Picture this, Sunday morning 9 am, I get a text message saying : Breakie? Rashers?. Well as a mother of two little monsters could I resist? Absolutely not! So the four of us got dress and off we went. The rashers, the eggs, the orange juice and the coffee, all it was perfect, but we got a fantastic surprises for us there too. A massive garden that need it a bit of TLC. Now I can not do gardening, yes I know is embarrassing but if a plant lands on my hand it will be dead in a matter of hours. So I took the camera and did the only thing I know I will not mess it up: I documented the day.
We had a fantastic morning and afternoon with family and friends and I hope that you enjoyed this warm Bank Holiday as much as I did.

This is a post from the heart. And I'm saying this because I really believe it. I have been photographing for over 15 years now and I did portraits of newborn, babies, children, teenagers, couples, men and women under 50, but grandparents alone not so much. Let me explain. I have photograph nannies and granddads, yes I have done it, but always on the same setting, with their families, or the grandkids around, but not alone. It is like when you become a grandparent your identity is gone and it only makes sense if you have your family around. I would love for every family to think about them, why not to have an amazing portrait that will be pass to future generations?
The two pictures I have below are from family members and I could not be happier that I got them. My kids will always have a beautiful image of their granddad.
So please do not forget them!

So do you remember your first birthday? Well I can tell you that Cillian here will have this pictures to remember it for ever! As you can imagine it was so much fun doing this session. We let Cillian attack the cake, yes total freedom and boy did he like it.
I could not see a better way to celebrate this incredible important day.

Happy First Birthday Cillian!
Nuria x

Little Ciara came to the studio with Fiona, Andrew and Toby. I meet the three of them a few years ago when Toby was just a baby so I was so happy when fiona call me last week to let me know that they just had a lovely little girl and they wanted me to photograph her.
For me having families coming back to me when they expand families or on important dates is what make my job the best.
I'm so delighted that they trust me to photograph Ciara so I hope that you not just like this pictures but love them as much as I do.

Thank you guys!
Nuria x

Totdlers , totdlers, totdlers, they are impredictable, fun , curious and with so much energy. So when you have a family with a three and a half and a two year old, you do not know how the session will go , right? But not with the McManus family, Millie and Tom got so relax that aparently where talking about the session the next day too!
Enjoy this wonderful family, and just to let you know that as spring is finally arriving this session will not be the last one you see of them!

Thank you guys for a wonderful experience.
Nuria x

Happy Easter to everybody!
This year we decided to do an easter hunt with the kids, well my son demaned to have one! I'm guessing like us most of you had an overload of chocolate!
The kids made there own baskets and I had the duty to hide the goddies. It was cold but the air got fill of little screams of joy every time that they found an egg.

What to say about Tess and Ria, cute, lovely , fun and absolutely beautiful little girls. I had so much fun with their session and editing the pictures, which it was not easy considering the levels of cuteness.
Enjoy this two little elves!

Thank you Susan and David for coming to me and trusting so much. I can wait for the new arrival!

Sunday 17th of March we celebrated St. Patrick's Day. I don't think I need to explain myself to much about Paddy's day, it is know and celebrated all over the world.
For the last four years, me and my family have been going to Newbridge to see the Parade, and this year it was raining again of course. I think that in 14 years that I have been in Ireland I could count on only a couple of Paddy's day being dry.
So to the Parade we went and what we saw was:
* Tractors
*Horses
*Pink Recycling Trucks
*Dancing Schools: never thought that there was that many in Newbridge!
*Futbol Clubs
*Tall green people
*Marching Bands
*Italian Throwing Flagers: yes! from Milan
*A Filipino Dancing Group
*and different St. Patricks.
I hope that you all had a great time this long weekend.

Yes, today is my birthday!
I usually take an image of myself for my birthday. And I do it for two reasons: the first one because one day my kids will have a library of images of their mother and for me this is very important, and the second one is because I actually like doing Self-Portaits! Call me vain but I enjoy using different lights, different make-up. But to get a shot that I think is ok to use (and I'm very self-critical) I need to do lots of frames.
So today, on my birthday I wanted to show you a selection of pictures that I did yesterday just to try to get one right.

So at the end I decided to use one of the last pictures, and with a bit of editing help...Voila!

Photographing this lovely family was such a joy, the girls are the same age that my two kids so I could relate to them so well!

Thanks to Michell, Gary and their two beautiful daugters, Aine and Sarah.
Nuria x