A family walking hand in hand through long meadow grass, the mother in a red dress carrying a toddler.
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The last hour of daylight, and the people you love in it

Family photographs taken outdoors, one family a day, just before the sun goes down.

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About me

I became a photographer the summer my son learned to walk

For eleven years I have photographed families in the hour before sunset, when the light is low and everybody has stopped trying to look nice. I take one session a day, so I am never in a hurry, and I print every gallery myself.

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A laughing couple hugging their small daughter between them at home. A young couple holding their baby between them in a field of tall grass.

Sessions

Every session ends with a gallery of around sixty finished photographs and one hand-made print. Prices include travel within twenty miles.

A family of four seen from behind with their arms around each other, looking out at the sea.

The beach hour

£290

An hour by the sea at low tide, sand between the toes. Best from May to September.

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A father lifting his child high in tall golden grass while the mother sits nearby.

In your garden

£240

Your own back garden or the park at the end of your road. The place the children actually play.

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A mother in the grass with two little girls in white and blue dresses curled up against her.

Newborn at home

£260

The first two weeks, at home, in your own clothes. No props and no posing.

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A family dressed in white standing together on a wooden bridge among trees.

Three generations

£340

Grandparents, parents, children and the dog. Up to twelve people, ninety minutes.

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Portfolio

The families I have been lucky to photograph

Every family different, every evening the same hour.

A family of five sitting together in a field of orange poppies.
Poppy field01
A mother lifting her small child up high in a field at dusk.
Up you go02
A family of four standing together under tall trees by the sea.
Under the pines03
Parents kissing their small son between them in tall grass.
Long grass04

Kind words

Voices of our families

Two parents holding four laughing children together on a grassy dune.

The Adeyemi family(01)

"Four children under seven, and Maya made it feel like a picnic. The print of all of us on the dune is above our fireplace."

Featured evenings

A few galleries from this summer, shared with the families' permission.

A family washing their golden retriever on a sunlit lawn. A family walking along a wooden boardwalk through a field at golden hour. Parents and two children sitting together on a white bed, the mother holding a baby. A family standing close together on a beach in the evening light.

Begin your session

Before your session

Three things that make the evening easy

  1. Wear what you love

    Soft colours, no big logos, and shoes you can walk through grass in. Matching is not needed; getting along is.

  2. Arrive fed

    Hungry children do not smile. Bring a snack anyway; some of the best photographs are of somebody eating a banana.

  3. If it rains

    We move to the next good evening at no cost. Or, if you are brave, we go out anyway with umbrellas.

Parents hugging three young children close together under trees in golden evening light. A man and a woman kissing their baby on a blanket on the beach at sunset.