder blades, their wrinkly bodies, their flaky feet and little button noses. But best of all is their lovely smell when you cuddle them and get them ready for a shot. Thanks Lizzie, for letting me get my fix with your gorgeous new baby boy!

Babe in the Woods

This was probably my most expensive prop to date...when one of my photography forum friends found it at Hobby Lobby in the States, it quickly became the most sought after basket ever. After a mad scramble I think every Hobby Lobby sold out within a week, and these baskets were shipped out across the States, and in my case, across the world!

I've used it once before, but I must say, I love how natural and organic it looks in the great outdoors, as if there was nothing strange about finding an infant fast asleep amongst the grasses. Thanks for letting me try this Liz, it's going to be one of my all time favourite images ;-)

Look Who's Four!

Okay, so technically he's four and 3 months already, and I took these images back in July, but I have only just got around to processing them. The little guy and I went down to the beach while his big sister was at holiday club to do his fourth beach chair installment, and we had a lovely day. It was so much fun driving down with him, singing Mama Mia at full volume, chatting with just him, for an hour there and an hour back. The wind was howling something terrible, and in fact my very last frame shows him rubbing his eye - which quickly went bright red and necessitated a hasty retreat to Grandpa's house.

I loved these jeans on him, and I do believe he should wear navy tops as much as possible - doesn't he look gorgeous? Sadly, he's growing so fast there's no way they'll fit him for much longer, so it's nice to know I've got him on camera wearing them ;-)

The Magic of Twins

I had the honour of photographing these two beautiful baby girls a few weeks ago. They were such little angels, sleeping like I've never had a baby sleep for me before, squishy and bendy just the way they were when they were born ten days earlier, perfect for taking photos!


Little miss f. even let me get 'the pose' which in baby photography circles means the impossible position of the baby sleeping with it's head in it's arms. This is the first time I've managed it and I've tried three times before.



I did something a little different with miss h. so that the girls each have a unique image, as well as the ones of them together and the ones of them mirroring each other.





Thank you Calvin and Sarah for letting me into your home, to catch a glimpse of the magical, albeit hectic, world of twins.