As soon as people open up to you, and reveal their true selves you can't help but see them for the absolutely beautiful person they are!
I was looking around for some interesting quotes on photography recently and this one just really struck me when I read it. It fits so perfectly with everything I've been learning since I really started digging into the Beloved concept and the philosophy behind it.
Photography is so much more than just taking pictures of the things in front of us. Beloved photography especially is about seeing beyond what's on the surface. It's about bringing out, seeing and capturing the wonderful connections between people. It's about seeing the true beauty of the person in front of your camera. That's one of the things I love about it, how it reveals the natural beauty that's inside all of us.
As soon as people open up to you, and reveal their true selves you can't help but see them for the absolutely beautiful person they are!
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Looking at these photos is getting me all excited at the thought of getting back to the beach for more sunny sessions like this! I met with Cheryll, Ross and their son at Swansea Bay for a maternity portrait session last summer (I'm really not proud of the fact that I'm only just sharing these photos now!). That gorgeous bump you can see in the photos is now an even more gorgeous baby girl - congratulations Cheryll and Ross! This was possibly one of the most laid back portrait sessions I've ever done, I loved it! I went armed with some Beloved invites ready to suggest games to play, but I didn't really need them, this family just went ahead and played their own games which I thought was wonderful. They chatted and played and relaxed on the beach, enjoying the last warmth of the sun before it set. This to me is a great example of the type of experience you can expect if you book a family portrait session with me. No stress and lots of fun and smiles! If you want to go ahead and do your own thing, that's great, I love capturing lifestyle images of families just being themselves. But if you want more direction then that's fab too, I'll come ready with Beloved games and prompts to get you playing and chatting in no time! If this sounds like your kind of thing, then I'd love to hear from you - you can contact me here!
We went on an adventure recently. Rhys and Steve both drew maps to help us navigate through the vast, wild terrain of Singleton Park, to the swings behind the shops in Sketty. Rhys had a compass and everything. We would have been so lost without it! And of course I took the camera along to record our journey.
I was having a wander round the web the other day, looking at the gorgeous images various Beloved photographers are creating, and I came across Susi Seitz's website. That's where I discovered this quote; at the top of a page of wonderful, emotive images were these words. I must have read it three times over I loved it so much. It just describes falling in love so perfectly to me. I keep reading it and can't quite find the words to explain why I find it so beautiful! I think it's that it brings back all the emotions I felt when I first fell in love with my husband. The fear of letting myself truly fall, the common sense that was telling me it was too soon to be in love with him. And the exhilarating joy of feeling it anyway and realising he felt the same way! I want to pass this on to my children. I want them to grow up open to love and to go all in when it finds them. "So take a deep breath, take a step forward, now run, collide like planets in the system of a dying sun, embrace each other with both arms and let all the rules, the opinions and common sense crash down around you" Perfect.
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Lifestyle and Beloved portrait photography in Swansea, Wales.
Your life. Your love. Your story. About me!Hi! I'm Madeline Littlejohns. A portrait photographer, based in Swansea, South Wales, specialising in on-location maternity, baby and family Beloved and lifestyle photography. Be the first to hear about special promotions and session information by signing up for my newsletter.
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