Portstewart Strand on a Wet & Windy Thursday in November – so you can get your car onto the beach for free! (It’s owned by National Trust so up to Oct you have to pay) Here’s the proof … Rhoda the Skoda, down in the beach!
And despite the weather, there were plenty of people taking advantage of free parking and enjoying the wind, the rain, the sand and the sea. Continue reading Portstewart Strand on a Wet & Windy Thursday!
A visit to Dunluce Castle, between Portrush and Portballintrae on a cold, windy day in November, yet still plenty of foreign tourists around the ancient monument. The castle was built in the early 17th Century, by Randall McDonnell, and the now derelict mansion house sits out on a rock, reached only by a wooden bridge.
The approach to the castle is by way of a walled ‘funnel’ – to make it virtually unassailable. Visitors would have to be processed through the funnel, and any attack would be almost impossible.
Well really we want the biggest bump possible! So the reply is as late as we can without running the chance of babe arriving before the shoot!
Around 4 weeks before your due date is perfect. But that is solely a guide, anywhere from 12 to 2 weeks before your due date will be fine.
If you are taking maternity leave, then you can certainly wait until you break from work. This gives you a chance to be more chilled and enjoy the shoot instead of feeling like it has to be fitted in.
You may want to do a “gender reveal” – where you use the photographs to announce the sex of your baby. You probably won’t find this out until your 20 week ultrasound scan. You will have a beautiful bump by then if you want to get the news out as soon as you can.
Introducing Eli the Golden Retriever who came to our Dundonald studio to support #DogsTrust and enter the #PetPortraitAwards. He could win his owner £1000!
Enter YOUR best friend here: https://bobmcevoy.co.uk/national-portrait-awards/pets/
Baby Phoebe arrived at our Dundonald studio today with Mummy Granny and her big brother to celebrate her 1st Birthday. Here’s just a taster of the great results…
Phoebe eyeballs Big Bertie the Studio Bear!
Totally relaxed and lying back against The Big Yin!
Why not come on up to Dundonald for YOUR special birthday? You won’t regret it!
Introducing Winston the Bulldog who came to our Dundonald studio to support #DogsTrust and enter the #PetPortraitAwards. He could win his owner £1000!
Enter YOUR best friend here: https://bobmcevoy.co.uk/national-portrait-awards/pets/
Family is important. It’s good to make memories and record family relationships on a regular basis, and to capture images that will be good enough to frame and hang in the family home. Traditionally, this is the work of the professional photographer, who has the proper training, equipment and experience to produce fantastic images.
So, we always welcome families to the studio at Dundonald – like these three happy sisters…
We have our VERY FIRST ENTRY for the brand new National Child Portrait Awards in support of The Lullaby Trust.
This is the very lovely baby Olivia.
Enter the competition here…
This splendidly aristocratic gentleman is Charlie the Dachshund who came to our Dundonald studio to support #DogsTrust and enter the #PetPortraitAwards. He could win his owner £1000!
Enter YOUR best friend here: https://bobmcevoy.co.uk/national-portrait-awards/pets/
On Saturday 1st October, I went for a walk up to Scrabo Tower, on the outskirts of Newtownards. This landmark has towered over much of my life, living and working around the Ards area. The tower was built in 1857, 540 ft above sea-level, as a memorial to the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Viscount castlereagh, Charles Stewart. The tower is situated in a country park, close to Scrabo Golf Club, and is approached by car only as far as the golf club entrance, then by foot up a steep path to the summit. Thankfully, there are resting places on the ascent!
Being October, the road up to tower ran beside fields that had just been baled, – which provided my image of the day, and set the scene for my exploration of the towers surroundings.
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