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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summer fun at the beach with a family of 6

summer fun at the beach with a family of 6

Summer has arrived and I have a fabulously summery sneak peek for you, and an extended sneak peek at that. Earlier this month I spent a wonderful morning at Kijkduin Beach with the M. Family. Their 4 children were adorable, playing in the sand, building sandcastles...

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CRAVE Amsterdam: Moise

CRAVE Amsterdam: Moise

"What is Moise?" I hear you ask... it's a fabulously stylish clothing store in Haarlem, and yes, you will definitely want to go and visit! When I walked in the door, the ambience was so welcoming, so inviting... Just a couple of metres in front of the doorway was a...

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a wedding sneak peek for Charlotte and Remco

a wedding sneak peek for Charlotte and Remco

It was raining in The Hague and as I packed my camera gear into the car I quietly whispered "please, please, stop raining, pleeeeeeeease!" - after days of blue skies and sunshine, I couldn't believe it was raining! But, it seemed the weather gods were listening.. by...

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CRAVE Amsterdam: Flavourites

CRAVE Amsterdam: Flavourites

Have you ever visited a website, and then unexpectedly lost yourself online for.. well, a long time?! That's exactly what happened to me when I visited www.flavourites.nl Flavourites (de leukste webshops!) will be featured in the upcoming CRAVEguide (a unique and...

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sweet newborn baby boy

sweet newborn baby boy

Did you see the teaser on the Tigs Creations Facebook Page yesterday? Here's the official sneak peek! For most of our session this sweet baby boy quietly watched the world go by, though we did eventually manage to capture some beautiful sleeping images too, he was...

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