It began inauspiciously. The morning of Katy and Phil’s shoot saw a proper English rain shower. We talked about whether to postpone, but finding a new date was going to be hard. Yr.no my favourite weather prediction service, promised clear skies from 3pm and sure enough at exactly the moment we arrived at Virginia Waters, the […]
Seeing ThingsHave you ever been blindly in love? So blind that you only saw your lover’s best side? An idealised version of themselves that totally missed all their faults.Japanese PotteryI’ve been reading ‘How to be a free range human’ by Marianne Cantwell and loving it. She writes about how to create the career that you […]
There’s something about creating a family shoot. For me it’s about knowing that I’m capturing a magical time in a family’s life and helping them to remember the wonder of it all (which gets lost so easily in the drudge of daily life). I like to think that the photos on the wall will inspire […]
The lovely Maggie and her adorable Michael celebrated their engagement in Paris, along with some bunny friends of theirs. I love these two because they embrace everything so whole heartedly. Maggie is a fashion addict so she was in her element in the chic Marais, where we spent the morning. And being from Hong Kong […]
Alexandra and Yaser met yesterday for their First Look. For them it was a chance to have a formal photoshoot in wedding attire to send to relatives far afield, who want them to have a traditional wedding. They will then have a funky sixties wedding next week! Alexandra loves very glamorous, vintage black and white […]
Some say it is the most romantic garden in the world. The strange, lost, paradisical garden of Ninfa. Once a Medieval village that was deserted and has remained a ruin so well preserved that it gives a perfect idea of how a Medieval Italian village would have been. Since then it has been transformed into […]
Everyone is innately beautiful. Nature cannot be otherwise; beauty is at the heart of our world. A wise philosopher said that ‘Nature is evidence of the presence of the Divine.’ And just as God is so beautiful, so nature is beautiful without even trying. It is only when we try to go against our natural […]
Leo, my 8 year old and I had a very profound conversation the other day. We were discussing love and religion, and how they are not always linked. One can be religious, (though not in the truest sense of the word) without being loving, and loving without being religious. The important thing, we decided, is […]
This was the most utterly romantic engagement shoot I think I have ever had the privilege of being part of. Maggie and Michael met me in Paris, all the way from Hong Kong to commemorate their engagement. We spent a fabulous day and night around Paris, commemorating the magical, transitory state of being engaged. Maggie […]
All respect to Times motor racing correspondent Kevin Eason and his wife as of today, for their 60 hour marathon home in time to get married. I wish I’d been there to take the wedding pictures, (although I imagine it was hard work editing out all the bags under the groom’s eyes after 46 hours […]