IMG_9687-16, originally uploaded by Graham Lay.
We’re back in Germany safe and sound after a wonderful Christmas break in Freeland with my folks, Mandy, Dave and with Becs’ Mum.
We did many wonderful family orientated things of which the most memorable for me was spending the day with my Dad (aka Grandad now!) and Hannah at Cotswold [...]

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While we were away on holiday, Dave and I decided to capitalise on our location in Derbyshire and get up early one morning to photograph Stannage Edge. We got up at 4:30am and got to a beautiful spot on the edge to photograph it at sunrise. It was a bit of a poor show as [...]

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I have just bought some studio flash units and was practising with them today ahead of a family photo shoot I am doing tomorrow. Hannah and Becs are, of course, my obliging models and no sooner had Mummy left Hannah for 5 seconds Hannah decided that she wanted to learn from the Daddy the photographer [...]

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Hey again everyone. Its been a bit crazy busy recently so sorry for not blogging sooner.
This last weekend we had a wonderful time in North Wales and in particular at Luke Downey’s dedication at St Tanawgs Church in Harlech. Luke pictured here with his Mum and Dad [Jane and Mark] and God-parents gave us a [...]

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Happy new year everyone. Hope you are all well and feeling none too poorly.
We’re good. Had a quiteish night and had a lovely relaxing day today. We did a small photo shoot this morning with Hannah and our favourite is shown above. Hannah doesn’t seem to mind the flash too much so long as Becs [...]

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Becs and I had the pleasure of spending Christmas in Wales with our family and what a treat it was for me as a hobby photographer. The weather was mainly poor the whole time we were there until the last two days when the wind changed and the sky cleared up. I went out twice [...]

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I bought Becs some roses today to cheer her up a little. She’s been decidedly worse for wear.
She went to bed early to get a good nights sleep so I decided to take some photos of one rose.
Used minimum depth of field and focused on centre.
A crop and some black clipping later in photoshop and [...]

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With my passion for photography, I decided many months ago to begin developing a photo book to record Hannah’s progress. The first book would obviously cover the conception to birth with all the excitement that goes with that and the wonder of the first few months! I have loved capturing the moments throughout the past [...]

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Wow, Hannah is growing up so fast. Since we last blogged properly about Hannah she has begun to suck her thumb [with varying degrees of success], tried to start rolling, she can really hold her own head now and only these past few days she’s begun grabbing things. Her nightime routine is still going strong [...]

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Becs, Hannah and I had a lovely morning yesterday with Jon, Ruth and Ben Sheppard. They invited us over for coffee, cake and to take photos of Ben. We had a really lovely time and got some lovely shots. Ben was pretty chipper the whole time and played up nicely to the camera. I was [...]

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