about me and my style

{my new bio above}

Credits | Photos edited by Lily Sawyer | Photos taken by Esther Bissessar, Lisa Warren and Lily Sawyer

{what’s in my bag}

Nikon gear: D700 | D7000 – my back-up | SB-900 | 35mm f1.4 G , 50mm f1.4 G , 105mm Micro VR f2.8 G
Sigma gear: 24-70 f2.8 | Sigma 70-200 f2.8

{editing}

I shoot in RAW and edit in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

{my old bio below}

Credits | Photo edited by Lily Sawyer | Photo taken by David Sawyer

Hello! I’m Lily and I’m the eye behind the creative and artistic natural photography on this site. I trained as an artist for 6 years and have a BA and MA in Fine Art. After graduating and before starting a family and establishing my photography business, I lectured in three different universities over 7 years in London and abroad teaching Art, Humanities and Study Skills.

My photography style is unintrusive; I love capturing precious moments resulting in images that are relaxed and natural. My compositions are strong and confident – something that has become second nature to me after many years studying art. When preparing for a shoot, I like to envision it like filming a story and taking stills of each priceless moment. I finish each image in Photoshop giving it the warm, rich, and emotive look I love. It seems that I have developed an enduring love affair with Nikon.

Most of my time is juggled between my homelife {a lovely husband – who designed this site, and our three precious little children}, photography and church life.

At the end of last year, I ventured into social media big-time. I have a Facebook page which I regularly update with all my latest shoots and occasionally some personal happenings and musings. At present, I am still pondering about joining Google plus and Pinterest…