Category Archives: Babies

Rumbletums, baby shoots can get messy!

Ok, so first a little disclaimer: We have NOT been pimping out our son for commercial shoots. I promise! He must just have a ‘good face’ or something.. A few weeks ago I was approached by Australian Organic Baby Food company Rumbletums who asked if they could use an image of Milo that Sara had...

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Chloe, Newborn Session

I’m constantly surprised at how sleepy newborn babies can be. These sessions are usually pretty quiet as people tend to whisper to avoid waking the baby but on this particular session there were 6 other people in the room chattering away. To be honest I was a little worried about this but 5 day old...

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We Olli & Lime

Sara bookmarked Olli & Lime a while back during one of her many “cool stuff for kids” Google searches. She was quite determined that Milo would not be having a typical ‘baby’ nursery so Olli & Lime’s stylish kids bedroom furnishings fit the bill perfectly. A few months ago Sprout was accepted to join Skout...

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Newborn Photography, capturing the details

I was very pleased this year when my wife Sara bought me a Canon 50mm f/2.5 EF Macro Lens for my birthday. I’d been thinking of buying a macro lens for a while so I could get extremely close detail shots of newborns and babies but hadn’t really done that much research. Imagine my surprise...

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Isaac, Newborn shoot in Birmingham

When Isaac finally appeared he weighed in at just over 11lbs, a far cry from Archie who I’d shot earlier in the week who weighed only 5lbs. Our son Milo was the biggest newborn I’d shot at 9lb 2 so an 11 pounder was a new one on me! I was also told he looked...

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Olivia, Baby & Family Portrait Shoot in Sutton Coldfield

A couple of weeks ago I had a great family shoot over in Sutton Coldfield. Olivia was a wonderful little model. There was a ton of natural daylight to work with which made my job easy but the huge window (camera left) provided the most amazing catchlights to highlight her already fantastic bright, blue eyes....

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