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Special offer alert for existing clients, refer a friend and get 50% off

As a sign of appreciation for having chosen me as your photographer I wanted to give you a special giveaway.

Refer a friend today and get 50% off your next booking. Your booking can be in the future. The offer is valid one month, so you have sometime to decide about when you actually want to book another session. It could be for your family in the autumn with beautiful autumnal colours, or in the…

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Bump and baby package, in Clapham - sneak preview

Bump and baby package, in Clapham – sneak preview

I have absolutely loved working with this beautiful lady who was expecting her first baby in June this year.

We had the most amazing maternity shoot in one of the parks in our area, in Clapham Common and the weather was great. We had sunshine but also some clouds, just enough to make the skies interesting.

Her husband also joined us later in the session which was great as we had enough time to…

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#Clapham #Clapham Common #London #looking for outdoor maternity shoot #looking for outdoor photoshoot #maternity #maternity shoot #newborn #newborn photoshoot

Locals of Tirana seen through the lens of an insider-outsider

This is the start of a series that I would love to continue as an ongoing project. Through this project, I want to document “who is today part of the capital of Albania, Tirana, what are their dreams and aspirations and how things have changed in the past fifteen years”. When I first thought about starting this project, I wanted to focus on those that are being more entrepreneurial and wanting to…

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#Albania #Albanians in London #albanians in the uk #bars in tirana #city developments #city skyscrapers #entrepreneurs #locals of tirana #London #people of tirana #shops in tirana #Tirana #who lives in tirana

An interview with Clapham photographer and videographer, Charlie Round Turner - working on the exciting Battersea Power Station project

An interview with Clapham photographer and videographer, Charlie Round Turner – working on the exciting Battersea Power Station project

I first met Charlie five years ago, when he very kindly agreed to meet me and a few other mums to talk and practice photography and learn along the way. A number of us found his advice very useful and it ranged from camera settings, to suggestions about camera and lenses and how to understand and work with natural light. Charlie operates from his Clapham base and has build his practice working…

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#battersea #battersea power station #Clapham #clapham photographer #digital photography #inspiring photographer #learning photography #local photographer #love clapham #photography advice #photography friends

Looking for outdoor maternity shoot? Battersea Park in London is lush

I love Battersea park and I love visiting it in the summer. It’s green and lush and has shaded areas where you can also cool down away from the heat. We set to do a maternity shoot with this lovely lady, at Battersea Park looking for the beautiful surroundings as a natural background. Although quite close to the term, this energetic ‘mum-to-be’ was happy to try a few places and walk around…

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#Battersea Park #London #maternity shoot #photographer #photographs #photography #photoshoot #Pregnancy #pregnant #preparing for birth

Having a positive birth can change you for the best

I am a big advocate of positive birth experiences and that includes anything that has been positive for the woman in the way she has given birth and in the way she has felt about it. Our experiences are what we make of them. Like anything in life you get what you put in and I am also a big advocate of actually ‘working’ on making your own birth a positive experience. It is not only a medical…

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#adrenaline #birth at home #birthing partner #Childbirth #contractions #coping with contractions #coping with pain #doula #giving birth #homeopathy for birth #hypnobirthing #maggie howell #maternity #oxytocin #physiology of birth #Pregnancy #preparing for birth #second nature doula #unplanned birth at home

Albanian traditional costumes in London

A little photo is up on the blog dedicated to my ‘Albanian culture and traditions’. These girls are wearing Albanian traditional costumes which are very pretty and with vivid colours. The Albanian community in London is very organised and there are many groups that organise events regularly, networking events, community days, fundraisers etc. The main groups are Shpresa Programme, Ardhmeria, Nene…

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#Albanian #Albanian costumes #Albanian culture #Albanian groups #albanian traditional costumes #Albanian traditions #Albanians in London #Ardhmeria #Nene Tereza #Shpresa Programme

How to capture better digital photos of your children and other adults, using natural light

In this brief guide I am going to share some tips I have learned from professional photographers, and from a number of courses and private lessons I have been on.

Before I even start, the first and foremost thing worth mentioning is the importance of “practice, practice, practice”. There is nothing better than that, to help put into practice any learning, whether it is about your camera’s…

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#adults #blog #capture the moment #children #families #memories #natural light photography #photography #taking better photos

Wonderful trip to Paris, while pregnant and with a toddler

Visiting Paris is a memorable experience, right?

Having done it with just my husband (when there was just us two) and having previously lived in Paris for seven years in my student years, doing it with a toddler in tow and pregnant was a (totally crazy) different experience.

Only joking, it was still wonderful, and not more stressful because, hold tight, we didn’t cram in too much during our 3…

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#adventure #citytrips #discovery #England #eurostar #France #great husband #Paris #photography #pregnant #sightseeing #toddler #tourists #travel

Refresh your profile with a free profile photo

Are you looking to refresh your profile picture on Facebook or LinkedIn? Is it time for a new image on your blog? Using a professional photo for your profile, does help make you stand out from the crowd, win new work and adds a professional factor. It has a ‘feel-good’ factor too. If that is you and you want to impress your followers with a new, ‘shiny’ (read contains high levels of sunshine) or…

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Need your opinion please - I am thinking of changing this blog to a photography portfolio

Need your opinion please – I am thinking of changing this blog to a photography portfolio

My dear blog followers,

I would like to ask for your advice about the future of this blog and its “raison d’etre”. I am thinking to change it into a blog portfolio of my photography. This blog initially started as a place to write about a number of things: being an Albanian in London, becoming a parent and a mother, learning and practicing photography, writing etc. Perhaps too many things?

SO i…

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A Syrian Refugee Support Advent Calendar 2016

Chocolate advent calendars are not a tradition in Albania and I haven’t done them neither when I was a student in Paris. So they are a relatively new thing for me. I haven’t yet introduced them to my children and I am not sure I will anytime soon, as it will create a certain condition and demand for chocolate every day (something many grown ups I know are struggling to break away from).

Instead…

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#Albania #hope #London #refugees #ripples of hope #syria #syrian coflict #syrian refugees #tooting #wandsowrth #welcoming refugees

Urgent: Aleppo, a letter to Boris Johnson, U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Yesterday after the shocking reports of 100,000 civilians trapped in Aleppo i wrote this email to the foreign secretary (after calling and being advised to send my concern by email).

This morning I was pleased to read that a deal had been agreed but unfortunately it wasn’t long and shelling started again. Seeing photos of dead babies, dead parents, bodies on the streets is filing me and so many…

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#aleppo #humanitarian disaster #mass killings #massacres #syria

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Interviste me Fanfara Tiranen dhe Hysni Zelen pas koncertit te tyre ne Londer

Me siguri keni degjuar te flitet per Fanfara Tiranen. Si? Jo? Zgjohuni menjehere, keni humbur nje nga spektaklet me te bukur te muzikes shqiptare me miksim tingujsh tradicionale e moderne. Fanfara Tirana luan bashke me Transglobal Underground dhe pjese e grupit eshte edhe mjeshtri i muzikes popullore shqiptare Hysni Zela.

Nese kerkoni ne Google emrin e tyre, do t’ju dale faqja Facebook a grupit…

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#Albanian music #Fanfara Tirana #hysni zela #Kabatronics #Music #Transglobal Underground #World music

Our long-waited home renovation project, 10 things we are looking at now

It has been since September last year that we have been waiting to get our hands on a house. The process of buying and selling in the UK is over complicated and unnecessarily long. So we were caught in it, waiting to complete the purchase of a house for 10 months. What holds the whole process up and makes it lengthy, is the concept and practice of a chain, a number of people buying/selling from…

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#builders #home improvement #home renovation #kitchen extension #loft #planning permission

Multitasking, is that really such a good ‘female skill’ to have?

Everyone today talks about the need to multitask, and the fact that in particular women are natural ‘good multi-taskers’. In our post-modern, digital society, multitasking is ‘the way to go’.

1. Washing the dishes while supervising children’s dinner and cooking the meal for next day (yes I have done that in the past, with what I have called ‘tremendous speed’)

2. Taping on our smart phones while…

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#digital #fast-paced lives #men #mobiles #multitasking #post-modern #women

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