Mothers Day is coming dear reader and it's a really great excuse to buy a gift certificate so she can celebrate the wonder that is being a mum!  Gift certificates are available from as little as £20 for a mini session with complimentary 7x5 print, to buy one just drop me an email 

Those Mothers Day Mini sessions sold out within 8 hours of announcing them, booked solid which is brilliant!  I thought I would update you on the latest availability if you are looking to have a mini session.

So

Jesmond Dene, 15th March, 11, 11.30, noon

Tynemouth Longsands, 16th March, 1, 1.30, 2, 2.30 and 3pm

Saltwell Park, 22 March, 10, 10.30, 11, 11.30 and noon

Mini sessions are £20 and include a 7x5 print, web gallery for 30 days, 15% off for the first week your gallery is live and prints start at £10 for a 7x5.

and here's a couple from last weekend at Tynemouth Longsands

What we got up to this weekend...

It's Spring dear reader, did I mention that enough yet?  I adore spring, people start to come out of hiding, including me I must add, I am a virtual hermit during winter but now it's March I feel I have fully conquered SAD for another year and that alone makes me happy and delighted.

Interesting and wonderful things happened over the weekend, first and foremost I had a Saturday off!! That does not happen very often and so when it does you have to embrace it and grab it by both hands, usually I have my daughter Looby who comes out to photo shoots with me while Abigail goes off with Daddy and does the footbally sporty things!  This weekend Looby had a horse riding lesson booked so we swapped and Abigail and I had a mummy/daughter afternoon, she said she wanted to go and explore the charity shops in Hexham and so that's what we did, a whole £6.10 with our railcard on the train and we got some fab bargains in the charity shops, I shall not be complaining about a beautiful Per Una linen dress for £7.50!

I have some Instagrams to share from our weekend -

Claude is a famous Lobster Mobile, I've never seen him before, well until Saturday in Hexham, have you seen him?  I want to know just how famous Claude the Lobster Mobile is.

It's either horse riding or it's Lady Gaga's new fashion statement

Hexham was sort of springlike but definite touches of winter still remained!

Abigail in her £1 bargain hat

First day of sunglasses wearing this year!

Yes it was a very good mum/daughter day!!

Sunday was a portraits on the beach afternoon, catching up with old clients and new ones and having lots of fun with little people who all seemed to think that the sea was the place to be except that it wasn't really because it was very cold indeed and they didn't seem to be quite so happy 20 minutes later when they were wet through and a bit chilly!

Geek Alert, read on if you're a photographer, you care about camera systems or you're nosy, feel free to skip if you don't have a clue, haha!

This week is going to be splendid, I purchased a new camera, I've just bought into the Fuji X-Series after following the amazing and inspirational work of Kevin Mullins who I'm also happy to call a lovely friend of mine, being around him and his enthusiasm for the system as well as seeing the results finally got too much and I knew it was the camera I wanted, now I know that it's very much the photographer who makes the images and not the camera but in truth the Fuji X-Pro 1 is a complete game changer and it's half the weight and size of my Canon which means I might just avoid the claw the day after I've shot a wedding for 12 hours.  I think it's going to take me a stage further, it's going to be a path to somewhere new, I'll still have my trusty Canon with all of my favourite prime lenses but I'm excited to see what I can add to that with the Fuji X-Pro1, maybe nothing will change and no one will be able to see the difference and only I'll know or maybe everything will change and in a years time the face of my business and also the way I do photography will change forever, it's at the exciting start-line of the journey (I hate that word) and I can't wait to see what happens, I just wish I didn't have to sit and wait unpatiently for it's arrival along with the 35mm f1.4, except they're from different places so I hope they arrive at the same time, haha!

So that's it dear reader, another week commences and I'm a happy smiley Mandy, if you would like to talk to me about photographing your wedding or kids/family portraits then you can catch up with me on my website, via email or my facebook business page.

A Newton Hall Wedding - tale of 2 sweethearts - wedding photographer Northumberland

I've known Andrew for several years so when he asked me to shoot his wedding I was of course delighted that I was available!  I then found out that the wedding was at gorgeous Newton Hall in Northumberland, one of my favourite places to shoot a wedding.

So here's the story of their day in photographs -

and that's the story of one amazing wedding at beautiful Newton Hall

If you're getting married at Newton Hall and would like to speak to me about being your wedding photographer or you'd simply like to request my pdf brochure (please do let me know your wedding date so I can check I am definitely available before emailing it over) you can email, contact me through my website or my Facebook Page.

Happy weekend everyone, we finally made it to spring!