Personal branding photography & business headshots
Same walk, different lenses - a Chorleywood photographic challenge
A big hello from my home to yours! What are you missing? I’m missing chats in beer gardens, heading to the gym and you guessed it - photographing people! I miss telling stories via personal branding photoshoots!
But I am determined to practise gratitude where I can. And I am so incredibly grateful for the area we live in. Chorelywood is on the boarder of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire and zone 8 london - it’s on the cusp of the Chess Valley The Chilterns; an Area Of Natural beauty and has a proper village feel but with a tube line. I love it here.
I love it even more recently! As the sun has come out and I’ve taken the chance to work in and on my garden, I’ve noticed a lack of planes overhead zooming to and from nearby airports, Luton and Heathrow. In their place I often find a large shadow crossing over my laptop every few minutes, as two or three red kites circle gracefully above. There’s bird song surrounding me all day long and my little cat prancing around the garden chasing bees and butterflies, that she thankfully never quite manages to catch, providing entertainment.
From my house, I have a couple of options for my one daily walk, a foot path leading onto Chorelywood Common - my most favourite setting for Hertfordshire engagement and family photoshoots (Head over to www.freckleandwild.com to see them). In the opposite direction, I have paths leading past an empty pub with the chalk board still displaying a half-hearted mothers day special message, past a secluded array of allotments, over a stile and boom - I’m on farm land.
If I cross through the sheep riddled farm field, I get to an empty farm track that winds around and eventually leads into Philipshill Wood - a forest that houses deer and soon carpets and carpets of purple as the bluebells come out for Spring. Here I might finally come across another human, a runner and his dog, a Mother and her over active little ones or I might not - but if I do, I take another path way from them, avoiding contact and wander deeper into the woods.
I love this little journey I take, it gives me the exercise my mental health begs for and the chance to take some photos and stretch out my creative muscles. To give myself that added challenge, every day I take out a different lens to see what I can get from each and I thought I would share them with you!
