This was the first-ever wedding that Bitten Smitten has documented and it was such a lovely experience. Sophie and Matt are a terrific couple, and were both so relaxed and just…. happy throughout the day!

{Sophie and Matt, it was such a joy to capture your special day. I am hoping you enjoy this sneak peek and I am looking forward to showing you more. In the meantime, enjoy each other and I do wish you all the best!}

I just wanted to share these photos of Lucy and Joe, a gorgeous pair of redheads, whom I’m photographed in the bluebell woods every year since I started doing the mini-sessions.

Love, love, love!

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And here’s an outtake with Aeyen trying to get in the picture!

This is one of my favourite photos from the bluebell mini-sessions I did last month. These twins were just too cute for words!

The mini-sessions this year have been a lot of fun to do. Thank you so much to the 31 wonderful families who came to participate over two week-ends. I am almost, almost, aaalmost done with all of them and will be sending off online album details by Friday this week. Thanks for being so patient!

Also, there are only very limited sessions left available for the month of June. I will be unavailable from July and will start to take bookings again from mid-August. If you are interested in having a summer photo session for your family, please contact me ASAP.

That’s it for now! I have so many photos to show from photo shoots done in May. Hopefully, once the bluebell photos are sorted, I can sneak in some time to post a few of them here.

I will get back to you all tomorrow. Thanks for understanding!

This is my little boy, Ronen Alexander! He was born on December 30th 2009 at 6:05am, weighing 6 lbs and 05 oz.  He’s now 16 weeks old and I can’t believe it took me this long to post a photo of him here at the Bitten Smitten blog!

At 16 weeks, he has started eating solid food and loves it. He has just started making laughing sounds and likes it when you “talk” to him. He has discovered his hands and keeps on staring at them. He’s also a dribble monster! I feel sometimes I need to wear some sort of bib myself as most of the icky stuff ends up being all over me!

I think he looks a lot like his dad. And his big sister adores him.

He’s such a cutie (if I say so myself) and although life with two can be twice as hard, it’s most definitely twice as fun and twice as rewarding!

This is Sophie and Matt’s pre-wedding photos from last week-end. It was such a nice break from photographing babies and children! For one, I didn’t have to do my usual antics of silly songs and even sillier maneuvers to get their attention! They are such a lovely couple with a lot of exciting things going their way and I feel very honoured to be asked to photograph them on their special day.

Has it really been more than six months since I last posted here? Now, that is what we call terrible blogging! So much has happened since the last post. I’ve photographed so many wonderful families, children and babies in the last few months and I will try to post some of them here in the next few days.

But I suppose the biggest news from the last time I wrote is the birth of my second child–my boy–Ronen Alexander, who was born on December 30th 2009. I promise to post some photos of him very soon!

Aeyen is a few months short of being three years old! Such a big girl now….. and she has started going to pre-school this week. She loves being a big sister and is very proud of “her” baby.

On the photography front, things have been wonderfully busy! I am now finalising details to the bluebell mini-sessions which will take place in May. This is the third year that I’m doing it and I am looking forward to meeting families from last year who have already shown interest in doing it again. I also hope there will be new families to meet, of course! Watch this space for more information.

That’s it for now! But (sigh)… I have got to say, it’s so good to be back!

More posts to come, promise!

And this lovely lady is no exception to it. With less than three more weeks to go for Baby Number 3 to arrive, Lucy made it look so breezy.

{Lucy–I had such a fun afternoon with you this week! I hope you are well and that you like this little sneak peek that I put together for you. All the best and I look forward to meeting your newborn when he comes!}

a) The weather was just perfect–not a cloud in the sky. When you live in England, this is a big deal!

b) The location, Castle Ashby Gardens in Northampton, was a photographer’s dream come true.

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c) The family I photographed are very good friends of ours and it was more of a day out together than a portrait session!

My husband and I met Neil and Barbara in our former church in Tokyo, Japan before either couple was even married (or engaged!). Since then, we’ve seen each other get married, move to England and have children. And if we have our own way, we’ll probably marry off our firstborns in 20-something years’ time! (Gavin and Aeyen will probably hate us for all this craziness though!)

And just for fun, here are a few funny outtakes that I just love!

Was there something on my head?!!!

Neil, being…. well, Neil.

Gavin and Aeyen, herding (ie torturing) the ducks!

{Neil and Barbara–I am so glad I finally got to photograph you and the kids! You all looked gorgeous and we really enjoyed spending the day with you. I hope you like these as much as I do. Speak to you soon!}

I had a great time photographing this family last week! I first met Claire at a mum’s exercise class one year ago and I remember photographing her with her daughter, Sara, amongst the lovely bluebells in the spring. Later that year, in the summer, I photographed her again with her newborn son, Kaleb. And now, a year later, I finally get the big picture and photographed the whole family!

{Claire and Yan–I hope you like this sneak peek of your session! Your family was such a joy to photograph….. Speak to you soon!}