Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

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…
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…
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…
On August 5 2014 I sent out an open call via Facebook , Twitter and Google+ for volunteer models that would like to take part in a new photography project called URBAN PORTRAITS DUMFRIES. The project aims to create collaborative portraits of Doonhamers in various Dumfries town centre locations where the…
My big thanks to Myra Smith, Morrisons Community Champion, who alerted me that my photo of Morrisons Foundation donating £17,000 to Nith Inshore Revenue was published in D&G Life Magazine! And here’s the photo:
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…