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Darcy by Katy Melling

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

When photographer Katy Melling got in touch asking if we’d like to feature any of her recent portrait shoots, I had to go with Darcy. She is just adorable, and I love the range of facial expressions Katy captured! Here Katy tells us more about the sweet shoot…

Birthday girl

Darcy had just celebrated her first birthday that week and Mum, Julie, wanted me to photograph her at this special time in her life. We decided the session would take place at their home in Newcastle as we wanted to keep it simple and get some shots of Darcy in her nappy whilst she still looked little. Babies grow up so quickly and before you know it they’re on their feet, so this session was timed perfectly to capture some wonderful memories.

I love to photograph little ones as they are yet to become camera shy, and my main aim is to truly capture the child’s character just as I did with little Darcy. She was full of smiles and cuddles for teddy and an absolute sweetheart to photograph. She even had a splash about in a bubble bath for me!

Thanks so much to Katy and Darcy’s parents for sharing. If you’d like to take a peek at more of Katy’s work as a family photographer and children’s photographer within Newcastle, Northumberland and the North East, you’ll find all her details below.

I’m going to leave you with one last photo… I bet this one will be getting a grin out of you :D

Debs

 Photographer Details:
 Katy Melling’s website
 Katy’s blog
Katy’s Facebook
Katy’s Twitter
 Contact Katy
 Phone: 0191 2841080

Tags: baby, children, natural light, photographer, photographs, Photography, portrait, shoot
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Parisian maternity shoot

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

I have a truly gorgeous Parisian maternity shoot to share with you today courtesy of Brian Wright of French Grey Photography.

“Katarina is from Japan, and Nicholas is from France, and together they very excited to be expecting a baby boy soon!
They decided to celebrate this unique moment in their lives by having some beautiful photographs taken in their favourite Parisian garden, before their new life begins - as three!
Choosing a quiet Saturday in early summer at the enchanting Jardin du Luxembourg, they spent the afternoon relaxing and sharing some tender moments in Paris.”

I love how these pictures almost look like they could be in a studio, kind of like a picture book, whilst still being so obviously natural. What an exciting time for those two! I’m jealous! :) Good luck to Katarina and Nicholas and thank you so much to Brian for sharing this beautiful shoot!

Verity

Vendor Details:
French Grey Photography website
French Grey Photography on facebook

Tags: brian wright, family photography, family photos, maternity shoot, paris, photo shoot, photographer, photographs, photoshoot, shoot
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Real rooms : Vivien Charles Lay : Born 18-11-10

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Pastel pink and baby blue are, of course, lovely choices for your baby’s room. But I do love to see something that’s different from the norm, that uses colours you’d never normally associate with a little baby and that has so much meaning in the design. This nursery is one of them rooms!

Vivi Charles is the lucky owner of this stupidly gorgeous nursery and her mummy Joni is a designer (it figures!) who, along with creating this stunning room, also creates wedding signage and stationey under the name Chocolate Butterbean. She’s also just started her own blog Lay Baby Lay to document her new life as a mum and beautiful baby-related finds.

Pictures & words

My favourite part of the nursery, and one of Joni’s too, is the arrangement of photographs amongst heartfelt quotations. As Joni explains on her blog:

I used it as a family tree of sorts – Chip’s family is on the right, mine is on the left. I tell Vivi about each family member – some of which are no longer with us, so she knows about her heritage and those who love her most. The verse in the middle is special (Proverbs 4:23), because her name means “Life”, and the quote to the right of it is from my favorite Fruit Bats song (“When you love someone, it’s hard to think about anything but to breathe.”)

The quote on the bottom left says “Just soak it all in”, which is a piece of advice given to me by my grandmother during a God-given conversation I had with her during some of her last lucid moments. She told me to “just soak it all in, because it goes by way too quickly.” I have repeated those words to myself over and over since then – when I got married, when I launched out on my own to start a business, and with the birth of Vivi, not to mention a thousand other seemingly small yet precious moments. It serves as a reminder to myself as I change stinky diapers and console cries that this truly is only a very brief season, and I know even at my weariest moments that it is one I will look back on with extreme fondness many years from now. I try to treasure up each sweet cuddle in my heart!