Sharing a little bit of summer with you!

White dress to match the daisies and beutiful evening sun...

Availability...

Edited ont the 5th of June to add - the only Saturday available for having a sesssion out of Bristol before I'm due is the 24th of July. Thank you to all of you who have contacted me! I have a few evenings left for the sessions in Bristol, so please contact me if you are interested in having one.

I had a look at my calendar and realised, I don't actually have that many Saturdays available till our second baby is born! So I thought I would post them here. That's all I have left - 12th of June, 10th and 24th of July. Then I have a wedding to shoot in the middle of August and I'm due at the end of August! I will still be able to shoot in the evenings of the week days in Bristol and the best light happens to be after 6-7 pm, so contact me if you are interested in a session.

My new website is now under constraction, I'm so excited to have everything new and shiny!

We were really enjoying the heat recently. It's raining again today but I'm hoping the summer will be nice!

Spring!

I have disappeared for a while again. I was trying to finish off all the editing from the latest sessions, and working on updating the website. Hopefully it will all be ready by the end of May!
As soon as it got warm, I hardly parted with my camera and as a result I have mountains of photos to go through. Plus we had our semi annual outing to the Westonbirt Arboretum which didn't help! It's this major even that I look forward to every autumn and spring and take a lot of photos. I always look around and note what trees are blossoming and which ones are about to blossom. I managed to go through some of the shots and wanted to share them with you!
I will start with the one that was harder one to get (although to be honest, my two year old is not the most cooperative model in the world, that's for sure, so all of the shots were hard to get!). But a family self portrait with a camera of a tripod and a timer - that's a challenge!

I have to explain the next two shots... Lucy decided she only wanted to sit in the pram or lay on the grass on her blanket so my fantastic husband came up with this game - they were looking for bunnies and Lucy was collecting little things like flowers and pine cones in her basket to feed the bunny. She is calling the bunny:

 

The red shoes.

So here comes the promised blog post about shoes :) We had an hour before the session last Saturday to buy Lucy new shoes, so we went to a shoe shop and tried to choose some shoes for Lucy. I mean Alex and I. We found some nice and practical shoes that we likes, the sales assistant kept going back anf forth bringing new shoes, kept putting them on Lucy. Lucy kept letting her do it and them would take them off and hold on to her old pair saying "Lucy", meaning, "Thanks, but no, thanks, I have shoes already". The only problem being that they were becoming too small and she needed the next size. We would have gotten the exact same shoes for her just to keep her happy, but the shop didn't have them in stock. We didn't want to buy her shoes she wouldn't want to wear. And most of the time she is such an angel  (as much as a 2 year old can be one :)) that if she puts up a fuss we try to listen. So, Alex held her up so she can see all the shoes they have and told her: "Pick any shoes you want and we will buy them for you". And she picked these:

The significance of what had happened is that it was the first time when she chose shoes herself. And frankly, we were not ready to have it at 2 years and 2 months. So it starts a new era for us.
It's not something that we would have chosen, but at least they are not pink :) So, the shoes are red, extremely shiny, and have cats on the soles:

And no doubt you will see them a lot on this blog, becase really, they are not just some brown shoes you can ignore :)
And of course the proud owner of the shiny shoes:

A little preview

I had a great day today - had a session with a very nice family and had fantastic time playing with my own family after it!
If you are up for a challenge - go and try to photograph a one year old :) They already walk so they can run away from you and too young to bribe :) But they are so much fun. The only way to work with them is to play with them their games. Little guy from today's session greeted me with a biggest smile, showing off all 4 of his teeth. He introduced a couple of games and gave me 2 seconds to get every shot I was trying to get. Very generous of him! :) Seriously, I just love my job. Kids bring so much joy, you can't watch them without a smile on your face.
Here is a little sneak peak :)

There is plenty more to come when the gallery is ready!

And the next post should be up pretty soon and it will be about ... shoes!!!