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I might not be the right photographer for your fam

I might not be the right photographer for your family!

😄 If you just want a single image of your family, all looking their best, smiling for the camera - I’m not the one for you.

First of all, to take a single “perfect” photo, you have to take a lot. The best photo doesn’t happen on the first try.

⛔ There’s an easing in time, someone might be uncomfortable and needs time to warm up. Kids might not play along.

All of these things will determine whether the outcome is “the one photo” you’ve been aiming for.

💟 But apart from that, my style of photographing families is completely different.

❌ I don’t pose you
❌ I don’t ask you to all sit together and smile at the camera
❌ I don’t even expect the kids to do something specific other than being who they are

So this traditional family portrait we all have in our minds – you know, the one taken in a studio with everyone wearing their Sunday Best, grinning at the camera, is absolutely NOT what you’d get from me.

🥰 The images I create for and with you are full of connection, real moments, love, and chaos. They’re authentic and can’t be reproduced for someone else – because they are your family and not someone else’s.

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Are you an introvert or extrovert? I’m an intro

Are you an introvert or extrovert?

I’m an introvert. You may have noticed… Or have you?!

⭐ I’m an introvert and shy when I meet new people. I prefer to observe and read a room before engaging with people.

Often, I prefer to stay back completely and only talk to those who approach me. Days full of interaction and energetic humans exhaust me, and I need time to myself, my own thoughts and no interaction with others as a result.

✨Do you know this feeling?
✨Is that how you feel, too?

If it is, you’re probably an introvert as well.

🚀 Being introverted doesn’t mean that you don’t want to interac,t though.

Families can be full-on and loud. Everybody wants attention and having a photographer around to capture your tribe can lead to louder voices, kids showing off their skills, their toys or their most epic tantrums.

But what if you have shy children? Does that mean they are going to be bad subjects? 👉

No, absolutely not! 🚫

Your photographer should be able to adjust to the different personalities within a family they work with. Luckily most photographers naturally have a good sense of how to do that.

But there is one genre that I personally think lends itself perfectly to capturing quieter families or members of a family that prefer to stand back a bit. It’s documentary family photography. 📷

#FamilyPhotographer #PhotographyDocumentary #FamilyDocumentary #FamilyPhotos #DocumentingFamilyLife #WorthingPhotographer #FamilyPhotographyLondon #PhotographyLondon

❓Are you a business that interacts directly with

🥰 Who hasn’t said the sentence “Do you reme

🥰 Who hasn’t said the sentence “Do you remember when...” while looking at an old photo?!

Family photos have an incredible ability to capture not just moments, but the very essence of emotions.

Candid shots, like those taken during a documentary family photo session, capture laughter, joy, surprise, and a whole load of other human expressions that define our relationships.

💥 When we get together to relive these captured emotions by flicking through a photo album, shared experiences come alive.

The genuine emotions caught in these photos serve as a reminder that life’s most precious moments are often found in the mundane of our daily lives.

The conversations that come from remembering the everyday that shaped our upbringing, can remind us of the bonds and connections between family members as well as friends.

🧠 Do you ever look back at images from your own past and instantly travel back to the day the photo was taken? Can you feel what you felt back then? Images have this incredible capability to do that.

So when was the last time you said “Do you remember when..” while looking at an old photo?! That’s the power of capturing a moment with a camera. The stories that follow can only be evoked by visual reminders like photos.

These are images of my family when I was born. My baby album doesn’t have a lot of photos in it but I found these on my dad’s hard drive. It’s so cool to see them and think back of my childhood.

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