
I have recently started working with kraft Gifts, an online store with it's HQ in Bridgnorth who sell an absolutely huge and growing number of personalized gifts with various hand drawn designs. Such a large variety of designs in fact, that it was simpler for us to shoot the bags and lunch bags without any design on them, and inserted the illustrations in after the session, (hence the blank panels) but you can view all of the available designs here







Jez is a personal development coach based in Shropshire, and a couple of weeks ago we shot some portraits for his website launch. So if you're looking for some inspiration for yourself or for your team, head over to his site to find out more.

In May I travelled over to my original neck of the woods, to The Holy Trinity Church in Short Heath to photograph my very first christening, for the wonderful 10 week old Emilia Rose. I'd been prepared for a grouchy newborn (I mean, who wouldn't be grouchy about a stranger sprinkling water on your hair when you could be having a nap, and then some random lady following you around with a camera for a few hours?), but Emilia was the most relaxed baby in the world, with the sweetest little baby face and along with her charming big brothers who never ran out of smiles for me, made my job a particularly easy one.
After the service we popped over the road to the Duke of Cambridge pub, for cake and nibbles. But mostly cake.
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Lavender Cottage is a brand new holiday cottage available to rent in Astley Abbotts, just a little outside of Bridgnorth High Town. The cottage was converted from the old Lavender Farm shop, into a 3 bedroom property with a fully renovated interior and surrounded by beautiful, rural Shropshire countryside.
I was invited along to take some commercial property photography of the cottage for the online holiday booking sites that it will be hosted on, which was a treat for me, given the cottage's beautiful views, wonderful sunlight and the fact that it's located in a parish I know rather well.
You can view Air BNB's listing for Lavender Cottage Here

I'm so excited to finally share these images from my latest session with That's Nice Interiors. Once again we worked out on location, this time visiting a local country park and setting up a most decadent table lay out of pretty glassware, dinnerware, candles and delicious food. We picked a time during the late afternoon, catching the sun just at the perfect time to create this gorgeous summer evening glow, perfect for a warm weather picnic.















While sunny days at the seaside are pretty hard to come by in the UK, the gloomy ones do make perfect oppertunities to capture moody black and white images, and those are my favourite kind.
For session 7 with That's Nice Interiors we took the show on the road, using a location setting as a backdrop for some kitchen products.
In April I returned to Only-Way HQ to photograph the latest addition their collection, a gorgeous, cap sleeved maxi gown for Junior bridesmaids modelled here by the truely lovely Mabel. Rory got to hang out with her favourite grown up model friend, Ashton, and we all learned that these dresses are just amazing for twirling in.
You can find more of The Only-Way Dress range at onlyway.co.uk