
52 project/ #13
52 Barbados: a weekly photographic record of each of my children in 2015, the year we're living in Barbados. Week #13 Easter holidays. This week we rented a beach house in Silver Sands to celebrate Alex's birthday. It was beautiful (another more detailed post on this including contact details to come). Lila - Swinging in the garden hammock overlooking the sea Iris - Finding lumps of coral in the flower bed Oscar - Spent the morning sat on the lawn painting rocks #beachhouse #

The 52 Barbados project 2015
One of my new year's resolutions is to take a portrait of each of my three children, every week throughout 2015, the year we're living in Barbados. It's something that I've always wanted to do, but it's also about noticing and recording the effect our environment here in the Caribbean is having on each of us. There's no doubt that, as my children grow and change, their life here on the beach, by the sea, in the sun, is shaping them. So here are my first two installments, #1

The sea
Being on a small tropical island, the sea has become a big part of our family psyche. It's at the end of our road, just a minute's walk from our door and it's not like a sea any of us has ever known before. From a distance it's bright turquoise, clear when you're in it looking down at your toes on the white sandy sea bed. Sometimes we want to be in it. Drifting around in the shallows of our local rock cove - a natural pool of sparkling blue water sheltered by a semi circle o