This was supposed to be a family portrait session but it didn’t quite work out like that. Jan’s friends bought her a gift voucher for a family portrait session and a bespoke framed photograph for her and her two sons as birthday present. The only problem was that her sons [...]
Hartford Golf Club played host to International Women’s Day on 8th March 2020. This year it falls on a Sunday so many of the events to mark the occasion were held in the week before and I was invited to photograph one of the largest events in Cheshire. It was [...]
Holmes Chapel in Cheshire has become an important destination for me over the last ten years. I’ve photographed lifestyle family portrait photography sessions, pet portrait photography sessions and equine portrait sessions in and around in some of Cheshire’s most beautiful villagesincluding Holmes Chapel regularly since 2010. The village and the [...]
Leigh is a town in what used to be South Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), and many people still see it as a Lancashire town. In its heyday Leigh was famous for coal, cotton, cables and tractors. My family are from Leigh and its always nice to go back to Leigh [...]
I love winter portrait sessions. Well I love every season as each season gives different types of light. Mother Nature is constantly changing which keeps things fresh and interesting. This lifestyle family portrait photography session was taken in Didsbury, South Manchester last winter. We had a very narrow window between [...]
Autumn is, for me, the most significant season of change in the year. The trees and land change in colour producing rich reds, golds, yellows and browns. Autumn is perfect as it makes the most pleasing colour palette as a backdrop for family portrait photography. It also gives us the [...]
I love family portrait sessions I took on Wirral, especially because I could do something a bit different. It’s a good time to do this blog post because the BBC has just released series five of Peaky Blinders. I went to Wallasey on Wirral at the end of September last [...]
In mid March the daffodils were well established and the bluebells were out too. I went over to little Bollington, between Altrincham and Lymm to do a lovely family portrait photography session for a mum and dad with two young children. […]
I’m often asked about couples portrait sessions and I’m doing more and more each year. The funny thing is that whilst many people think they are only for young people, the reality is that more couples in their fifties, sixties and seventies are booking couples portrait sessions as a treat [...]
Photos and Presentations – all part of the same picture? In our first guest blog for a long while Catherine Sandland (known many of us as The Presenting Queen) shares her thoughts about photos and presentations and being photographed by me. This is what she had to say… I recently [...]
I took this urban portrait of two sisters in Wallasey one November afternoon. I wanted something different to the usual close up portraits we had been shooting during the session and the bright yellow bus stop caught my eye. In colour it looked really garish but I knew that it [...]
