Special offer Christmas packages - be quick!

Our special offer Christmas packages are now available on all studio sessions.

But with only 52 days left until Christmas and sessions starting to book up, don't leave it too late to take advantage of these huge discounts - the result make perfect gifts for mum, gran, aunts, etc!

Call 0113 2575728 or e-mail andrea@andreabarrettphotography.co.uk for more details.

Bumps and baby events

Lincroft Studios award-winning photographers Andrea Barrett and Mark Jordan were delighted to welcome the lovely mummy-to-be Naomi and husband Craig into the studio for a delicate pregnancy session, ahead of the impending birth of their baby boy.

The setting autumn sun pouring through our bedroom set window provided the perfect lighting for this thoughtful, delicate session of the expectant parents, who had clearly put much thought into their co-ordinating monochrome outfits beforehand and looked fantastic.

We love every bump and baby portrait session we do, and can't wait for our next pregnancy shoot that's already booked in. And of course to coo over the babies once they arrive!

We'll also be offering pre-Christmas sessions at not one, but two events we are attending this Saturday.

The first is a charity baby fair, being held at St Andrew's Church in Morley, Leeds, between 11am and 2pm on Saturday. This event is in aid of Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, an excellent cause and we are thrilled and excited to be offering mini portrait sessions on the day for mums-to-be (and dads too), babies, toddlers and children. All we ask is for a small donation to Sands and within a few days we'll send you the link to your own private online gallery where you can view and buy any re-touched images if you wish. This is a fantastic way of creating some great Christmas gifts and supporting a great cause. Or, if you prefer, you can book in for our special offer full studio session. This promises to be a fantastic event, with some excellent goodie bags for the first 40 visitors and some amazing raffle tickets, as well as nearly new sales, taster sessions and even a buggy-to-sling loan service.

Our second event on Saturday is the Harrogate Baby Fair, taking place at Ashville College between 10am and 2.30pm. Lincroft Studios will be attending to display our images and products and offer special discounted studio sessions and Christmas gift packages, which can also be bought as gift vouchers. This promises to be a fun-filled event with face painting, bouncy castle and even a gaming corner for the dads!

So it's a busy week ahead for the Lincroft Studios team as we finalises our Christmas offers and prepare for the two events as well as studio sessions and image viewings. But we love it!

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Blown away!

Yesterday the team at Lincroft Portraits attended an amazing one-day course on portrait photography, hosted by talented photographer Mark Cleghorn and his phototraining4u business.

The course covered everything from marketing to posing, lighting to post editing and has given us all so many new ideas and a lot of excitement and enthusiasm to get them out there. Already we have used the Photoshop techniques taught to give our vintage boudoir test shoot photos a little extra 'wow' factor, they look amazing (sneak preview will be uploaded here this week) 

And we saw some fabulous trends and new products from our brilliant supplier Loxley Colour, which we can't wait to introduce.

We also came away with a useful book, DVD and we have signed up for phototraining4u membership for constant access to useful ideas, tutorials as well as some brilliant Photoshop plug-ins software.

So, expect more big things from us very soon!

Exciting news!

Lincroft Portraits HQ is a hive of activity and excitement this week with news that photographer Andrea Barrett has won a merit in the first round of the MPA national photography awards (having already won the Yorkshire Classical Photographer of the Year title a few months ago with a stunning pregnancy portrait) and also a merit in the Mario Acerboni wedding section. Huge congratulations to her. We have yet to find out which photos have been awarded this special status, but I will update you as soon as we know.

In other exciting news the transformation of the customer lounge is complete, hurrah! Well, all that's needed now is for the print order to come back so we can get some of our stunning portrait, boudoir and wedding images on the walls. Here are photos taken earlier today.

The large framed photo on the right (above) was a winner last year and really suits the decor I think - just need to properly hang it now as well as some of our other award-winning and favourite images. I do love the classic-style furniture and the mix of black, brown, silver and a hint of gold too. The flooring is just fab. We have re-arranged the furniture to make the room look and flow much better. And for the comfort of guests we also have a brand new fancy pants coffee machine, woooooo!

Hope you like - we would love to hear your feedback either in the comments box or on our Facebook page. 

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