I'm Caroline, and I'd like to thank you for visiting my site..
I pride myself on being a dedicated, courteous, creative photographer, doing my very best to capture your wedding day or photographic shoot through as many beautiful, classic, natural images as possible - oh and I LOVE what I do!
So who am I? I'm also a wife {to my gorgeous husband Peter - you'll see him a lot on these pages}, an aunt - to triplets and the most fabulous little girl, a friend, a daughter and all different things to all different people. I like to think of myself as glamourous, honest, lively, creative, and sparkly ~ definitely sparkly!
I'm obsessed with designer handbags - LOVE them! I have lots, but if my husband asks, they were all bought in the sale! I love my bike, I adore vintage 50's chic (I've always maintained I was born in the wrong era), and classic Hollywood musicals - Fred and Ginger were my idols.
I hate bananas, think cotton wool is the work of the devil, and I wish I had smaller feet. I have a ridiculously sweet tooth (I eat the icing off a cake first), and dessert is the best part of any meal for me!
I'm married to the most wonderful man, Peter, who inexplicably is able to put up with me (yes he does deserve a medal). We got married at the gorgeous Cobham Hall on the 30th August 2008 ~ so yes, I've been a bride ~ I know your pain, and your joy!
One thing that always stuck out to everyone was that I loved photographs - I was obsessed with them, I was always the kid with the disposable cameras and gradually progressed to stealing my dad's Leica. I loved the sound the shutter made!
I always had a camera and I was always the one people expected to have a camera, even when I was at school and uni. I'm so glad I was like that, we have boxes of pictures, that never see the light of day for years, then one day you get out the box and you are transported back to those memories. Priceless.
Over the years, I kept up my photography, and progressed to using digital SLR's, I loved the freedom they gave me to try things out. The more I used my camera, the more positive the feedback got, eventually I had friends asking me would I bring my camera to this event or that party, then it was weddings and before I knew it, I was training with one of Kents biggest wedding photographers using medium format Hasselblad cameras that were worth more than my car!
Everything then spiraled and I decided it was time to get proper training. I'd exhausted the UK's supply of photography books by then! I've have been lucky enough to learn from some of the UK's best photographers and a few years ago, it was time for me to set up on my own - I become CLN Photography. I've been privileged enough to share and be part of the most important days of hundreds of peoples lives, weddings and civil partnerships, christenings, taking a baby's first photo's, a family's first proper shoot, and so on, and I'm delighted to say that many of the people I've been lucky enough to shoot have become great friends.
Every shoot I do I'm striving to make it better and improve and every time I meet someone new, I can't wait to get back to the computer to see the pictures. I love what I do with a passion and I hope that helps enhance your experience with me. In particular with weddings, I've been the stressed out bride, (the disasters with our wedding would send you over the edge - your bridal shop shredding your dress days before the wedding is not fun and that was just the start of it). I know the pressure involved and I know how important these memories are. I treat every shoot like it was my own wedding day and hope that reflects in my work.
So there you have it, that's me. Well done if you read all that. I'm definitely not perfect, but I work very hard, and hope one day I'll get the opportunity to meet you, and if I'm really lucky, take your photograph!
Until then...
Caz xx
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