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Introducing Families – Together

July 15, 2014 · 5 Comments

Since the early days of shooting weddings, one of the things I’ve been asked most by my clients a year or two down the line is ‘would you please please do a family session for us?’. Over the years I’ve had to give out way too many heartbreaking no’s, purely because I was so busy with shooting weddings, and pursuing other business interests, that I simply didn’t have the hours to accommodate the requests. Nor could I with a clear conscience pick and choose and do sessions just for my ‘favourite’ clients (since you’re ALL my favourites!).

Marianne Taylor creative beloved family photography Cornwall
Marianne Taylor creative beloved family photography Cornwall

Over the past year I have done some serious re-evaluating of my business, my life and of how I spend my time, and one of the things I came to realise was that in order to have a little bit more flexibility in my life, I needed to take on fewer weddings. So I did some major re-arranging of my business(es), and as a result I am finally in a position where I am able to do more Together sessions, both for couples, but also for families.

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The Family sessions I offer are very relaxed and informal. There’s very little formal posing involved, as I want to capture real interactions and authentic moments, that will create memories of who your family is right now.

Marianne Taylor creative beloved family photography London

If you’ve asked about family sessions before, and I’ve turned you down, I’m sorry, the timing just wasn’t right before. I do hope you’ll get in touch now and we can make things right! I’m so looking forward to spending special, fun times, with my former and brand new clients alike!

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In the next few weeks I’ll be blogging a couple of the first sessions I’ve done, sneaks of which you can see here.

Categories : Families, SERVICES, TOGETHER Tagged : at home family shoot, family, family portrait, Love Affair with London, Services, together session

A little peek behind the scenes

January 26, 2013 · 5 Comments

While the winter has been intentionally quieter on the shooting front, quite a lot has been happening behind the scenes at Marianne Taylor Photography. I’ve been working with a designer to evolve the MTP brand, and it’s so exciting to see it all starting to take shape. I’m hoping to launch a new website by the end of February, so watch this space, there’s going to be a whole lot of pretty coming your way! If you’re feeling too impatient, you could take a look at the new home for my personal photography in the meanwhile. It’s a little corner of the internet I built for myself in the hopes of keeping the fire burning under my personal projects. Fingers crossed.

I’ve also given my office a bit of a spruce up, including an almighty clear out. It’s amazing how much more space you can create by just being brutal and not holding on to all the ‘maybe one day it will be useful’ type of stuff. There’s still bits and pieces to finish off, but already I’m feeling so much happier in my office space. Every time I walk into it I can’t help but smile and feel inspired, and that’s what a good work space should do for you. Here’s a little sneak into some of my favourite corners of the office. One day, once it’s all finished, I might give you a more comprehensive tour.

Categories : Behind the Scenes, Interiors, LIFESTYLE, PERSONAL, SERVICES Tagged : behind the scenes photoshoot, Personal, Services

New steps, new challenges

June 19, 2012 · 4 Comments

This one goes out to the photographers, artists, small business owners out there, who are dreaming big dreams.

Personally, it’s been a long road to get to this point.

The entrepreneurial spirit is something I’ve always possessed. Growing up watching a father, who for most of my formative years was an artisan, run a small business, I always felt an affinity to that way of life. Forging your own way around your craft, on your own terms. I also got to witness how hard you had to work in order to succeed and I guess that’s why I never had any disillusions about running your own business being an easy road.

I started my first business, doing graphic design and photography, at the age of 20, after training in entrepreneurship and getting a massively positive encouragement for my ideas from the teachers. I had the work ethic and I enjoyed the freedom, but what I lacked at that age was enough self awareness and confidence to have a clear message or direction. I was also unprepared for the stress involved with being at the helm of your own survival. A few years later life threw a few surprises and I found myself in London, starting over.

For the next decade I worked designing magazines, while fiercely protecting my photography and artistic freedom. This was a time where my skills at my craft grew tremendous amounts. Keeping my photography so separated and sacred, allowed for growth that would have been hard to achieve otherwise. It took a while for it all to click into place, but the day came where I realised I was ready to embrace my inner entrepreneur again. A day when I finally realised it would be possible to mould a business around me, my craft and my unique qualities.

Some may say it is ‘lucky’ to have built a successful business in a relatively short time, but I would argue that the road to this point has taken at least 15 years. And I haven’t stopped growing yet, not by a long shot.

In the past few years I’ve taken such huge steps towards greater self awareness, and have purposefully attempted to go towards my fears. Teaching is something I wouldn’t have been ready for even just a few years ago. But guiding people has always been most rewarding for me, I find it absolutely thrilling helping others to realise small things that make big differences. It was just the doing it publicly bit that I always struggled with. But now I’m finally at a stage where I feel such excitement about potentially being able to reach more people, and to help them build businesses that allow them to make the best use of their unique qualities. To guide those starting out through some of the things I wish I’d known when trying to figure out the next steps to take.

This is where I am and I feel I have a lot to give. If you feel it in your heart, I would love for you to join me. I promise to do my utmost to give all I have, and to hopefully nurture you into a place where running your business gives you as much joy as creating your art does.

More details about the first mnoo school workshop can be found at the bottom of the post here. Registration is now open here.

mnoo school marianne taylor photography workshop

Categories : PERSONAL, SERVICES Tagged : mnoo school, Personal, Services, Wedding photography, workshop

Merry Christmas!

December 22, 2011 · 4 Comments

The time has almost come again when our household takes a few days off from the world of computers in order to focus on all things Christmassy. My mum is flying over from Finland as we speak, and I’m really looking forward to three days of festivities that will follow, it’s been too many years since I’ve got to play Christmas hostess!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and everyone of you an absolutely gorgeous Christmas! Whether you celebrate this time of year or not, I hope you’ll get to spend some quality time with your loved ones.

See you on the other side. x

Christmas 2011

Categories : Musings, PERSONAL Tagged : Christmas, Personal, Services

Something old, something new

April 4, 2011 · 37 Comments

I hope you’re all having a lovely start to a new week! You might have noticed that my website has had a bit of a polish and is wearing new pretty graphics (if something is looking wonky, you might want to refresh your browser). The structure of the main site or the blog hasn’t really changed that much, as I’m a great believer in ‘if it’s not broken don’t fix it’, but for a long time I’ve been feeling that the overall design lacked some personality and femininity.

When it comes to the blog, while I appreciate that all sort of fancy sideways-scrolling cartwheel-spinning visual feasts are nice to look at, I’m such an old skool blogger at heart, that for me blogs need to first and foremost work as a reference library. Hence you will always find different ways to browse content, and links to archives, on my blog. Even if it doesn’t look as sleek as some other ways of presenting blogs, content will always be king in this particular one.

A huge thank you to Sabina from Design Garden, who created the beautiful graphics for me (I wanted something feminine, fun and reflecting my love of DIY) and Paul Thompson (who still after 10 years of coding my websites doesn’t have a site of his own), who implemented the changes.

So, do have a browse and take in the new look, I really hope you’ll like it! I appreciate all feedback you might have. In fact, at the end of the week I will draw two random people who comment on this post from the hat and send them a little surprise.

Marianne Taylor Photography

Categories : SERVICES Tagged : creative wedding reportage, Love Affair with London, Services, website design, wedding photographer, Wedding photography

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