My exhausted husband needed a well earned break so we skipped off on a last minute package deal to Kenya which was amazingly cheap! James is just about managing to tame me to a lazy holiday, I barely disturbed at all with my childish requests of  ‘lets do something!’ We’ve already travelled around this area so there was no pressure to see everything, just a nice windy route around the beaches and lots of good reading and eating icecream. As we’re always doing ‘research’ for our hotel design, we stayed in a few unique places. I highly recommend Che Shale in Malindi, Kilili Baharini in Malindi and the lovely Serena hotel in Shanzu which we think is one of the best hotels on the Kenyan coast.

This is Che Shale – the only place we found with no other hotel on the beach! Its all very ecofriendly, everything is made with natural resources and at the moment the owner is having a go at building his own wind turbine tower.

Marafa Depression

Next, onto Mida Creek, another beautifully deserted place…

Here’s the second part of my first shoot with Pocket Wizard flash system and singer Hannah Atkins. See below for the contrasting first part with the wedding dress and Hampton Manor as the backdrop.

After dancing the night away til 4am, I finally managed to get my 2 best friends Nicola and Sylvia out of bed at 1pm (slackers..) for a traditional new years day walk. Despite the wear of the night before, they were gracious enough to join in a few snaps in the lovely afternoon light…

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I’m pleased to announce I received 17th place in the Wedding Photojournalist Association contest in the creative portrait category, which is entered by photographers all over the world. This is added to the the 2 awards I won last year as well which placed me as medallion winning member. Thanks to Sara and Pete whose [...]

A few months ago, we had the pleasure of hosting Damien Lovegrove and Chris Hanley to run one of their famous workshops at Hampton Manor, where I work from. They have been promoting radio controlled communication between flashes, using the new Pocket Wizard system. Having limited my use of off camera flash at weddings because [...]

Melissa and Charles got married on the Englefield Estate which must be the most picturesque church setting with its own mansion and deer park behind it! Melissa is a wedding photographer herself so it was a privilege to be chosen by someone with a photographic eye and she was fairly well behaved as promised to [...]

This is going to be a big post! Partly because there were too many fantastic images to choose from and partly because the happy couple are now travelling around Asia for the next 3 months and thats a long time to wait to see your wedding pictures!
Anne Sophie and Hakon are from Norway and flew [...]

Sharon and Will were blessed with a beautiful summers day. They had their wedding at Quendon Park, overlooking the deer park. Will’s family are from Nigeria so they introduced everyone to the Nigerian tradition of breaking the kola nut before the wedding breakfast. The evening entertainment was fantastic…see below!

Anne Sophie and Hakon are a lovely Norwegian couple getting married in 2 weeks at Chewton Glen.  I had great fun with them today in the sunshine.  Anne Sophie had a terrific 50s style dress which I got her twirling in. Hakon helped her choregraph her moves… standing behind me and making up ridiculous poses [...]