One week in April, we escaped to blue skies, a trip with no emails, just my husband and I. Some Arabic was learnt, pronunciation attempted, some photos were taken and our pockets were emptied. We ate and we wandered, for a few days we stayed, we were still for a moment and these memories we made.
It’s taken me quite some time to pull this post together. I’ve had mixed emotions about sharing something so personal belonging to my clients, but they asked me to when they saw them and I feel like sharing something different today.
I had never really thought so much about photographing a birth until I was asked by my two beautiful friends. I was worried I would be in the way, that their memories would be of me and my camera and not of the birth of their first child and also selfishly, that it might put me off having my own children… I wasn’t, they aren’t and it didn’t.
I was the first person to ever take a photograph of this human being. Hello, Elijah.
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I know he can’t really see but at four minutes old, he looked straight at me.
Kristina, you have never been more beautiful than you were on 21st January at 7.09am. You know that I am in total awe of you both and that I’m so grateful to have been asked to be there with you, camera in hand. You are simply incredible, made of the most inspiring things and I love you very much.
I’m away this week for a couple of days, spending time with my ma and sister. It’s times like these that reaffirm just how special a family is.
Being a wedding photographer is an honor and a privilege, an invitation and a vote of confidence. Photographing a dear friend’s wedding is all of those things, plus the swelling of your heart, the shaking of your hands and the crying of your eyes.
I travelled all the way over to the other side of the world to photograph these two momentous events. First was the very intimate Byron Bay ceremony of five. It rained and it shone, she wore killer heels, he drove the Valiant and I witnessed the marriage of Melanie & her photographer husband, Duncan.
The middle of the year is always the best, bare legs with picnics on the heath for a rest. A trip to Tuscany to spend time with these two, as they wed at an altar with a beautiful view. Two more pretty weddings, so much light and good cheer and the sun setting late at this time of year. Twelve months more marriage tucked under our belt, we wrap presents, write cards to pen things that we’ve felt. Sometimes we party with our family and friends or travel to an island where the sea never ends. This year we did both and we found a new home, London bricks & mortar to call our very own. A jubiliant June it really has been, an excellent first half of my twenty fourteen.
Straight scan by UK Film Lab. They’re really very good.
I am always enamoured with nights like this one.
An evening at home with my husband, in our little London flat, sat outside under the heater on the terrace, listening to our neighbour’s winter concert, with a bottle of Oyster Bay. Feeling alive and truly grateful for life and love, forever surprised at how sweet London can be.
It’s been a phenomenal start to the year. I am already overwhelmed by what’s in store, but overwhelmed in the best way possible.
i am also trying to specialize in natural light photography. i love your work! any suggestions?
Thank you! I am sure there are others much more experienced than myself out there, but I'd recommend investing in some fast lenses and learning how to use your available ambient light too. I think it's important to have your own style, so learn what you like and do it well.
Thanks! Oh WOW! I love the tones on these and how quaint…
Not quite the NYC backdrop I have on my way to the store. I really love your work; so glad I found your blog across the seas.
Hampstead looks absolutely beautiful in this light. I can almost smell the crepes dripping with lemon juice and sugar! [www.hampsteadcreperie.com]
Your photos are truly beautiful, the way you have made the colours stand out so well is genius. Your experience in photography is really visible in your shots. The photos of food really makes me want to eat them, they look delicious. Very impressive website.
What beautiful photos. Every single one of them. I felt as if I was there walking the lovely streets of Hampstead, feeling the warm rays of winter sunshine on my cheeks, as if I could smell the cupcakes and almost could feel the heat a lovely cup of tea in my hands. And the light, oh my, you are so good. Do you give lessons by any chance?
Serena, che belle cose a dire!
Perhaps you should start a blog for all of us left behind in England? Somehow, I don't think you'll be needing lessons at all in Italy, dove tutto é bello.
HEAVENLY!!!!!!
cindy kijewska – redding, ct usa