25/05/2026
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I disappear from social media sometimes, and truthfully, the pressure to constantly post, to stay visible, beat the algorithm and to make everything look polished and perfect all the time. It just all gets too much.
So I stop posting.
Not because I stop creating , honestly sometimes it’s the opposite.
Life is just messy here.
My dog running around my feet, and she’s brought mud into the house. There’s washing hanging over the dining room chairs because it’s been raining.
Props are taking over the dining table.
There are days where I feel wildly inspired, images that need editing and days where I don’t want to touch social media at all.
I think maybe I’ve hidden too much of that.
Because behind every session and every image I share is actually a very real life being lived behind it all.
A lived in home.
Late nights creating.
Mess.
Mistakes.
Coffee cups.
Exhaustion.
Ideas scribbled down at random hours, midnight scrolling for inspiration to hit or an idea that has taken on a life of its own and I’m pinning like a mad thing on Pinterest.
So maybe it’s time I start sharing that side too?
Not the polished, curated version, just the real one.
Honestly….i’ll still disappear from social media lol.
Not because something is wrong, not because I’ve stopped caring and not because I’m constantly creating magical things every second of the day.
Sometimes I’m just living life.
Cleaning the house.
Editing galleries.
Watching a movie.
Feeling uninspired.
Doing absolutely nothing creative at all.
But I think when things ARE happening in my little photography world…..maybe I should start sharing some of it.
The real version, the messy and unfinished bts, before the final images even exist version.
I’ve been doing this for 27 years now and maybe it’s finally time I start sharing little snippets of the world behind it all.
So here are a few little snippets of my world lately. The studio half packed up after Mother’s Day sessions.
My office that somehow never stays organised for long, and the end result of me having to troubleshoot mid session camera triggers, batteries and old sync cords trying to keep things working.
Not glamorous, just the life behind the photos.