Discount Photo Shoot When You Mention this Blog!!

By Laura Yates on Aug 13, 09 12:47 PM

I'd always thought that professional baby photos are a waste of time and money. In my younger days I spent a fortune of 'proper' pics of The Boy as a baby and toddler because I thought that's just what mums did.

I thought it was part of parenthood to haul your offspring down to Boots, hand lots of cash over to a photographer and try and spend ages trying to get your child to pull nice faces.

Looking back now I'm left with dusty old baby photos of a sleeping baby Boy looking like any other baby in the world. I've also got toddler photos of him sitting under a big lamp wearing uncharacteristic clothes saying "Cheese" as many times as he could bear.

So when not-so-pregnant-Sarah brought out the baby photos she had done of Monica I began to stifle a yawn, and prepared to look at what I thought would be mundane snaps of a sleeping baby.

I was so wrong.

They were beautiful photos of Monica and her family. I don't know how to say this, but it was just so them. They were beautiful photos; pretty, unusual and really special.

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I'd never seen photos like them before.

She passed on the number of the person who took them - Dave Causon. He's setting up a photography business called Photos Romantica; he tries to capture individual moments that really mean something to the family, while being a bit different.

I jumped at the chance to get a photo-shoot at a discount price of £40 - we all spent a couple of hours in the park on a lovely sunny day while he took over 400 photos, the best of them were put on a disk. Some of them were cropped and had effects added like put into black and white or sepia.

The photos of The Kid completely reflect his personality; he is happy, noisy, nosey and constantly, constantly on the move. Plus it's nice to get ones of us altogether.

A session with Photos Romantica will usually cost upwards of £50, complete with disks of the photos, but if you contact him and mention 'From Here to Maternity' you get a discounted session at £40 - bargain! Especially seeing as you pay more than £100 for a handful of prints taken under a lamp in a shop.

You can contact Dave on 07790 198 801, check out photosromantica.com, email info@photosromantica.com or search for photos romantica on Facebook.