A Day in My Life: Year 2
This was quite an intense season of my life and was filled with the most beautiful highs but also the most painful lows. Having revisited this past project year there were times I cried remembering certain periods of our story especially how tough it was in the beginning of the project. But mostly I’m reminded of all the love & joy that we as a family have experienced over the past year and a half, of that overwhelming feeling of falling so deeply in love with a new little soul...
Season of Motherhood~May
Welcome to ARTEFACT MOTHERHOOD - a project shared with other international female artists who are documenting our journeys as mothers and creating memories for our children through our photographs and words. "Seasons of Motherhood" is a new series in this project, where we tell a story with one picture that depicts our current season of motherhood.
New Forest Maternity Session~Rose~ New Forest Motherhood Photographer
"We met Ann in the forest on a chilly spring afternoon and it felt like she appeared straight out of the woods, she was so in touch and sensitive to both the woodland surroundings and our personality as a family. A very down to earth photographer who made us feel at ease and like we were meeting an old friend. The images she captured are just magical..."
Maternity Session~Cher~Maternity Photographer in the New Forest
Being out in the woods is one of my favourite things and combine that with getting to photograph and spend time with Cher, an incredible mama who is 37 weeks pregnant and her beautiful family is my version of a perfect afternoon.We met up in the afternoon and had our fingers crossed that it would stay dry, we already had to cancel once due to the weather.
Nature as our temple~New Forest portrait & branding photographer
Sometimes magic happens when you least expect it. We did not plan these images, they just happened in the most beautifully organic way as we spoke about our love for nature, the human body and all the magic we possess. As we passed by a beautiful fallen tree that was covered in the softest of moss creating the perfect place to lay on she became inspired and brave so we decided to create some images right then and there. It was perfect.
Seasons of Motherhood~Artifact Motherhood~New Forest Motherhood Photographer
At first I wasn't going to use this image, it felt too much like a snapshot but then I changed my mind because this is a really honest depiction of our life at the moment. You, Forrest, attached to my boob and feeling poorly & Nixie, you reaching out wanting to be close & me feeling tired on a level I haven't felt since you Forrest were a newborn.
The January Portrait Loop: Prisms
This year I am very excited to announce that I have teamed up with a few other photographers for a monthly Portrait Blog Circle. It is a way for us to try out new creative techniques and push ourselves out of our comfort zone. This month our challenge was to shoot with a prism, which is something I had never done before!
Baby Niyah~Southampton, Hampshire Newborn Photography
A few weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of spending a lazy sunday morning with Casey, Josh and their sweet baby girl Niyah in Southampton before they headed off in their converted horse trailer travelling the country attending festivals. The love and connection they shared was palpable. I love seeing a woman come into her new role as a mumma so effortlessly and naturally.
A Day in My Life: Year One
On February 13, 2019 just over 13 months after the my first day of shooting I completed my first Project 52/A Day In My Life/Year One. There's a real satisfaction I feel from having stuck with it. I know the sadness of not being able to have access to these early memories, my mother has Alzheimer's and she has no memories of my childhood and through her I have been reminded how important our memories truly are but also how fragile they can be and that is the biggest reason for why I decided to do this project: so that my own children will always have access to these early memories of their lives.
The Travelling Mustard dress
I am so excited to be a part of a really wonderful and fun collaboration with 44 other British artists and one mustard dress. Being 35 weeks pregnant, I had already decided that I was going to use this as an opportunity to create some pregnancy self-portraits, and living in the New Forest I wanted to create them using both the water and earth elements as the sea & the forest are truly my tonic, the places I go to heal or soothe my mind, body and spirit and they are also the places where I just feel the most at home...
Meeting Baby Franklin~Lymington, New Forest, Newborn Photography
I wanted to share a mini session I did towards the end of last autumn where I had the honours of meeting the beautiful baby Franklin, just two weeks old. If I could photograph newborns everyday of my life I would be so happy! I love capturing all the little moments that take place with the arrival of a new baby, I love seeing the interactions between siblings and witnessing the ever expanding love in mom and dad's face.
From Bump to Baby~Lymington, New Forest Maternity & Newborn Photography
Maternity and newborn sessions make my heart happy and when I'm able to document both for a family it fills my heart with such joy. I absolutely love capturing a woman during her last few weeks of pregnancy, it really is such a magical time in ones life.