Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

I had a lump in my throat when I watched Sue Bryce, a portrait photographer and educator, encouraging people to #existinphotos during her CreativeLive workshop. Everyone deserves a beautiful portrait of themselves, especially women – wives, mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers. I heard Germain Greer speak in Birmingham about this phenomenon of the…
I have recently made a few posts on social media encouraging you to join the Print2014 trend and print and enjoy your digital photos in a tangible way rather than displaying them on your IPhone or computer screen. I have been inspired by a series of ‘quotes by NoOne’ from…
How do you know when you overdid it? When you wake up in the morning and feeling that your hand is numb. When you put your back pack on and cannot rise the right arm because of the pain in the right shoulder. When your right elbow aches as you…
What does a photographer do on a quiet Saturday night? Testing coloured gels portrait lighting setup on my favourite model, Helen, in our living room. Helen is a hairdressers mannequin we bought to stand in for John when he got tired of his onerous modelling duties (you know the kind, “Please-please-please, just…
Announcing Birmingham Street Style Project – to capture awesome photographs of people with great personal style and taste encountered on the streets of Birmingham. While there are some great street blogs around, many of them suffer from the same straight head on approach, quite repetitive and not particularly flattering to…
WE HAVE MOVED – from Birmingham to Dumfries in Scotland! John, my husband, has accepted a research post offer from the University of Glasgow, with the synthetic biology project based at the University’s research park in Dumfries. Like an army spouse, I have to relocate too! I feel overwhelmed and…