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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launching Images to Inspire Hope – let’s help Japan!

launching Images to Inspire Hope – let’s help Japan!

On 11 March 2011,  an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 hit Japan, and devastation through the tsunami followed. Along with fears of radiation; food, water and fuel are in short supply. The death toll has passed 10,000. More than 17,440 people are missing. Hundreds...

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Kenya: this is what happened today, we went to see lions…

Kenya: this is what happened today, we went to see lions…

It's one thing to select photos after a 2-week safari, it's quite another to review all the video footage. We've been home over a month and so far we've watched videos up to Day 7...and the following video, which is our video diary (a recap of our day), is unmissable!...

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our two boys: one curious, one sleepy :-)

our two boys: one curious, one sleepy :-)

ever curious... Freddy was wondering what the noise was as I gently scratched my nails on my camera... meanwhile, sleepy Eddy was not too pleased at being woken from his nap and refused to look at the camera... ;)

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so who else took a photo of last night’s supermoon?

so who else took a photo of last night’s supermoon?

Here's mine: and here's another moon photo I like (because of the clouds) which I took almost a year ago... (and no, before you ask, you can't compare the sizes because I used different lenses for each photo ;) Now if only we could see as many stars in the night sky...

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waking to the sound of lions roar

waking to the sound of lions roar

We've been home for just over a week and already missing the sights, smells and sounds of the African bush. There is little better than waking to the sound of lions roar, the grunting of hippos, and the giggle and whoop of hyenas, hence why we always choose to stay in...

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