21st Anniversary Post: Where have all these kids come from?

I am a bit fuzzy on the details of how it happened, but for some reason I started getting lots of enquiries and bookings, for children portraits…

It was not my first choice, as far as clientele goes, but not because I do not like children.

I do like them.

It is just that I had no experience in working with that age group, and it had not been the direction I wanted to take.

But, hey. Nothing ventured, and all that!

I started to take the bookings and soon found out that:

🌟I am a natural at working with children and have the patience of a saint (parents' words…).

🌟I was able to indulge my inner child, which is very much alive and well, and this worked in my favour as far as relating to the little angels, and putting them at ease.

🌟For some reason children loved working with me, and had no issues taking direction on posing.

🌟No one looked at me as if I was weird when I rolled on the floor, put stuffed animals on my head, or when I blew a raspberry (to some parents' horror).

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I captured some of my favourite work over the 16 years I photographed children and families, and became quite fond of the genre, though newborn photography was never something I was that comfortable with, as the responsibility of handling the little bundles of joy made me quite anxious, so I avoided it.

In fact, newborn photography was the first style of portraiture I dropped from my services, in the subsequent years.

Within a year of setting up the business my portfolio was growing, and I was offering:

Women Portraits
Children Portraits
Family Portraits
Pregnancy Portraits

I photographed this style of portraiture right up to 2019, and a couple of times after that, for exiting clients.