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I HAVE MOVED!

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

All those of you that came to my Newby Hall office will know what an amazing place Newby Hall is, and what a wonderful place it is to work. I LOVED being based there, but after having Isabella I came to realise that a baby and a 20 minute drive to work wasn’t going to be easy. We moved house when she was 4 weeks old (talk about everything coming at once!), and so now have space for an office at home. Reluctantly I decided to move from Newby Hall and work from an office at home, at least for now. My plan is to have my babies (!) and then, in several years time, once again work from Newby Hall.

Not much has changed from a client point of view, I will still be holding portrait days at Newby Hall, and weddings of course are always on location. Engagement sessions will also be on location now as well. I will be holding wedding consultations, portrait viewings, and pre-wedding meetings at my home office.

That’s to my lovely husband, it’s a lovely office – with (almost) straight wallpaper, fresh paint, and even an open fireplace. I’m thinking about installing a wood burning stove to keep nice and cosy in winter. I will look forward to welcoming you here, and of course having a cuppa and a biscuit!

The new address is:
Holly Cottage,
Flawith,
York,
YO61 1SF

Now I’ve been terrible at blogging recently, and have been on maternity leave so only working on a few ‘keeping in touch days’, but here is one of my favourite images from a wedding last month. Maternity leave officially ends now, so I’ll be back working with no excuses not to blog!

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BABY PHOTOGRAPHER YORKSHIRE | ISABELLA

Monday, July 18th, 2011

I know, I know. I’ve been awful at blogging since Isabella was born. OK, so I do kinda have an excuse – babies take up more time than you knew you had. She is sat on my lap right now just about to demand something or other. However I do have to admit to being darn lazy in this department. I have the photos but just haven’t posted them yet, there is always something else to do. And she grows so quickly that as soon as I have taken and edited a set of photos, it’s time to start again.

I won’t bore you with hundreds of photos, but here are a just a few of my favourites so far. Already looking back I can’t believe how much she’s changed. Photos are so important. My Mum said that you look at your baby every day, and they always look the same. Then, one day you wake up and they’re 18. It’s so true.

Some are snapshots taken on a phone, others are taken on my professional camera. All are very precious memories (WARNING: becoming a Mum makes you soppy).

I will blog again soon, honest! I have weddings, engagements and portraits to share. Watch this space!

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ISABELLA DORA IS HERE!

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

I’m very proud to announce the arrival of my daughter! Isabella Dora was born on Thursday 17th March at 6.52am weighing 8lb 5oz.

She is a little sweetie! She’s keeping us on our toes and can be quite demanding but she is totally worth it. She’s asleep beside me now.

More photos to follow when I get a chance – it might be some time!

MY BUMP!

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

A massive thank you to the fabulous Susie Lawrence for taking some bump photos for me! Although I feel a bit fat (and have a double chin!) I’m really glad I had some maternity photos taken. I’m sure in no time I’ll forget what I looked like with a bump, they will be a lovely keepsake and I’ll be able to show my baby how I looked too!

Most of these were taken on Monday, when I was 39 weeks and 5 days, at Newby Hall. My baby was due yesterday so could arrive at any time!

I wasn’t sure whether to post this one, but Mums I’ve photographed in the past have let me post photos of them, so I don’t want to by hypocritical and decided to be brave!

Please bear with me if I’m a little slow to answer your calls and emails over the next few months. I’ll post some baby photos as soon as I can!

Tags: bump photos, maternity photographer yorkshire, maternity photos
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PAPAKATA CHRISTMAS PARTY

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

OK so I’m a little late posting this ;-)

As photographers usually work alone, we don’t usually get to have a staff Christmas party (boo!), so last year a group of us decided it was time to make amends. Susie Lawrence organised the cheesiest of Christmas do’s (just what we wanted) in Leeds, but this year cheese was swapped for something a little classier – a PapaKata Christmas party!

There were several PapaKata tipis set up in Escrick Park in York, complete with lovely log fires and lots of reindeer hides, and we were treated to a three course scrummy meal before chilling out by the fire accompanied by peach scnapps (or coffee for the pregnant one!).

The lovely Pete Lawson sporting his Christmas jumper:

And his even lovelier wife Laura

Rob Booker looking rather fetching:

Barnaby on the right while Pete stares pensively at the fire…..

I love this pic of Susie

Mike looks rather surprised he’s being photographed!

That’s Suzy Mitchell on the left, and I’m in the middle looking rather weird!

Cris Matthews laughing at one of my hilarious jokes ;-)

Cris braved the ffff freezing cold to take these amazing long exposures from the outside of the tipis – the sensible ones among us stayed by the fire!

Tags: christmas party, PAPAKATA
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GINGERBREAD GINGERBREAD

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Seeing as I’m soon to be a Mum, I thought it was time I brushed up on my baking skills. I’ve always loved baking (and eating), at my Mum’s house there were always tins of homemade cakes and biscuits we could dive into when we got home from school. It’s a very homely, Mummy thing to do, but can seem a bit pointless when there are only two of you and you know you’ll end up eating it all (although maybe that’s the point….!)

I decided to attempt to make a gingerbread house for my sister for Christmas. It turned out to be so easy, I made two more, one for my friends little boy and another, grown up version for my brother. His was a gingerbread pub, complete with jelly babies getting up to all kinds of mischief. In the chaos of Christmas I didn’t get any photos of it which was a silly mistake. Oh well, I’ll just have to make another!

I used the recipe from Peggy Porschen‘s book (I have Romantic Cakes and Pretty Party Cakes and the recipes are the same). It’s a great gingerbread recipe and it doesn’t spread much so the shapes stay the same when baking. It really helps if you make the mixture the day before and leave it in the fridge overnight (or longer, I’ve left it for several days before and it’s fine).

I cut out the windows and put boiled sweets (foxes glacier fruits) in the holes whist baking, they melt and then set to make yummy edible windows.

For the first house I made my own template, then I discovered the template on delicious.com which was even better. You can get the template here.

The key to making the house stay together is to use proper royal icing made with egg white, it’s much stiffer and sets quickly.

Lots of sweets and glitter, I’m a child at heart!

Please excuse the quality of this iphone photo. This house was made with the delicious magazine template which has a cute chimney and door – they are getting more sophisticated!

Next year I’ll be making one for my daughter!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

I’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope you’re all feeling festive with all this cold weather and snow – I certainly am! I’ve spent the last couple of weeks baking Christmas biscuits, cakes, gingerbread etc in my spare time and am now ready to put my feet up and enjoy Christmas at my parents house in Northamptonshire. We’re heading down there tomorrow, and I can’t wait to see everyone!

Also I hope you all have a fantastic New Year and a great 2011, I can’t believe how quickly this year has flown. It will be a very exciting and life changing year for us next year with our little girl due at the beginning of March! I’ll be taking a bit of time off before getting back in full swing by June, there are lots of weddings and portraits to look forward to next year.

A photography blog post is just not right without some photographs, so here are some photos I took in the snow we’ve just had. I love the snow!

My little miniature shetland, Archie, in the snow with Colin. You can see how tiny he is! Nest year he’ll be getting a little saddle and bridle ready for my little girl!

Finally a couple of snowy portraits. You can beat snow for giving lovely even lighting.

Have a wonderful holiday!

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PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER YORKSHIRE | GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Are you going the Great Yorkshire Show next week? It’s on from 13th – 15th July and I will be exhibiting. If you will be there come and say hi, and take advantage of special offers and free sweets and balloons…..!

I will be on stand 500.

Hope to see you there!

Just to finish, here is an aerial shot of Newby Hall I took last week whilst microlighting with my friend. It was amazing – there is nothing between you and the ground so it’s fantastic for taking photographs. You can see my studio on the right! More to follow as soon and I get to the bottom of my mountain of editing!

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YORKSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHER | NEWBY HALL STUDIO

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Where does time go?! I moved into my new photography studio/office at Newby Hall over two months ago now and am only just posting these photos. So without further ado, here goes:

Newby Hall is so gorgeous, when I drive up the drive to work in the morning I pretend it’s my house:

My sign. The offices are in the old stables, which is a lovely courtyard to the side of the house. Suits me fine, I’m at home in stables!

There are some rare breed sheep, and the cutest lambs roaming in the section of the park:

The courtyard seen from my door:

And the view to the park:

So, the inside. It’s only a small space, but it’s all I need. I can use the grounds for portraits and am not intending to do any photography in the studio itself, apart from babies. It was a beauty spa before (The Treatment House – they are now upstairs and we share the unit. They are lovely, if you need any beauty treatments you should call them!).
There was lots of glitter on the walls – you can see it here under the lights. It was also covering the entire chimney breast. It may not look like much, but take it from me, it’s not easy stuff to remove!

The glitter is slowly disappearing:

And up goes my wallpaper, and grey paint:

Almost done! Just got the sample frames and canvasses to put up on the walls:

There are some of them:

And, of course, some sweets. There’s not that many any more ;-)

A couple of vintage cameras I’ve collected. This one was my grandmas, both still work:

So there you have it. I’m doing more portraits now, and love the grounds here. There are endless places for interesting and beautiful photographs. If you haven’t visited yet, you should!

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Tags: Newby Hall, studio
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