The second half - photo session with Laura Aziz.

Of course I had more than 22!  So many stunning photos, I can't thank you enough lovely Laura, you've captured the heart of us in such a beautiful, real way.  Snot bubbles and all, this is us!  xx

It's that time of year again!

We had our annual family photo session with the inimitable Laura Aziz a few weeks ago (a couple of weeks after the twins' birthday again) and this time we aimed for that glorious golden hour of light.  We engineered an early nap for the twins and woke them early to make our way to Sheffield Park, TOTALLY worth it!

As always, I am utterly thrilled with our photos.  I had a mentoring session with Laura last weekend (which you'll be hearing more about soon) and we discussed my reasons for wanting to go into business as Bexphoto and I have plans to adjust my website to more clearly express those reasons but one of those reasons is this feeling, when we receive our photos and I have Laura to thank for that.  As always, I've struggled massively to narrow down my favourites for a blog post.  And will have the same issue when it comes to printing, need more frames.  And more walls.

Yet again, she's captured our every day, just our walk around Sheffield Park and yet, it is magical.  The light, the expressions, she's not only recorded this moment in time for us but she's made beautiful art of our afternoon.  All of it, Priya's cheeky looks and self-conscious tongue-sticking-out pose, Kalyan's "map reading", the tears when they fall over, the giggles, the joy and most of all - our love.

For any concerned readers, this is not how Priya travelled, I sorted her out properly when I got in the car ;)

Preview from Laura Aziz - twin family session aged 3

It's that time of year again, when we invite the awesome talent that is Laura Aziz of baby, picture this, to hang out with us for a couple of hours (sneakily extended by me offering to pick her up half way so we could natter in the car!) while she makes beautiful art out of our lives.

She knows I've booked her every year until she retires and here's why...

Part 3 of our day with Baby, Picture This - by Bex

Here is the 3rd and final instalment of our storytelling photography session with Laura.  Again, she captures the real us, the twin cuddles - ambushed from behind, the badly folded jeans stuffed into socks ready for wellies, the puddle love, the sulks, the refusal to keep walking, the tears when someone stumbles, the precious moments of kisses and snuggles, the pride when climbing a stile, and of course, the love of cake!

She makes even going down the stairs look beautiful!

So there we have it.  Laura is, as ever, super talented and has captured the heart of our family with such beauty.  She just gets it.  I am eternally grateful and eternally a client!

I promise to return to normal blogging soon, I have plenty part-written that have actual proper words in rather than just a massive scroll of images but they won't be this beautiful!

The story of us Part 2 - by Bex

So, yeh, I know people don't like scrolling through a million photos but when they're taken by the talented Laura Aziz, surely you can't blame me for sharing ALL THE PHOTOS!?  Seriously, which ones would you leave out of this awesome set??  The bigger question is, which ones do I frame!?

N.b. It's not actually all of them - she's an angel and sent me WAY more than we expected.  Close enough though ;)

Laura has captured so many of the things Priya and Kalyan love!  The bouncing, the chasing, the tickling, building towers, clacking blocks together, their books, hiding... and of course, some that they don't - the hair brushing!

 

The sudden turn from happiest person in the world to utter devastation - life as a toddler is tough.

She soon cheered up when we got her beads out.

There's just one more instalment to go, our little walk down to our favourite cafe...