08/06/2026
SUNDAYS LESSON
I was in one of my local parks at the weekend doing a family session for one of my beautiful clients.
We were at the swings and, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a daddy with his two little girls desperately trying to photograph them.
And I could see that he was really struggling. The girls werenât very old and he was trying to balance his phone with one hand whilst stopping them toppling off various bits of playground equipment with the other whilst also trying to get them to sit together, look at the camera, stop hitting each other and to smile đŤŁ
And - as a photographer - it was a bit of a wake up call.
We tend - as photographers- to be very fixated on getting you Mums into photographs with your children. For lots of reasons- all of them totally valid.
One of those totally valid reasons being the fact that MUMS are invariably the ones taking the photosâŚ. So their phones are full of their children âŚ.and their children with daddyâŚ.and yet no photos of them.
But it did suddenly strike me on Sunday - what about the single daddies? Or even just Daddy who has taken the children to the park on a Sunday afternoon so that Mummy can lie in the bath undisturbed for an hour ( ok girls âŚ. I know thatâs a stretch. We know heâs taken the children to the park so that you can try and do a weeks worth of housework and washingđ)
But whether you are a Mummy or a Daddy you simply cannot be present with your children AND photographing them. You have to choose. You canât be playing on the swings AND be six feet away getting the photos. Itâs one of the reasons I do what I do - I allow YOU to be present and I do the documenting.
Maybe âbeing presentâ is the present some Dads would love for Fatherâs Day?
Iâve never done a gift voucher for a âSession For Daddyâ.
And I think thatâs on me
