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Dogs are part of the family of course and I am always happy to include them in family portrait. Sometimes it’s nice however to take a bit more time and photograph the faithful family friend in more of a natural situation. Making this kind of portrait takes a bit longer (dogs are usually not as cooperative as humans!) but it’s always worth the effort.
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Jason runs the very nice Oslar Coffee in Wokingham. If you know your Monsoon Malabar from your Ethiopian Sidano you’ll immediately know that Oslar serves a very fine brew indeed. Last week Jason agreed to host a small exhibition of my portrait photographs from my Just One Thing series.
If you’re in Wokingham, please drop by Oslar Coffee in Denmark Street and have a look!
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It’s the opposite of a white background, energetic image with pumped up colours and this style focusses on the faces of the family. I think it’s a timeless style and will continue to look good many years in the future.
My thanks go to Lindsay and Chris for bring the family in again – it’s always a pleasure to create some new images for the family gallery :)
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Here’s a couple of favourite images from Chris and Sarah’s family portrait session. This is baby Max – he loves the garden so we decided to photograph in and around the trees, a little walk from the house. Sarah tells me that Maxi is always a lot more relaxed outside than inside which is really interesting. I wonder if that will continue as he gets older. It’s always nice to choose a location for the family portrait for a reason. Most of my family photography sessions are at home because of that and it’s always good to have a relevant location that means something to you, particularly important ten or twenty years after the portrait is made.
Here are some of my favourite family portrait photographs from a session I did in Henley-on-Thames recently.
David and Lisa asked me to photograph their family at their home just outside Henley town centre. Whenever I photograph families with older children I am only too well aware that it’s a time of life when the kids are due to fly the nest very soon and will come back home in a month, in six months or a year and are very different from when they left.
It’s often a time of university, travel or work and although my two children are only 11 and 14 now, I know that it’s only a matter of time before they are off into the unknown. It is such a pleasure to have some family portraits hanging in a room where you spend a lot of time. Even these days we only sit down for dinner together at weekends as the working week seems like one mad rush. I know when my kids are off on their own adventures, our own family portrait becomes so much more than a picture filling a space on a wall – it’s a wonderful reminder of the family time we spent together.
Very frequently families tell me a family portrait is something they have been meaning to get around to for ages and it’s always a pleasure to work for these families producing something that I know they will treasure for many years to come.
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