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February 16, 2012

Children’s Ballet Portraits : Central London Children’s Photographer

I was lucky enough to photograph the rehearsals for the performance of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Kezia Mitchell’s wonderful Vacani Ballet school, Marylebone a few months ago. I often visit the Courtauld Gallery in London where I am inspired by the beautiful Post Impressionist paintings and drawings of ballerinas in rehearsal so was excited to do my own interpretation of this theme. I enjoyed the fact that the project gave the opportunity for gorgeous informal portraits, some Fine Art portraiture, and, perhaps my favourite kind of photographs, some funny and quirky moments such as the ballerina halfway up the climbing wall.

fine art ballet portrait

 

 

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Jeni - February 19, 2012 - 8:17 pm

Love these! I especially like the one of the girl covering her face while she gets hair sprayed. Totally reminds me of my own daughter when we do that.

Allison Hilyer - February 19, 2012 - 8:36 pm

These are stunning! I love the film look of some of them. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but the 3rd one is so lovely!

sally - February 19, 2012 - 11:00 pm

these are stunning! Awesome job. Especially love the closeup of the girl with the beautiful eyes.

Megan - February 19, 2012 - 11:12 pm

These are lovely! I love the artistic feel to them while still capturing the mood.

Lynda Coulson - February 20, 2012 - 6:49 am

So much fun!! These are beautiful, you have really captured the excitement in the girls and the theatrical feels so well. Lovely!

Leanne - February 20, 2012 - 10:09 am

Simply gorgeous. I love the feelings you have captured.

Robbie - February 21, 2012 - 2:23 am

Wonderful work! Just great photojournalism!

October 16, 2011

Family photographs on Hampstead Heath: Hampstead, Highgate, North London and Central London children’s photographer

Had a gorgeous afternoon on the Heath with these lovely 20 month old twins. The weather was perfect and the leaves are starting to turn yellow and gold. Kicking through leaves with toddlers in the sunshine is a great way to spend an afternoon:

 

hampstead heath toddler in white dress

hampstead heath child picking leaves

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Tamara - October 16, 2011 - 9:58 pm

Perfect photos, Ros! Very clean and the colours are gorgeous….

Robbie - October 16, 2011 - 10:17 pm

There is a lot of depth to these images and I love them! Just beautiful!

Katherine - October 17, 2011 - 12:36 am

Beautiful images, and I especially love her expression in that first image!

lysandra - October 17, 2011 - 12:42 am

Such dolls!

Alicia - October 17, 2011 - 3:00 am

OMGosh! How did you get that bokeh on the first? Beautiful! Love these.

Mom of these gorgeous kids! - October 17, 2011 - 8:56 am

Rosalind, thank you so much for capturing my kiddos! These photos are gorgeous and I can’t wait to see the rest.

Leanne - October 17, 2011 - 10:23 am

Gorgeous images, I love the expressions you have captured.

Stephanie - October 17, 2011 - 5:07 pm

These two are lovely!!

Cindy - October 17, 2011 - 7:28 pm

I love the sweet expression and moments that you captured! Beautiful colors!

Lila - October 17, 2011 - 8:16 pm

Oh, such stunning colors and what gorgeous children! These captures are incredible. What a lucky family to have such classic portraits of their sweet children!

Kori - October 17, 2011 - 8:34 pm

So cute. Love the lighting in the first one!

CJ Wilkes - October 18, 2011 - 3:02 am

AWE – so so precious. I love how simple but gorgeous these are! Beautiful lighting and PP’ing. Nice!

Liz - October 18, 2011 - 2:14 pm

How cute are they! Great shots!

Jennifer - November 1, 2011 - 10:13 am

Beautifully captured, great light, processing and moments. Gorgeous kids too – wish I could shrink mine ;-)

October 12, 2011

London portrait photographer: professional headshots

I have photographed this actress with her family and she asked me recently to do some headshots and full length portraits of her to accompany a column she is writing for the Telegraph newspaper.

It’s always delightful to work with her and she is fantastic in front of the camera – perhaps as you might expect for someone who has been photographed by Rankin and David Bailey among others.

Here are a selection of the photographs from the latest shoot, and here is the link to Olivia’s article and the photo they chose:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/8810777/My-week-Olivia-Williams.html

 

actor headshot olivia williams

actress headshot olivia williams

 

 

 

 

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Jennifer - October 13, 2011 - 7:40 pm

Beautiful subject and photography! The first black and white portrait is particularly breathtaking.

Stacie - October 15, 2011 - 4:22 pm

Oh, these are lovely. That first one is perfection.

Verity - October 22, 2011 - 5:17 pm

Love the shallow depth of field and clarity of the black and white photo, fantastic!

Christy - February 20, 2012 - 3:54 am

I love your location, and that first black and white image is gorgeous!

October 4, 2011

Children’s photos outdoors: central London child photographer

I have been so busy since getting back from our holidays that my blog has been languishing untouched, but starting with the last first, here is a photograph from an outdoors shoot yesterday when the weather and sunlight were beautiful for photos, and my subject couldn’t have been more perfect.

It was hard to choose photos from this session as there were so many beautiful ones, but this is one of my favourites because she is so absorbed in her world. She found a ‘nest’ of grass to sit in and is carefully feeding her toy rabbit.

child feeding toy rabbit

 

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Amanda Radovic - October 4, 2011 - 8:26 pm

This is pure perfection! Gorgeous work.

Anette - October 4, 2011 - 9:50 pm

Ohhh, I love this one and I can’t think of a better way of capturing childhood….seriously gorgeous!! The setting is so pretty and I love how intensely she’s playing with/feeding her rabbit. She’s such a beautiful little girl too and I love her curly hair. Such a perfect capture Rosalind!!!

CJ Wilkes - October 5, 2011 - 1:32 am

How sweet! I absolutely love the colors and the moment is precious!

Jeni - October 5, 2011 - 2:36 am

What a sweet moment you captured! I love the warm colors of this beautiful location.

Megan - October 5, 2011 - 3:09 am

Beautiful! Love the rich colors and the quiet moment.

Amanda - October 5, 2011 - 1:41 pm

Beautiful softness this, and such a great moment.

Yana - October 5, 2011 - 2:24 pm

Simply gorgeous!

Katherine - October 5, 2011 - 2:26 pm

Very sweet! Such a classic childhood moment.

Evelyn - October 5, 2011 - 4:35 pm

So sweet!

Leanne - October 5, 2011 - 7:43 pm

I love the intense play you have captured between this little one and her toy. Says so much about her personality, I bet her parents love it!

Jaidean - October 5, 2011 - 7:52 pm

Absolutely precious!

dsr - October 7, 2011 - 3:53 am

What a beautiful photograph! You light is gorgeous and I love your composition. Well done!

Shannon Wilkinson - October 8, 2011 - 10:23 pm

Love love love! The colors are gorgeous and the capture is stunning. I just love this shot.

Stacie - October 11, 2011 - 3:59 pm

Just a beautiful image, like all your work.

July 14, 2011

Award winning portrait photographer

I entered a national portrait photography competition a few months ago and am delighted to announce that I won first prize.

I think like all skills photography requires constant practice, and I have thousands of images of my family and friends as well as all my client work. When I read about the Portrait of the Year competition run by Photoanswers I looked through my archives for something that might match their brief of an image that stands out from the crowd. (To be honest, the one I picked is my favourite photo of my daughter – it makes me smile every time I look at it.)

These were taken during an afternoon spent playing with a joke pair of water-squirting glasses that came free with a Simpsons comic:

award winning photography child with joke glasses

and here is the winning photo:

girl with joke glasses photographer of the year award

So a big thank you to Digital Photo and Practical Photography magazines for choosing my photograph, and thank you to my family for putting up with constant photos!

digital photo competition winner

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Kate - July 14, 2011 - 10:08 pm

A fantastic image and a well-deserved win Ros. Wonderful work as ever.

Sara Hazeldine - July 14, 2011 - 10:15 pm

The cuteness is incredible! And I can SO see why this shot won the award!

dsr - July 15, 2011 - 6:44 pm

What a great photo! Definitely a prize winner to me! Well done!

Francesca - July 18, 2011 - 8:35 pm

Well done!The shot is amazing!

Jennifer - August 1, 2011 - 8:29 pm

Brilliant, well deserved and great shot – I’m still grinning from ear-to-ear :-)

Eleta - September 18, 2011 - 7:46 pm

Well Done! It really deserved to win, it’s a great image!

Stacie - October 11, 2011 - 4:02 pm

Congratulations. Very well deserved!