Meet Arlo. One of three boys and born probably on the hottest day of summer 2020… I am sure mum was very happy to finally see him!

Perhaps if you are reading this you have your own children or you may be expecting or they may have grown up and moved on, and the title just reminded you of that very first cry, or those very first few moments…

And I really want you to tell me, either in the comments below or on the Facebook comment thread, or privately: what do you remember? What do you remember about the day, about how she/he/they were born. Who did they look like? What were you thinking? How were you feeling? Who was there? Who wasn’t there? What do you wish had been recorded?

Do you wish you had more photos of you with your newborn? Do you wish you had more footage of you as a family around that time? Do you wish you had more sounds: him/her feeding for the very first time, you talking to your daughter after waiting for 9 months, your husband promising your son he would never let him down?

And here is a very personal question, but I am going to ask it anyway. How many of you, parents, have given yourself a hard time every single day since your child was born? Maybe some of you haven’t. And that’s fantastic. Maybe some of you have managed to remember that you are only human and you can only do what you can do.

But what if you had some reminders that you did not just what you could do, but you actually did so much more. You were there from the 1st second, and you haven’t let go of that love, of that support, of that commitment. And what more can you do than that? What more can you do than love, support and commit?

I love love love photographing couples, brides, grooms, expecting parents, current parents, older parents, small families, large families. You name it. I love photographing YOU, whoever you are. Because I love celebrating what we all have in common: being human. I love photographing YOUR moments, because I know you try your damn best with anything you do, whether you have children or you don’t, whatever you do, all of us, we are perpetually trying to just do the best we can. And what I want to celebrate that.

If you have the time, I would love to hear from you, about what remembered from the birth of your child (or children!), what you don’t and what you wish you could remember.

And if not, I leave you with a celebration of that first week of a baby’s life: the chaos, yes, but boy… the love, the adoration, the awe, the wander. I can’t decide which I love best, but newborn photography is really quite special.

If you are expecting, or know someone who is, I offer both birth photography and/or newborn photography. You may have gathered that photographing newborns in flowerpots and retouching their skin-tones in photoshop isn’t what I do… what I do is celebrating the beauty of your real life, of your real love, of your real moments and your real emotions. Celebrating our real life makes us feel better.

My September and November are currently full but I do have some availability left in October and December, so let’s have a chat and let’s see if my eye is what you are looking for.