My angle

A client apologised because she had only three suitable outfits for her brand shoot. Here’s why that can be plenty when the rest of the session is carefully varied.

A business photograph can show exactly what you look like yet say so little about you that, with another person in the frame, it could just as easily advertise someone else in your profession. Here’s what makes a photograph recognisably yours.

A request for an extra splash of milk should have been entirely unremarkable. Instead, one awkward exchange revealed how much customers learn about a business from the moments nobody thought to plan.

A planning call about a dog revealed a much bigger question: which parts of ourselves do we remove from our business photographs before anyone has told us they don’t belong?

My daughter went to bed at half past six in the morning. It got me thinking about summer, social media, and why spending half an hour improving your website might be a better investment than publishing another post.

“Be yourself” sounds like lovely business advice, but it doesn’t tell you what to communicate. A more useful question can make your website, content, and brand photographs much easier to plan.

The night I picked up a bass guitar for the first time – and discovered what getting out of your comfort zone truly teaches you about confidence and joy.

Judged in Paris, blurry in the heat, and quietly chuffed anyway. Here’s what a shadow photo taught me about showing up – and being seen for who you are.

Venice, solo. Mild terror, major breakthrough. Here’s what a wobbly train trip taught me about fear, confidence, and showing up on camera anyway.

Even my dog knows how to make his presence known! Find out why consistent visibility matters for your business, and how you too can be as memorable as a favourite lamp post.

The danger of making assumptions really can make things go horribly wrong!

I’m writing this on 10 April, at the start of 2022’s World Homeopathic Awareness Week. But first, let me take you back to the mid-90s …

Photographing your family Christmas – find out here how to capture Christmas in photographs and still be present to enjoy the moment. 6 top tips to make sure you think properly about what you want to do, and then how to do it!

7 things I’ve learned this year – good, and not so good! How did YOUR year go? What did you learn from it, and what’s the best and worst things that happened?

Working mum guilt … Poisonous, isn’t it? As I’ve been a working mum for many years now, and as most of my clients are also working mums, I’m going to tell you exactly why we can all ditch the working mum guilt which plagues so many of us.

Two years ago, my poor overworked smartphone gave me an obscene gesture and yelled “nooooooo, gimme a rest!”.

Then it died.

Here’s how I fared, and why I’m scared of the slippery slope.