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Laura & Henrietta

Linda — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:32:28 +0000

I know, it’s been a long time since I updated – apologies, apologies, apologies. What can I say – moving is time consuming. Not that the move itself was difficult in the slightest, it went like a dream and we love our new home, plus it’s a great base to work from. The problem was I took one and a half weeks out to unpack boxes, organise and generally enjoy our new home. Now the point is, if one is working flat out to start with, it gets a bit tricky to squash one and half weeks of extra stuff into the little time available, whilst avoiding divorce, starvation (no chance!) and severe sleep deprivation…………so my blog was one of the casualties.

I’m still busy which is great, but life is normal again, so the plan is to post a bit more regularly.

Just before we moved I had the pleasure of doing an equine shoot for Laura and her horse Henrietta. Now the thing to understand here is that dear Henn is quite a character and she likes to eat………..constantly. So Laura had the excellent idea to use the school where there was no grass = no food. Well it was a great idea, but Henn was not impressed and some of the looks she gave me clearly indicated I was the guilty party. However, we did get some nice shots. But who wants “nice” shots, I don’t, I like images that have the WOW factor. After we moved out of the school we went to a nearby area complete with mini lake, bales of hay and long, long grass – then the magic happened. We had a great time, the sun started to set so we had “the golden hour” of perfect luscious light – and Henn? Yes, she continued to eat, but we did manage to keep her attention for long enough to get some beautiful images.

Here’s a small selection, hope you enjoy and do let me know what you think.

Polly & Fudge

Linda — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:07:07 +0000

Anybody who knows me, knows my love of animals and as I have 3 (rather large) dogs of my own, clearly dogs are a favourite. So you can understand my bliss getting an opportunity to do a photoshoot for these little darlings. Meet Polly & Fudge, 2 sisters – coats like silk, deep soulful eyes and sweet gentle personalities. With photo-sessions like this, no wonder I enjoy pet photography so much.

Beautiful Alice

Linda — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:09:55 +0000

What better way to spend Easter Monday than with my very dear friend Roz and her beautiful daughter Alice for a photographic portrait session in High Wycombe. Alice has modelled for me before so I knew how much the camera loved her but this day far exceeded my expectations. Despite the fact that it was quite cool and trying to blow a gale, Alice never complained once – although we did notice she was turning a pale shade of blue at one stage, so we adjourned to the nearest pizza place for a hot cuppa & some hearty warming food before heading back to our chosen location, an industrial park, to continue shooting – Wonder if anyone looked at the CCTV films the following week.

It was a great day and I strongly suspect you may see Alice appearing again in the near future.

Yvonne & Louise

Linda — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:57:57 +0000

I was looking forward to doing this shoot as Yvonne is such a fun lady, however, didn’t expect to have quite as much fun as we did. Yvonne’s best friend kindly allowed as to use her house for the shoot (the pics were going to be a surprise as one of hubby’s christmas presents, so secrecy was involved) so naturally the shoot involved Louise as well. Thank you ladies.