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Square Feet is a business that offers co-working space, hot desking, meeting rooms and office suites, spread over 2 beautiful victorian villa houses on the Billing Road in the centre of Northampton. Tom, the owner, asked me for photographs to go on his new website, images that would show off the beautiful features of his […]

It was potato harvesting time at The Hope Centre‘s allotment so I got another chance to visit and meet some volunteers, catch up with Joe (who runs the allotment) and spend some time outdoors taking photos of them at work. I prefer not to set photos up and to let things just happen naturally, but […]

Spent an hour and a half at The Hope Centre allotment recently, on a lovely sunny morning which was perfect as blue skies in a photograph make such a difference.

Joe (Head Gardener) and Robin (CEO) were happy to be directed so we could ‘set up’ as many photos as possible. The more variety I could get, the more ways they could use them with conversations they were having across their social media sites.

Taking photographs for charities is something I donate my time to do.

Sam Andrews is a therapist based in Leicestershire that works with her clients in a small, relaxed environment at her home.

I spent an hour and a half in Sams workspace, with Sam, and a friend she had invited round to play the part of client for the photoshoot.

The easiest way for us to get the photos Sam wanted, was for Sam to just talk me through the different ways she works with her clients.  As she did, I took the photos.

Sometimes I bring a few ‘props’ to add colour or interest but there was no need on this shoot, there was plenty of things for us to work with.

The Lewis Foundation is a family run charity that (all through donations) buys for, puts together and then delivers with a smile & some chat, gift bags to cancer patients in Northamptonshire hospitals – and one in Leicester.

I met Lorraine through the networking group NBN (Northampton Business Network) and after listening to how TLF started and everything they do, I asked if I could be one of their volunteers and take some photos for them.

To date I have taken photos of their monthly coffee morning and of the packing of the gift bags, both at the Elgar Centre in Upton.

If you would like to volunteer some time to these lovely people then contact them on 07528 167341.

Meet Steph Jones, a bookkeeper based in Leicester who specialises in cloud accounting systems.

Just screens, no paper – it makes for a very tidy desk!

Steph believes that businesses don’t need to spend huge amounts of time on bookkeeping when there is so much accounting software out there to get things done, so she either helps businesses to get set up or does it for them.

Here are a few of the photos that I took for Steph, not taken square so tap on them to see the full photo.  Most of them were for the Enchanted Moon website but we took a couple of fun ones to use on social media too.

Working on your own its not always to take photos of yourself, if you want something similar just drop me a message.

Welsh acoustic duo The Lost Cause were playing local bars in Southern Spain and Gibraltar over the summer and asked me to take photos and videos of them to share across their social media platforms.

Taking photos in some situations that I was not able to stop and start when I wanted to was, for me, a completely different way of working and two of the biggest things I soon learnt were be brazen and work fast – there were rarely second chances.

We took photos at gigs; setting up at the start, performing and chatting after and some while writing songs and working on new covers.

For more on my time with Craig (guitarist & singer) and Baz aka Jordan (singer) keep a look out for my blog.

Northants podiatrist Sheila Kirwan found me through Instagram and her first message to me was, “Could I make feet look pretty”!

We met a few weeks later and it was soon clear that actually, for Sheila, the uglier the feet in a photo the better.  The Langham Place Foot Clinic focusses on getting their clients feet functional and comfortable no matter how small or severe their problem.

I spent an hour and a half at this family run, very friendly, relaxed clinic.  We took photos of all the different treatments the clinic offered, some of the faces that worked there and a couple of the very pretty garden.

Kate Dyer is in the early stages of setting up her yoga business here in Northants.  Thinking ahead to advertising she asked me to take some photos that she could use for leaflets and her social media once set up.

Kate was very clear in her mind that she wanted the photos to be outdoors so in the run up to the photoshoot I sent her a few photos of places I spotted while out walking Georgie Dog.

We settled on a little stretch of the canal and met early evening, as Kate works in the day.  The sky was not as blue as would have been nice but we still got some lovely shots.

If you would like to get in contact with Kate to talk about yoga classes drop me a message and I can forward it on.

Diane creates her personalised birthstone jewellery in a small workspace.  Wanting photos for her social media platforms she wasn’t sure whether a photographer could work in the space she had.

It was a chat on Twitter #NorthantsHour about me working in another small business space that prompted her to call me.

Diane went through all the different stages of an order from receiving it to posting it out and I took the photos as she went along, with some fun ones showing off her tools and business cards.

Emma wanted a selection of photos for her social media posts.  Photos that would give her clients a peek into how she works and put a face to the business.

The brief was to get photos that covered:
1) a general working day
2) visiting a client
3) taking some time out.

We spent 2 hours taking photos over 3 locations, there were a couple of wardrobe changes and our props were things that Emma works with every day.

This was a different photo request from Stacks Property. Having written an article for the Four Shires magazine – January ’17 edition – entitled “How Schools Impact on the Property Market” they needed some photos to sit alongside the words. Thinking of local schools to me I spoke to Quinton House School who were happy for […]