Amanda Noel Photography

26/10/2025

Another weekly re-cap of work and mum happenings (with a healthy dose of me time)! X

Have an amazing half term everyone!

24/10/2025

Newborn photos are expensive?

When you’re adjusting to life with a newborn, everything feels expensive. You’re buying nappies, nursery furniture, clothes they grow out of in three minutes.

And it’s easy to put photos in the “maybe later” pile.
But here’s what I know to be true - the cost only feels big before the moment passes.

Once the baby smell fades.
Once the curled-up phase is gone.
Once they start looking less like a newborn and more like a tiny person…

That’s when you realise how priceless those first photos really are - you won’t get this version of them back.
And you’ll never regret having photos of it all to look back on.

21/10/2025

If your photos could speak, I wonder what they would say?

They have a quiet way of speaking to us.

They speak of love we may not have noticed in the moment, but that shows up in every look, every hand held, every messy, beautiful detail.

They tell us:

“This is what mattered.”
“This is where your love lived.”
“Look how far you’ve come.”

Storytelling photography can bring us back to the sound of laughter, the warmth of a hug, or the chaos that - strangely - you’ll one day miss.

As a family photographer, my hope is to give you more than images - my whole purpose is to document your family love.
I want you to look back on them and say, “This was our beautiful, ordinary, extraordinary life.”

The photos we keep are the quiet reminders of who we were and what really mattered.

Reach out if you’re ready to capture your family as you are now. DM me FAMILY to find out more 🥰 .

17/10/2025

For the spiritually curious…

A day of tuning in to my soul self - looking deeper at my purpose and how to align it with how I run my business.

A day spent with some amazing women with incredible stories of strength and self discovery.

Some of my key takeaways:

✨ It’s time to start healing our inner witch wounds and go forward in life as the confident women we can all be.

✨ An impactful physic reading from which got to the heart of what’s going on in my mind at the moment - thank you.

✨ How to create lasting and impacting affirmations with the wonderful and demonstrating true vulnerability and strength can go hand in hand - you are an inspiration.

✨ Knowing that two things can be true at the same time. It’s ok to want success and to do it your way. Thank you

✨ Bringing my true self to my messaging with - powerful words as always.

And above all, a night away in a hotel with a bed and sleep allll to myself 🤣.

15/10/2025

I do something really important when you bring an older sibling to my newborn sessions...

I kneel down and I say hello to them first. I talk to them. I make them feel seen when there will have been a lot of people fussing about their new younger sibling.

Bringing home a new baby when there’s already a little one (or two) at home is a big shift and the feelings can be a lot.

Some kids are immediately obsessed.
Some want nothing to do with the baby.
And some bounce between the two by the minute.
And it’s all okay.

When siblings are part of your newborn session, we follow their lead. I will always make sure:

❤️There is space for snacks
❤️There is space for meltdowns
❤️ There is time to make sure they feel important on the day, too.

You don’t need everyone to cooperate like a robot. You just need to turn up and know that one day, you’ll look at those photos and find so much love in them because it was the beginning of their very special friendship together. ❤️

You can enquire about sessions on my contact form on my website link in my bio! All you need to fill in is your name and email and I’ll send you all the info you need 🥰 x

29/09/2025

If you’re hiring a family photographer, look beyond the portfolio.

It’s easy to fall in love with a pretty Instagram feed but that’s not what makes a session work and it’s not what will create the images you’ve probably got in your mind.

Ask yourself…

✨Will this person make my kids feel seen & safe?
✨Will they help me feel at ease?
✨ Do they have experience with families like mine - the ones that are a little shy or a little loud or a little unpredictable?

Because those things matter. They shape the entire experience.

Yes, editing style matters and you want to choose someone whose style resonates with your own but I promise you the safety to be yourselves matters more.

The right photographer for your family is the one who doesn’t just take good photos… it’s the one that helps you feel good being in them, too. This is what I bring to every session - an ability to see you. You’re not just another client to me, you’re a family with desires and dreams to be captured actually as you all are ✨

I have very limited capacity for October and November full family sessions. I only take on a set number of sessions per month as I keep flexibility in the diary for editing time and movement for newborn sessions. Get in touch now if you’re wanting to make the most of Autumn light (my fave) x

28/09/2025

23/09/2025

I say it all the time and I bet you have too…

“I’ll do it tomorrow.”

You imagine that when the morning tantrums stop, when the chaos of school drop offs and after school rush gives way to a peaceful afternoon, the perfect moment will appear. It doesn’t matter what it is that you’re putting off, the perfect time just doesn’t exist.

I’m always waiting for that elusive moment when my kids are laughing together, and I’ve finally got 10 minutes to get through the life admin I’ve been putting off.

How many times have you been there? And that perfect window so often never comes.

Life is so busy and if you’ve been meaning to book a session but just keep telling yourself, “I’ll do it tonight, or tomorrow or I’ll send a DM when I’ve got a minute,” and you still haven’t.

This is your gentle nudge to maybe reach out - the newborn photos you never quite got round to or the baby who just started school and you’re already seeing them change in just a few short weeks. It’s never too late but they are always only this little once.

DM me AUTUMN for family and newborn session bookings and let’s capture whatever season you’re in now ❤️.

14/09/2025

My weekly roundup of mum and business happenings this week ❤️🫶🏼✨