Apologies to anyone keeping an eye on the blog and wondering what order I’m posting things – ideally the posts should always be in chronological order however, we’ve just been away this week and it’s somewhat messed up my system (I kept on top of things from a hotel lobby in Spain – one euro per 10 minutes!) but I didn’t quite manage to get this post up in time which is a shame ’cause it was a shoot that I really wanted to show everyone!
I photographed Deborah, Jonathan and Alice (and the two canine family members, Lucy and Sam) up at Coombe Hill on the most gorgeous hot and sunny afternoon. Blooming lovely – the indigo and violet curtain call of this season’s Bluebells, dappled light drifting lazily through the new leaves and the dulcet tones of people yelling “Rover come, come. Rover, ROVER, ROOOOVVVVVEEERRR”. Ah, halcyon days indeed.
Anyway, the stage was set for capturing magical images and we were not to be disappointed. Alice in particular was, to put it frankly, an absolute star.
Whatever shot we were trying to get, she tirelessly worked the camera throughout the session. I don’t think was much that she couldn’t do, from those heart-warming grins that would melt any parents heart to the more serious expressions with real depth behind the eyes that will translate into framed pictures that seemingly magnetically draw you in. And all of it done as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Just stunning.
Our approach for capturing images that are relaxed and informal is, funnily enough, to purposely make the session relaxed and informal (with a big pot of invigorating tea midway through – well, we are in England after all) however, you can clearly see in the images that a small degree of staging (I prefer the term to ‘posing’) is used to structure whatever look we’re searching for. And, with Alice’s ability to translate requests into different looks and poses, and a remarkable confidence in front of the camera – along with particularly unnerving enthusiasm for climbing trees – we have a load of gorgeous images.
Other than to fill an album, I really am not sure how we’ll whittle this lot down!
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