This Father’s Day is extra special for me as it’ll be my first as a Dad. My darling wife has yet to inquire as to what my wishes are for this milestone day so I thought I’d compile a list of 10 things a first time dad like myself would want for Father’s Day.
1. An awesome photoshoot and Frame from Memory Gate Photography.
I’m not going to be shy about the fact that…
On Friday my wife, daughter and I made our way up to London’s Excel Exhibition Centre for The Baby Show.
This was to be our third visit in a row to The Baby Show having been to the previous the previous Excel show a year ago just before my wife’s 20 week scan and more recently at Olympia.
Each visit has been very different from the last. For our first experience of The Baby Show we…
My first visit to the Baby Show was at London’s Excel Exhibition Centre back in February. Back then I was wearing my London Mums blogging hat and my expectant father hat.
Yesterday I visited the Baby Show at Kensington Olympia still with my blogging hat on but I was also pushing a SilverCross pram and a three and a half month old (and my wife Emma who if the truth be told was actually the…
I know this article title might at first seem controversial and provocative but I must assure you that my only intention was to get your attention and to question things that are presented to us as facts. It is a fact (perhaps) that 40% of all facts only have a 10 year shelf life so it amazes me that people are surprised when they cease to be. Well actually the declassification of Pluto threw me…
Seven weeks ago today my wife and I were celebrating the birth of our daughter Elodiedh. This morning I got up at around 6:30am made my daughter a bottle and myself a cup of tea before we both sat down to watch BBC breakfast news. This has been our morning routine for the past few weeks and although my wife despairs at some of the outfits I put our daughter in whilst she sleeps she does appreciate…
This is the 52nd and final weekly photo challenge in this series so I decided to make it the biggest project yet; your family.
The reason why most parents pick up a camera or commit to some form of learning is that they want to take better pictures of their family.
If this is the very first photo challenge article you have read then go back through the archives and check out the other 51 weeks. We…
A while ago I was given the brief from my wife to create a gift for someone. She wanted me to create a montage of numbers that I’ve photographed so that when they were put together they read the date of this particular person’s wedding.
So I began my search for numbers, I found plenty on houses and street signs but it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
This project is all…
“There are always exceptions to the rule, it just so happens that you were one of those exceptions.”
This is my final Symapthy Pains article because as the title suggests I am now, for the first time, a father.
I always wanted to finish this series with the birth story as every single one I’ve heard before is different and I figured ours would be too. What I wasn’t…
Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image. This quality is produced by your camera’s lens and is most apparent in highlight areas. Is most often seen in portraits that are photographed using a wide open aperture.
Bokeh can be used creatively in so many different ways and can be the difference between an ordinary picture and one that has an…
So my wife is in her 4th week of maternity leave and there’s no sign of baby. She’s got her favourite daytime TV shows, she’s joined a number of ridiculous Facebook groups where mums try and sell used junk they brought off ebay and she’s even started doing crosswords.
On Sunday the first two of our NCT group gave birth and WhatsApp started buzzing with pictures and birth…