Just about fought of the rain again this afternoon, have been lucky so far. Had a fun session with Ellis in the park - that boy is fast! He looked very grown up and handsome in his little checked shirt.

Managed to avoid the rain this afternoon - just about! This is the first of many upcoming bluebell sessions. I adore the one of Georgia & Luke walking away, just timeless.

Yay, the great outdoors! With all that lovely weather and the daffodils blooming, it was great to go outside to shoot Rebeccas' last Beginnings session at South Weald Country Park.

on my progress! It's not been a good week. Not at all... I came back from my few days away in Brighton to a completely dead computer - black screen, just not working. After a bit of to and fro'ing to the Apple Store they finally got the machine working (it was a failed graphics card). But ever since, my internet connection has been non existent - one minute it's working, next minute it isn't. Uploading anything is virtually impossible. So having spent about 10 hours in total on the phone to BT, I have decided that a change is due. I am having my lovely new router fitted next week by Virgin and they are promising a 50mb connection so it should be lightning fast! Time will show, but anything is better than the pretty pathetic 2MB I get out of BT.

Unfortunately due to the Internet and email issues everything has been at a standstill, including uploading proofs and fulfilling orders. As I print in house, and my printers are networked I need an internet connection to be able to print. I have had a little bit of progress tonight and the internet has been working for a full hour so far, so will just need to wait and see what happens. 

To top the IT issues off, I banged my little toe ( just found out it's not broken so at least that's good news) so half my foot is black and bruised, and tomorrow morning I am having more emergency dental surgery as my remaining 2 teeth implants are going to be removed as my body has rejected them. And of course we have half term too... So, please accept my apologies if I have been slow in coming back to you - it's all been very stressful , but I hoping to get myself back on the straight and narrow over the upcoming couple of weeks. If you have sent me an email and i haven't responded it's probably because I haven't received it - please do resend. Email and internet and still likely to be slow and sporadic until next Wednesday.

As a result of the volume of enquiries and bookings I am forced to put on a session freeze for May - I simply cannot take any more bookings at this point, unless you need a newborn session (babies under 10 days) , or I have already sent you and email with a date. Therefore I am now taking bookings for June onwards.

Thank you all for your patience, and if you have a spare moment please send some good karma my way - I need it!

My first catch up sneak preview is below - this is a session I shot a couple of weeks ago in Maida Vale with the lovely Katherine, aged 17. Although I normally stick to babies, it was lovely to work with a young adult , and Katherine was fab to photograph. We had a fun, relaxed session and I am hoping that the images reflect what mum was hoping for - to capture the essence of Katherine and her joyful personality.

This morning started for me with a visit to Thorndon Country park in Brentwood. It was a gorgeous day, a little nippy but the sun was shining. In the park, I met James with his mummy and daddy for his last Beginnings session. After overcoming his initial shyness ( all of 2 minutes!) James was happily running around, picking up sticks, looking out for doggies, and playing in the dirt! He has a lovely little personality, and it's been a pleasure to watch him grow up over the last 18 months.