What was that about never working with children...?

It's been a baby week! Well,  small child week.
This little girl came to the studio today. Not for a photo shoot, It was her  Mum, Nana and Aunty who were all booked in for that. Somehow though, this little one managed to completely take over. She was  lovely, what a character. Bob and me were howling laughing at her antics. I couldn't resist shooting just a few frames of her. Isn't she gorgeous?

Well into the wedding fayre season, we will be at the Preston Marriott tomorrow, why not pop in and say hello?

It's Christmas!!

It's been Christmas for the last month really at the studio with a steady stream of elves and fairies passing through. 


Yesterday we had a gorgeous little elf who goes by the name of Jangles. here she is in her elf outfit.

Wow! Christmas is Coming!

can you believe it's November already? 


Can you believe it's November and the temperature is still in the teens?


 I love it! 


The ideal scenario for me would be if it stayed warmish till Christmas week and then heaved it down with snow over Christmas and new year till we all had to go back to work and then get warm again. Asking too much? Ok then. 


This years wedding are all finished now as are all the wedding fairs. Time to relax for a while then, maybe? 


Nah! This is the time of year for album design. All the people who got married this year are jut coming back now to get their albums so I'm busily working on them at the moment. 






I've been scratching my head over the last week or two wondering what to get friends and family for Christmas. It's such an expensive time of year and if you're anything like us you'll find most people you get presents for don't really want or need anything in particular and you end up spending loads of money for something that they aren't really that fussed about. 


Then I had a brainwave! 


I'll do a family portrait for my daughter's MIL, she'll love it!


Then I had an even better brainwave!


Well if I'm struggling to come up with nice, personal Christmas pressies for family and friends, so are other people. What about putting together a really good value offer on a set of children's portraits and  make a nice little themed set? That could sort out all your parent's. grandparent's, pressies in one go! I was so excited!


In between the album designing I've been building a little Christmas grotto in the studio. Any excuse to get the toys out and have a play......Ahem...no, what I meant there was that I've been working really hard on serious business stuff. (Phew, think I got away with that).


I tested the set out on my own granddaughter. What do you think?

 Hang on! How did the daughter manage to get herself on the shot? It's meant to be for kids!

She was so excited to be surrounded by all the lovely Christmas toys, we had a lovely time!

So. Here's the offer:


For only £50 I'll photograph your  little elf (or elves) and you'll receive two 6 x 9 and two 7 x 5 inch prints.


That's an amazing offer, even if I do say so myself!!


The set will be up till the beginning of december so you need to book early as it's already proving to be quite popular. 


Just drop me a line to book.


Ho! Ho! Ho!

I flippin' LOVE apples, me!

I've been going through the photos from yesterday's photo shoot with the little girl and the apple and I thought I'd share a few more with you as they are just so darned cute!

An apple a day

This little girl's Mum had a specific photo in mind when this shoot was arranged.

"I want a picture of her sideways and taking a huge bite out of the apple." She's been decorating the kitchen and thought that the finishing touch would be a big canvas picture of her daughter eating a nice juicy apple. What a lovely idea. Wish I'd thought of it!

"Ok. Let's do it."

It's nice to have free reign in the studio and I usually just let children who come to me relax and play with our toys and dressing up equipment so we get nice natural shots of them but every now and then it's nice to do something a bit different as well.

It could have gone either way, this. If the little girl had been a bit fractious when she came in it most definitely wouldn't have worked but as it was -  she was a delight. I think a bagful of nice, juicy green apples played their part in that to be honest.  It didn't seem to be difficult for her when I directed her to, "take a big bite."

There are so many nice photos from the shoot that I couldn't choose between them all. The Mum decided that she didn't want a side on one after al, even though it was exactly as she'd imagined. She, like me, fell in love with this one:

The Dunkenhalgh

It's the morning of the wedding fair at The Dunkenhalgh. Just a few last minute jobs to do before we get going.

The weather is appalling but don't let that put you off. It may be blowing a gale, raining and cold but there is a very warm welcome waiting for you at the wedding fair.

We've got some lovely new pictures for the exhibition stand, come and take a look.

In the meantime:

Here are a couple of photographs of a little boy who came to see us recently.  This one went right off the cuteness scale.

I might be wrong but I get the feeling we might have a budding footballer on our hands. I loved his little Blackburn Rovers kit.

Did you know that we do portrait sittings for only £25? Why not book a sitting for your little one  - or even for the whole family?