Four years ago I wrote a Remembrance Day blog post about one of my clients – Joyce – that touched SO many of you I lost count of the people who got in touch with me. It was about one of us – a Mum. But a Mum who had lost her son, JJ, in…
Continue ReadingThe Most Unprofessional Blog Post You Are Ever Likely To Read
Lets get one thing clear here – as far as unprofessional blog posts go – this is likely to be a winner. So…..if you don’t want to see images of the photographer on her Hen Weekend wearing just her future husbands work shirt and a pair of knickers ….then stop reading right now (and if…
Continue ReadingAs You Dance To The Music Of Life
I didn’t send you a Christmas Card. Because all of this that I want to say to you wouldn’t fit in a Christmas Card…… I wanted to tell you how special it is to be a photographer. YOUR photographer. You don’t just ‘give me a job’ and expect me to turn up with a camera……it…
Continue ReadingThe Ram Run
This was just too good an opportunity to miss! All the lads on the farm – now suddenly calling themselves Team Burbage – running in the Ram Run at Stoneleigh Park! Cameras thrown in the back of the car and off to offer some light heckling…..sorry…. support. It has to be said that there was…
Continue ReadingWhen Did You Stop Thinking You Were Beautiful?
“WHEN DID YOU STOP THINKING YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL?” Six weeks ago I asked that question on Social Media. It was a ‘just for fun’ questionnaire – not a competition. No prizes. The answers were anonymous. All I asked was that you ticked a box to let me know the age bracket that you fell into…
Continue ReadingNotes on Being THE Family Photographer – Team Dolling
The first time I met Team Dolling they weren’t quite yet Team Dolling! Victoria was a bridesmaid at her best friends wedding and I was the photographer. Boyfriend Tom was a guest and their first baby, the adorable, sassy and spirited Nora-Rae was making her presence known but still to make an appearance on…
Continue ReadingThe Girl With the Green Eyes
What feels like a hundred years ago a portrait of a girl stopped me in my tracks. It was the summer of 1985 – and it was on the front cover of the National Geographic Magazine. And a very much younger Annie (not-even-Burbage) stood transfixed on a busy railway platform in London – oblivious to…
Continue ReadingThe Art of the Everyday – The Photographers Eye
Photographers see the world differently to other people. My sister-in-law said exactly this last night as we were watching my two year old nephew hurl his balance bike from one end of the yard to the other. She was wondering whether he would live long enough to see bath-time…… I was wondering if I’d got…
Continue ReadingA Portrait of Polly
Towards the end of last year Pollys Mum phoned. She told me that they weren’t the kind of family who had a lot a photographs. Photographs just weren’t their ‘thing’. She hadn’t even had a wedding photographer (#sobsquietly) However – 11 year old Polly was growing up. Moreover she had just won a music…
Continue ReadingA Portrait of a Wedding
Just over 12 months ago I was sitting quietly at my desk editing a portrait sitting when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a frantic female voice who – in the space of about three minutes – and without so much as pausing for breath – told me: She was…
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