It’s a packed week this year – another one in what has been a busy first couple of months of the year! Yesterday I went Go Karting with two lady wedding photographers from where I live – it was amazing fun. I really recommend to those of you who are... read more
The last couple of weeks have been spent in a whirlwind of changing weather patterns – we’ve gone from -13 degrees, right through, this morning at 8.00am, to 10 degrees centigrade!!! The snow and ice, at their freshest provided the most perfect reflector... read more
So, just before I went to Venice, I received an exciting delivery – a new Montgomery backpack designed and made by Acme Made, the fashionable US camera bag specialists! It’s the perfect size and shape for a city day sack – and I could easily fit in... read more
…… in the wintertime, When they’re hard to find. Bring me a rose in the wintertime, I’ve got, roses on my mind. For a rose is sweet, Most anytime and yet. Bring me a rose in the wintertime, How easily we forget. Bring me a friend when... read more
A really Happy New Year to all my readers!! After a really relaxing and lovely Christmas holiday, I found myself rested and raring to meet 2013 full on!! They say that resolutions will work far better if a) you write them down, and how you will achieve -and b) you... read more
So we’re waving out one year and welcoming in the next. And it’s appropriate to look back a little at what has come into your life – and be glad. And, at what has gone; to be sad, maybe, – and to then remember that things go to make space for... read more
Last week I was in Venice; when you read this I will be about to arrive, or have arrived, in Barcelona! And I’m sooooo hoping it will be warmer than it is here in the UK. So to give you a small taste of winter chill, today I’m posting photos of the very... read more
No one is better at capturing my feelings than Mary Oliver – and so that gives me comfort – for surely then what I feel. she feels? And if she feels that, then doesn’t every other woman?The pictures are from Venice where I spent last weekend. And at... read more
I always say to my clients – “buy a product, not the digital images”. And I so mean that. In 30 years time (I nearly wrote ’50 years’ before I suddenly thought I doubt I’ve got that long), I’m not going to sit down for a... read more
A few weeks ago I was asked to shoot a boudoir session. It was a very special session – the client had terminal cancer. Last Friday, she sadly passed away. Over the last few months of her life, Mel did a lot to raise awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer. I... read more
My youngest two are on half term this week. You’d think that as they are both 17, half terms would be slightly different for me now, in that I wouldn’t have to spend every waking hour thinking of things to occupy them. But it doesn’t work like that!... read more
Thank you for coming back to FILF! The last couple of nights have been really cold and I’m starting to think about lighting the fire again. Over the year we collect wood so by now it seems like we have tons – but it goes very quickly – I like winter... read more
For over a week we’ve watched on our TV screens the terrible tragedy of little April Jones. The grief of her family is painful to see. And so I thought about family love – and that great love carries with it the flip side of great pain. And yet we all risk... read more
OK – it’s not very fashionable for a female photographer to admit to liking a golfing photo shoot – but I love it. First there’s the satisfaction in walking, a lot, and being outdoors in often stunning locations. (And if it’s a city based... read more
OK – so I’m starting a new Friday theme – Falling in Love. Just wanted to share with you things, or people, or music, or images, or books; that I’ve come across over the week and have fallen in love with. 1. Shoes, sigh…… long... read more
