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    I am a photographer based near Bishops Stortford, Ware and Harlow who specialises in baby portrait photography, family portrait photography, pregnancy photography, model portfolios and actors headshots.

    Why not stay a while and read about some of the fantastic people I photograph and the general goings-on at my studio. Feel free to leave a comment too.

    If you would like me to capture the spirit of someone that you love, view details on my range of serices and see my extensive portfolio, visit my main website here.

Child Portrait Photographer in Hertfordshire

Its been a very busy day – so much to do in so little time!

The above photograph is from a shoot I did this morning with the beautiful Megan. She came in with her mum and her big brother Jack to have some photographs done for our great Kodak Awards promo – and she was just fabulous to photograph.

All photographs: Copyright © David Calvert 2010. Copying forbidden by law.

Baby Photography, Bishops Stortford

 

Two beautiful babies for you today.

Firstly we have 10 day old Sebastian, who came in for his very first portrait shoot. His mum was telling me that he spent most of the day sleeping, but today he decided he wanted to be wide awake! However, after he had a long good feed, he fell into a deep sleep.

Next we have 6 month old Leah who was also in for her first portrait. She loved lying on her back whilst having her photograph taken!

All photographs: © David Calvert 2010. Copying forbidden by law.

Ware Portrait Photographer

Shown above is Amalie, Lennie and Billy who all came in as part of our fabulous Kodak promotion. The parents of these lovely children could walk away with a cool £1,000.00. Fingers crossed!

Still on the subject of the Kodak awards, all available spaces for this promotion have now been booked. I am however making a list of people who are interested in taking part in the competition – just in case a client who’s already booked pulls out of their shoot. If you would like to be put on the list, give me a call on 01279 843050 now. I can’t guarantee any places will become available, but if they do, I’ll let you know. Spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

As for general availability, I’m near enough booked up until mid August. I was supposed to be taking about 10 days off at the beginning of the month, but due to a high demand for shoots, I will be working on some of these days, but bookings are now being taken for 16th August onwards.

 All photographs: © David Calvert 2010. Copying forbidden by law.

Family Portrait Photographer in Hertfordshire

This is Varina, Mataya, Amal at Matt. Varina and her family are regular vistors to my studio. The shots I’ve taken of them have been extremely successful in winning awards. To date the photographs of her and her family have won a national title (UK Mother & Child Photographer of the Year) and 3x Awards of Excellence. So when Varina calls asking me to do some more photographs, I get very excited!

I was due to take this family portrait back in March, but unfortunately, the shoot had to be abandoned due to Varina going down with a nasty bout of food poisoning a few minutes before I was due to do the group shot! Everyone was back in the studio yesterday fit and well and we did some really fab shots of all of them together.

Some of the past winning shots can be seen below.

 All photographs: © David Calvert 2006-2010. Copying forbidden by law.

July 21, 2010 - 3:07 pm

Matthew - I think the pictures look excellent David. WELL DONE!
You make my family look amazing. Cant wait to see the rest.
I normally dont like anyone taking pictures of me. EVER! For you any day.

Matthew.

Portrait Photographer, Bishops Stortford.

This is Samual (9) who came in as part of our great Kodak Portrait Awards promotion. This a composite shot of the last setup I did with him. Apart from these shots, I got some really striking and dramatic portraits of him which I’m keeping under wraps for a major competition.  

At this time of year, lots of  us start preparing our entries for the Master Photography Awards, which is the UK’s most prestigious award ceremony in the professional photographic industry. The competition is fierce and only the very best photography wins. In the past I’ve done very well in the Awards and I’ve been lucky enough to win 3 national titles, plus numerous awards for quality and excellence. If all goes according to plan, I will be entering a shot of Samual, plus some other great shots of clients I’ve photographed in the last 12 months. In the forthcoming weeks, I’ll post some of these shots up for you to see.

All photographs: © Copyright David Calvert 2010. Copying forbidden by law.

July 21, 2010 - 9:34 am

Jo - Sam thoroughly enjoyed his experience being photographed and was made to feel very relaxed, which shone through as his confidence grew as the session went on.

Cant wait to see the rest of them