I left at 2am this morning for Suffolk to do three portrait sittings. 230 miles I arrived at 6am – the roads were great The first, for the army was so sad. The portrait was of a sergeant sent home from war because he has cancer and less than a year to live. His wife and two children were with him and the sergeants mess wanted to give them a family portrait as a gift.
All four smiled but you could read on their faces what they were thinking. This evening I am staying at my Mums in Essex and when I phoned Shona I could hear Jessica in the background. I so wanted to be with her or just to talk to her. We have not managed to get her to talk on the phone yet. Maybe a video call would work, we shall have to try that.
After the army job I then went to Clacton to photograph Sarah and Matt’s new baby. I shot their wedding last year and I have photographed both their other babies. The it was a quick meet with my eldest son David and then off to photograph Braintree to photograph Kenneth and Trudi’s family. I last photographed them eight years ago when they lived in a little flat and had two children. they have really come on in life and now have five children – four girls and a boy and live in a big house – all that cleaning, give me an RV any day lol
