Child's Play

For a while now, I've wanted to have a go at taking some lifestyle portraits, and last weekend I finally got the chance with two sessions in one day. First up, my first baby session, with the six-month old daughter of one of my neighbours. Here's some of the best shots from the shoot.

The shoot was great fun, and my model seemed to enjoy herself as well. Such a refreshing change from all those grumpy rock stars that I'm usually taking photos of, and much cuter too!

These next two are my absolute favourites from the entire session - such brilliant expressions for someone so young.

We also got Mum and Dad involved as well.

Thanks for making my first baby shoot such good fun guys!

After that, it was off to the park wihtout even stopping for lunch, to go and shoot some outdoor pictures with the two sons of another family friend. Again, I was really pleased with the results.

We had a fun filled hour climbing trees, sitting on fences, running down hills and the like, and again my two models were brilliant - thanks guys! These next two are definitely favourites.

I have to say that I was very lucky with the weather, as the forecast had been pretty grim. However, the experts were wrong, and for once I didn't mind in the slightest. Here's some more shots.

These next couple sections are grouped by brother, just to give an idea of what sort of range of shots I managed to capture.

And here's three of my other excellent model.

Told you there was tree climbing involved...

That last one there being a great example of the Urban "therefore no smile needed" Look! If you like these images and would like me to take some shots of your kids/siblings/nephews/nieces/grandkids or even just of yourselves, then please get in touch via the contact form on my website and we'll sort something out. Thanks again to all of my models from the weekend, I hope you had a bit of fun and like the finished pictures!

Chilis, Dogs and Running Water

Well I've been keeping myself busy this week with a variety of different pictures. I started off on Monday morning by taking a table of things out to my garden and experiementing with a bit of macro photography. The chilis in these shots were all grown by my Grandad - pretty impressive I think!

For the rest of the week I've been at Ellie's house, acting as dog-sitter for her Grandma's Westie while she's away on holiday. As well as meaning lots of walks, I've also been able to get some good shots for my Pets gallery, here are my favourites.

Most of the aforementioned walks have had some point where I've gone over to Kenilworth Common, and I wasn't going to let those photo opportunities get away now was I? I finally managed to have a go at shooting moving water, and was pretty pleased with the results.

And that's about it really for this week. Tomorrow I'm meeting Shinedown when they play in Birmingham, while Saturday I've got, not only my first baby shoot, but I'm also shooting the two sons of a family friend. Busy, busy, busy - excellent! This final image is from the Common and is the result of merging 9 seperate images to create the final one.

Sunset near Bulkington

Although I don't do it very often, I do quite like to do a bit of landscape photography occasionally, and this evening I decided to nip over the fields that surround Bulkington and snap a few frames, mainly because I haven't taken any other pictures this week. I only took a few shots, and here's my favourite three.

This week I'm interviewing the band Shinedown for Powerplay Magazine as well as shooting them live, and next weekend I've got my first ever baby shoot! Hopefully this time next week I'll have added another string to my photographic bow.