What’s not to LOVE about pink beetroot!!!!
October.......whizzed through....
Blinked…missed it lol October that is, nothing else!!
Thrilled to share here a few snippets from client work this month!!
Friday Night Confessionals.......food glorious food.....
GUEST CHEF NIGHT AT THE GREYFRIARS, CHAWTON
When Tequila is involved, what’s not to love!!!
Tuesday’s are turning out to be pretty awesome, especially when I get to photograph the PREP + the MAIN event!!! Guest Chef nights at The Greyfriars sell out month’s in advance and this last one was such a buzz as Chef Alex shared Mexican goodness!!!
This is just a snippet + the flavours and colours were insane!! Alex has a food truck coming to Hampshire and beyond VERY soon!! SO EXCITING!!
Have a great weekend everyone x
Friday Night Confessionals.......September you're here!
Feeling grateful…….
So as I sit here Friday Sept 17th, FINALLY writing a Friday night confessional for what feels like the first time in forever (I realise I have started and not completed about 3 others over the last 3 weeks!! - Not from lack of wanting!) I am thrilled to share just a snippet of recent work which will be updated in the galleries soon and in the meantime here is a sprinkling of the fantastic clients I’ve had the pleasure to create imagery for :-)
OK, short and sweet :-) Happy Friday everyone xx
WOW Tuesday ev/// Thursday afternoon confessionals...
Ahh that cheeky, sneaky Bank Holiday + cheeky little 4 day week……
all the summer vibes last Thursday capturing this very beautiful and special event and a little haze of Bank Holiday pouff as the days since disappear into a blur…
I sit here writing FULL of gratitude for the delights and sunshine the Bank Holiday weekend brought, gorgeous moments creating images of amazing events, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine and to be back photographing events over the weekend continues to be the best feeling and such a blessing :-) Here’s to many more as Summer continues xx
Have a fab rest of your week!
YES!! Friday afternoon confessions.......has anyone seen summer?
If so, could you just politely direct it over here please :-) Thanks so much!!
Well, hello Friday!! How’s everyone doing?
This past week has been a super fab, crazy, zesty mix of editing, photography and client meetings with a slithering of yoga in person as a student and gym workouts to get my fitness + stamina back up as weddings approach!! The challenge of sitting to edit photo sessions is real now and I’m having to take a break and step away from my screen every 45minutes - to think pre pandemic I used to sit locked in for hours at a time now seems impossible!!
BUT I am super excited not only to be back right in the mix of photographing an amazing array of FOOD, PORTRAITS, LIFESTYLE and LITTLE PEOPLE + I am stoked to share a few images from this weeks sessions and commercial shoots!
Images above taken at The Greyfriar Pub in Chawton ahead of their opening May 17th and capturing their new menu and staff pictures!!
Whooooo it’s an amazing feeling to be photographing, being creative and mixing safely with clients and friends again :-)
Stay safe everyone and have a great weekend! x
Friday Night Confessionals.....getting green fingers......
And selling posters of my peony love series 💕❤️💕
Amongst my many endeavours over here I am attempting to grow chillis, courgettes and tomatoes this year along with some squash I hope to plant shortly. In the non edible section of the garden things are starting to take shape, the peonies old and new are emerging and the many I planted last year are making progress (keeping fingers xd it continues even despite the current nightly frosts!)
My pansie display looks like an homage to the suffragette movement, all greens, whites and purples and I’m totally ok with that!!
It’s also been an exciting week as three posters went out the door to their new home in Whitstable!!
They are part of the ‘Peony Love’ series captured and created last year during lockdown and I’m beyond thrilled their new owner is in love and delighted with their arrival. These images shown above were full frame printed on 16x20 inch paper! So a big gorgeous luscious impact on a wall and this trio sit so well together I’m excited to see them in situ when they’re room redecoration is finished :-)
so happy weekend everyone! Have a great one and enjoy the sunshine xx
Saturday afternoon confessionals…Happy Easter!
Weekend vibes!!
Super excited to share a back of camera shot from a local client shoot this week!!
Friday Night Confessionals.... a tribute x
Friday Night Confessionals.......2021 International Women's Day
This year……ZOOM ruled
As International Women’s Day approached this year I had been spending this lockdown online studying my other passion, Yoga Teaching. The love and happiness that flowed out of the screens during class was phenomenal.
I pondered ways to celebrate and appreciate this when it occurred to me we were graduating the day before on March 7th so I asked if anyone would love to be involved and created the #choosetochallenge images for the IWD Gallery and some additional images for fun :-)
Totally amazed it worked and beyond thrilled these amazing souls below were up to experiment and see what would happen, we laughed A LOT and created some beautiful images. Thank You everyone xx My heart is FULL xx
Friday Night Confessionals......F.I.L.M
Ok ok so I’m actually a bit more than delighted by these FILM photos, the lushness of the colours and the detail in each image is filling me up! ALSO important to mention I had to send the colour film away to @westendcameras for them to develop and I’ve been wondering how this test roll was going to turn out!!
I’m so happy because the camera #pentaxmesuper hadn’t been used since 1983 + the #Fuji film was 5 years out of date lol
It felt pretty special to be carrying and photographing with my Grandads camera - he loved nature and flowers and has the most epic macro lens I am excited to try next!!! He passed when I was 7 + I was very much banned from going anywhere near his darkroom BUT I was allowed (lol) to be infront of the lens + we have numerous photos of me sitting for his pictures. Fun memories and incredibly special to all these years later be taking his camera for a walk and using it myself.
I have specific ideas for this camera and as a test roll I’m excited to explore this further, especially with such richness in the colours + as natures evolves towards spring ❤️💕❤️ Happy Friday y’all xx #filmisalive #britishphotographer #filmphotographer #fujifilmsuperia200
Friday night Confessionals….For the love of Peonies
Juicy Fridays….
Hi!! How is everyone doing?? February already and I’ve been armpit deep in training since the beginning of the year, which has been amazing and super intense, a part of me wondered why this was such a great idea during a pandemic lol but this quote from it has really resonated
‘Ironed out in the FIRE’
YES! So today, rain outside, a need within to be creative, so many ideas brewing and a pot of delicious gold paint calling….
Ahaaaaaa……Oh I’m super excited I had the chance to explore something that’s been tickling me for about a week but I hadn’t had the chance to act on it until, the tickle got too much today and I busted out my art box, brushes, paints, peony images, lay newspaper down and tapped my imagination.
Different brush sizes and textures later I started adding gold shimmer to a test image from my Peony portfolio : luscious fine art paper!! I’ve lots more exploration but I’m excited by this start :-)
Here’s to creative weekends ahead!! Have a great one!! x
Friday Night Confessionals - first of 2021!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Wishing you all a peaceful, safe and happy year ahead xx
After my morning walk and coffee this morning I made a short video of my NEW 2021 Calendars and I am thrilled to share it here too!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJgQDErB8lR/
I collated the beautiful Peony images I created in Lockdown 1 last year to produce a gorgeous calendar and I am super thrilled to share fine art prints from the series will be available soon too!
Last night as I pondered the previous 12 months and reflected upon my photo clients and the sessions I had captured, I wistfully remembered a time when marriage proposals would book end each year and just what a high it is to end and begin each year with the pleasure an joy of capturing these incredible moments. JUST as I was reminiscing a Blog post popped up from Flytographer with their Top 30 Proposals of 2020 and I was BEYOND THRILLED to be included with this fun proposal of Christine + Ann Marie back in earl yMarch <3
Happy January everyone, here’s to a peaceful year ahead xx
Friday Night Confessionals….surprises all round!
This week!! WOWZERS
I had completely forgotten about this amazing interview!!! SO beyond thrilled to share this article on my lockdown project!!!
Community Hero’s - A Lockdown photo project
Lockdown Photo Project, Jackie King, Community Spirit, Judith
Read MoreFriday Night Confessionals….it’s 9pm… where did today go?
I’m writing this wondering quite where this week flew to?
Just a short ditty this evening :-) I’ve kept up my twice daily walks taking in the early morning bird song - bliss, rolling fields, peace and fresh air + loved pottering around my garden, dead heading my fucias, tending to the gooseberries, cucumber + tomatoes in between work.
It has felt slightly unnerving seeing so many people around as I rejoin society and in the heat of Thursday my mask became a sauna - very good for the skin I’m sure!! Lol
So as this week draws out and the weekend begins I want to wish you all a wonderful sunny one xx
Weekend confessionals - raw imagery
Lockdown diaries / keeping sane in the time of COVID
OK so believe me when I say THESE ARE NOT the finished article, they are a work in progress and proof of a ‘breakthrough’ (small gains)
I’m not the kind of person to share something until the journey is complete and you can look back and reflect, order the highs and lows and make sense of the process but here I find myself sharing this work in its raw form for the reason that I am relieved to ACTUALLY SEE SOMETHING
It’s been weird and strange not photographing clients and so to keep my sanity I started photographing my daily walk. I dug out my Hasselblad and loaded it with film, I made a photo diary of developing + re acquainting myself with a process I hadn’t touched in years and then I hit a wall. My scanner didn’t scan 120 negs, I couldn’t ‘see’ what I was shooting, I felt blind. Unsure my light meter, camera, self was working. I’m a problem solver but I was stumped. I sat on the problem searching for a solution wanting desperately to see.
Tonight after trying, frustratedly giving up, talking to one of my oldest friends and then trying again I FINALLY SAW SOMETHING!
My film negs taped to my window shot on my phone, twisted in some weird app I see the community I have been capturing, the souls who have tirelessly worked to keep life going.
The teachers at the local primary school preparing for two year groups to return
Wendy from Porters who has worked relentlessly throughout
Judith a student of mine who has made scrubs for the local hospital
Simon who turned a tea room into a general store for his village + many more + One day I’ll see them all
Friday afternoon confessionals......
TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
NEW WEBSITE
Hi Everyone!!
How you are all doing? Happy Friday xx
Sooo after about 10 days of lock down within lockdown where I pined myself to my office chair and designed, un did, redesigned and adjusted, I am thrilled to share my new look, updated website!!
www.jackieking.com
HEAD SHOTS WEDDINGS FAMILIES PRODUCTS EVENTS
Please let me know what you think!!
ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER 2
JULY 1st 2020 Back at ya photographing!!
So as lockdown eases, mask, hand sanitiser + camera in hand I will be back photographing again - HORAH!
The first couple weeks I will be social distancing with pre booked clients who were moved due to lockdown then from mid July onwards I am taking bookings for outdoor family sessions so please email me or call to book your dates.
I‘m super excited to see you all again and start capturing your summer sessions,
Happy Friday! Hugs Jackie xx
#BlackOutTuesday
I’d like to take a moment to share my post from instagram on Wednesday and to honour the events of the last 10 days.
Adding to the great suggestions by ElleUSA, I’d like to share the author I have always loved reading ‘James Baldwin’. I started about 20 years ago with Giovanni’s Room and my addiction to his writing went from there. He is an incredible writer and there is also a film ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ which he started before his passing + is described as
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. This became I Am Not Your Negro.
Also a favourite of mine on instagram is @AlexElle who always brightens my feed with inspiring quotes and posts and if you missed the news interview with Spike Lee earlier in the week see it here
If you have suggestions you’d like to share too, please let me know x
