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Welcome to the Meonshore Studios Blog

Hi my name is Mike French, and I'm a Fareham - Hampshire based photographer, and the owner of Meonshore Studios, a family run business. I'm passionate about my photography, and running the studio and I like to think this shows in the way I interact with my clients and of course in the images I create.

I adore shooting fine art newborn portraits, capturing little babies for their first professional photograph. I also love creating portraits showing families growing together and the creative but critical commercial work. For personal work I shoot sport, and wildlife predominately

All the images you see below are mine, I hope you enjoy them and that this blog gives you some insight into what we do and how I work.

Meonshore Studios

Meonshore Studios is based in Fareham, Hampshire and covers clients all over the UK and beyond. We specialize in fine art newborn portraits of babies between 3 and 15 days of age, and location family portraits. These are most likely to be taken in Hampshire in the studio or on location and of course we travel anywhere for our commercial clients.

This blog is the diary of the studio and contains a mixture of the work that we do - we have dedicated websites for our different types of photography.

Documentary Christening Photography in Hampshire – Wallis Family

Monday, April 26, 2010 6:39 pm Posted in portraits

Yesterday I photographed the baptism of one of the Wallis family at the St Mary Margaret Catholic Church in Locksheath near Fareham in Hampshire. As a previous portrait client I was delighted when I was asked to cover the baptism, and the family gathering afterwards.

I approach a baptism or christening in a similar way as I do a wedding, documentary photography as much and as discretely as possible to ensure I capture the emotions and story of the event and family groups to provide the record of the families and friends present as well in this case as the godparents, and then of course all the details which go to completing the story of the day.

The baptism took place during the normal sunday service and I was warmly welcomed by Father John and allowed full coverage of the service with my discrete methods, I was well position to capture both the families reactions and the actual baptism itself. Back at the house for the family gathering I looked to get lots of images of the family enjoying the day and then some images of the guests and formal groups of close family with the newly baptised little one.

Here are some images from the baptism.