Over the past few months with no shoots due to lockdown, I have been taking photographs of my family and getting back to thinking about why I fell in love with photography in the first place. I’ve always loved photography and I can still remember my first camera. It was a yellow film camera and I took it everywhere. I even remember doing my photo badge at Brownies where I had to present a selection of photos from a summer holiday in France. Despite enjoying it as a hobby I didn’t take art as a GCSE (one of my regrets) and so didn’t pursue it any further, then life took over, teaching became my career and I forgot about it.
That was until my husband bought us an entry level dslr camera after the birth of our second child and since the day I decided I was going to learn how to use it properly I would say photography has become a real passion. I love that I can capture my family as they are, no posing, just being. Sometimes I ask them to help me out with ideas and depending on their mood it usually involves being bribed with some kind of snack. But on the whole, my favourite pictures are those that I’ve taken to document our days.
Here are a few from our lockdown days…
By sharing a few of my personal photos I thought it might help to show why family photography is important to me. It’s a reminder of our days together now. We all have cameras with us all the time and even when I scroll through my (millions of) photos on my phone I do get that ‘ahhh’ or ‘do you remember the time when…?’ feeling. The photos don’t have to be perfect but they will tell your story.
I can come along and take your photos so you are in them too and you can look back to how life is now. And of course I love to do that, but the everyday is yours to photograph.
If you would like to take better photos either on your phone or DLSR I can help you with that, or if you’d like to book photo session with me then ping me a message. I’d love to hear from you.