Andrea Thomson is an award-winning Edinburgh portrait photographer specialising in relaxed, natural photos of families, small weddings and small businesses.
It was down and dirty and quick and crazy and cold, and lots of fun. This session consisted of two sisters, their husbands and all their kids, who clearly get along quite well. Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, I’m always happy to do a mini mini session if you’re happy to trek to my neighbourhood.
As a photographer in Edinburgh, I end up spending a lot of time in various parks around town so I often suggest bringing a football or a frisbee with you to your photo session -- when your kids are a little older it give them something to focus on other than be photographed! And it allows your kids to just be kids and play a bit, with each other and with you.
For at least an entire five minutes after I finished this session, I wish we'd had four children instead of two. The Reids were the largest family I've photographed yet…
My amazing, gorgeous mother-in-law had a very big birthday, and as a surprise we arranged a little photo session with my two boys and their three gorgeous cousins…
These guys used to live in my neighbourhood and we eventually got to chatting on random street corners, at Starbucks, etc. So I was thrilled at the opportunity to photograph them at home…
Dad wasn't feeling it. All fine - there's a really special bond between a girl and her mother, and I loved photographing these two together having fun in the park in Bruntsfield. The light was perfect…
This, too, will go down as one of my favourite Edinburgh photo sessions ever. The Gilzeans were so nice and completely gorgeous, the Botanics were looking prime and it was just really good fun…
I love North Berwick. Like, love love. Enough to move there, but we're pretty happy here in Edinburgh so it's not on the cards. But imagine my delight when I got the opportunity to photograph this cute family…
This one goes down as one of my favourite photo sessions ever. I can try to kid myself, but I am very much a city girl, having moved from NYC to Edinburgh. And these guys are city people, for sure…
I've known these guys a long time so photographing them was great fun, but it was especially enjoyable because we wandered around the woods behind the place where my husband and I got married!
This was a typical photo session for me, the kind I like the most. A Saturday in Winter. A family just doing their thing. A bit inside, a bit out. A few posed photos, but mostly me just lurking around in the corners (not in a creepy way!)…
Right, those dresses. I mean...wow! We hadn't discussed what to wear at all, and these gorgeous girls (cousins - two sets of sisters) showed up looking like they'd popped straight out of a Boden catalogue, in the best way possible…
I loved this Edinburgh photo session SO MUCH. These guys were moving down to London from Stockbridge and I arrived to a nearly-empty flat. We took a few photos there for posterity's sake, and then headed to their favourite corner store…
One of my first family photo sessions, in the lovely Harrison Park. And how cute are these guys? They now have two boys and I did a second session with them, but this mini session is still special to me.
