How beautiful it is to travel...

With our recent wedding in France, followed by our relocation to Sweden, I've been very fortunate to visit some beautiful places over the last few months, from the wine region of Bordeaux, to our mini honeymoon in Paris, the beautiful beaches of the South West of England and eventually to my new home in Stockholm, my camera has barely left my side.

Whilst traveling to new countries is something I could never ever tire of, moving to and starting afresh in a new country brings with it many challenges. In Dubai those challenges were learning the cultural and religious etiquette, finding our way around - discovering that maps were out of date before you'd even left the shop with them, understanding administration processes - or the lack of them and generally building up our lives from scratch - of course all of those things seem so familiar to us now, in fact I became much more comfortable with day to day things like food shopping, catching a cab and going to the cinema in Dubai than I feel in the UK now, but its those initial challenges that make moving to a new country so exciting. 

So as we settle in to life in Sweden I've been considering our new challenges, learning a new language, meeting new friends and of course a major one for us, adjusting to the climate. Moving from the desert heat of the UAE to Sweden with its Nordic winter weather will take some getting used to, but with these small challenges comes lots of excitement, the kind of excitement that you only have whilst you're unfamiliar with your environment, every street sign, building, shop, person, type of weather, every single 'everything' is intriguing and beautiful and totally foreign to me, and this is why i've been sure to keep my camera with me as I make these new discoveries, because soon they will become familiar and somewhat common place, but for now as winter approaches and I plan my upcoming travels I will continue to explore the fast changing landscape of Sweden and enjoy being a tourist in my new home town :) 

xox

 

Baby Friends...

Now whilst I've photographed all three of these gorgeous babies before (for their newborn sessions) and they were all an absolute delight, when Karen (Freya's mummy) suggested a little shoot with Freya and her besties I must admit I thought it would be more than a little difficult - trying to photograph all of them smiling, awake, together, looking - but how wrong could I be! 

Freya, Sophie and eventually William after his nap (which he decided he needed in order to entertain the girls), gave their very best performance, they were laughing at their mummies and chilling with their pals. It was so so lovely to see how these babies have grown and developed since their newborn shoot, all of their personalities shining through. 

I cant wait to see them again in a few weeks when I'm back in Dubai xox

Handsome Baby Joseph

Check out this gorgeous little guy ♥

This is Joseph at 11 days old, he belongs to some dear friends of mine, in fact his beautiful mummy appeared on the blog a few weeks ago. Joseph was amazing throughout the shoot, he'd had a restless night before, so poor linda and rich were a bit worried he'd be a bit cranky but he had a good feed and literally slept for the entire shoot, not even twitching when the gorgeous Lennox (the dog) welcomed the postman with a bark ;) 

I hope you enjoy the pics, can't wait to see Joseph in November for some more photo's xox

Check out this handsome little beach bum

Joshua's mummy Kim is the other half of dinkyheart, so when she said she wanted a mini shoot on the beach I knew it would be awesome. Although Kim is on a well deserved break from all things photography at the moment, she wanted me to capture Joshua's first 'proper' experience of the beach, sand between his toes, bare bum in the sea, the lot! 

We weren't really sure what he would make of it all, whether he would hate the textures or attempt to eat everything he touched, so armed with copious amounts of water, baby wipes and a towel mummy and daddy let Joshua explore in his own time and... he absolutely loved it of course ♥