Thank you for your interest in Indigo Star Photography. I am only able to take on a very few shoots during 2012, so will be relaunching Indigo Star Photography properly in 2013. If you would like to be added to my mailing list to be told when I am ‘open for business’ once again, please drop me an email at carole@indigostarphotography.co.uk
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.
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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.
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Lily is the third baby that I have photographed from Harry & May’s antenatal class, and she proved to be just as good a model as her two friends. Lily is just short of 12 weeks old in these photos, and is a very alert, lively and (as is hopefully very clear from these images) beautiful little girl. Doing a photo shoot can be quite tiring for young babies, as there is a lot of stimulation for them in being moved around, posed, getting a lot of attention over an extended period of time. Lily normally has a nap in the middle of the day, which was towards the end of our shoot. Sam & Trevor, Lily’s mum & dad, told me that she isn’t always that keen on having a daytime nap – after all, there are baby gyms and toy monkeys to be played with!! – but as we approached that time during the shoot, she pretty much just conked out! Of course, we couldn’t leave her alone even then, and managed a few shots of Lily in gorgeous slumber, before she woke up and sprang into action again!!! I love all of these images below, but there’s something about a sleeping baby that just makes me catch my breath and my insides go all mushy – so I’ve saved that one for last, and hope it leaves you mushy too!.
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Every year, I produce a Christmas card for our relatives and a few close friends. I try to come up with a different idea each year – some have worked better than others! – and set out with great optimism to capture my children’s cheeky grins in some sort of seasonal pose. It generally takes me as long as I would spend on a whole shoot for anyone else’s children to get one image that is sort of usable, and this year was no different. However, I was quite pleased with the result, and printed up a batch to send to everyone I’d done shoots for and all our friends and relatives (well, having thought we’d completely over-ordered, we actually ran out, so didn’t quite get them to everybody – but I did manage to sneak one away into my sample drawer, so have that available to show anyone who would like to see the quality of these professionally printed cards).
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by Carole
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