I've visited some pretty plush celebrity homes in my time but being invited in to 10 Downing Street to assist my brother Austin Hargrave on a Sunday Times with Theresa May was a showstopper - and so were her trousers by all accounts. So here's a little throwback to that day last year. Really wish I'd put my hat on straight.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-interview-theresa-may-hmpg0m2lg
Today my daughter turned 5 and along with a party, presents and plenty of cake, she desperately wanted her cousins in Surrey to come and see her in Somerset. We made all that happen and then she thew in one more request: "Can I have a photo shoot for my birthday too?" I once again created a pop-up in our barn and the kids well and truly performed. Got a lot of editing to do now.
I'm English born and bred, but I've lived in LA for 17 years. One wife and 2 kids later I split my time between the UK and the USA and I'm growing to love it. Days like today, when we held an apple day in our orchard made me remember why we made the leap in the first place. I set up a make shift studio in the old barn and snapped the kids. The subjects were tough to begin with soon warmed up, but it was so lovely to have longer than 10 minutes (as so often is the case in LA) to shoot our subject.....
