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It’s been nearly three months since my last creative tip and since I’ve done a “photoshoot” of my own kids.

Do you find taking photos of your own kids the hardest thing in the world to do?

This is my very first attempt in taking self-portraits.

I was early for a shoot and with 45 minutes to kill, I decided to take photos of my immediate surroundings within a 10 meter radius.

This first blogpost on my girls’ ballet class is not so much about them as it is about using 2 techniques in creative photography: reflections and layering.

For this creative tip, I set myself a task:
THINK FILM…1 roll 24 frames…composition….colour….story…

As the saying goes, there is a first time for everything. I thought I’d share my first-ever fireworks shots. Far from perfect but I hope this experience makes a good creative tip nonetheless. And this is the story…

It’s still the summer holidays here in the UK and I’ve been pushing myself to lug my heavy camera and lenses around with me along with my 3 little children to give me little excuse not to take photos.

Macro photography. Doesn’t it sound terribly technical? Well, because it is!

Yes, if you live in the UK, it’s imperative to make the most of the warm sunshine; we only know too well how elusive it is even in the height of summer.

It always does me good to sometimes step away from the familiar and try something new. I find those times incredibly refreshing – there’s no pressure to be perfect, it’s challenging and I always learn new things.

This creative tip is about using an Anchor Colour in your photography. An anchour colour could be any colour that…

Full editing software such as Lightroom and Photoshop are a minefield to say the least, let alone being very expensive.

The light was gorgeous so I quickly got my kids into the patio, told them to stand on the bench and start singing and dancing. That’s all.

This is a simple idea, instead of writing in your diary, why not take your camera with you on a day trip and snap away, telling the story of your day in pictures.

Just a simple project to take me out of my comfort zone…a little

…Then one fine day in late September of last year, we came home from school and I knew the thinking had to cease and the doing to start. So within 5 minutes, I grabbed the things I knew I wanted to use and set-up the shots in my 5 meter square garden.

I thought my next set of tips should be different from the previous two.

The second of the series is all about our family’s Christmas cake this year and my pocket camera.

Now let’s get started. This is a set of tips for Christmas week or Christmas morning.