Magic Hour

Magic hour is that time of day – early evening or early morning, when the light is just, well, magic.  It is the holy grail for filmmakers and photographers, and there is usually a lot of time spent waiting for just the right light.  But sometimes you just get...

Curious Cooks

My ideal weekend involves photography, cookery and friends, so a commission I received from a friend to shoot the images for her new cookery book was a dream come true.  She runs a cookery school for children in London called Curious Cooks, and is a ridiculously...

Tiny new people

There is nothing as extraordinary as the arrival of a new tiny person into a family.  It’s life changing, exhausting, funny and frightening.  It put everything into a strange, slightly surreal perspective.  It consumes your day and steals your night.   But when...

Farmers’ Markets

Farmers’ markets.  Never the cheapest, or the warmest way of shopping.  But there is something undeniably satisfying about buying a handcrafted pie, or a wedge of cheese from the actual human who was responsible for making it. These kitchen top entrepreneurs...

Real Bread

I love fresh bread, I think of myself as the sort of person who knocks up a fresh loaf every week, fitting it effortlessly into my Sunday morning routine while thumbing through the papers (*hollow laugh*, my Sunday morning routine generally involves playing dragons...