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For anyone wanting to ensure copies of the book before Christmas you need to be ordering pretty quickly! We ordered our copies on the 1st November and they are estimated delivery 12th November. They were shipped from the US and currently clearing customs at Stanstead. To avoid disappointment, please don't leave it until last minute!

We've finally finished the Candlelighters book and it can be viewed and ordered from the blurb website using the link below. We didn't get enough response through to enable us to have the book printed and published in Asia in bulk as we had originally hoped but didn't think it was appropriate to keep those who have particiapted waiting any longer whilst we tried to get more families through. So the cover price of the book is more than we had originally anticipated. To compensate for this however we have included a lot more than one photograph of each child or family and we hope that you will agree that this is a lovely book to own and perhaps give to a loved one for Christmas - we know we've ordered a few copies for our own family Christmas presents.

We hope you like it! We're really pleased with it. Thanks to all those who participated and who helped along the way.

Here's the link:

The book is written, designed and going into production! We're hoping it should be ready to purchase within the next two weeks.

It's been a long haul for us with a lot of mixed feelings about this project but the families we have met and photographed along the way have been lovely - thank you. We didn't have as much response as we had hoped to the project despite spending an awful lot of our own resources, besides the giving of our time etc. on PR, Postcards and posters printing, advertising.

More news on this later though!

Watch this space and we'll update it with ordering details very shortly.

We had the absolute pleasure of photographing little baby Reagan in our studio this week. Reagan is only a few weeks old and I'm sure you'll all agree she's a little cutie!

Reagan's mum - actually it's "mom" because she is from the states Candice was very well prepared for the shoot and came along with the most beautiful little headband and hat that she had been sent from a photographer friend in the US.

Newborn and baby photography in the US is big business and I have to say we are very influenced by the best of them. When it comes to using props such as crochet hats and baskets, cocoons, even slings like the stalk may bring the US photographers are streets ahead of us over here in the UK. In fact it's rather diffult to source good props over here in our experience - for our baby hats we have had the pattens sent from the US and had one of our grannies make them for us!

We hope that we can make a difference to how babies are photographed over here. We have changed the way we shoot newborn sessions so that they take a lot longer (usually around 2 - 3 hours) and during the shoot the baby will be awake, sleep and generally very chilled out. The whole experience is designed to be minimum of stress and maximum of pleasure for the parents. We hope that Candice and Dad Jake found this to be the case for little Reagan's photo session.

So - on with the pictures! The three we've selected here are three of our favourites but the whole shoot can be viewed on the slideshow.

Apologies if any You Tube ads come up along the bottom of the show - just click them away if they do!

We wish Candice, Jake and Reagan well and look forward to welcoming them all back to our studio for more photos as the family grows!

Inspired by my all time favourite baby photographer from the US, here's a few recent pictures of our latest craze - "Babies In Hats".