Thanks to Naila and David for asking me to photography their 5 week old baby girl Kasey. Kasey’s first photoshoot went really well and she was very well behaved during the whole process (well almost all). Here is a sneak peek of some of the images captured during the session.
I had a weekend of from weddings and babies. It was time for me to spend some quality time with my eldest son Aaron (aged 9) and his cousin Zack (aged 6). For the last 3 years we have went away during the Easter break to do a spot of camping on the shores of Loch Lomond. With just a two man tent, a single ring gas burner and a good thick sleeping bag we set off to get back in touch with nature. No electronic stimulation (no DS, no Wii and no TV) just the great outdoors for entertainment. Oh and me I just couldn’t bare to be parted from at least one of my cameras.
Baby Bradley is 5 months old and another baby who did not mind getting his picture taken, making my life much easier. During the hour photo session he very patiently sat/lay while I snapped away. Early morning session definitely seem to be the best when photographing young children. I have added a few of my favourite pictures below, hopefully Bradley’s parents like them and some time soon one or two may be printed, framed and on show. Anyone interested in have some pictures taken of their young children in the comfort of their own home then please get in touch. My details are available on my website https://www.aleckirkham.co.uk/contact-2/
Baby Kyle is now 14 weeks old and proud mum and dad Joanna and Graham asked me if I could take some pictures of the little one. I first met Joanna and Graham when I photographed their wedding at the beginning of 2011 so I was delighted when they asked if I could take some pictures of Kyle. It was a very calm and relaxed photo session and Kyle was a little superstar as he did not mind having his picture taken at all. Perhaps I will see him again for another session when he is able to sit up and starting to crawl. Continue reading
Lorna and Mark asked my to take some picture of their brand new baby boy Luke. He may only be 2 weeks old however he knew he did not want to get his picture taken, but as ever with babies with some patience you will get a few good images which in years to come will always remind you just how small and delicate babies are when they first arrive. Continue reading
Two years ago I was photographing Agnes and Doni’s wedding day, today I had the chance to photograph the newest member of their family, baby Lois. Continue reading
Baby Isla made my afternoon photo-shoot very easy. Both parents worked really hard giving us loads of smiles to capture. Continue reading
I got another chance to photograph my niece this afternoon. I don’t think she was to happy about that fact; however it is amazing how content a baby gets when they get to play with mums mobile phone 🙂 (hope it was insured) Continue reading
Thanks to Rosalind and John for asking me to photography their baby boy John. As you know this is my first tentative steps into the newborn photography arena so a special thanks to baby John for being such a good subject. Continue reading
I used to always be taking pictures of my own children. They were my always available models and my proving ground; however as I do more and more photography for others I haven’t been taking as many pictures of them as usual. This weekend it felt like summer had arrived, so as a family we went to a local park to let the children run around and enjoy themselves in the unexpected good weather. I just so happened to have some camera gear in my car so the camera came also. At the park I saw a load of other people taking pictures and capturing their children running around and having fun. As a nation we must have a huge archive of our children growing up; however what do we do with them? Are these pictures destined to be lost due to hard disk failure when the laptop fails or lost along with the mobile phone that took them. Everything is digital now, taken in digital and stored in digital and digital is fantastic, up to the point that it fails, and it will. I have just replaced a failed hard disk on my computer where I had stored somewhere in the region of 30,000 images, that would have been a disaster if I had not already planned for such an eventuality. I use two hard disks in my computer which are a mirror image of each other (Raid 1) this meant that I could simply swap my broken disk out for a new working one with no drama and no losses. On top of that I always hold a backup on an external storage device and another copy off site, so I think my pictures are fairly secure, but I wonder about everyone else’s. So everyone thinks the digital age allows everyone to photograph and capture every moment for generations to come; however will hard disk failure wipe them out. Anyone remembering pre digital will no doubt have a shoe box full of printed pictures and these will are not reliant on being stored as a string of 0’s and 1’s on a magnetic disk, these will stand the test of time. the digital age may be here but there is still a real case for the printed image in order to preserve our images. Continue reading
