Indigo Star Photography

I had the pleasure of meeting Lydia and Joe and photographing their beautiful daughter, Anna, over the weekend. Anna had just turned 7 months old, which is a fantastic age to photograph as she is so responsive and into exploring everything (including Grandma’s snowdrops which we put to good use for some lovely Spring photos in the garden and which very nearly made a tasty snack too). Anna also reminded me that babies of this age can somehow manage to move quite deftly even if they can’t officially crawl yet …….. luckily, Lydia has very quick reactions and managed to catch Anna as she dived headfirst off the bed! (all of which I watched in slow motion through my viewfinder … I was on the verge of throwing the camera aside to catch Anna, honestly I was!). I think I managed to get back into Joe’s good books again after dragging him away from the England rugby match to feature in ‘just a few more images’, by leaving before he missed the whole match, so I am looking forward to being invited back to show them my favourite images from the day. I’ve posted a few of these below, as a taster.

I first photographed Harry when he was 4 weeks old, so I was delighted to be asked back for another shoot as he approached 5 months of age. Harry screamed his way through the first shoot, so I should not have been surprised to find that he has turned into a very expressive little boy. Thankfully, this time he was full of smiles and giggles, so mum Debbie, dad Shaun, Harry and I had a fun few hours playing and taking photos. We’re still working on Bill the cat, who just looks angry in every photo, although he is in fact a real softy. Perhaps he just wants his own shoot, instead of having to be an accessory to Harry’s photos!  I’ve attached a few images from the shoot below. I’ve also posted a couple of out-takes on the Indigo Star Photography page on Facebook, so pop over there for a bit of a treat.

Please meet beautiful May, who was a couple of days short of 12 weeks old when I took these photographs. May is a good friend of Harry’s (see 18 October post), as they were in the same ante-natal class (which, incidentally, was run by national treasure Nancy, who was my midwife when I was pregnant with both of my children!). I am reliably informed by their mums that May and Harry outweighed any other baby in their group at least 3 times over, but I find it hard to believe, as they seemed just the perfect size to me! As you will see, May has the most gorgeous enormous melty brown eyes, and despite November’s best attempt to give us no natural light at all on the morning of the shoot, she was a dream to photograph. This was my last shoot before Christmas, and we managed to get some last minute Christmas presents with canvases for the grandparents and calendars for everyone on mum & dad Alex & Chris’s gift list! Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to get Christmas cards printed and into the post, but I had fun mocking up a card with May in her special reindeer hat.