How To Take Stunning Snow Portraits When the snow starts falling, that all-white winter wonderland is an exciting opportunity for snow pictures! Think sparkling eyes, apple cheeks pink with cold, beautiful texture in the form of warm woollies. Add pops of vibrant colour, and it’s easy to create really eye-catching, dynamic snow images with a […]

A Highlights Reel of Perfect Park Photos! Kids love visiting the park – all that space to run around, and even more fun… all that exciting playground equipment to climb, jump and swing on! If you’ve got young children, chances are you’re already well acquainted with your local parks and playgrounds. And as well as […]

Do you ever feel like you’ve run out of things to capture? It often coincides with the kids getting sick of having their photo taken! But that’s the perfect time to step back, wait, and keep your eye out for the simple joys of life and childhood, the kind that brings pure joy to the […]

We mamas don’t get in photos with our kids often enough. It’s true we’re usually on the other side of the camera, but we often have a variety of other excuses as well… I haven’t done my hair, I don’t  have any make up on, I don’t have time, I’m wearing an ugly t-shirt, I […]

7 Ways to Capture Your Kids Outdoors This Summer As our friends in the northern hemisphere slide into summer, we went for a wander in our CLG community looking for fun ways to capture kids in summer. Welcome to this weeks highlights reel of images from our talented Grads, we hope it inspires you to […]

What started out as a bit of portrait practice, morphed into a fabulously fun photo project to document each day in lockdown… with a two year old! Becca Lord-Lyon is a CLG Grad, and when she began sharing her daily portraits of her daughter in our Grad’s group, they were so full of personality and […]

It doesn’t matter how popular lifestyle and documentary style photography gets… we’ll always love a good old close up portrait of our kids. But they don’t have to be traditional or boring! We’ve curated a bunch of kids portraits from our Grads that catch your eye immediately because they’re full of personality, they’re a little […]

Preserve Childhood Memories with Beautiful Words & Photos When I had my first baby, I felt an acute awareness of how quickly the days were flying. I was overwhelmed with tiredness and hormones, and trying to take in every moment, every first, every little bit of growth and change. I worried that it would all […]

Beach light can be equally as challenging as it is beautiful. In fact, it was the subject of our very first Creative Workshop series – Beautiful Beach Light with Merissa Wakefield, which wrapped up earlier this month. And I’m so pleased to share it was a HUGE success! Merissa is the principal photographer at Merissa […]

How to Capture Kids at Play! Capturing our kids can be challenging for a variety of reasons, the most common being they simply get sick of our camera in their faces! But what if they’re just busy kids? I’m not just talking about kids who don’t stop moving… …for many of us, the older our […]