Photographing Older Babies
Help! My baby isn’t a Newborn have I missed my chance? Not at all, we're all about photographing older babies too! Here at Studio Bambino we often are approached by parents who for reasons varying from a traumatic birth, sleepless nights, cultural reasons or just...
Christmas Photography Sessions
Christmas is coming!! This Christmas I am finding that people are either in one of two camps. They either feel like 2020 has lasted for about 5 years (and are ready to put the tree up and call it a year) or they can’t believe there are less than 100 days until...
Coping With Mum Guilt
Mum guilt, it’s something that EVERY mum suffers with, but are we our own worst enemy’s? It’s Sunday night, just gone 8 o’clock and I’m counting my lucky stars that Sienna has gone to bed and straight to sleep. When these little mini humans enter our world, we find it...
Poetry In Motion
Lockdown has been pretty tough for all of us, whether it affected our work, our holiday plans, our income, and let’s face it, our sanity. You may well have read one of my previous posts when I talked about the fact that I used to love to write. It’s not something I...
Kids Grow Up So Fast
Kids grow up so fast. Is it the biggest cliche out there? I think it possibly is. It’s a phrase we hear repeatedly. Usually, by your auntie Doreen, along with, oooh hasn’t she grown (with accompanying hair ruffle or cheek pinch). But she’s right. Scarily right. And...
Outdoor Newborn Photography in Oxfordshire
The best thing about being a newborn photographer in Oxfordshire, is that we have such beautiful clean outdoor spaces on our doorstep. Rolling fields full of golden corn, gorgeous poppy fields, woodland that glow with the yellows, oranges and reds of Acer trees, and...
Photographing Your Baby At Home
If you're reading this, chances are you've just had, or about to have a new bundle of joy arrive in your life! And although it's the most amazing time ever, some of you will no doubt be dissapointed that you won't be able to attend you pre-booked photo session. With...
Beating the January Blues
There is wholeheartedly nothing fun about the month after Christmas, with January Blues hitting a lot of us hard. In the run up to Christmas, when Bublé is our daily soundtrack, and there are pretty lights at every window, we have an inherrent reason to feel jolly....
30 Elf on the shelf ideas
So we're almost half way into Christmas month now and I bet some of you are rattling your brains on what that naughty elf can do to entertain the kids tomorrow morning! Some of you either love it or dread it, I personally can't wait til my boys are old enough...
Top 10 Christmas gifts for toddlers 2019
Buying Christmas gifts for toddlers has to be one of the most exciting things about this festive period – but what do you buy a toddler that has endless amounts of toys already! And although wandering around your favourite shops searching for gifts is fun, its not...
Membership
Good photography is an investment, but something that lasts forever. Way beyond our years, and can evoke memories and feelings every time you look those images. I can't count the times my daughter sits and goes through all of the photo albums that live under her bed...
Christmas Sessions
Is it too early to play Michael Buble's Christmas album yet? I feel like whenever I am writing about the big C word, I should be sat here with a mulled wine, whining like a strangled cat to Jingle Bells! So thats pretty much how my December goes. Did you know that...
It’s giveaway time!
It's giveaway time! Can you believe it's only just over 12 weeks to go until Christmas! I'm not sure about you, but every year I try and be a bit more organised and think about presents in October rather than leaving it until the last minute, but no doubt, yet again...
Are Cake Smash sessions the cutest trend ever?
One of the most rewarding things about being a photographer is making priceless memories for clients and families to cherish forever, a cake smash session is such a great way to do this. It’s not exactly known how this trend really started but, for the last ten years,...
Could You Save A Life?
As a mum, the requirement to learn first aid became ever more important to me, when I had this beautiful bundle that was my responsibility to keep safe! Would I know what to do if she was choking or burned her hand on something, or god forbid, needed CPR, and at the...
5 Reasons Sitter Sessions Are The Best!!
So before we go any further, let's talk about what a sitter session is! Sitter Sessions are for babies approximately 6-10 months old or when baby is sitting up on their own (without falling) and before they start to walk. In the blink of an eye, your...
How to book a newborn session
Ok ladies, this is the one question I get asked all the time and the one thing that prevents people from booking their session whilst pregnant. How do you book a newborn session when you don't when baby will make an entrance? Being a newborn photographer means...
What would you save?
I'm sure its a question you've heard before, but if the unthinkable happened, and you woke to find the house on fire, once the family was safe, what would you save? 100% for me would be the family pictures (and shortly after, the Louboutins that hubby...
Bluebell Minis 2019
Yay! Spring is nearly here! What a glorious few days we've had recently and long may it continue! The Bluebell sessions are some of my most popular sessions of the year and I have had already had lots of people asking when my sessions this year will be...
Outdoor Maternity Photography Oxfordshire
I have a fascination with bumps, the baby kind that is! There is something special about maternity photography, watching mummies to be cradle their bellies, wondering what the life inside her is going to be like.