Evan and Holly’s Dad’s Blog

Hi and welcome to my blog. Filled with images from my recent weddings, engagement shoots, portrait sessions and corporate work. Most importantly its a window into my world...a world where family takes an upper hand and I have the images to prove it. Hopefully you'll take a few minutes to browse and once addicted set the blog as a bookmark. If you have any comments please feel free to add them or just get in touch.

For The Record: The images that I put on the blog from recent weddings may not always be the best or even ones you might expect. They are things that I saw, that I like that I want to share. Sometimes they are part of a quirky story or show a tender or ironic side to a wedding.

Feb

The Ultimate Professional

By Rob

As a professional its important to understand how your equipment works. The unique properties of glass, humidity, light…not only the physics but the general science behind build and materials. Fortunately for me I rarely find myself tramping between a snowy winter wonderland at 5pm and a birthing pool at 8pm. (Hmmm…there’s a clue in there for the regulars)

Heed these warnings well and you too will find that this is NOT the first picture you took of you newborn baby girl

the fact I still watermarked this image is dumbfounding

So yes, the astute amongst you…the Sherlock Holmes if you will…have probably deduced that Nicola gave birth to a 7lb 6oz girl last night which we have named Holly Louise. In the spirit of keeping names in the family Louise is Nicola’s middle name.

To say that labour was quick would be a profound understatement. We were hiking our way up to a sledging hill at 4:00pm. We dropped Evan off at his grandparents at 5:20. We left for the hospital just before 7. In fact Nicola asked me the time as we were turning out of the village and I replied “three minutes to 7″. Ten minutes to Petersfield, five minute slow walk (with multiple contractions) to the ward and at 7:48 Holly arrived. For those of you with unsharp mask eyes (200, 2.8, 0) you might be able to work out that she was born in the pool.

That’s about all I have time for now. Evan meets his baby sister later this morning. So there will be more later this week. For now here’s a few snaps.