photography workshop | product shoot for a new range of yarn | a total of 10 hours on the train to crochet | a burrito bar…

the makings of a very good weekend indeed! The best bit? Coming home after 4 days to my much missed family.

And I wasn’t the only one who had a good one, Emma learned to crochet!!

Just over 1 year ago, Kat sent me a tweet asking if I would be interested in starting an online film and photography school.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

This past Saturday, Capturing Childhood celebrated its first birthday and we celebrated in style at Twycross Zoo in the Midlands. We celebrated big successes such as being featuring in the Guardian Christmas gift guide and our upcoming workshop in London. We celebrated the hard work it takes to run a business and juggle family and other work commitments. Mostly, we celebrated a year of sharing our love of photography and film.

This last year, Capturing Childhood has seen hundreds of students come through our virtual doors and we have loved being a part of their photographic journey.  It is amazing to see the change in our student’s photographs and an honor and a privilege to get  such beautiful glimpses into family life across the world.

To celebrate our 1st birthday, we are each giving away 1x £95 voucher and 1x £55 voucher which can be used on our current courses. Just enter a comment below. For a second chance to win, pop over to Housewife Confidential and enter there!

Thank you for all of the entries!

Winners: Aussie Mum for the £95 voucher and Jeannette Archer for the £55 voucher!!

Competition Terms and Conditions:

• Giveaway is open worldwide.
• Maximum of one entry per person.
• Please leave your email to make sure we can contact you.
• Each voucher is valid for the face value which covers the cost of courses at 2013 prices. Vouchers may be used for full or part payment of a course.
• Not valid for use on our London Workshop.
• Entries must meet the entry criteria or will be void.
• Giveaway will close at 9pm BST on 10th of May 2013.

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED.

Instructions:

1. View this post from top to bottom

2. Repeat every 1min 20sec

3. Repeat 1 & 2 30 times

3. Go eat some chips

4. Repeat steps 1 & 2 another 15 times

And that was our day at the zoo yesterday.

I love photographing knit and crochetwear.  It should probably go without saying, but I genuinely find it thrilling to take a design and make it shine.  Because, quite frankly, that is what sells a pattern.  We live in an age of visuals – pinterest, ravelry, blogs, all of the ways most designers interact with one’s design is a photo at a glance and I LOVE making those first impressions great ones.

And there is no greater joy than photographing things that are beautiful anyway, and this shawl, Tivoli by Anniken Allis, is amazing. Made in her silky camel 4ply and oh my!!  I have never handled camel yarn before, but you know me, say silk and I am usually sold anyway, but the camel gives it a wooly-ness and warmth really unlike anything I have ever touched. Kind of like an alpaca silk, but less hairy and with a gorgeous smooth handle.  It was simply divine. and I had to wrestle the shawl away from Kerstin after the shoot.

This is the 3rd of 4 items I photographed for Anni and each time she releases one, I think “This is my favourite”…this time is no different.