A Snowy Morning Walk

Me and Hannah haven't been out for a Friday walk for a while. It turns out we chose rather a good day to stomp. We have a favourite path we take. It's about an hour long - a climb up the heather covered hill, follow the path that runs between the silver birch, and then drop into the beech trees, with the perfect place to stop for a cup of tea. It sets us up for the day to come. There was a frost, and the grass underfoot and the delicate leaves were sparkling. It really did look like icing sugar. We were both taking photos and chatting about the weekend, when we felt little flecks of snow on our cheeks. We walked a little further, and as we walked, the flakes increased, and the valley was thrown into a silent white. For a few moments, everything still. Then as quickly as it started, it stopped, leaving behind a dusting on the leaves, the boughs, and our hats. When it snows, everything seems lighter.

A dreamy Friday walk.

Looking Back at 2015

To the leaf kickers, the wind in your hair thrill seekers, the sand in your hands and the grass beneath your feeters. The outdoor wanderlust types or the stay at home cosy mites. The tree huggers and the big kiss on the cheekers, the wild things in the woods and the sofa surfers.

To the movers and shakers, the hand holders and dream makers. The puddle jumpers and the meadow runners, the grass stalkers and dusk walkers.

Thank you for your support in 2015, and for letting us into your lives. Here are just a few of the moments we shared last year.

Sarah & Suzi xx

Our Story

The other day, I posted a photo on Facebook as a public reminder to me to write a blog that is way overdue. I get excited about putting pen to paper (I need to write it out the old fashioned way first!), and setting a blog post free from the confines of my head, where the ideas will have been swimming around for some time. In this case, a year. Like I said, long overdue!

Me and Suzi had been chatting about making a film about our portrait work. We wanted to talk about our shoots, show the interactions we have with families, and how we cherish our own childhood photos. The photos we like best are the ones that truly reflect us as kids, not those posed school photos sporting freshly cut fringes and itchy roll neck jumpers!

We worked with the very lovely Chris and Raphael from Rogue Robot. We felt very safe in their hands, knowing that they would film in a way that would reflect our style of photography. As I've said before on here, I'm much more comfortable behind the camera, so I struggled a little bit at first on the other side of it! Here's a bit of a grainy phone photo of us in our 'sound booth' recording the voice over!

We wanted the film to show one of our shoots, and we couldn't have picked a better late afternoon to take images with Rebecca, Simon, Harry & Jemima. We've documented their life together since Jemima was a baby.

I've put a link to our film at the end of this post, we hope you like it. We called the film 'The Storytellers' and the ridiculously talented Euan Atkinson composed a tune for us after watching the edit unfold. And here are some of our favourite images we took on the shoot. Magic late autumn light and the backdrop of Widdop reservoir.

We love those moments, those sparks.

A short film showing us at work on a shoot, what makes us tick as portrait photographers, and why we're so passionate about documenting life in pictures.

We're passionate about documenting your life together, and we'd love to tell your story.