Lifestyle photography in Basel, Switzerland.

A few things about me:

I'm British.

My favourite relaxing passtime is knitting. In times past it used to be running (alas, not much since giving birth to my delightful daughter - one day I'll run a marathon again).

When I first came to Basel I brought with me only some clothes, 2 pairs of shoes, a shuttle computer (very small desktop PC, no monitor) and my cello in order to live a more simple life. It worked... for a while.

I am the eldest of three, my two other siblings being brothers, Dan and Tom.

There is a 13 year gap between me and my youngest brother.

I grew up in small southern villages in the UK.

I have a degree from the University of Sheffield in Mathematics and Philosophy.

I really wish there was a real fish and chip shop here in Basel. Just one. (Nordsee doesn't count!)

Same goes for a M&S.

In the right mood my eyes can change colour and become flurescent green.

I love taking pictures.

~ Family of 6 ~

Thursday, February 2, 2012

This is my last shoot from last year that I need to edit. Starting the new year so behind on work hasn’t been much fun, so I am going to pretend that Feb is the beginning of the year! I also planned to not really have any shoots in Jan, so I can just relax a little and focus on other work things. I still had those other work things to take care of and I had 3 newborns and a family shoot. No rest for the wicked, eh! Feb should be a little more quiet and than with my weekend off at the end of the month and then Fastnacht holidays (meaning I get to look after my little girl for the week whilst her day care is closed) and then on my birthday – 7th March, I fly to Austin Texas for my workshop with Pinkletoes Photography! So very excited. I feel like I look at my diary, blink and it is already the next month!

I’m happy for the snow though, fixing dates for my 4 Seasons shoots has been a little tricky, but I think we are sorted with that now. I am looking forward to seeing lots of fresh faced wrapped up families. The first day of shoots will be this Sunday. Brrrr…

So, here are the sneak peek piccies from a shoot last December! (I know.. so behind, but they knew there would be a wait for these). For some reason, I thought this family had three kids and a dog when I turned up and the family were a little confused when I was asking where the dog was! I can be a little bit ditzy sometimes. Instead, I was greeted by a lovely big sister, who has three younger brothers, including a set of twins. Very cute – all of them. Here they are out in the garden in front of their house:

What a great house shape too. Love it!

Guess where the family are from:

Everyone together, caught in my fish-eye:

I couldn’t resist a foot shot of the kids before I left:

Thanks for being so patient waiting for these, I will have your full gallery with you very soon! Hope the kids all enjoyed their extra presents that I secured with Santa for them!!

by Claire

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~ Just 2 days old ~

Friday, January 27, 2012

The maternity session from this family is just a few posts down. I was away for a working week in Jan and it’s always difficult to plan shoots for babies that aren’t scheduled in for a c-section. Even that doesn’t stop some babies saying hello not on that set date!

This little one was born a few days before I planned to to go to London for one of my working weeks this month (nothing work related, just a little holiday time for me after the run up to Christmas and then the holidays – something that will now be a regular feature in my yearly schedule). We had the option of doing it before I went or after and we chose before, so I got to go and see this lovely family on the second day of this little one’s life.

It’s always interesting to see how older siblings react to new babies in the house, especially if it has only been them up until this point. I think this big sister will be wonderful, look how proud and loving she is already:

Another beautiful little girl:

With the mummies:

And the daddies:

Aptly named, ‘sleepy head’ by her big sister:

I am really looking forward to seeing her grow over the next year or so.

by Claire

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~ Before & After ~

Friday, January 27, 2012

Things got a little crazy before Christmas so not everyone got a blog post sneak preview in lui of getting their images to them quicker. Here is a before and after shoot that I did.. Lucky we did shoot the maternity session when we did, because this little lad came a few weeks early and we would have missed those lovely pics of mummy and her baby bump.

Before:

After:

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~ January Sale ~

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Happy New Year everyone!

I’m perhaps a little late with this one, but better late than never!

I will be having the same sale as I did last year. Annually, I put up my sitting fee by 50CHF, so for 2012, it will now be 400CHF to reserve a session with me and cover the creative fees involved for me taking, editing and proofing your images after a session with me.

My Product list prices will however, remain unchanged. I tend to make minor adjustments throughout the year on that one anyway.

My January sale gives you a session in 2012 for the price of a session in 2011 AND you also get 100CHF credit towards your order when it comes to putting that in – a saving of 150CHF in total. So, if you know that you want a session in 2012, we don’t have to fix a date just yet, you just need to let me know you want a session and this deal will apply. All you have to do is pay the session fee before the end of the month.

You can email me or send me a message through the contact form on this site.

Other great news for 2012 is that I will be attending an amazing photography workshop in Austin, Texas, held by the amazing Pinkletoes mastermind, Michelle Anderson. I consider her to be one of the best lifestyle photographers in the world and am so happy to be able to attend a workshop with her. As well as covering style and workflow processes, she has a great business model going, so it is possible that I may consider restructuring my price system after this workshop. Any changes in the future are likely to happen as of April this year. It might mean than in the future all digital images from a session with me will be included by default, but the baseline price of a session with me will be higher. So, if you value complete choice, booking a session with me now with the Jan sale price is recommended!

Finally, I wanted to add some images to this post. My daughter enjoyed having her cousin to stay over the holidays and we all went to the zoo together, here are a few pics of her cousin. You may recognise her from the header of my blog page – up there she was only 3 months old. She is now quite a bit bigger and was an absolute delight to have around for a week or so with her parents.

Love her big brown eyes: