portrait and wedding photographer in Cornwall and beyond

janet moseley - February 13, 2012 - 9:14 pm

Love your new website,i enjoy looking at all your lovely pics & reading the blogs!!.Keep up the good work.

Jan 20 2012

All quiet on the western front

Not like me to be so quiet is it?

I’ve been working on a lovely new project, a “bit-on-the-side”. It’s a wedding blog, focussed on Cornwall. I’ve gathered up loads of fab guest contributors, brilliant Cornish wedding suppliers, and fellow wedding photographers. There’s already loads of great content on the site – real weddings, and different ideas and inspiration for couples planning their wedding in Cornwall.

This will sit nicely alongside my photography work, each complementing the other. And of course it gives me another opportunity to work and make contacts in the fab Cornish wedding industry.

More photography work coming on the blog soon. In the meantime, if you fancy a nosey at the new site, it’s called Pasties & Petticoats. As always, I’d love to hear what you think (and would love to hear from anyone who would like to contribute).

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Dec 27 2011

Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

With the madness of Christmas preparations over and as we prepare to enter a new year, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone I’ve come across this past year of the DSP journey; clients, fellow photographers, facebook likers and twitter followers (and of course family and friends).

I know the first of January is just a day like any other, but I tend to see a new year as a clean slate. I love looking back at the year gone by, and pondering the promise of what is to come.

It has to be said that 2011 has been a great year. I’ve been so busy my feet have barely touched the ground. I’ve shot loads of portrait sessions, completed my first year of weddings, met loads of lovely people and learned a lot on this never-ending journey that is photography.

I can genuinely say I’ve enjoyed every shoot that I’ve done in 2011. I am so lucky to be able to do something that I love so much, and to come across the people that I do. So thank you, again, to everyone who has booked me for a shoot, put their trust in me to capture their wedding, taken the time to give me such lovely feedback (and sometimes even gifts!). It all means a lot.

No doubt you all have turkey leftovers to eat and sherry to drink, so I’ll stop rambling now. I’ll leave you with the film of the big summer vintage photo shoot, definitely one of the highlights of 2011!

Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous 2012.

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Bryony - December 27, 2011 - 5:42 pm

What a year for you Donna, all the work you have produced has been absolutely stunning xx

Dec 13 2011

Fabulous Folds Five {family portrait photography Cornwall}

I am SO behind with blogging at the moment (this is a good sign, it means I’m busy taking photos, but I want to have time to share them with you!).

In a few days time I will be taking a hard-earned break, having a couple of weeks off to unwind with my family and friends over the festive season. I hope that you will all be doing the same. I’m a big Christmas fan; the romantic in me just loves the twinkly lights, dark nights, classic films and of course the food and booze! So what better time to have time to relax and take stock before a new year gets under way?

Before I sign off though, I wanted to share a few photos from a recent ‘dear to my heart’ shoot. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but humour me while I wax lyrical about my fab friends. I am incredibly lucky to have a circle of friends who keep me sane. We all have toddlers, which means that while we hang out / drink tea / eat cake, the kids can play together (with a bit of toddler-style bickering thrown in from time to time). Aside from our weekly child orientated get togethers where we compare child-raising notes, we also hang out socially. Ya know, as grown-ups. We’re all lucky to have lovely supportive husbands so we have monthly nights out for wine, chat and general merriment.

When you have a lovely circle of friends, it’s nice to be able to do something for them from time to time. I can’t bake for toffee (or, indeed, cake), so my contribution to our circle of skills has to be photography. This means that I occasionally manage to fit in a little family shoot for them.

A couple of weeks ago I hung out with Sam and her family on a Saturday morning. I was served bacon sandwiches and frothy coffee, and had lots of ‘help’ from the girls as I set the lights up. Then we had some fun getting a few shots for the family album. So, finally I get to the point… a few of my favourites from the Fab Folds Five…

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