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    Welcome! I'm Kirsty, a lifestyle photographer in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.  Have a roam around my blog to see all about my live, laugh, love philosophy to photography.  If you're looking for a photographer you can see my style and ideas (check out the "Details" for lots of info!). I'll post favourite pics from recent sessions and sneak peeks for you to see, as well as the occasional personal stuff or ramblings about life in Abu Dhabi! Leave me comments (please do - I LOVE feedback!) and subscribe to my feed to keep upto date on specials and what's going on here.

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Just a few more, and a Real Style your Shoot

Indulge me just a few more of the girls from when we did our family shoot. I loved them being able to play in fields of long grass, and blow dandelion clocks – for the first time ever, and to pick daisies – it was pure bliss to watch my apartment living girls without toys and gadgets and means of entertainment other than the nature around them….  And I thought I’d give you a Real Style your Shoot while I’m at it…

Saffy’s top was from Zara, her skirt from Next, her leggings from Adams, her shoes and bracelet from Monsoon/Accessorize and her scarf and hairslides from Claires.

Indy’s top was from GAP, her shorts and flip flops from Monsoon, and her hairslide also from Claires.

I think T and I just fitted in with what the girls were wearing – that’s contradictory to my normal advice which is for Mum to pick her outfit so she feels wonderful and to coordinate everyone else around her – I did semi coordinate it around my bracelets which were from Next, H&M and Splash!!! And I do think the colours do match our decor pretty well – which was my aim in this post here (oh yeah, if you’ve not read it I do have a small case of OCD when it comes to things matching!!!;))!

And here’s a last 2 of the girls having tickles with Daddy – I ♥ this,As always, I don’t pretend to be some kind of styling guru, but I hope this helps someone with ideas on locations and clothing when planning for your own shoot!

Until next time, Kirsty x

Louise - Saffy is so serious and beautiful and Indy is just so cherubic – gorgeous as always Kirsty xx

Sara - Those two girls are gorgeous. I love the vintage feel to Saffy’s first photo.

janine - i can’t even find the right words to express how much i love your work Kirsty. i just swoon over everything. Those last two images of the girls with their Daddy are divine ♥

rowe timson - im crazy in love with all of these but how gorgeous are those second two of indy… love love love! rowe x

Yvonne - LOVE that first image! That sunflare really adds to the image and she looks SO happy!

Kati - LOVE!!

Lena (P4P) - LOOOOVE these images! My favorite is the last one of Indy – such agreat capture! I would probably print most of them out as big canvases! If you are anythig like me – you must be running out of wall space:)

Natalie - ohhh these are gorgeous! how cute is Indy blowing on the dandelion!!!!! those beautiful soft curls too.. ahhhh :-) and I LOVE the tickles with Daddy :-) your girls are gorgeous!

Kristy - Oh Kirsty your girls are so beautiful!!! Can they be styled any cuter? Thanks for the info I was actually gonna ask where you got the hair bows from :) Your family is gorgeous! Love them all especially tickles with Daddy! That 1st 1 of Saffy… WoW! Love the sun & your beauty in the last one too! Okay, I love them all!!

vinita - Sooooooo beautiful! Your girls have beautiful eyes! *love*

Ramadan Kareem – a family time promotion

Ramadan Kareem to all my lovely clients and friends. I love Ramadan, in particular because it means the girls and I get to spend more time with Daddy – but also for the great food, the sense of calm and contemplation which prevails in Abu Dhabi and the warmness and friendliness of everyone at this time.

In the spirit of Ramadan I’m running a promotion on large canvasses. My Ramadan promotion on large block prints last year was hugely popular but this year my clients are loving the canvasses so this is your chance to get them at an amazing price. The 2 largest sizes I offer will be discounted by 30% (30 being the aproximate number of days in Ramadan), if you order one of your whole family. If the picture doesn’t feature your whole family I’ll discount by 15%. This will run up till the end of Eid Al Fitr and is open to all current and past 2010 clients.

And you may remember I had a photo shoot for my family booked for our trip back to Ireland… well, it didn’t quite work out, so I had to resort to the self timer for our own family portraits this year!!! (and unfortunately I don’t rock the self timer quite as much as some of my gorgeous photographer friends – see Kristen and Rikki’s fabulous self portrait work) Help me choose which I should pick for my own walls….. leave your suggestions in the comments below.Abu-Dhabi-Family-Photographer-0001Abu-Dhabi-Family-Photographer-0002Abu-Dhabi-Family-Photographer-0003

Ramadan Kareem to you all, Kirsty x

PS for my photographer friends in far off lands who may be interested – here are some of my posts from Ramadan last year 10 minutes to Iftar, Ramadan – Food,  Sheik Zayed Mosque - where we went for Iftar, Almost Eid, Eid Mubarak

Gemma - Use the top picture its lovely

Kati - oh my GOODNESS!! These are beyond PERFECT!! Order large in both family prints and then print a story board for the middle three of the girls. Love these family photos! xx’s

Angie Baxter - You have done SO well – they are gorgeous!! I think they all deserve to be on your walls – each and every one! xx

janine - they are all super gorgeous!! i would definitely have a huge canvas of the bottom image ♥ We were just talking today about filling one particular empty wall with a family portrait. Self timer got mentioned LOL…you have inspired me to get it done xo

Sara - You have the most gorgeous family Kirsty. x

Manuela - Sooo beautiful. I wouldn’t be able to choose. They are all excellent and full of love and harmony ! Can I book you for a family shot next time you will be in GZ ?

Vinita - Beautiful Kirsty! Love these!

Kristen - Kirsty these are utterly divine, such precious memories of your beautiful family. I have a feeling you are going to ‘go large’ with these ;-) xx

Natalie - Beautiful, and fun! What are you talking about? – you rock the self timer! :-)

Tracy - Definitely the one in the long grass and story board the others :)

Rikki - Kristy, these are just divine. You have such a beautiful family, it would be wrong to pick just one, so get them all :)

rowe timson - ok… taking a self portrait of one person is challenging enough… but the whole family – your amazing! i agree with katis suggestion – storyboard the three images with the girls running and enlarge the other two… i love all of them!

Antonina - I think you DO rock the self-timer, Kirsty! Lovely images – I’ve got so much to learn!!

Kirsten - Incredible photos. x

Khadijah - You have a beautiful family Kirsty! Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! I love all the pictures!

Lena (P4P) - I LOVE them all! If I were to pick only one, would order a huge canvas of the last one – with all of you in the grass.

Kirsty - Thank you soooooo much everyone – we had a lot of fun. I’m still deciding which to go large with, or I may even do an album of them…. I guess it’s my own perogative not to take advantage of my own promotions ;)
And Manuela – yes, I’d love to take photos of Ben again – we might be there next summer – I’ll keep you posted :)

Kristy - I can not believe you did all this with the self timer! Wow you rock girl!! So, I love the set of the girls in front & then them running at you :) Also love love love the last one :)

Dana - Wow…you shot these with a self timer??? I think you TOTALLY rocked it ;) Fab job!!!

Mike - So sorry to hear the shoot back here didnt happen

Top picture for sure :-) :-)

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New brother | Abu Dhabi Newborn Photographer

Their smiles and adoring looks say it all…. baby number 3, sweet boy Hamish just makes them happy…Abu-dhabi-newborn-photo-002Abu-dhabi-newborn-photo-003

And such a sweet boy he was – he even dropped off to sleep, despite the fact he was a little older than my newborns usually are (bad Kirsty for not planning my holiday around Gemma’s due date;-))Abu-dhabi-newborn-photo-005

He even slept through a 4 year old and 2 year old bouncing all over the bed while we captured their first pictures as a family of five.Abu-dhabi-newborn-photo-001

Congratulations Gemma and Stuart – I’m so, so happy I finally got to meet Hamish and capture some of his early days for you, Kirsty xx

Kati - oh how sweet. Love the colorful blanket he’s wrapped in. :)

Rikki - Oh Kirsty, these are just stunning. The last image is just breathtaking – the family must be soooo happy :)

Caitlin - I love it- gorgeous session!

Vinita - Such a sweetheart!!! So natural…

Natalie - gorgeous! beautiful photos, love the one with his big sister, the blanket he’s swaddled in is lovely too :)

Stuart P-T - Thanks Kirsty, they look great, we had a fun morning with you taking the pics, look forward to seeing the rest x

2 of my favourite little girls | UK Child Photographer

I’m biassed, totally 100 percently biassed, but these are two of my favourite little girls.Uk-trip-0003

They’re the daughters of my “baby” (over 6 ft tall baby!!!) brother, and Rebecca, the big one, was even flower girl at our wedding – aged just 4 months!!Uk-trip-0004

My girls and them hadn’t seen each other in over 2 years and they got on fabulously, which as Saffy would say made “my heart feel super happy”!Uk-trip-0002

Uk-trip-0001I can’t tell you how hugely flattered I was when my sis-in-law asked me to take photos of their girls – when your family love the art you create, because they reeeeeeeally love it, and not just because they have to cos they’re related to you, it really means something.Uk-trip-0005

So yes, I’m biassed, but Becks and Lulu, you really are two of my favourite little girls and I hope you and your Mummy and Daddy love just how gorgeous you look here,

lots of love, Auntie Kirsty xx

PS and looking through these again I’m struck yet again by how different mine and my brothers girls look – Ali and I are similar in colouring (though he doesn’t have redish hair like me) but his girls with their big brown eyes, and mine with their blue ones couldn’t be less alike!! The gene pool is a funny old thing huh?

Sarah Clayton - Beautiful work as always Kirsty. Gorgeous girls – love their big brown eyes.

Dani - These are lovely, Kirsty. Love their gorgeous smiles and dimples, they are so cute! And way cool purple nail polish too. I bet they were thrilled to pose for their Auntie ;)

Vinita - I can imagine the bias! I would be too! They are so cute! Love their beautiful smile!

Sara - I can understand why your biassed, they are gorgeous. x

Liz - I love the photos Kirsty but of course I am 100% biased too!!. You have really captured their smiles.

Natalie - gorgeous! love the last one! :-)

Alasdair - Fantastic photos kirsty – look forward to seeing more!

A house in the English countryside…

Oh to have a home that backs onto fields of golden corn, has a wonderful old tree in the garden and space for the kids to run around…..UK-photo-001These friends of mine have exactly that – their garden was just the perfect place for a photo shoot – look at the late afternoon light filtering through the tree…UK-photo-003Sebastian is one of Saffy’s old China buddies but this was the first time we’d met Evie and she is just as adorable as her big brother – and they’d not had professional photos done since Sebby was born so this was Evie’s first time at being a little model – I love how her forehead wrinkles when she laughs.UK-photo-004Those fields of corn – I ♥  thisUK-photo-002

This is just a teeny sneak peek for you guys – LOTS more to come, I found it very, very hard to narrow them down!!! It was simply wonderful to spend an afternoon reminiscing about faraway lands and catching up on news, love Kirsty xx

Sara - So beautiful Kirsty. Makes me want to pack a picnic and bottle of wine and head out to the fields for the day with a good book.
Stunning pictures.

janine - I am so totally in love with that last image ♥ What a gorgeous family! Bet they are in love with them all.

Polly - Hi you guys! it’s me! i know them! :) great to see you met up and the photos! lovely!

Kristen - Absolutely gorgeous! LOVE the one of mama with her children, it’s divine!

Dani - OMG Kirsty!!! Love, love, love them…Brought a tear to my eye. They are just gorgeous and you’ve captured our lovely home too. We will treasure these, thank you, my friend. xoxo

Dorothy - This time with your kids is so precious and to capture these moments in time so beautifully is something you can treasure for ever. Wonderful.!

Antonina - Love the light! So very different from Abu Dhabi light in your other pictures!

vinita - totally *love*

Chris F - Great photos. R+D, your kids are too cute, and growing way too fast!

Georgina Wilson - The pictures are just splendid, what wonderful lighting and backgrounds…of course the subjects…well, they are just gorgeous…my darling niece and nephew! Well done!

Kati - oh my goodness! love the last one..his eyes are so sweet.

Betsy M. - So touching, your kids have grown up SO fast! “In the blink of an eye”. Would love to see more photos. Glad life is treating you well.

Just one: Only four | Abu Dhabi Child Photographer

I know, I know… I promised to try and add some photos of us on holiday – but technical issues with a non colour calibrated screen that makes everything look yellowish, not to mention that it’s on a teeeeeeny weeeny 10 inch notebook have meant I’ve not been doing a lot with my photos other than downloading and backing up! (oh and the fact that rennovating a house has been taking up quite a lot of time too!)

So here’s just one….KLP-UK2010-01a

I can’t quite believe she’s only four… my big girl looks so grown up… sigh….

I’ll be back with more next week, Kirsty xx

Natalie - Beautiful! Good luck with the renovations! :-)

Louise - oh my goodness, she is stunning – and yes, she looks more than 4 – just wait till the teenage years!!!

Danah - Mashallah such a beautiful photo. I love that it’s in black and white.

Lena (P4P) - Kirsty – she is beautiful! I just LOVE her piercing look!

Mini Accordian albums | The Boutique

I have to share these with you, and frankly can’t believe I haven’t done so before now as so many of my lovely clients order them. The mini accordian albums are a huge hit and come in sets of three, which means you can keep one yourself and send two to family to show off!!accordian-albums01

And the absolute best thing – my printer has just added the possibility to upgrade to having pictures on the cover – and they are GORGEOUS! I got my sample last week from Indy’s birthday shoot and it is just cute as cute can be!accordian-albums02

Until next time, Kirsty xx

Sarah B - so cute Kirsty

Kati - I LOVE these little books too!

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