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 at home with a new baby – Welcome, Robin!

Family life at home with a new baby – Welcome, Robin!

Sharing space with newborn babies, inhaling all the magic they bring into this world, all the wonder, all the love. If I could create a blanket of it and wrap myself up in it you know I totally would! Welcome, Robin! Creating memories for you and your family has been...

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Working safely during Covid-19

Working safely during Covid-19

Understandably, the current situation with Covid-19 brings some caution when booking your photo session and I would like to reassure you that I’m taking extra precautions in order to work safely and to prevent or control the spread of infection. Health and safety is...

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Make Each Moment Count

Make Each Moment Count

M A R C H  2 6   "A picture isn't taken in a moment," stated the brochure for the Cottonwood, Colorado, hotel. "It's taken of a moment."   It took me a long time to learn that important truth. I spent years trying to get my life together and keep it...

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Welcome baby Tymon – Juliana Kinderziekenhuis Den Haag

Welcome baby Tymon – Juliana Kinderziekenhuis Den Haag

Klaudia’s waters broke at 24 weeks. Because there was a chance of premature birth she was transferred from Leiden to Maastricht for their specialised care and given medication to help Tymon’s lungs to develop. Tymon was born a week later at 25 weeks with a birthweight...

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