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Solo Portraits: Johanna on Crantock Beach in north Cornwall

June 22, 2026 · Leave a Comment

As I dust off the corners of this blog, I keep finding little sessions that I’ve done here and there over the years that I never blogged. It seems that I wasn’t THAT dormant after all, it’s like I’ve been regularly getting hits of portrait sessions to keep my need for working with humans satiated!

Johanna is a photographer based in Finland, and one of my oldest dearest friends. When she was updating her materials, she needed new portraits, so when she came to Cornwall for a visit, it seemed obvious that we needed to head down to the beach for this session.

If you’re looking for a portrait session in Cornwall, Crantock beach with its gentle dunes and magical evening light never disappoint!

Brand portraits: Bloomtown founder Preya

September 11, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Preya founded Bloomtown, a sustainable skincare brand with her husband Med from their kitchen table. She needed some portraits for her social media surfaces, and came in for a brand portrait session. The studio session gravitated towards pink, but we made sure to also capture some outdoors images that echoed the two years she spent in Indonesia where the idea for Bloomtown was born.

Brand Portraits: Kasha from Snapsha Photography

August 28, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Photographers need brand portraits, too! It was so lovely to meet Kasha and traipse around Newquay and the colourful houses of Nansledan with a bunch of balloons in tow. Colour was very much on the agenda for this Cornish brand portrait session. And before you ask, the ‘ugly/funny’ faces animation was very much Kasha’s idea and requested specifically! :D

Jonnie: male model portfolio session on Fistral Beach in Newquay

April 28, 2019 · 1 Comment

On a still slightly chilly spring day, we had a commercial shoot booked in with Jonnie, and since he drove five hours (!) to come all the way to Cornwall, we decided to also shoot a little beachy portfolio session – would have felt like a waste of all that traveling otherwise! Even though we didn’t see the sun, we did get an almost empty beach to play on!

‘For me, Cornwall is a getaway, somewhere I associate with freedom. Having moved there for the better part of 6 months, which was originally supposed to be only 2 months, it played a significant role in forming my opinions on things such as the environment, as the Cornish coastlines offers some of the best views I’ve seen in this country (best experienced on a surfboard at 5am!). I am still amazed whenever I visit at how much diversity is catered for, as the range of lifestyles and cultures I have come across here is so broad. I tend to visit every couple of months to visit family but if I was not tied up at home I’d be there every other week!’

– Jonnie

I had such a lovely time on this shoot, and, as you can see from the quote above, Cornwall means a lot to Jonnie, so it felt like a privilege to get to capture him in the environment he loves so much.