
5 Ways To Take Better Photos Of Your Kids At Home
Our little ones change SO quickly and it’s up to us as parents to document their childhood in photographs (I know, yet another responsibility to add to the list!). So if we’re going to collect a mass of images for them to one day look back on, why not make those images as beautiful as they can be?!
In this article I share 5 simple tips to help you capture memories of your children at home that you’ll all cherish in years to come…

Join My Photography Community for Parents
How would you like to have a meaningful collection of frame-worthy photographs of your child; one for every week of the year?
Find out more about my photography community for parents who are keen to take their family photos to the next level…

Supporting Mums In Crisis: The Lifegiver Project
When a friend reached out whatsapp asking for baby donations for a Mum in crisis, I was so moved to watch my friends rally to the cause and trawl through their homes to gather any baby clothes, toys, carriers etc. to help a Mum they’d never met!
I’m a firm believer in the power of female solidarity in motherhood and with Mother’s Day approaching, I started to wonder whether I could do more to help this Spring. This is what I came up with…

The Best Outdoor Locations for Family Photography
Looking for photographs of your family captured outdoors and in natural light, but don’t know where to have them taken?
I’m here to help with some location inspiration, so come on in for 10 ideas for beautiful family portrait locations...

Storytelling in Family Portraits | Then & Now
As a photographer it’s such a good feeling when former clients invite you back into their world to document the latest chapter in their family’s story.
In this post, I share a “then and now” compilation of family photographs captured 8 years apart for a family of four from West Kirby on the Wirral…

Happy Valentine’s Day Mums & Dads!
All families begin with just two people and this week St. Valentine dictates that we celebrate the couple! So I’ve been digging through my archives to bring together a selection of portraits of couples in love, all captured during my days as a wedding photographer.
These photographs mark a wonderful chapter, when they were ready to invest their whole lives in each other and to be asked to document that moment is quite something. Come on in and take a look…

Newborn Photography on Film in Didsbury
Parents you remember those groundhog days you used to spend feeding, winding, changing, napping your babies on repeat?! The days seemed SO long, yet before you know it that precious newborn phase is over and your once helpless little babe is finding his or her feet in the world.
I always advise parents to photograph their babies at their tiniest and this sweet newborn mini-session in Manchester shows how even just a handful of professional portraits can be enough to mark the moment…

Why Photos Hold Such Value Throughout Our Lives
Why is it important to create a legacy in photographs? To pass photographs down through the generations, creating an album of memories unique to your family.
We place an incredibly high value on the photographs we create, often treasuring them above all else.
In this week’s blog, I explore why...

Why Are Mums Absent in Family Photos?
Are you a Mum with a cloud full of photos of your partner and children? But you struggle to find a decent picture of you with your kids? Welcome to the gang of “invisible mothers”! After seeing and hearing this problem for many years, I thought this week on the blog I’d delve into what’s going wrong and how we can give Dads a gentle nudge to pick up the camera...

A Day in the Life; Honest Family Photography on Film - Part 2
This is the second half of a collection of candid details and intimate nuances I photographed for my trial day in the life of a young family series. If you haven’t already seen the first half, scroll back and take a look!
Having captured some beautiful black and white images in their home, the family ventured out for a walk along Hoylake promenade and invited me along to record this every day activity on film…