Happy St David’s Day – announcing Spring Mini Photo Sessions

Happy St David’s Day! It seems like the perfect time to announce my spring mini photo sessions. I’ve been a regular visitor to some of the beautiful local parks lately studying the daffodils (!) because I didn’t want to book up too far in advance and find that there weren’t any out , but I think that in the next week or two they will be looking very lovely indeed. So what better time to book a spring mini session?

spring mini photo session in the daffodils

These short and sweet sessions are mini versions of my normal portrait sessions and offer a considerable saving on my normal price list. They are suitable for children, couples or families and will last 30 minutes (full portrait sessions usually last up to two hours).

These sessions cost £220 which includes

the shoot,

a selection of images from the day uploaded to a password-protected online gallery which will be live for seven days

and your choice of five images as 8x6in prints and on DVD so that you can print as many copies as you like (along with resized images for you to share on Facebook).

All come beautifully wrapped and presented. I am planning to do them in Richmond Park, but please contact me for further details on 07711 087636 or at jo@sweetheartstudio.co.uk… The sessions will be on Friday 9 March from 9.30am to 12noon and on Saturday 24 March from 9.30-12noon.

The autumn mini sessions I did back in October were very popular. I realise as I write this that I haven’t posted any photos from them yet which is very wrong. Here are a couple of tasters…

oh, go on then, here’s another…

Please get in touch if you would like to book a mini session. With Mother’s Day just 17 days away it could be top of your wish list (or your husband’s shopping list!)…

Beautiful bump – maternity photography in Wimbledon

Last week I shared some of the newborn photos I’d taken of baby Josh http://wp.me/p1ntWt-3L and promised to post the photos of his mummy with her beautiful bump that I’d taken a few weeks before so here they are…

maternity photo shoot in Wimbledon SW19

The photo shoot took place in January on a beautiful sunny day at Gooseberry Bush Cafe’s studio in Wimbledon using natural light. See their website at www.gooseberrybushcentres.com. I love doing maternity photo shoots, especially when I’m lucky enough to meet the baby when he or she is born. As a mum, I know how precious it is to have photos of your bump too because although the nine months your tummy is getting bigger and bigger seem like a long time, in no time at all you forget what it was like to have a lovely bump. I wish I had nicer photos of my own bump, but as usual was taking the photos rather than being in them!

Please get in touch if you would like to have a bump shoot. You can have it in the comfort of your own home or at another location such as Gooseberry Bush if you’d prefer. Or why not get some of your antenatal group together and host a bump party where you can share the cost of a photo session and all get some beautiful bump shots. Please contact me for details of portrait parties or if you have any questions on 07711 087636 or at jo@sweetheartstudio.co.uk

Welcome to the world – newborn photography in Colliers Wood

Today I had the pleasure of photographing gorgeous baby Josh who is 8 days old so here are some sneak peeks from the session. It was a very relaxed shoot and it was especially nice to be invited to photograph him since I had done a bump photography portrait session with his mummy in January.

I will post images from that shoot in the next few days, but for now meet the very laid back and happy baby Josh….

newborn baby portrait session in raynes park

Family photo session in Wimbledon

Just wanted to post one of the family sessions from last Saturday at Gooseberry Bush in Wimbledon. We had a lovely time, complete with heart-shaped balloons (more of those to come in a seasonal blog post next week), building blocks and games of hide and seek.

This is the first of the sessions I will be sharing. I don’t usually just show black and white images, and there are lots of colour ones in the online gallery for this family, but I thought it would be nice to show my favourite black and white ones from the day. If you haven’t been to Gooseberry Bush it’s worth a visit. As well as having a studio where they do yoga and antenatal classes amongst many other things, they have therapy rooms and a lovely cafe full of beautiful things to buy and delicious home-made food (there was a lot of face wiping before these photos were taken after the little stars of the shoot had sampled some of the cakes and biscuits on offer there). See the website at www.gooseberrybushcentres.com

I have lots of blog posts from lovely sessions to share and will be posting soon about some special spring sessions (thought I’d wait until this cold snap is well and truly over so that we all feel more like contemplating some time outside).

family photo shoot Wimbledon

black and white family photo shoot in Wimbledon

Baby photography in Surbiton six months on (continued)…

I love being asked back by families I’ve photographed in the past to take more photos and it’s lovely to see how their babies and children are growing up. In my last post featuring gorgeous baby Viola I promised to blog some images from her newborn shoot alongside some from her portrait session at six months old, so here they are. I think you’ll agree that she makes a very beautiful subject…

Newborn and baby photography surbiton, surrey

Viola - still loving London at six months old

and some with Daddy…

newborn and baby photography in surbiton, surrey