The Three Sisters

Our friends Sarah & Graham got in touch recently to book us in for a shoot, and we were excited to be meeting Penny (their new addition to the family) for real, as we had been following her first couple of months through social media! We packed an overnight bag and headed across to Crosby.

Penny has 2 sisters watching out for her - Amy and Hattie. It was a joy to see their bond, their big love for each other. It was a shoot in two parts, a blustery afternoon on the Crosby sands, and then the following morning at home. It was good to spend time with friends.

Hattie's Breakfast

Just as we're all tucking into our Saturday morning breakfasts, I thought I'd share these. I was finishing an edit yesterday of a shoot we did with our friend's three little girls. I loved this little progression of shots with Hattie, she's the middle sister. As you can see, Hattie likes her weetabix. In fact, it's the perfect breakfast for a little super hero...

Alice's First Steps.

My Mum loves to tell the story of when I started walking, at the ripe old age of two and a bit. Before I was upwardly mobile, I had refined the art of shuffling around on my posterior to get from a to b. When my sister came along four years later, she had a pile of hand-me-downs, all a little threadbare around the bottom. A little concerned about me not standing on my own two feet, my Mum took me to the doctor, who declared 'oh there's nothing wrong with her, she's just lazy'. That's the bit my Mum loves retelling...

Not so for Alice! We've been documenting her life for the past nine months. The week before our last shoot, Alice had taken her first tentative steps at home, and she was pretty happy about it! We took a trip up to a meadow above Hebden Bridge one sunny Sunday with Alice, Archie, Jane & Carolynne. It felt pretty special to be capturing this chapter in her life, and all at the tender age of one...

From this....

To this.....

There's no stopping her now!