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Hello, My name is Lucy, I am a wife, mum and portrait and wedding photographer. My photography is about more than mementos of a portrait session or wedding day, it is emotion, soul, life, love and light. To me, it is not just about capturing how someone looks but how they feel, who they are at that point in time. My job as your photographer is to capture beautiful images, images that will not only serve as bespoke art for your home, gorgeous gifts for loved ones but as vibrant, happy memories that you will treasure for a lifetime.

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Tuesday 26 April 2011

Christy & Jack

Christy and Jack were a wonderful couple to photograph, really at ease with each other and totally natural in front of the camera. Here are some photos from their session from last week. I learned something about about the way I process thoughts and images from this session. Something about this couple, reminded me of ... something, I couldn't quite place it at the time. Anyhow, I uploaded the images and started processing.

Now, I don't have a formula or strict method for doing this for anyone. Rightly or wrongly, the images lend themselves to a particular post processing treatment. Some call out for soft hues or bold colour, high contrast black and whites and whilst I like my images to have a 'style' that is in keeping with my particular brand of photography, sometimes I have to try something new. The latter photos in this selection are well (don't wince...) sepia. OK there not REALLY sepia, just a little. SOMETHING was driving me to make these images like that and it has only just dawned on me what this was. I know I am off on a strange tangent here, bear with me...

1990's athena postcards.

Does ANYONE remember these? Please tell me I'm not the only one who does. Google has not helped one iota in my search. I used to have a small collection of postcards in the 90's of the Volkswagen themed cards, focused on people not the actual cars themselves. They were very much in this kind of style and I simply adored them. I managed to dig out one of these old cards from my red box of memories, because, yes, it was bugging me that much and sure enough and one was of the VW passatt girl form the commerical:



And sure enough... that hair... she's a mini Christy!

Funny how this information stays with us and shapes how we see and create things. There, I'm done, just a little 'share'. Here are the photos... Oh, and if you do happen across one of these postcard images, do forward a link xx





Gorgeous Spring Day

When I met up with this lovely family, at a fabulous location, the weather was utterly perfect. I really love this time of year so much. We played, explored, walked and had fun... fabulous!