I wish I featured in more of my family pictures
I'm just like you, I hate pictures of myself. When anyone else held the camera, I would turn my head or make an awkward face. One of my reasons for picking up a camera and learning how to use it was so I didn't have to be in the pictures, but as my children and I have aged, I find I wish there were more visual records of us together. When I sit around the kitchen table with my 19 and 21 year old, with our box of family memories, I'm so very glad for the ones I do feature in. Our time is short, let's make sure there is a record of our presence.
"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away"
Family Love Stories
Eudora Delty
The pictures we treasure, the ones we just cannot get enough of, the ones our children keep pulling out of shoeboxes year after year. The ones we laugh and cry over. Those are the pictures that really matter. And we need to make sure we have them, that we print them and most important of all, that we are in them. Not behind the camera, not hiding from the camera, but right there in our own family story.
I do have some of those studio portraits. My daughter in a velvet dress, my son in a check shirt. They are well lit and airbrushed to perfection. They hang on the wall and we walk past them daily. There is a place for them. But they do not make my heart sing and they do not tell our story.
Documentary family photography is magical. It's not about putting on your Sunday best, it is about laughter and love. About ordinary, everyday precious moments. It's about this time in your life right now, because this time will pass so fast and it deserves to be preserved.
Family Photography Sessions
Small Moments
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SESSION FEE
£150 weekday
£200 weekend
1-1.5 hours. An everyday adventure. A short and relaxed session, capturing some of your favourite things to do together. Perhaps baking biscuits at home or a trip to the park, I can even meet you at your favourite beach and dogs are always welcome. Session fee includes pre-consultation call, shoot time and a beautiful online gallery from which to select your favourite moments.
A Family Story
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SESSION FEE
£2oo.00 weekday
£250.00 weekend
2-3 hours. The most popular session length. Your everyday family story captured. A mini day in the life, documenting your wonderful, ordinary moments. Bake cakes, read books, have a lego competition. I will document the memories you make. Session fee includes pre-consultation call, shoot time and a beautiful online gallery from which to select your favourite moments.
A Day In The Life
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SESSION FEE
£800 weekday
£800 weekend
8-10 hours. A unique experience capturing a day in the life of your family, from breakfast to bedtime and all the glorious moments in between. Imagine looking at these images in the years to come, remembering exactly how it was, right then. A beautiful, magical documentary shoot like no other. Session fee includes pre-consultation call, shoot time and a beautiful online gallery from which to select your favourite moments.
Family Film
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£600.00
A short magical film. Imagine if you could freeze time for a few minutes. The way his eyes gazed at you while nursing, the way her tiny hand felt inside yours. The sparkle in their eyes. The twirling, jumping, thumb sucking and the tickles. A keepsake family film that you will watch together over and over in the years to come. Especially wonderful as a newborn photography session.
The film fee includes session fee and completed film. A film session can also include photography in which case there is an additional charge of £100 which is redeemable against any print or digital products ordered.
Family photography session fees cover my time and art only. Following your session you will receive a link to your fully edited, viewing gallery. Printed products and digital images are available to purchase once you have viewed your gallery.
To help you decide I have a carefully curated range of albums and prints including three collections based on the most popular items. I will be on hand to help you select the best options for your family and I will oversee the entire order process from start to finish. Prices start from £160.
Let's capture the everyday moments, that matter
because life is too short to strike a pose.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Simply
We will have an initial consultation call to get to know each other a little and I can find out about the things you might like me to capture. Session fees are payable in advance of our session date and then a few weeks later I will get in touch to share your gallery of all your best bits from which you can choose your favourite moments to purchase. You can select from a range of digital files and beautiful heirloom albums and fine art prints.
Product Collections
The collections have been carefully curated to include the most popular choices from the à la carte range.
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Fine Art 10x10 Album. Hand bound in linen and printed using the finest archival quality papers and inks.
Full Digital Collection. Available to download.
Ten 6x4 Mounted Prints. Beautifully presented in a keepsake folio box.
Medium Fine Art Print. Archival quality print, carefully mounted and framed.
Fine Art 10x10 Album. Hand bound in linen and printed using the finest archival quality papers and inks.
Three Medium Fine Art Framed Prints. Archival quality prints, beautifully mounted and ready to hang.
Full Digital Collection. Available to download and on a keepsake USB in presentation box.
à la carte options also available, get in touch to request a brochure.
