*SPECIAL OFFER* Mini Portrait Sessions - only 5 sessions left!!!

Another session booked!!!

That leaves the following sessions up for for grabs:

30th November – 12 noon, 1pm or 2pm
7th December - 12 noon, or 1pm

Any sessions or vouchers booked/bought on or before 7th Dec will only cost £50 (usual price £60).

Contact me for more details.

Take care,
Hollie
xxx

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*SPECIAL OFFER* Mini Portrait Sessions

Some of you are going to want to throw snowballs at me for mentioning the C word, but Christmas isn’t that far away now. Yippee!!!

Looking for a thoughtful present? Mini Portrait Sessions make great Christmas presents. Whether it be buying someone a voucher for a session or getting the family together for a Mini Portrait session and sending Nan & Grandad a framed print (or personalised Christmas card) from your images.

In the next few months running up to Christmas I will be offering Mini Portrait Sessions on the following dates (locations to be confirmed):

28th September – 1pm, 2pm or 3pm
27th October - 1pm, 2pm or 3pm
30th November – 12 noon, 1pm or 2pm
7th December - 11am, 12 noon, or 1pm

Any sessions or vouchers booked/bought on or before 7th Dec will only cost £50 (usual price £60).

Contact me for more details.

Take care,
Hollie
xxx

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Wedding Wednesday

How cute is this little lady? Lovin' editing this wedding at the moment. :-)

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My first published wedding | Your Merseyside Wedding Magazine

I'm very excited to share with you my first published wedding featuring the gorgeous Maeve & Geoff and their beautiful wedding at Ness Gardens and Sheldrakes. It's been so hard to keep it a secret.

Thank you to Maeve and Geoff for giving your permission to submit your wedding to County Wedding Magazines and to Vicki at Lemoncake Studio for initiating it all.

Well done to everyone involved:

Ceremony Venue - Ness Botanic Gardens
Reception Venue - Sheldrakes Restaurant
Bride's Dress - Bellissima Brides
Bride's Accessories - ALDO Shoes
Groom's suit - Cain of Heswall Ltd
Rings - Fraser Bell
Cake - Lemoncake Studio
Flowers - Stamens
Make-up - Hollie-Sadler Make Up Artist
Hair - Majestic Hair
Entertainment - Afrika Fuentes

September/October 2013 edition available to buy now from McColls, Asda and all other good newsagents ;-)

Hollie
xxx


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The Young's | Mini Portrait Session

The beautiful Young family mini portrait session...

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Tomorrow's Teaser

Tomorrow I will be shooting a beautiful wedding in this beast of a building. Anyone know where is it? ;-)

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Sneak peek | Maeve & Geoff | Ness Gardens - Sheldrakes

Here are a few sneak peeks from last weeks wedding in the beautiful setting of Ness Gardens (with the reception later at Sheldrakes). 

How breath-taking is Maeve! - Absolutely gorgeous! I adored this wedding - every last detail was perfect - even the sun came out for us!

Wishing them both all the happiness for the future.

Enjoy
xxx

 

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A blog post about a blog post - Love My Dress

A couple of months ago, I got the chance to work with some amazing people to put together a styled wedding shoot and video at Alma de Cuba (a former Catholic Church now transformed into spectacular restaurant and bar).

Expertly organised by Strange Case Collective, the shoot started at 6am sharp, but that didn’t deter anyone – we were raring to go – bright eyed and bushy tailed!!!! I’m so proud of how everyone pulled together – most of us had never met each other before the shoot, but everyone just clicked, working solidly to put together the each look for the shoot… 

...and now I'm so excited as the shoot has now been featured on Love My Dress!!!

Thank you to everyone involved, especially Sophie Bold, Laura Jayne Pye (Strange Case Collective) and Daniel Byrne (Papertwin) - these are 3 very special people. They're going places - keep an eye out for them and their work!

Collaborators:
Strange Case Collective
Papertwin
Debbie Does Dazzle MUA
Adam @ Zerofour Hairdressing
The Flower Barn
Alma de Cuba
Stylist Kerryn Grady
Laura's Little Bakery
Belles Bridal Boutique
House Of Sharkey
Models with the mostest - Rebecca Seddon & Tom Lox

These people are incredible - go check them out!


Here are a few shots from the shoot but check out Love My Dress for the whole shoot and write up by the lovely Annabel Beeforth.

Also, here is the behind the scenes video shot by the fantastic Papertwin

Hollie
xxx 

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The (Marvellous) Mersey Belles

 

May I introduce you to Nancy & Pearl who are better known as The Mersey Belles, a vintage ukulele duo.

I had the honour of working with Nancy AKA Danielle last year, so when she approached me to shoot The Mersey Belles, I knew I was going to be in for a treat.  

Absolutely loved working with these girls, and my camera fell in with them too - not only do they sound gorgeous, but as you can see, they're absolutely 'knock your little cotton socks off' gorgeous too. Check them out live when they start their residency at House (Bold St, Liverpool) on 3rd March.

Big thanks to Nikki Belle for doing the make-up, hair and just being fab! And House for being top class and letting us use their premises as a backdrop for the shoot.

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Bold St Portrait

Had a meeting down on Bold Street yesterday, so I thought I'd set myself the challenge of getting some street portraits, as there are always some beautiful people on Bold St. But the glorious British weather had other ideas - it rained and it rained and it rained!!!  I managed to get this shot when the rain went off for literally 30 seconds on my way back to the car.

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Review of 2012

So here we are 31st December 2012 - where has the time gone?!?!?  Rather than have a shot for each month I've done an overview of the things that have stood out to me the most this year.


1. First off was meeting my Ministry of Dessert girls - I feel like I've known these girls forever but I only met them in March.  I've loved watching them spin into action with an idea and see it come to fruition - they never disappoint.  Can't wait to see what they work their magic on next.

2. Getting the chance to photograph Bethan McGuigan running through Rhostyllen with the Olympic Torch in May is a moment I will never forget.   The atmosphere was amazing - there were kids running down the road next to the torchbearers, old folk cheering "Morning!" as Bethan ran past - Great stuff!

 

3. Another entry for the Ministry of Dessert girls. But I had to - I couldn't leave out The Alice In Wonderland dessert table  - it was just out of this world.  Every little detail was thought of and the little girls where so overwhelmed by the whole experience - popping candy, Mad Hatter chocolate hats the size of their heads, drink me potions!!!  Minister of Flowers, Maria put together this fab video with the rest of the shots.

4. I've been blessed to shoot so many portraits this year and I've enjoyed each and every single one. I love meeting the people, finding out about their lives and then creating some unique images for them to keep and (I hope) love. I've made some great new friends through shooting portraits this year and can't wait to make some more in 2013.

5. It was so hard to choose 3 image from the weddings I've shot this year - the Brides (and the Grooms - can't leave them out ;-)) have been so breath-taking, the venues so stunning, the details so bewitching.  Thank you to all my Brides and Grooms from 2012 - all the best for 2013 and what your future together brings xxx

That's it for 2012.  There was so much more I could've filled this post with, but it would've been a never ending post ;-)  Thank you to everyone who has made this year so special.  This year has been full of so many highs, I'm so excited to see what 2013 brings.

Happy New Year everyone!!!!!

Hollie
xxx

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Calling All Chocoholics

A few weeks back I was asked to photograph one of The Chocolate Cellar’s workshops held at the fantastic 54 St James St, L’Pool.  Two hours surrounded by chocolate?  Yes please!!!! 

I walked into the room and was immediately met by the smell of glorious, rich, delicious melted chocolate and a lively bunch of hens for Fliss’ hen party, eager to get stuck into the art of chocolate making (and the chocolate). 

Bala and her chocolate elves (also known as Alyx and Tania) were on hand to explain the process of where chocolate comes from and how it makes it from the bean to the bar.  Then they got onto the serious stuff…making the chocolate!!!  Bala demonstrated various techniques before setting the girls the task of creating and advertising their chocolate wares – the winning team won bags of scrumptious Chocolate Cellar chocolate – jealous!!!

Thank you to The Chocolate Cellar for a fantastic afternoon and I hope Fliss and her Husband had a wonderful wedding day!

 

 

 

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| The workshop took place at The Women's Organisation’s base in 54 St James St, L’Pool, set in the middle of the Baltic Triangle and China Town – which I would highly recommend if you need a venue for conferences, meetings and events, etc. |