I was so excited when my friend Gill asked me if I would take some pictures of her newborn son Rocco, especially given that her husband is a photographer (albeit a sports photographer but even so!).  I really wanted to try some of the posed positions that we all see on the internet.

I have taken a few baby shoots now and each has been a learning curve.  I have now realised that I am not as confident with other peoples babies as I was with my own and have been a little tentative in the past.  It really helped that I knew Gill and being her third baby she was quite gungho!  Rocco was so beautiful but we struggle to get him to settle at times and that prevented us from manipulating him into position as much as we would have liked.  The natural shots I did get though are beautiful and I’m really thrilled with them as is Gill.  Perhaps those styled, posed shots are not for me, natural shots may be best suited to the way I work…..Cx