Emma, Luffy and Bertie: A {Beloved} shoot

Wow, where to start with this lovely blog post. Today has been amazing. In fact the whole weekend has been amazing! Scrap that. The whole week! With a beautiful wedding on Saturday and a Beloved shoot with a gorgeous couple today in some of my favourite spots along the Cornish coast, and then attending an inspiring, life changing workshop in the week its been one of change and discovery and prettyness.

And today I fell a little (OK maybe a lot) in love with Bertie.

This is Bertie.

Last week I attended a workshop in London that was called 'Life as an Artform' with the amazing Jesh de Rox.  Jesh is the creator of a new genre of photography called Beloved and I absolutely love it. Beloved is about expression, connection, communication and almost entering a state of childlike play allowing couples to re-connect in today's crazy world and share genuine emotion and feeling through the portrait session.  Amongst other things, its is about giving couples the space to express themselves, have fun and fall a little more in love. I am really excited about incorporating Beloved within my work and cannot wait for the year ahead to have chances such as I had today to connect with those I will be privileged to meet and share time with.

Today I met up with Emma and Luffy who traveled down to Cornwall from their home is Devon to spend a couple hours with me. I had been chatting to Emma lots on emails and her sunny personality and sense of humour had made me laugh out loud so many times when I read her mails that I could not wait to meet them both in person! To top it all off they also brought along Bertie... their 13 week old Labrador puppy. It has to be said that three major things were re-confirmed for me today.

One is that photographing a small puppy, so full of life and energy, is never easy but it is even harder when that little puppy is all black! Your camera literally screams at you trying to find something to focus on.
The second most important realisation that I had today was that I am absolutely, definitely, without a shadow of a doubt getting a Labrador puppy as soon as I possibly can!

Emma and Luffy are getting married next year and planning a gorgeous summertime wedding in Devon. its going to be an amazing day and filled with special touches... as well as lots of colour, Which leads me on the the third realisation. Today Emma and Luffy showed me that life should be filled with lots and lots of colour. Thank you both so much for bringing such sunshine with you today, you sure brightened up my day!

To finish this post with one of fav's from the day...