Joanna Pearce Photography

Wonderland Bakery and A Bespoke Design

Sunday, February 12, 2012 Posted in Portrait, Weddings

This week has been a busy one for me. From a meeting with fellow photographer Haley Ruth I have managed to network with two amazing local suppliers that have been very productive.

I met with Emma from A Bespoke Design because I want some personalised stationery that will fit with my branding and be something that my clients both wedding and portrait will love. Packaging is such an important part of a quality brand, we can all recognise a Tiffany or a Jo Malone and I knew that a specialist in bespoke stationery would be the best fit for me. The stationery that Emma designs and produces is exquisite and I am really excited about the finished product but you’ll have to wait a few week for that.

Whilst chatting with Emma I told her that I wanted to have some branded goodies of the edible variety too and she gave me the details of Lucie at Wonderland Bakery. After a quick back and forth via Twitter Lucie and I arranged to meet next week to talk things through. We also discovered that we live very close to one another, she is in a village about 2 miles from me. Skip to Saturday mornging and whilst laying in bed checking the astonishing outside temperature of -15 I also looked at my twitter feed and saw that Lucie was considering whether or not to venture out herself after joking that the farmer’s market she was due at would be too cold so she might have some cakes going cheap! It is a well known fact that I am a lover of cake so I piped up with a ‘me please’ tweet that resulted in the lovely Lucie bringing me a box of cakes at the end of her day. Yummy cakes delivered to my door = happy me!

We will still be getting together next week to talk about how she can help me on a professional level but her delivery made my weekend of a teenage house party SO much easier to bear, thanks Lucie!

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Monday, February 6, 2012 Posted in Personal

Those of us in the east woke to a blanket of beautiful snow yesterday. My children are teenagers and although keen enough to go out in the snow not so keen to pose for mum (again). The animals of the Pearce household are much more biddable though, although the thought occurs to me that a teenage boy might come into the animal category anyway.

I ventured out in the morning to dig my chickens a patch to peck their breakfast on and was joined by a gorgeous robin also hoping for some breakfast. I filmed a little of him singing his heart out and then the dogs going a bit nutty in the snow. Then I waddled in, I had a lot of layers on, and grabbed my camera to see if he would stay still enough for me to try my hand at wildlife photography.

I know robins are cliche but I’m really pleased with this shot as to me it is not ‘another generic robin on snowy post’, it’s my robin singing his little heart out to me.

Click on the link to see my ‘shaky’ video footage Snow Garden and see the mainly domestic and one wild animal in the snow.

Today it’s all rather slushy and wet, the chickens are still prefering the shelter of their coop and the robin is still singing. Roll on the Spring!

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Essex Baby Portrait Session

Friday, February 3, 2012 Posted in Babies, Portrait

Well it’s Friday again and we’re bracing ourselves for possible snow in the east this weekend. The weather, cold as it is, is actually quite beautiful at the moment. Afternoon sunshine provided all the light I needed on this shoot. I knew as soon as I saw the different rooms and windows available that we would get some great light and I even had to ask for the curtains to be pulled across at one stage because it was too bright – who said it’s too dark for indoor photography in the winter? Not me. Good. Glad we’ve cleared that up and now onto the shoot.

Little Frankie’s parents are using my Babies First Year Package to have 3 shoots over a period of months to record Frankie’s progress. We’ve had a bit of a gap between the first shoot and this one as she is now 7 months and she was 10 days old at the first shoot! You can still see it’s the same baby though and I’m really looking forward to seeing her in early summer for her final shoot of the package.

We started with her just literally plonked on the floor in front of me and I got this shot which is actually my favourite of the entire shoot.

Followed by these.

Mum wanted some moody black & white shots for a framed image (she has the wall space set aside already) so with her oufit on we were ready to roll.

I feel like Frankie is a bit of a model baby in all ways!

I love my job, the variety of subjects I get to shoot never fails to inspire me and every baby, portrait or equine shoot and every wedding is different.

Have a great weekend and don’t forget your thermals!

x

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