Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts

Monday, 24 August 2015

1 family, 5 years, 5 shoots...





Every year for 5 years I've had a shoot with a special mum and her son. Young mum, Stevie-anne has been a friend of my sister since they were little, and when I was in college, Stevie was my very client! Now 5 years later, little cameron has grown and hopefully so have my photography skills!

Heres the journey...

Year 1 

We choose the beach for our first shoot, little cam here was only 2 at the time. 








Year 2

Year 2 was set in a park which had loads of trees and horses. Cam was still extremely shy and nervous around the camera. 





Year 3 

Year 3 and my photography style had started to develop, I began experimenting with photoshop, creating my now signature style of surreal photography. Cam's favourite thing at the time was superheros, so I wanted to show this in the photos...





Year 4 

Stevie and cam had a new addition to their family, little Poppy, the jack russel. She was a bundle of energy and it was difficult to keep her still long enough for a photo. 






Year 5 

Can't believe that this is the 5th year of shoots! Cam is now almost 7 and is getting more confident.
I know I can make him into his favourite superheros so hes not fussed about the camera anymore. 

Cam still loves his superheroes. 
I brought my dog, alfie on the shoot and he really got on well with Cam. Love this shot of them. 





A massive thank you to Stevie-anne for choosing me to document her son growing up, its been such fun! 

Bring on next years shoot!



Sunday, 11 January 2015

2014 photo journal

Midway through last year I was going through a pretty tricky time. I needed to keep myself distracted and I also wanted to improve my photography and art skills. So putting the two together I decided to make a photo journal for the rest of the year. I thought it would be a great way to see how far I've come when I look back in future years.

At first I was determined to take a photo-a-day, even if it meant using my Iphone camera! But some days I was so busy I forgot and others well, my imagination was lacking and nothing exciting was happening. I still kept it up though, through 7 months I documented (when I could) the things that I was getting up to, places I went, and things that generally inspired me. When 2014 came to an end, although the journal was looking full, there was still empty pages, but I wanted to say goodbye to the year completely but starting a new 2015 journal.

Below are some scanned images of the pages in my 2014 journal. (Many of the photos were taken using my instax mini 8 camera)







Things you can use for your own journal:

Tickets from the cinema, plays, comedy shows
Decorative tape
Scrapbooking extras 
Ink stamps
Old wrapping papers
Pressed flowers
Maps 
Food packages 
Stickers 
Magazine cut outs 
Watercolours