Special Occasion Portraits: a personal project for a special birthday

Special Occasion Portraits: a personal project for a special birthday

Those of you who follow me on social media will know that there’s been a big personal event in my life recently: yip, my boy Spencer turned eighteen. Eighteen. I can scarcely believe it.

Life events always send my rifling through the photo albums – what can I say? I’ve always loved reminiscing with photographs in hand, even before I became a photographer – and I came across this gorgeous image of my little man when he was aged just four or so. I’ve always loved this photo of my Spencer. He’s dressed as one of his favourite superheroes of the time and I can remember that costume like it was only yesterday. How can it be that this boy is now a man?

The Surprising Benefits of Displaying Professional Family Portraits on your Walls

The Surprising Benefits of Displaying Professional Family Portraits on your Walls

You’d think that the benefits of having gorgeous professional family portraits hanging on your walls would be obvious. And indeed, many of them are.

We’ve written persuasively about the reasons to have family photograph taken before. Professional family portraits show everyone at their best and mark special moments in your family’s history – births, birthdays (significant and less significant), anniversaries, moving ‘up’ schools and more. A photoshoot is a fantastic way to spend time together as a family and our special themed photoshoots, from whimsical newborn shoots to fine art fairyland portraits, are great fun for all involved.