Category Archives: Family

Family Photoshoot – Warrington Portrait Photography

 I’d like to start this evening by thanking Mark Brosnan… Mark introduced me to Heidi back in 1992; I was looking for a room to rent in Manchester to start my PGCE, Heidi was looking for a lodger. In usual fashion I’d left myself about 3 days to find somewhere to live before my course...

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My Brown Eyed Girl – Warrington Portrait Photography

 It struck me today that since my photography business is beginning to grow legs and I regularly have photo shoots and weddings to attend to, the amount of time I’m cajoling my children to pose infront of the camera is diminishing at a rate of knots. I came across these pictures tonight which I took...

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I race for life for…

Tomorrow, I, and my daughter Megan who is 6 will be doing Race for Life to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. This will be my third year and Megan’s first – she is soooo excited and has her pink outfit laid out by her bed ready for the off in the morning. She’s not...

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Thelwall Rose Queen

I grew up in the Borders of Scotland where, every June, each town held their own Common Ridings. Selkirk Common Riding was the best – I have to say that as that’s where I lived – it started with about 600 riders and their horses ‘riding the marches’ or checking the town’s boundaries leaving at...

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The teenager within

 I’m 43, properly grown up with a family of my own. Why is it that in the presence of my dad, after about 24 hours I start to regress to a sullen, monosyllabic RUDE teenager? Having spent weeks telling off  my 11 year old son for throwing filthy looks and grunting answers at people, he...

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