Last Sunday (11th October) saw photographers around the World uniting to raise money to help find a cure for cancer, and I was one of the photographers who took part.
My shoot was a set of family lifestyle sessions which we held at Jonathan David’s coffee shop in Epworth, North Lincs which was kindly opened and staffed by David and Jo at their own expense to support what I was doing.
We opened for shooting at 10am and our first session actually started at 11am with Dylan & Dalton
Pictured here with their Dad.
Then we had the reluctant Hannah who turned up with her Mother, God-Mother and assorted relatives – filling the shop nicely !! Hannah was not having her picture taken, but we soon got her into the swing of things and had loads of fun with various combinations and permutations before we ended up with this one
After the family we had a 1 year old litle boy to shoot – he was quite excitable but understandably nervous – but I started off with him being held by his father and took a few pictures and then eventually he was happy to run around on his own which allowed me to get some lovely images
After this little boy we moved straight into a shoot with a baby – which was a completely different challenge and a baby doesn’t take direction or pose, has to be placed and arranged carefully – and doesn’t like being taken out into the cold to be shot in the nice light !!
But once again we were able to achieve some great results, here is baby Eva
Eva’s shoot was quite brief and then we had a small break – and then my own little bundle of energy arrived for his shoot, enter Josh !!
And despite me being a professional photographer, it’s not very often I get the chance to shoot Josh in a ‘real’ shoot so it was nice to be able to direct him and see how he would react to the setting etc. as you can see I think he enjoyed himself !!
Finally we had Jodie and Joseph. Jodie was raring to go the minute she arrived but Joseph was not at all sure and refused to have anything to do with me or the shoot – so we worked with Jodie on her own for quite a while capturing some beautiful images. eventually curiosity got the better of Joseph and he joined in to which enabled me to get a great set of brother/sister images as well as lovely solo shots – here we have Jodie
By now it was 4pm and time to call it a day – I was shattered as I normally only shoot a single session in a day so to manage 6 I think I did pretty well !! and we raised £120 into the bargain.
I now have to final edit all the images and upload them to the online gallery so the families can get to them
Bring on next years session
