Fleur Davies Photography: Boy

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Monday, 4 September 2017

What the Davies' do: Studio time with Miles.

A little collection of my son and his favourite slogan t shirts. Some more relevant than others. Ha!

I love that I am able to capture him and all his expressions. Kids do pull the funniest of faces and don't even care and I love that too. So we spent a short while in my studio a few weeks ago taking some photos for his room (and for my memories).

I bet your kids are full of character... Make sure you capture them as much as you can. Remember and preserve those expressions and funny little faces they make while they're still little.

Thanks for looking. Fleur x

(click into the images for better quality viewing... thanks!)

Friday, 28 April 2017

A Mother's Dream: I will be in the frame too!

A Mother's Dream blog-circle: I will be in the frame too!

And so here we are in May, at the second month of the lovely blog circle I joined at the start of April. It's so lovely to see how us photographers who are also Mum's (or vice versa) like to document the time we spend with our kids. Creating art, or (in my case mostly) just snapping away trying to document every tiny little moment and detail that I will no doubt forget at some point. Lost to that part of the brain that only recollects with the help of an image on a a piece of glossy paper.

My last blog (not from A Mother's Dream cycle, the one immediately before this) documented my youngest turning 6. I went for a different style than I'm usually used to shooting. I would normally just go with real life. Embracing the mess of our house or the surroundings of wherever we might be with my camera. But for that moment. Just after he'd got dressed and just before he opened his gifts, I had asked him for a few minutes of photos. I wanted to simply capture him and his massive amount of character. He did well considering he was probably daydreaming the whole time about the new HotWheels and Marvel goodies he had asked for.

So now we come to this month's dream cycle. And the images that go with it. They are much more me. More us. They are the unplanned. The off the cuff. The 'I must remember how cute he looked'. The mess of our home. But what I loved most about these is that, as I was taking them, I at first was instinctively trying to not show my reflection in the mirrored wardrobes. But what was I thinking? I spend so much time behind my camera and never in front. My kids obviously in years to come will know that it was Mummy who was taking the photo, but in this set I can be seen. Baggy t shirt, grubby jeans and messy hair to boot. But that's how they know me. I'm the Mummy who will play silly games, sing in funny voices, speak in strange accents to make them laugh. I can definitely make fun of myself. I am the person that I meant to be because of my kids. And I will from now make more effort to be in the frame.

Even if it is as a rule breaking reflection in a mirrored wardrobe.

Thanks for reading. And after you've viewed the pics you can head yourself over to the next blog in this month's 'A Mother's Dream' circle here: "Easter holidays with my little ones." By the lovely Jenna.

Fleur x

(PS - It's best to click into the pics too see better quality versions... Thanks Peeps.)

Birthday boy

It's criminal that I am now the mother of a 6 year old! I know, I know - I'm also the mother of an (almost) 10 year old and an 8 year old... What I should actually say is, it's criminal that my YOUNGEST is six years old! Urrgghhhh!

He's a handful. A ball of energy. Funny. More clever than he likes to let on. Feisty. And always has time for a cuddle with his Mummy (for now.)

So on the morning of his birthday I told him we MUST document the fact he's turned this grand age. He said himself how he felt so much bigger and better now that he is 6. He got himself dressed and I put him in his sister's room for a background where I could concentrate on just him and his character. This is how that documenting went...

Thanks for looking.

Fleur x

(PS - It's best to click into the pics too see better quality versions... Thanks Peeps.)

Friday, 3 March 2017

What the Davies' do: 'It was a big day for this little guy!'

I'm trying something new.

I've just began running my business with a new name - Fleur Davies Photography instead of Fleur Louise Photography. Nothing major. My work remains the same, but it does come at a time where some new and exciting ventures are in the pipeline...

I'll get to that at another time. For now though, I want to introduce what I hope will become a new, regular feature.

I love working for my clients, capturing the images they envisage, whether it's portraits, candid lifestyle shoots, their products or some of my own landscape, street or still life photography for them to admire on their walls. However I do photograph a lot just for me. I document as much of my family's life as possible. I always have. They are our memories frozen and I've always believed that the everyday - mundane even, images, they matter just as much a the big life events.

So the "What the Davies' do" idea was born. My journey to a photographic artist is as much to my family's credit as it is mine. They let me spend time capturing them. They put up with me dragging behind on days out so that I can get the shot I want of something that has caught my eye. They are used to my camera being whipped out at any moment. Whether they like it or not! Ha!!

Therefore I'm making a feature of it. Fleur Davies Photography is so much more than me pressing some buttons on a camera - it's my life and the life of my family. I don't want to forget where I started and where I go to grow. Without further ado - here we go. The first "What the Davies' do" blog...

It was a BIG day for this little guy!

He had been waiting so long. I remember thinking that actually he was fairly late to the game with this teeth malarky; both of his sisters losing their first teeth in their foundation year of primary school. We had thought his first tooth loss would be extremely premature after the 'smashing his face on a gate' incident in nursery. His top front tooth is still a bit wonky, but stayed put - thankfully.

Anyway, he'd been wibbling and wobbling this bottom one for a while. Daydreaming about the bedtime he could tuck in under his pillow inside an envelope for the tooth fairy to come and exchange it for some dosh. And he knew that the first tooth in the Davies household is a fiver - he was already mentally spending it. Each day he would push it one way as far as it would go, then back the other way. Determined.

Then one afternoon at my Mum-in-law's, while he was chatting away to his Nanny - it just came out. Plop. Right out of his mouth. Considering it fell out of it's own accord there was a decent amount of blood. And as I had guessed the next adult tooth was very visible underneath too.

Proud as punch would be an accurate description to his little face. And the Tooth Fairy did come that night and he did get his fiver. He still hasn't spent it either! He must have big plans.

Thanks for reading - here are the visuals. (There's some blood - sorry.)

x Fleur x

(PS - the trick to seeing better quality versions of the images is to click on them... Cheers loves!)

Tuesday, 27 December 2016

The Davies elves of 2016 - (the second half!)

And so another stay for our elves is over. All done for this year. It came around so quickly and we've just enjoyed a wonderful Christmas with family. I'm chilling right now with a coffee and a lie in, so thought I'd get this second part documented before all the festive magic ends for the year...

Here are the documented pics for the shenanigans our Twinkle, Toddy and Miss Thistle got up to from day 13 to day 24.

Thanks for looking everyone - I wish you a Merry Christmas and a brilliant New Year!

Fleur xx