Family birthday party photography in Cambridge

I was thrilled to visit Bernadette to photograph Luke's second birthday party with his family. The whole family was there to celebrate with Luke, so it was a great opportunity to capture some relaxed photographs. We spent a lovely morning together taking pictures - a few family group photos and lots of pictures as everyone enjoyed themselves. It's always lovely when large families get together.

I hope you enjoy these pictures from our family photography session in Cambridge.

Multi-generational family portrait photography in Ickworth, Suffolk

As a Cambridge-based family photographer, I often travel out to Suffolk to take family portraits. I first met Andrea last year when we took some portrait photographs of Esme here in Cambridge, and so I was thrilled when she called to ask if I could join her extended family to take some multi-generational family portrait photographs while they were having a weekend together at Ickworth in Suffolk. It was wonderful to bring together children, nieces, nephews, parents, brothers, sisters and grandparents for this set of pictures.

We had a beautiful sunny day and had a great time exploring the lovely grounds with the family, climbing trees and enjoying the wonderful playground before a tasty lunch. It was great fun and I hope you enjoy this set of natural and relaxed family portrait photographs from Ickworth in Suffolk.

It was great to capture the cousins playing together in this set of family portrait pictures

The shoot included individual children's portraits too, like this beautiful portrait - the quality of light was wonderful

Ickworth was a wonderful backdrop for this set of family pictures

This is one of my favourite multi-generational portraits - it's wonderful to be able to capture a relaxed photo of everyone sat on this majestic tree in the grounds of Ickworth

Children's birthday party photography with Magical Quest parties

It's all go go go here at the moment, with the busy summer season upon us and I'm loving every minute of it.

Here are some photographs from Arthur's eighth birthday party with the wonderful Jessica and her team from Magical Quests children's parties.

As always, we had a wonderful time - the theme was an investigation party (Arthur is very into spies) and featured characters from the Famous Five, among others. I was in heaven as a massive Enid Blyton fan.

I love photographing children's birthday parties. They're very different to the children's portrait photography sessions that I normally do, providing lots of opportunities for natural black and white photographs that really show the children's personalities.

Here are a few favourites from Arthur's birthday party...

The games at children's birthday parties always make for great photos:

It's not a proper birthday party if there isn't an enormous cake:

Children's birthday party photography in Notting Hill

I always love being invited to take pictures of children's birthday parties - some of my most vivid childhood memories are from my birthday parties, from the type of cake I had to the games we played. I really enjoying capturing these parties, so that the children have a visual record to look back in years to come and help remember every detail of the day. There is often the added bonus of tasty cake to eat at birthday parties, too.

Today's post is from a fantastic party organised by Jessica and the fabulous children's party entertainers Magical Quests in Notting Hill. Jessica always puts together a wonderful party full of imaginative ideas, and the children had such a lovely time.

The theme for this birthday party was Thunderbirds - the children did science experiments with Brains and games with Lady Penelope and Virgil, before battling with The Hood. It was amazing fun - I so enjoy being a photographer for children's birthday parties - and here are some pictures from the day.

It's Parker!

Science experiments with Brains at the birthday party, so much fun

Great glasses, Brains

Thunderbirds are go! What an incredible Thunderbird 1 birthday cake.

Children's party photography

I always feel that the summer has arrived when the children's birthday party season is upon me. Children have parties all year round, but I think it is just that I have a few regular birthday parties that I photograph every year around June and July. To me, they always signal the start of summer (although with the wonderful weather we've had so far this year, it has been feeling pretty summery for a while now).

We had a wonderful day - the best bouncy castle (although I discovered that I don't have the same bouncing stamina that I once did) and lots of fun party games including the Kinder Egg and spoon race, which I plan to use at my own birthday in future.

I hope you enjoy the pictures