Family Andrews | Portrait

Time for my annual shoot with Emma, Dan and their two spirited daughters. This time we hung out in Sheffield Botanical Gardens for the afternoon and played with squirrels, hedgehogs, rainbow umbrellas, bubbles and double exposures. After all that play we headed to Couch on Ecclesall road for coffee, cake and a couple of renditions of songs from Frozen. It's lovely to meet up and capture this family each year, I get to see how the girls change and grow and have a good natter with Emma. To mark the fact that this is an annual event, we started a tradition of taking a photo with a print from the last shoot, next year we'll print this shot and have that one in a photo ... if we keep this up we'll have an infinity effect of photos within photos within photos. Huzzah.

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Amy and Andy | Portrait

Ooh  hasn't the weather been lovely - and Saturday evening was a fine time for a stroll in Ecclesall Woods with Amy, Andy and Enzo the excitable schnauzer. It was a grand time of year for it too with bluebells out in abundance. Amy and Andy get married in a couple of weeks so this was a little warm up for the occasion. Alas Enzo wont be there - his spiritedness might be a bit too much for a white dress and lots of people. My campaign for more woofs at weddings falls at the first attempt :)

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Lou | Birthday

Last night I had the pleasure of being given as a surprise present to Lou as she celebrated her 50th birthday. Alas I didn't get to jump out of a cake - maybe next time. I do enjoy a good surprise - so I was pleased to conspire during the week with guest Mark after spending time with him and his family last month. I really enjoyed spending some time with Lou and her friends settling in to what promised to be a very jolly evening of celebration. It was a glorious evening to spend on the terrace of Brasserie 44 overlooking the River Aire in Leeds. The evening sun was glowing nearly as much as all these lovely folk who seemed to beam with friendship and love for one another.

Happy Birthday Lou! 

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