Before baby was born: an in-home maternity photoshoot

Are you pregnant? Is a baby growing in your belly? Pause a while, take a deep breath, inhale this moment and capture it in your mind. What is life like right now? What do you feel right now? In this moment. What would you like to remember? Step forward into a future...

Memories. They’re timeless.

Time is not something we can buy. Time is a gift. The passing of time is most noticeable in nature's cycles and seasons and children growing up. There is always enough time. Spend it wisely. Photograph the everyday as well as the important moments. One day you'll look...

Life is amazing

Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living...

To be comforted by photographs

I believe our photographs belong in the real world; on walls, in frames and in albums. We want to see them and have them easily accessible. Every day. I'm curious about the generations who follow me. What will they want? I have boxes of old sepia and black and white...

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Family life with a newborn and all the cosyness of home

Family life with a newborn and all the cosyness of home

Thinking of treating your family to a lifetime of precious memories? Are you pregnant and thinking of booking a newborn photoshoot? I arranged for my family to have a photoshoot a couple of weeks after the birth of our second baby. I regret not doing the same with our...

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Photographs are the keys to unlocking our memories

Photographs are the keys to unlocking our memories

I asked my 9 year old daughter what her earliest memory was. She remembers playing with her cousins in England when her hair was short (that would be around 4 and a half years ago when she was 5 years old). She remembers because of the photos and videos she's seen....

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Welcome baby Bodhi – Juliana Kinderziekenhuis Den Haag

Welcome baby Bodhi – Juliana Kinderziekenhuis Den Haag

Sweet Bodhi was born at 30 weeks in the Westeinde Ziekenhuis in Den Haag, weighing only 1370g. He was transferred to the LUMC in Leiden before arriving back in Den Haag to the Juliana Ziekenhuis where his Earlybirds photoshoot took place. He was exactly 3 weeks old...

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Impressions from May and June 2021 : a personal project

Impressions from May and June 2021 : a personal project

Nature inspires me constantly and I’m often pausing to take it all in or to capture what I see in a photo. I usually only have my phone camera with me on my morning walks so this round of Impressions is a blend of DSLR and iPhone photos. I love witnessing the seasons...

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