So we did the the first shoot for the AW11 collection today, with little tough guy Vincent and his lovely friend Romey.
I'm back doing the photography, like I did on a smaller scale when Frankie and Connie were babies, and I have to say I am loving it!
I wanted to be a photographer when I was a kid, about ten or eleven. Our next-door neighbour Jim Francis, who went on to become one of my mentors when I started Oh Baby London, gave me an Asahi Pentax and a telephoto lens, and under my Dad's guidance I started taking pictures.
Dad had a dark room set up in our attic and taught me how to develop photographs, and I had a fine time working on my fledgling career.
Enter Olivia, my little sister, who I love dearly but who shattered my hopes of a professional career by coming up to the dark room with me and putting fixative in her mouth while I was looking elsewhere (I swear!), resulting in complete mayhem and my being banned from the darkroom by my mother.
I never quite got back to those glory days, so it feel fan-frickin'-tastic to be back behind the camera properly.

Vincent and Romey were little dream boats, and their gorgeousness shines through in these pictures, doncha think? The new collections not half bad either, if I do say so myself...