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As the holidays approach it is time for the photos, if you need Christmas cards, presents or just want to use the chance to get some photos of your family all together this will be the perfect opportunity for you.

Whats on offer...

- 1 hour session in location of your choice.
- 20 5x7 Prints
- Either a photobook or 30 Christmas Cards or a calender
- 1 CD of 30 high res images taken from session for you to print off at your leisure.

Christmas Photos Price: £125 (plus travel costs if outside the Oyster zone)
20% discount for referring a friend or booking a date before December 1st.
Dress up, dress down, bring the ones you love and have fun, all ages are welcome! 
Most weekends available and some mornings / afternoons if you book early.

Check out some of my previous photos at www.eviewinter.com

Email: eviewinter@gmail.com
Mobile: 07894 225 249

 

  

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Prince Michael of Kent visits Tollington and Andover

Sandy Millar and the Prince taking a stroll, having a chat... 

 

Meeting the head of IAMS

 

No idea what they are looking at, certainly wasn't me, but possibly this might be one of my favourite photos. Not sure why. It is though.

 

Ooops no, this is my favourite, at the top of one of the Andover blocks, looking out across the estate and Islington.

 

Surrounded by Balfour Beatty's work in progress...

So today a prince came to visit! Do you remember Andover Estate / Soul in the City? Yes well, Prince Michael of Kent came today to see it, as well as IAMS (Islington Arts and Media School) and St Marks Church. I was lucky enough to get a free pass to follow him and take lots and lots of photos.

Oh what joy feels my heart when someone says, 'take as many as you please, and we won't complain, not one little bit, not even when you use the flash!' 

So there I was one of the paparazzi, a welcome break from nursery nursing, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Wish the weather had not been quite sunny, sun combined with light coloured hair, not a good mix. Makes one rather look like an angel. But I am glad it didn't rain, that would have been a bit rubbish. 

The Prince started with meeting various people at St Marks, then walked down to IAMS, where he was met some of the staff and then 10 children in 10 different languages each greeted the prince individually. After that a bunch of kids sang for him, followed by two dance performances and the prince gave out an award for literacy. Plus two kids interviewed him. Very well organised. After this the prince drove back over to the estate and I with another photographer walked very fast and were quite pleased to get their first whilst the others were waiting for a car or something.

All in all it was a good day, and when I get round to it, I shall post a few more pictures to flickr. Hope you enjoy the ones above though!

 

The Prince and Sandy pose. Thank you and good night!

Sisters in the park

Recently when I found myself with a day off I was able to take advantage of the fact they  my nieces are homeschool and go and spend some time with them, we went to the local park.

 What can I tell you about these girls? They are such a delightful pair.

- Like most other girls in the world they have succombed to stereotypes and like to look pink and pretty.
- They play just lovely together, most of the time! Drawing or writing, Cass has watched her sister and copies her letters and has learnt to keep between the lines.
- They like to superimpose themselves in to their books and pictures. They are reading Angelina Ballerina? They will identify each character as being one of themselves and their friends. 'Thats LissaLou, thats CassCass, thats Joel, etc' They do that with pretty much everything. 
- They do not look much like each other at the moment, although neither did Heather and I at their age but I think you can still tell they are sisters...
- They love to read books and be read too, an ideal fit for the family they were born into where there is a huge love of books. 

With homeschooling everyone says 'what about the socialisation?' Believe me thats not a problem, these girls get plenty of socialisation. Their BFF's live just around the corner, they go to ballet class and other things like that and sunday school at church. Socialisation. Not a problem.

One advantage of homeschool, an empty park during the day. Joy!

 

 

 

When even autumn is dying off...

We really can't complain, really we can't I feel like we had a pretty decent summer, considering British weather an' all - and it lasted a long time, finally disappearing in october. But now it is that time when the best of autumn is disapearing and leaving behind the dredges

But the dredges always make for decent photos. Its those long shadows. And the white light.

 

And the canadian geese are not bad either.

 

In fact even the leaves look cool.

So whilst I am all caught up somewhere between Work, Guides, Rainbows, Interviews, Swimming, Photography, Church and occasionally eating and sleeping... I will enjoy the bits of nature that come my way - see how these leaves are holding on to the very last minute?

 

That reminds me, if you get on the Barking Overland at Leytonstone High Road towards Gospel Oak, and sit on the left hand side, around 4pm in the afternoon (this time of year) you can watch the most amazing sunset over the East London skyline. I've no pictures.  But I am sure you can visualise, it it is quite a treat to see!

Happy Bonfire Night!

Well it was thursday. on the 5th but lots of the displays have been today as well so hopefully not too late to remember the day Guy Fawkes nearly blew up Parliament.

Here are some photos of the fireworks party hosted by my sister and family in their backyard, in a part of London where it is legal to have bonfires...

 

  

 

 

The Autumn Garden

Last week it was my pleasure to go and hang out with my sister and friend, whose kids you have seen on this blog many times, over at my sister's house and their beautiful garden which embodies the spirit of Autumn in an beautiful way. 

So to say I was gutted when I realised I had my camera etc and forgotten the memory card was a bit of an understatement and to find out that my sister had an old memory card of the right size was a big relief

There was however one catch, at 250mb, it would hold about 30 pictures. So that was my challenge, to make the photos good to start of with and delete as I went along. It made post processing a lot easier but boy it was hard to not get carried away taking as many photos as I liked!

  

At the end of the garden stands a summer house, which they are using as an activity room for the kids, especially useful with the homeschooling. At the moment it is a grocery shop, complete with oven (in case you order a panini and want it warmed up), a shoptil which reads credit cards, shelves, and seating area.

 

 

This lovely little bell was lying abandoned on the grass when Heather and Alberto moved in to the house, happily Alberto has given it a proper home at the garden door and is a great way of calling people into dinner. 

Heather made this lovely dish which accentuates the amazing autumn colours. At 20 degrees the weather was warm enough for us to eat in the garden.

  

 

LissaLou's Thyroid is Doing Well!

LissaLou wrote this out this afternoon, I have blurred out the first word - her name - (which was written perfectly). But the rest of it is an interesting example of phonetic spelling...

 

It will not suprise you that LissaLou was not intending to write about thyroids, thats just the first thing that came to mind when I read it. 

It actually says this 'Dora, LissaLou's child is 6 years old.'

 

And the girl herself as cute as always, and if you look closely you can see two adult teeth at the front!

Narrow Boating Weekend

Should you find yourself with a weekend free, Narrowboating is definitely a good way to spend it. Which is what I did with some of the ladies from Guides this weekend.

We got our boat on friday evening, 70 feet long and with 12 beds, the Angel 2 is definitely narrow. Get used to breathing in when passing in the aisle... But what a wonderful way to see London by the Regents Canal.

I don't know how many times I have stopped on the top of this bridge to photograph this scene, so it gave me great pleasure to get a photo from under the bridge looking towards Hoxton.

 

One of many locks... Each lock involved people getting out, using a windlass to wind up the paddles, let water in the middle and then when the water was at the same level - open the gates and steer the boat in. 

On the second day we all had a go at steering the boat into the locks which was a little nerve wracking!

 

We saw these Oast Houses when we stopped for Tesco's (on the opposite side of the street), funny top have old and new so near each other!

 

Around the corner from where we were moored this was the scene....

 

On Saturday night we were moored in Limehouse Basin, a little bit more rocky than the previous night as the water is semi-tidal and only 2 locks away from the River Thames. My bed was about half way down on the other side so it was a strange feeling banging in to the wall all night.

 

 

Ed and Joanna: Married!

Well actually they were married 2 weeks ago but now I finally have time to post the photos...

 

 

 

 

Limehouse Basin Zero Tolerance Policy

Yes you really do see a parking ticket on a children's car. At least the habourmaster believes in equality regardless of age...

 

I noticed this when we moored on Saturday and just thought it was the funniest thing ever so went back on Sunday for a photo. The children's car seemed to have been abandoned and was not tied down or locked to anything, I liked to think the habourmaster put this message on slightly tongue im cheek, but who knows these days?

The last thing you expect...

when opening council mail is to see a picture of your mum on the front cover!

After housesitting last week and narrowboating over the weekend, I find myself on the first day of half term with the uneviable task of tidying my room.

So although I knew that my mother was going to be in Islington's magazine this month I completely forgot and was suprised to see the above when I opened my post. I am ashamed to say I opened the envelope, and paying no attention went to put it in my recycling bin and actually had a second look before I realised the beautiful lady gracing the front cover was my mother. Go Mum!