Charlotte Photography : The Blog

Pic of the day - Weird weather

2012-01-27T16:58:00.002Z

Hail stones one minute, sunshine the next, this is the weather in between.

Pics of the day

2012-01-26T23:17:00.002Z

Pic of the day - Emma's birthday - 26/01/12
(In The Bell Inn, Evercreech.)

Pic of the day - Abi who is now headless modeling her teeshirt - 25/01/12
(She's running in the Bath Half Marathon on March 11th)

Pic of the day - A Brontosaurus - 24/01/12
(I kidnapped this little fella so i could take a pic outside on their doorstep, but he usually resides on a shelf in 'Kids Stuff' in Wells.)

Pic of the day -

2012-01-23T20:53:00.003Z

Pic of the day - mayan wood carving - 23/01/12

Brought back from our honeymoon, many moons ago.

Pic of the day - Lava Lamp

2012-01-22T21:16:00.000Z

Kirsty gave me this so long ago when we worked at Carlton together, where are you Kirsty?

Pic of the day

2012-01-21T17:47:00.000Z

Pic of the day - Priscilla, queen of the lap - 21/01/12
I actually took this shot last night whilst babysitting for Annette & Andy, pinned to a sofa by a cat and a big dog.
Priscilla has big paws.

Pic of the day - ~~Fire in Wells~~ Chemical spill in Wells - 20/01/12

Pic of the day from yesterday and today

2012-01-19T18:31:00.001Z

I forgot to post yesterdays pic up here, i guess that may well happen, but i will try my darnedest to get them up on that their facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/charlottephotography.co.uk

Pic of the day - Tank and a bum - 19/01/12
Now i know this isn't the most exciting 'pic of the day' but it is extremely exciting for us, the old water tank has now left the building and we now have continuous hot water on our top floor.

And if that wasn't exciting enough, i've thrown in the bum who did it for free as well.

Pic of the day - Chocolate Brownies - 18/01/12
Yummy scrummy choc brownies with walnuts in, i only made them last night and they've nearly all gone, oops.

Pic of the day - Dead Pheasant - 17/01/12

2012-01-17T23:07:00.001Z

Some snaps from my jaunt to Spargrove whilst out for a cycle, all snapped on the old iphone.

Poor old fella, his head was hidden underneath and i wasn't going to touch him to make him more presentable.

and these are just other little bits and bobs.

Pic of the day - Glasto Tor - 15/01/12

2012-01-15T20:12:00.002Z

Here are a few more random photographs from our little walk up Glastonbury Tor.

I was pleased to see that the heart is still there, if your of a romantic nature you could take your beloved up the Tor on Valentines day and tell him/her you had the farmer do it for you.

Especially if his name is Billy.

(I know a Billy who might get this stone-age graffiti as his birthday card this year.)

Pic of the day - Girls in a boot - 14/01/12

2012-01-14T21:36:00.002Z

This was after a little walk we went on, where these girls (and one boy who was hidden) were either bike riding, scooting or hiding from friendly dogs.

Pic of the day - Ice x 4 - 13/01/2012

2012-01-13T12:42:00.001Z

Just looking at this/these photo/s makes me shiver.

Pic of the day - When i grow up i want to drive a tractor

2012-01-12T11:07:00.000Z

Now where was that ignition?

Pic of the day - A little bit of sun and some vapor trail - 11/01/12

2012-01-11T11:26:00.001Z

Pic of the day - Running to school on a drizzly day.

2012-01-10T22:28:00.001Z

George

2012-01-09T14:05:00.000Z

This little fella was photographed on the 1st January sitting on his grandma's knee.
He's my husbands, cousins baby so that probably makes him my second cousin in law or something like that.
He is so cute, so very very cute and squidgy and smiley and small and only three months old.

It's good that he's cute because it got me into practice for my first niece who's due at the end of February.

Pic of the day SV

2012-01-09T11:31:00.003Z

This one is especially for Sarah Valentine all the way over there in NZ.
By the way does can anyone tell me what the SV stands for?

Pic of the day - Water

2012-01-08T17:32:00.002Z

Pic of the day 2012

2012-01-07T19:30:00.001Z

I thought it was about-time i joined in with this one photograph a day malarky, and seeing as i have myself an old i-phone, i had no excuse, so here goes.

Photographs will be up on that old Facebook as well as here.

Felted hand bag - 07/01/12

Letterbox and the days of the week - 06/01/12

Glinda in the bushes - 05/01/12

Nude Rapunzel - 04/01/12

Twister - 03/01/12

My little sisters bump

2012-01-03T20:37:00.000Z

This is my little sister, and that is her baby bump.
It's all very exciting as this will be the first cousin for my own two little girls.

A very merry christmas from my bearded girls

2011-12-22T22:48:00.000Z

The White's photo shoot

2011-12-21T22:42:00.000Z

This lovely little family came in for a shoot a little while ago, they are such lovely smiley children a real pleasure to photograph.

A lovely big family shoot

2011-12-20T15:49:00.007Z

A little while ago, this little lot came in for a family shoot.
It was a lot of fun, and the children did really well to keep going for as long as they did.
Actually the adults did very well too.

These three are actually siblings

Mum, Dad and the three children

Mum, Dad, children, spouses and all the grandchildren.

Photographic Gift Vouchers

2011-11-27T16:44:00.003Z

I asked my very clever designer (husband) to design me a gift voucher and he did.

If you would like to buy a gift voucher then they are £60 which includes two 7x5" prints of your choice.
As an added bonus for all vouchers bought before Christmas, i'll throw in an A4 as well.

Open Studio 12th November 2011

2011-11-19T16:08:00.009Z

On Saturday 12th November, i had an Open Studio morning where people could book a shoot or simply drop in and try their luck.
It was good fun and lots of people came.

Here are some shots from my Open Studio morning, but there are more on my Charlotte Photography Facebook page.

Fairy Issy

2011-11-11T10:10:00.004Z

In my never ending quest to create the perfect flower fairy portraits, here are two recent (ish) experiments with Daisy and Issy.
I'm not totally happy with my mushroom, it needs additional painting, and i need some fake plants but i'm definitely getting there.

This is Daisy looking angelic holding a flower.

This is Issy looking very ethereal.

and here is a vintage option just to see the difference.

Amiee and Tom - Pregnancy Shoot

2011-10-31T23:11:00.007Z

This rather lovely couple popped in for a shoot a couple of weekends ago.
Amiee and Tom were actually over from Spain to visit her mum and her mum had bought them a shoot as a present.
What a nice mum.

Charlotte Photography - www.charlottephotography.co.uk

Lachlan's Christening

2011-10-24T09:52:00.004+01:00

A couple of weekends ago, the little fella in the middle came all the way from Australia for his christening, he was very cute.
He got to meet all his aunt's, uncle's and cousins for the first time.
I got to take photographs of everyone.

Charlotte Photography - www.charlottephotography.co.uk

Barney the big dog

2011-10-21T12:58:00.003+01:00

This little fella turned up for a shoot last weekend and weighed over 11 stone!
He was very well behaved.
He just reminded me of Scoobie Doo, he was very sweet.

Charlotte Photography - www.charlottephotography.co.uk

Birthday fairy stuff

2011-09-26T23:13:00.004+01:00

My littlest girl in her birthday fairy stuff.

Open Studios at the Old Co-Op

2011-09-23T13:29:00.000+01:00

I'm opening up my studio on Sat 12th November for free photoshoots,
from 10am until 1pm.

All the family is welcome (including dogs)

Portraits will be available to buy afterwards within two weeks and can be ordered as Christmas presents.

Andrew's scar

2011-09-21T20:03:00.000+01:00

Don't look at the below photographs if you are at all squeamish, though i do have to say it's a very neat scar as scar's go.
Andrew (a good friend) had his second operation in six months to remove a tumour, this time lazer treatment was used and it was a very successful operation.
I wanted to take a photograph of the scar because hopefully he'll never have to have it again, and we women have bump shots when we're pregnant to remember how big our stomaches can stretch so why not have a portrait of a scar.

Evercreatures Toddler Group Photos

2011-09-05T11:48:00.001+01:00

For any local mums: I am going to be setting up a mini studio and shooting any willing toddlers (siblings and mums welcome to) at Evercreatures Toddler Group on Wednesday 14th November.
This was Molly last year.

More photos are here and here.

Laura & Paul's wedding - 16th July 2011

2011-07-28T22:01:00.009+01:00

Here are some shots from Laura & Paul's wedding on the 16th July.
It was such fun to photograph and a lovely day (despite threatening rain)
I did in fact thoroughly enjoy myself.

A Church Commisssion

2011-06-26T11:28:00.004+01:00

I was commissioned by the local church committee to photograph the three churches which are in our parish. This was because the very nice Revd Prebendary Peter Rapsey retires at the end of this month, and they wanted to give him a present of all three churches.

These are the three photographs that were chosen

And Sam Hook framed it for me

Two Fairies sitting on a mushroom

2011-06-23T11:54:00.004+01:00

My girls posed for me with the huge mushroom that grandad made.
My work in progress is progressing.

Potential fairies come forward.

Sisters, Sisters, there were never two devoted ...

2011-06-09T22:05:00.007+01:00

These two are adorable, just full of smiles and laughter, oh and digestive biscuit at one point.
I photographed the older girl Ella about a year before when the mum was still pregnant with the little one, then by chance i got to photograph her again with her little sister, Daisy.

Now this old toy was a very good prop, they loved playing on it

The Royal Couple

2011-06-07T20:36:00.001+01:00

I wanted to recreate that Royal Wedding portrait, the one that, that rather famous photographer Mario Testino did of Kate and Wills.
This one:

but unfortunately i do not have the lights, or the assistants or even the celebrity filled address book, so i made do with my sister and a couple of bowens in a very small flat, and this what we came up with:

This is my sister Polly and her boyf Chris, they make a lovely couple, and they posed for me without complaint which makes them the perfect models.

and here are a few more from the shoot.

Daisy the flower fairy

2011-03-09T14:02:00.001Z

I've wanted to do fairy portraits for a while and this is my first attempt, well i've photographed the girls with fairy costumes and fairy wings on, but that to me doesn't constitute a fairy portrait.

I want to try to create more like a flower fairy portrait styleee thing.

I need some good props like a mushroom (Grandad Nick might have a go at making one) delicate flowing dresses, and huge oversized plastic flowers.

This shot was one of many in a flower fairy shoot of four children.

I came back from London

2011-03-04T14:04:00.001Z

Just a note to say that London was wonderful, I saw lots of people and took lots of photographs of friends and of the Olympics taking shape.

Going to London to visit the queen.

2011-02-28T11:29:00.004Z

I am off to London this week for a few days, i am mostly going to catch up with old friends (not the queen i might add) but i will try to fit in a few shots whilst i'm up there.

Mist on field

2011-02-16T22:36:00.003Z

Another day, another mist, but this time i caught a little bit of it in my camera before it slinked off out of shot.

Man with tree on his back.

2011-02-16T22:09:00.004Z

My husband Marc, gave our cider apple tree a bit of haircut.

Whilst transporting it from one side of the garden to the other, I made him stop and wait 'all in the name of art' so that i could focus properly on him and the tree, though i think it was rather heavy.

Somerset landscape

2011-02-08T21:21:00.006Z

I took this photograph this morning whilst driving around chasing the mist which looked so pretty, the mist however was disappearing faster than i could navigate the lanes, so instead i settled for a pretty vapour trail across the sky, and a bit of bright sunlight.

Farm Equipment

2011-02-04T11:31:00.006Z

I'm not actually sure what these are or were (cos the farm is now empty), some kind of feeders i guess.

A jumping montage

2011-01-19T10:02:00.002Z

Here is a montage of my jumping girls.
My girls love jumping as do most children and this is a lovely way to display some fun shots.
They would look fab on a canvas.

Here are the individual shots.

Moustache

2011-01-17T10:12:00.001Z

Daddy got a pack of moustache's for his birthday back in Nov from the girls.
Obviously i/we only bought them for photo opportunities.

Here are those photo opportunities.

Alice's bump

2011-01-11T22:17:00.007Z

This is the very beautiful Alice and this is her lovely bump.
She was about 8 months pregnant at the time, and has probably had her baby by now, i wonder what she had.

**I have just found out that Alice's bump was a girl bump.**
Congratulations to Alice.

Snow & Ice

2011-01-09T10:44:00.002Z

Here are a few photographs from all that snow and ice we had in December.
It's making me shiver, just looking at them.

Teddy comes too

2011-01-08T10:36:00.002Z

I forgot about this photograph, i went out for a snowy walk with Marc in December and we came across this dog who according to his owner had insisted on bringing teddy along too.

Toilet Shoot

2011-01-04T22:01:00.007Z

I went through some old folders on an old hard drive and came across these old shots i did as a project.
Fred very kindly posed for me, in her flat, in her toilet.
I still have those shoes.

Merry Christmas to you all

2010-12-20T22:20:00.001Z

from my very hairy daughters

Baby Ryan

2010-11-16T22:04:00.002Z

This is little baby Ryan, just over a week old.

Firstly wide awake
still awake

then horay, doing what babies do best, sleep and look angelic

Beautiful baby boy.

More toddler Group portraits

2010-11-16T21:27:00.001Z

Here are few more portraits from the recent(ish) toddler group shoot.

This is Joseph, beautiful eyes

This is his sister Lily

This is Miles & Ilana, they have fabulous matching eyes

This is little Lola with a hundred expressions

This is little Alyssa with a big smile

Toddler group portraits

2010-11-14T23:30:00.003Z

I have seriously neglected this blog of late, i've had so many new photoshoots recently, and i have failed to get them up here.
I am hoping that this is going to change in the future, starting from now.

Here are few beautiful children that i shot at a local toddler group on the 3rd November.

This is Molly.

This is Kyle

This is Anna & Paddy

Vikki's bump

2010-07-15T22:32:00.000+01:00

Here is Vikki looking wonderful with her lovely bump.
That bump turned out to be a little girl called Sahara.

My big girl is nearly 6

2010-04-19T22:10:00.000+01:00

I set up my lights yesterday for a bump shoot and Daisy allowed me to photograph her very briefly on the white background.

She only stood for a moment and then ran off out into the garden.

She's nearly 6.
It doesn't seem possible.

Puppies are so cute

2010-04-07T22:50:00.001+01:00

This puppy is very cute.
I can't look at puppies without seeing the bigger dog it will become, and although i do love all dogs, i don't particularly want to own a big dog because they are at just that height where their noses can search out food, and their tails tend to knock over cups of tea etc...
but i did really like this little black Labrador puppy, and i liked the older original Lady black Labrador too.

Wells Arts Exhibition

2010-03-22T23:37:00.003Z

I'm not sure i can actually believe that this exhibition is this weekend, i've been planning for it for a while now and i'm still not ready, it seems to have suddenly crept up on me.

If your in the area then please do come along and say hello, or even if your brave enough, have a portrait.

Exhibition at Wells Town Hall in March.

2010-02-23T22:05:00.004Z

I am going to be part of an exhibition in March.
The exhibition will be held at Wells Town Hall which is in Somerset on Friday 26th & Sat 27th March, with a private view on the Friday night.
I have tickets if anyone wants to come.

I'll be red hot live photographic shooting on both days and night, so if you fancy having a portrait done or to see other portraits being done then come on down.

I think there are 17 of us exhibiting and i'll list them all later on when i upload one of our flyers.

In memory of the snow

2010-01-16T23:58:00.002Z

We had snow, along with everybody else I'm sure, but now that we live in the country it seemed like a much bigger thing.
Everything ground to a halt here in our village, the lorries couldn't deliver milk to our local Co-Op supermarket, the chef in our local pub was snowed in at home and rescue parties couldn't reach him and the school was closed for two days (only two days mind)

Now that the snow has all gone round these parts, here are some photographs that i took on the one bright sunny day that coincided with the snow.

Roisin & Malachy

2009-12-17T22:17:00.006Z

I photographed these two siblings a couple of weeks ago.
They were a good laugh as you can see, if a bit of a whirlwind.

I simply love this shot of Roisin, i love love love it and it has to go onto my main website asap.

Now this is just such a lovely array of blues and greens and greens and blues. Good choice of tights and skirt combo Roisin.

It just goes to show that everybody loves bubbles, even 5 year old boys.

And balloons, and favourite toys clutched with other hand, almost out of shot but not quite.

Issy

2009-10-13T13:55:00.001+01:00

This is Issy, she was a pleasure to photograph.

Annastasia

2009-10-05T19:20:00.002+01:00

This is Annastasia, as you can see she is a cheeky little thing, i think she's about 20 months at this point.
I photographed her a couple of weeks ago, and since then she now has a baby sister.

Baby Emily

2009-08-29T14:44:00.003+01:00

These photographs of baby Emily were actually taken a short while ago.
She was so adorable, and indeed still is adorable.

A new project - Our Visitors

2009-08-04T23:17:00.003+01:00

I now have a new photography project which involves everybody who visits us at this house here in Somerset.
I will be recording the faces of everybody (who's willing) who visits us, whether it's friends, neighbours, or the postman, everybody is included.

http://ourvisitors.blogspot.com/
It is also linked from my main Charlotte Photography website.

Barney & Tilly

2009-07-26T00:14:00.002+01:00

These two dogs are called Barney & Tilly and belong to my mum and dad.
Barney is a Jack Russell and Tilly is a West Highland Terrier.
These two quite liked being photographed.

A dog named Dray

2009-07-12T00:13:00.000+01:00

This lovely little dog is called Dray, and belongs to a little boy called Ben and his family.
He is a staffordshire bull terrier.
He didn't entirely love sitting still for the photographs but i did manage to get a couple of him.

Dead Greenfinch

2009-07-01T22:40:00.003+01:00

Marc tells me this is probably a female Greenfinch, though we could be mistaken.
The cat next door, left it in our garden.

Photographs of Polly

2009-06-03T22:24:00.003+01:00

Polly is in a Pink Floyd tribute band.
They are getting quite big.
I took these photographs to go into the program.
I quite like them, although i think somebody else might be doing some work on them to make them look more live.
I can't wait to see what they do.

We have moved.

2009-03-27T13:33:00.001Z

Yes we have moved.
We now live in Somerset.
London is now a thing of the past.

Photography will begin again soon.

x

Zahrah

2009-01-14T09:27:00.004Z

I photographed this little girl at a fundraising event in November last year, i would have published the photograph sooner but i had to check with her mother that this was ok, thankfully the mother said yes.
She is just so beautiful, look at those gorgeous lips.

Sarah's lovely bump

2008-11-15T20:41:00.005Z

I'm not totally sure exactly why i asked Sarah to pose with a cowboy hat and a toy gun but i do quite like the end result, whatever my reasons she does look totally fabulous with a few weeks to go until due date.

Ruby and Asa

2008-11-01T20:22:00.004Z

Here are some photographs of pretty little Ruby, her cute little brother Asa and their lovely parents.

Harriet's belly

2008-10-25T18:02:00.000+01:00

This is Harriet and her beautiful pregnant belly, at this point she is 36 weeks pregnant so only 4 weeks to go until a baby girl makes an appearance.

Lee Valley - mini earth

2008-10-18T11:51:00.004+01:00

This is a panoramic of Lee Valley in Hackney, London.
This is very near to where the 2012 Olympics will be held, or at least very near to where all the important people who attend the 2012 Olympcs will park their cars.

Within the panoramic below (you may need to click it in order to see it more clearly) you can see a white shed, this white shed is actually a huge ice skating ring.

Here is the same photograph after it's been made into a mini earth via Photoshop (Filter / Distort / Polar Coordinates)

Delightful Delilah

2008-10-12T18:40:00.001+01:00

Here are a few photographs of delightful Delilah.
More to come very very soon, once i've tweaked them slightly.

Mia & Thomas

2008-10-05T18:22:00.005+01:00

This little family consists of Mia and Thomas and their parents Anna & Nigel.
Fantastic eyes.

This is Iris

2008-09-20T22:24:00.000+01:00

Dead Fox

2008-09-17T20:41:00.003+01:00

This morning my husband spotted a dead fox round the corner, so naturally i nipped round to take a quick photograph.
Poor thing.

Ooh Betty

2008-09-09T14:03:00.002+01:00

This is little Betty, who has the most delightful face,
she is about 20 months old at this point.

Baby Billy

2008-09-07T23:33:00.001+01:00

This is baby Billy and his mum Jane, he was just two weeks old at this point.

So sweet.

Family Shoot

2008-08-30T20:56:00.005+01:00

This was a little family portrait session done in their back garden one sunny afternoon.

Fun in the country

2008-08-14T23:42:00.001+01:00

These were all taken whilst visiting our friends in Kent.

Anorak shoot, 2nd August 2008

2008-08-05T10:51:00.001+01:00

Today's shoot was all about chocolate.
No there wasn't any chocolate on set, the clever people will add the chocolate in later, but i believe the idea is for the children to be messing about with pools of chocolate.

All about me

2008-06-10T21:13:00.007+01:00

Hello
This is a photograph of me that my 4 year old daughter took, I think she did quite a good a job really.

I guess it's not the best portrait of me but at least you can see that i'm nice and friendly.

At the end of February, we moved out of Hackney in London and into Evercreech which is in Somerset, UK, to have a calmer more peaceful life.

Charlie