Busy Christmas Week ..

We hope you've had a fantastic Christmas week and managing now to move after the turkey! We had a busy week with delivering Christmas images/albums to customers and meeting brides/grooms wishing to book their wedding photography with us for next year.

We made time to have lots of fun with our two little ones, actually lots of time with the 5am start on Christmas Day! Christmas Eve as always we visited Twycross Zoo (so much more fun than last minute shopping). Then on Boxing Day we went back to Sherwood Forest by popular demand of our daughter. Here's some of my favourite images from our trips.




The quickest way to the Major Oak ....




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Around Nottingham University

Today we had a great morning with Katie who's studying at Nottingham University. She also models along with her studies and amazingly speaks seven different languages! The campus was quiet for the Christmas holidays but the rain did'nt want to hold off. Not put off by this we armed ourselves with brollies and had some fun!

Here's a few of Rebecca's images, slideshow of all our images to follow soon.








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Baby slideshow

Here's more images of 'baby Hendy' from last week - bet he's grown heaps already!




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A Mother's Love .....

I spent a lovely morning this week with the 'Hendy Family'. As I walked into their lounge and saw their contented new addition to the family looking up at me from his baby rocker, I knew it was going to be great shoot. At only 3 weeks old the little man behaved fantastically and was a true star for the camera.

One of my favourite images from the shoot is this one, it's because as a mother myself it trigger's the deep thought's of love, protection and total devotion. Thanks again for a great morning!



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Training and Grendon Hall

On Saturday Rebecca was at Grendon Hall in Northamptonshire providing a workshop for a group of gifted & talented 12-16 year old students on the use of artificial light to compliment their portrait photography.

We had fun using equipment in a studio based environment and then used the backdrop of the beautiful hall and it's wonderful grounds. I had a brilliant time and it was fantastic to see the children sample with lighting and see how it impacted upon their images. There were certainly some potentially great photographers among them and a few who enjoyed the modelling too!



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Fantastic news, we win GOLD!

This week we have found out that two of Rebecca's images have been awarded Gold by the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP). This is wonderful news that our work has been recognised by the professional bodies and is a just another boost for us to continue to take fantastic images. All the Gold award winners now go forward to be judged in London at the end of January for the International Photograph of the Year Awards.

Here are the award winning images in the category of Traditional Portrait and Traditional Wedding image:





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The close of Autumn

Autumn has to be my favourite season, not only the colours but the sense of euphoria as you walk through the fallen leaves and then return home for a cosy coffee with a beautiful glow to your face. Now as the bustle and lights of Christmas are upon us that will just be something for now we can look back on - here's one of my favourite memories of Autumn 2008!

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