Halloween and bonfire night!

Yes! I love this time of year. Here are my favourite images from the last few days. We went to see the fireworks in Coopers field and they were great. The only thing was, the health and safety fence was about 300 metres from the bonfire. Oh well. Here are some fireworks:





After the fireworks Ann had to have a photo with her bike.



And then of course everyone else had to have one too. I'm not sure how happy Rich will be with me putting a photo of him with a girls hat on my blog.. but this looks like a cool bmx gang/band photo so who cares?



Emma is a tree expert. Here she is taking a photo of one on her phone:



Here is my first ever carved pumpkin - doesn't it look sinister!



Mel on Halloween, looking great with her new eyebrows. I think they suit her:



Fun with sparklers:




Yey! Right, I am going on holiday tomorrow and I'm not back until next Sunday. 90% of me is sooooo excited!!!!! I'm off for a week - no work! And its going to be so much fun!
The other 10% of me is quietly calculating 7 days without my laptop.

I'm sure I will have some lovely photos on my return. xx

Max the dog

I took the opportunity of a walk with Max the dog today to try out my portrait & composition skills. Max is a great subject, he's good looking and patient.

Here he is relaxing in some leaves:


Always on the lookout though for stray squirrels and birds:



I think this is a bit of a Lassie shot:



A nice portrait:



Max loves to snuffle in the grass:




Chasing a bird:




What a cutey!



If you want a pet portrait session (!!!) then they cost the same as a human session - £65 and that includes 2 8x10 archival quality prints. I can't guarantee any pet will look as cute as Max does in these pics though...

Rock star Ben

I photographed Ben at home doing all the stuff he likes best. Little did I know that apart from being an award winning celebrity cricketer Ben is also a rock star. We managed to get photos of Ben in both roles, playing cricket in the park and with his guitar in the garden- and inbetween we shot a few of him relaxing with his toys.







Ben with his Dad:



So cute!



Ben and his mum:





This is Ben doing a Kaiser Chiefs number, he's quite the pro:



Typical rock star behaviour:





I love this one!



This was Ben leaping from one sofa to another one:





Awwww:



Your gallery will be up in a couple of days Prith, thanks for a lovely afternoon x

A walk in the forest

This weekend we went for a walk in the forest by Castle Coch with our friend Emma and Max the dog.

Here we are in the car with Emma (not) gamely joining in the silly face photo. I think I have one of these photos from every road trip I've been on:



The forest:







I wanted a photo of Max looking like a statue:



Some gruesome looking mushrooms:

Michelle and Mike's Wedding

Michelle and Mike got married in St Augustine's chuch in Rumney which is a lovely old stone church. It threatened to rain on the day but it didn't in the end, yey! Michelle and Mike are both really fun, genuine people and they really took care of us throughout the day. Michelle's dress was fabulous but most of all I LOVED the autumn colour scheme. It looked fantastic. There were so many fun little things throughout the day to keep everyone amused, and it showed how important friends and family are to these two.

Beautiful burnt orange cala lillies:



Michelle's daughter Evie looking very cute:



I love this photo, it makes me smile:



How cool do the guys look?







Look at the lovely colours!









Hope you're had a great honeymoon guys, hello to Evie, Gail, Zoe and the gang and see you soon x

Photographer extraordinaire, Jay Bedwani shot this wedding with me. Jay is the loveliest wedding photographer you will ever meet, even lovelier than me! Jay is a professional documentary photographer who will be photographing the weddings I am unable to shoot next year because we are going to New Zealand. Here are just a few of his shots from the day:











Contact Jay at jbedwani@fastmail.co.uk. Or through my website. More from Jay soon....

An exciting dream

Last night I had a dream in which I bought another Canon 580EX speedlight flash and was setting it up to use with my other flashes. I was working out the flash exposure compensation for the scene and deciding on various settings.

Thats it - that was the entire dream! What a complete nerd. Mind, you I think dreams can be a way for your subconcious to tell you something important, so I'm actually going to buy the 580EX. And then hopefully I will have more exciting dreams.