Had an impromptu quick family portrait session when the Syed family came to visit Somerset (minus my aunty). It's been a while since I had seen my cousins so this certainly was a photo opp I could not miss especially on a lovely summer's day!

Photographed my family for a personal project I was creating over the summer called 'A Family's Evolution'. I really enjoyed photographing my family and decided to take a mixture of serious and happy looking images. The cheerful images I shot from the project certainly seemed more natural especially as I am photographing my own family. I would like to take more images like this of happy moments of other families as I enjoy the atmosphere and occasion it creates.

Visited my partner's place over the summer whilst photographing for my family portrait project: 'A Family's Evolution' and asked if I could take a family portrait (minus their daughter who was away at the time). They are always wonderful hosts every time I visit and simply lovely people and am happy I was able to capture this in a photograph. Though typically they don't have their family portrait taken by an external photographer it was a privilege that they let me photograph them for my project and portfolio. Photographing many families for my project in a short space of time I was able to observe how every family is very different however the core values are very similar if not the same. I decided to photograph the Henderson family in their kitchen as they certainly spend most of their bonding time in this room: cooking and eating meals together so it was only fitting to photograph them in this space.

Photographed my other uncle and his family when I visited their place over the summer at he time when I was continuing my family portrait project. The camera certainly is a powerful tool in the sense that it helps bring people together especially if certain members are fairly camera shy, family portraits show a unified group and it's always lovely to flick though images from previous years reminding you of those enjoyable summers. My family is dotted around the country and to practice and improve my portraiture skills, I have begun taking group portraits of my family when I visit them. I hope to continue this practice so you'll see more images soon!