It could have gone either way. Sunshine or downpour. It shone. And I was working in the most beautiful location – so much so, that it was almost a case of not knowing where to start! I was trying to work this out: why, when you’re in a rubbish location can it be really easy to find the shots whereas when, you’re in the most fantastic location with wonderful light, can it sometimes feel more difficult not less? Weird. Still, I’d always opt for a beautiful location given the option.
Anyway, Justine and Michael’s boys, James and Matthew, were utterly brilliant. It’s never certain how kids are going to react to a photographer appearing (it’s not usually the children who have commissioned us – particularly on a Saturday when the whole world is theirs!) but they were really up for it. Everything you’d want to photograph in two brothers – and they were as involved as everyone, generating ideas for things they’d like photographed.
So we have pictures of laser-sword fighting (I wonder, did George Lucas ever consider the impact he was to have on kids the world over?), threatening me with a lethal suction-tipped arrow (obviously I would have handed over my ill-gotten gains), trampoline-bouncing (them not me 
), marble flicking (I set the somewhat risky – or foolhardy – challenge of them getting one into my camera lens. Luckily for me they never managed it), jumping into the swimming pool, running along wooded paths and generally doing what boys do. Which, is to say, pushing our continuous auto-focus and ultra-fast cameras to the absolute limit.
And, over and above that, we have some really simple and beautiful shots of them, well, just being them - which is what this is all about!
Let us know what you think.
Cheers
P.
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