A FAMILY SESSION GUIDE
Guides to Family Sessions whether small or large groups in London or Hampshire
I have LOVED creating these and they are useful to share with the members of your family participating in our session so they know what to expect and useful to look through after our session to get inspiration on how your beautiful images can be presented!
I’m excited to create your guide and plan our session soon!
A Couples guide to our session
For each of my proposal couples and couples celebrating their love I create shoot plans and guides similar to the ones above.
After an email or chat over the phone where we discuss the details of your vision, we set up the following
Your Celebration/Occassion: Proposal/Anniversary/Birthday/Just Because
Our Route: Depending upon your goals and favourite spots
Time: Morning/Late Afternoon/Evening
Location: London/Hampshire
Delivery: Digital/Prints
This is always super helpful for both of us to confirm the details and sure everything up.
Planning on Proposing????????
YES!!!!
This is SUPER exciting!!! You’ve decided to pop the question and I can help to capture the moment!!
Proposals are such a fun moment to photograph and if you have decided now is the time, we can work together to come up with a plan!
We will set your location, time of day (earlier the better to avoid the crowds and have it be more of a quiet personal moment) Cheers and congratulations from passers by is ALWAYS so heart warming too though!! + I always find it’s best to have a scenario where I offer to take a photo so you can use that as your prompt to get ready to drop down on one knee! following your proposal we can capture engagement pictures.
Following a chat over the phone I create a plan for us to ensure your proposal goes as smoothly as possible.
Proposal sessions can be booked in 30 / 60 or 120 minutes session slots, just get in touch with your planned date + we’ll go from there!
You've chosen me to Photograph your wedding - What's Next?
Sample pages from my guide.
A Handy PDF guide you can print out, lands in your inbox!
Once I am booked for your wedding date and your deposit has been paid, I send out a handy guide which gives you all the photography information specifically tailored for your wedding day - the lead up including engagement session and venue visit and afterwards with timelines for your wedding album and picture.
Step 1. BOOK ME, your date is in the diary
Step 2. I send out your guide
Step 3. We book a date for your venue visit and / or engagement pictures on the same day. Your engagement pictures do not have to be at your venue, we can chat through ad select a place that has meaning for you or even where you got engaged. From this visit we choose spot for pictures in all weathers + we go through an example image list (also in the guide) of groups/family/friend pictures you’d like captured.
Step 4 From your engagement pictures you choose images either for your guest book or signing frame and I put all this together + bring it along on your wedding day.
Step 4.5 I check in the week before your wedding, last checks on times and running order of the day (sometimes also offering breathing techniques to help with nerves) :-) x
Step 5 Your Wedding Day!! We have done the leg work on where your pictures will be taken, gotten the lay of the land with the venue so you ease into your magical day and I will go about capturing it.
Step 6. Within 36 hours a sneak peek gallery from your gorgeous day will be live to view and share with your guests, your whole gallery will be ready within 14 days + from there you can decide upon your selection for your album(s). Prints can also be ordered for yourself or your guests.
Step 7. We work together to create and design your wedding album. This process can take a few weeks to a couple of months, I order your album and triple check everything when it comes back before sending it out to you YAY!!
If you have ANY questions along the way I am just at the end of a phone call or an email + have a list of amazing suppliers I can recommend too!
A Blast of colour to help lift lockdown
New Born Pictures - Otis, Brixton, March 2020
A Kew Gardens Proposal + Engagement Pictures March 2020
Friday afternoon confessionals..............
So I’m standing in the queue at Sainsbury’s writing this trying to utilise the time - I could wile away the (insert minutes/hours) but I’d rather not. When the productivity or inspiration hits I have found I have to act!
Fortunately I haven’t had to line up like this before - snaking around the car park, pausing at upturned box markers. I actually haven’t seen this many people in one place for over 44 days. It feels a bit weird.
Soooo this week, just like last seems to have whipped by in a flash- it’s been intersected by rain, the odd look at the news + punctuated with power surges of productivity that I’ve been shocked by and had to rest from afterwards, funny ol business lockdown.
I’ve swung from missing hugging people (I’m a hugger) to considering I might not even want to leave the house when this is over let alone squeeze my friends in delight. Perhaps my hugging personality trait will be defunked post lockdown. I’m going to ponder on that……
This Friday I just wanted to check in, see how everyone is doing, connect, smile + say ‘Hi’ :-) I’m sharing a couple images here from my week, the top one - a snippet of a hidden corner of London <3 swoon the neon sign and moodyness!! The second a project from my garden and the debris I collected whilst tidying it up a couple weeks ago, it’s amazing what you ‘see’ when you actually look!
So I hope whatever you’re up to this evening you’re enjoying yourselves, stay safe, stay home, BIG (virtual) HUGS xx
Amy + Tony's non wedding, wedding day
Easter Friday, April 10th, 2020
I hope everyone is doing ok + keeping safe + well xx
On what should have been Amy & Tony’s wedding day last Friday I wanted to share such a neat way to commemorate the lockdown. Amy messaged to ask if we could all send over a photo of ourselves at 5pm soooo we all took photos of ourselves in lockdown cheers-ing them at 5pm, the time their speeches were scheduled for and Amy + Tony shared their photo with us too.
Amy is going to showcase all the images for their actually wedding date which has been rescheduled for October 2nd….such a lovely idea + great way to commemorate them + their original wedding date. #stayhome so I wanted to share highlights from their engagement session back in November along Albert Embankment in Chelsea, South London.
BIG LOVE to Amy + Tony and all the couples rescheduling their wedding days xx
I feel like this is important to share x
I’ve had a couple of posts pop up on my Instagram feeds today + they’ve really resonated (as I’m sure they will with everyone) + I felt it important to share xx
Keep navigating as best you can, keep on keeping on ❤️
Friday Afternoon Confessionals.....
Two weeks ago I landed in Boston, One week ago I landed back in London, when things move rapidly, all we can do is hang on and try our best to navigate the ride!
This afternoon as I write this, looking out at the sunshine, blue sky and peacefulness, I am 100% sure everyone everywhere is still feeling the surreal-ness of the situations we are adjusting to - I’m not going to harness that, instead I’m sharing my trip back to Maine, the walks I took in nature + the portraits at a distance I created + a couple of shots from my phone of the amazing colours I’m seeing on my daily walks x
So Maine, my spiritual haven, hmmm perhaps better to say my photographic haven where the photo magic first happened. A workshop back at my old school with my fabulous professor learning carbon transfer printing.
All the info I had read ahead of class told me just how tricky it was - AND IT IS!! BUT it was also really wonderful to be connecting with the photographic process and craft back in the dark room after quite a long time away. I used one of my images of one of my brides + for a first attempt it has encouraged me to experiment further when the time is right and to take this process and see where it takes me…….
This trip also enabled me to get back in to deep nature and embrace the sea air and sunsets!!! The light has always been magical in Maine and now home on my evening walks I am also seeing slithers of it here too :-)
I also had EVERY INTENTION of continuing my International Women’s Day project photographing friends and I people I knew with the theme ‘friendship’ . With lock down swift in America I respectfully kept my distance from the two ladies I had the opportunity to photograph and above is ‘Pam’ my airbnb host. When I return I’ll photograph the others I didn’t catch on this trip :-) but it was great to even capture these!!
And so to home. Just on my iphone but maybe I’m being more vigilant, a bit more aware of my surroundings but I am loving the colours that are appearing in the evenings, soft tones and hues, pastels and patches of light highlighting the landscape that would in the past not necessarily caught my attention…..maybe I brought a bit of the magic back with me…stay safe + healthy everyone!! xx
Touching base x
Sending lots of love - as soon as I get back I’ll be sharing creative photo ideas and yoga classes on line xx
Keep safe everyone - As soon as I get back I'll update you all on both photography + yoga x in the meantime sending love + peace xx
International Women's Day 2020
Celebrating ‘Friendship’
March 2020
I couldn’t let this year pass without celebrating - every year I capture portraits of women which then become an exhibition with the idea of inspiring younger generations.
This year the arts project in Croydon is taking a break + I thought it would be great to do something a little more casual with the end results being shared online during the day of International Women’s Day. I set about thinking of friends who work in central London so I could be in one spot and it wouldn’t be too tricky for them to come to me with the theme ‘friendship’ + ask them for their own interpretation, feeling, word, colour - whatever it was that resonates with them.
so Friday 6th these gorgeous ladies below swung by for chatter, tea, pictures + let me take their photo.
I also had in my mind that I’m trying something new….challenging myself + stepping out of my comfort zone to shoot in a different way, to step back slightly, to allow the images to sit together, to continue for the month of March, to include portraits where the sitter isn’t smiling - I CANNOT even BEGIN to tell you HOW HARD that was!!! + produce a lovely project + as it turned out, was a very poignant theme.
Above a screen shot of my final selection of images, Below the final cut (or so I thought!)
I loved how everyone’s response was very different.
I wanted to bring people together with this project, to share their individual interpretation of “friendship” + to create portraits where I challenged myself in the image making. I am really good at getting right up close to people and in to their space to capture their essence + to be honest this has turned in to a process of challenging normality for me, for sitting on my own hands when I wanted to move in closer or select the happiest photo in the selection + publish on socials only my finely curated selection of happy.
What transpired was me forcing myself to choose images I loved but were perhaps a little more sullen than my usual work. Not soley to challenge myself but to look at the images with a different perspective, a different vantage point. That in itself challenged me to let go and reconnect to being happy with the images myself, whichever ones I chose + trusting the ‘process’.
It’s also been about a conversation Tanya and I had about the viewers experience and ‘seeing’ as the artist or photographer was at the precise moment in time and layering on top of that what we bring in the form of our own interpretation/feelings/emotions/life events to any art at any given moment.
My normal way of working is interacting, observing, creating ease between me, my camera and my sitter, recording just the right representation that I see in any given moment that I feel is an accurate representation of them - on Friday, I stepped back, I deliberately created space to see if it impacted the images I created, if it brought something else forward. So a project based on friendship and exploring how we see.
It’s interesting that looking through the selected images of each of my friends , the versatility of their emotions and our conversation serves as a great mixture to capture slightly different feelings in each picture + the selections below are to appease my controlling mind and show the fun we had!! :-) They also work really nicely as a set of images.
I’m continuing this project and excited to capture more friends through March - over on instagram you can also hear everyone’s interpretation of ‘friendship’ . Have a fab March + enjoy x
Friday Night Confessionals....When London is your meeting point
Ahhhh ALL the Friday night lovevibes right here!!
AND AWESOME CLIENT LOVE <3 xx
Jackie was amazing from start to finish. Her attitude and energy were matched only by her skill as a photographer. We were a tough assignment with multiple extended family members from 20 months to 75 years old and she managed to keep us engaged, get all of the combinations we wanted in the shots and most importantly to get us to have fun.
I LOVED this session, everyone was super fun and up for snuggling in to keep warm AND Because they had all flown in to London from very hot and very different locations and not seen each other all together since Jason’s wedding 4 years ago, it was extra super special!!
YAY LONDON Happy Friday everyone! Have a super weekend x
Dreaming of Spring….
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts this last week about how January was SUCH a long year lol they’ve been making me chuckle + have proven a good distraction - I felt like I hadn’t seen the sky in forever + this week, hey presto, a blast of blue!
It lifted my heart. There’s something quite wonderful about being totally bundled up and the sun shinning, the birds singing despite a chill in the air and not having to worry about being ‘battle ready’ when you walk out the door. Fighting through the elements just to get to work or anywhere + having a change of clothes with you in case you get soaked lol
ahh typical Brit yakking on about the weather!
well now, Feb 1st I expect a blast of snow and more chilly weather ahead before spring appears but until then I’ll be enjoying the snowdrops and daffodils even if from the comfort of my couch with a hot cuppa!
Happy February everyone! Here’s to a great month x
Keeping Warm in Winter!!
Happy Tuesday everyone!!
I am SO thrilled to share this awesome session with you from just before Christmas in South Kensington, London. We had perfect photo weather!!! A little overcast meant that the light was beautifully diffused + there were no harsh shadows going on :-)
In town celebrating their anniversary, Peyton + her husband chose this gorgeous route + we had a lot of funI For #vataionphotography I work with a company called #Flytographer - such a cool concept whether with friends, couples, families, solo travellers you can choose a photographer in their destination city + your holiday destination to capture your time and memories in a favourite part of town. South Kensington is one of my favourites, it’s buzzing and pretty at amy time of year but I really love the peacefulness of Winter and the colour pops of berries or decorations against the white wall buildings.
Enjoy + have a great evening! x
“Jackie was all around amazing. She was unbelievably flexible with the weather and truly went out of her way to bring our vision to life. Our anniversary photos will be something we cherish forever and we are so thankful to have had Jackie capture those memories for us. Her eye for photography and natural light are unparalleled. We couldn’t recommend her enough!”
So thrilled the Ladies First Exhibition made it into the round up!!
I’m beyond excited, thrilled, delighted + generally beaming that the Ladies First exhibition for International Women’s Day has been included in the Croydonists round up of 2019!!!
Friday Night Confessionals
Friday turns in to Saturday
I had every intention to post last night, to sit down and enjoy writing about the week, Andrea + Wes’s beautiful proposal + finish off Friday, sunny side up - but when it came to it, words just weren’t there and I didn’t want to half ass it.
So here I am fresh as a daisy - Saturday morning after two photo sessions in London, sun is shinning + I’m heading home to my first Xmas party of the season! I’m very excited, it’s bowling and mince pies - what’s not to love!!
I worked with Wes to pick the perfect spot for him to propose to Andrea a few weeks ahead of their trip to London. We planned our interaction, me casually offering to take a photo of them and bosh, Wes got down on one knee and Hey Presto!
Following the shock, delight and utter happiness, we continued creating engagement pictures around St.Dunstans before walking along to The Tower of London + Tower Bridge where the light was super pretty (the north side of the river is always dreamy to photograph at in good weather as the sun rises the other side).
We found lots of fun doorways and textures to mid in with the epic iconic backdrops London has to offer and had so much fun!
If you’re planning a trip to London or a proposal over Christmas, do drop me a DM or call to discuss your plans and ideas + I’ll take it from there!
Friday Afternoon Confessionals
On this grey, rainy Friday I thought sharing these guys might lift the mood!
Photographed around Shoreditch + Brick Lane, I love the ever changing graphics, the blasts of colour casually illuminating the area and pops of wow when you see something new.
It had been a while since I photographed a session around this area and I always arrive way before a session is scheduled to reccy the area and with the light beautifully pouring down the high street I was excited with what lay ahead in our session.
Super colourful London Love
These guys were so fun and open to ideas and beyond cute with each other!!
Just beyond Spitalfields and on the way to Brick Lane is a outdoor studio delight - if you LOVE texture + rustic colours lol.
No understatement on how IN LOVE I am with this backdrop!!!!!!! Part Penelope Pitstop Part evil rider lol
As I mentioned!!! THAT LIGHT - I mean hello!!!! We also met the owner of the shop these two are in front of + who had arrived to open and kindly and graciously let some smooching happen before he got to work :-) #LOVELONDON
To book your couples session (or surprise proposal, it’s almost getting to that time of year!!!) drop my an email or give me a call and we can coordinate a plan :-)
Have a great Friday!!xx
