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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.

Category Archives: ~ landscape ~

~ Whitehall Farm – Spring visit ~

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

After my trip in January to the farm, I was really really excited to return for my Spring visit, documenting the seasons of this beautiful farm for 2011. Lots of baby lambs and calfs had been born since Maia and I last visited and the weather was absolutely perfect for us. It was just idyllic.

To tie in with all the new little animals, we took the opportunity to invite a few local children to come and have some pictures taken on the farm too. Many thanks to their parents for letting them in with the animals and helping us. This was all a little experimental. A farm seems like an ideal place to take pictures of children, but in fact it can be quite dangerous and quite a lot of thought went into the visits to make sure everything went swimmingly. In the end I think we got some lovely shots of the farm, kids on the farm, baby animals and just the farm in general.

I love this one of Mia with the Lleyn sheep, she just loves all the animals:

A not so little lamb, they grow fast!

Maia enjoyed her first ride on a horse. I think Harvey is now on her love list.

Some of the beautiful children on the farm and the beautiful stone work and rustic wooden doors:

I was going to have a slideshow here, but it looks like I can’t put a few individual images and a slideshow without it including the previous images. I will post the slideshow as a separate post and put it below this one. Instead, here is the view of the farm from the ice cream stall just over the valley. A perfect place to stop and admire the view:

~ Whitehall Farm Slideshow ~

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Here is the slideshow:

Whitehall Farm, Devon

~ Spring ~

~ Marrakesh ~

Friday, February 18, 2011

I have a friend that travels a fair amount – with work and not with work. Many moons ago at a little get together, she was very interested in learning more about the camera I then had (Canon 30D). I gave her my recommendations and on a trip to the US, she just went for it – bought a good deal of gear and just jumped straight into to DSLR photography. I showed her a few things in Lightroom and she was one of my first students when I ran my Landscape Course. The rest, as they say, is history!

Since then, we get together when we can to geek out about camera gear, I ooh and ahh over her amazing landscapes from all over the world and secretly I was quite envious of all her trips and beautiful scenes that flashed her sensor. Then earlier last year she asked if I wanted to go to Marrakesh with her for a few days to take pictures. Erm, let me think about that for a second…. YES! Easy jet had just started to fly there, there were cheap flights and the plan was to go at a time where the Christmas rush for me should have slowed down.

I was there! And so excited!

Many photographers will know that going on holiday with family – i.e. non photographers, can be quite hard. You want to take more pictures than you feel you can. You need to balance spending time with the family with exploring new spaces through your lens. I think if you are a photographer – or keen on photography, going on a holiday that is purely intended to be for photography is a great idea. Not only was Marrakesh an amazingly beautiful place full of colours and textures and smells, it was just so much fun to be on a photography holiday.

We went at the beginning of December last year and I’ve only just got round to editing my pictures, but here are a few shots. On another trip I’d like to focus more on portraits, but when I went, I was more interested in texture and colour.

~ Wedding – Simone and Phil ~

Friday, November 5, 2010

What an amazing wedding! The locations were dreamy and the bride and groom were just brimming with love and happiness for each other and their life together. Even I was jumping up and down giggling during the day. Simone and her girlfriends all picked out the castles they would marry in that they could see from where they went to school. It just sounds amazing and here she was, getting married in her castle to her prince. Documentation of their life travelled together so far was evident throughout the wedding, on the invitations and especially at the tables showing each guest where they would be sitting. I’m absolutely certain that it will continue to be amazing for you both!

Having already been officially married a couple of days before, we met up in advance of the church ceremony to get some piccies of the bride and groom together. Look at this stunning location and the bride and groom looking forward to their future together, Schloss Meggenhorn overlooking Pilatus and Lake Luzern.