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...

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…

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…

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 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...

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...

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…

I’m kicking off 2025 with a collection of family portraits captured on film, one to inspire you for each month of the year.

In doing this, I hope to showcase the incredible quality of film over a year and how exceptionally well it captures the details and nuances of seasonality. From the soft yellow of a spring daffodil clasped in a child’s hand, to the earthy greens of a pine forest in December; these photos are representative of why I think film is a superior format for your family portraits, and why I’ll never go back to digital...

As 2024 draws to a close it’s an opportune time to reflect on the past 12 months.

This is the year I truly brought my Cheshire-based photography business back to life after a 5 year hiatus and in doing so I have learned a hell of a lot!

Come on in to find out my top 10 highlights of 2024, everything from reconnecting with former clients, to stepping in front of the camera myself and photographing a Strictly Come Dancing contestant…