Andrea Thomson is an award-winning Edinburgh portrait photographer specialising in relaxed, natural photos of families, small weddings and small businesses.
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…
Jenni was the runner-up in my photo session give-away, and when I realised she lived around the corner and her eldest went to the same school as my boys, I offered her a free mini photo session…
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…
I was so happy to photography these guys. The cutest, loveliest, sweetest little family, honestly. And so incredibly chilled out -- even with a new baby.
The last time I photographed these guys, they were living across town and had one fewer child. I love being able to photograph a family as they grow, and it especially helps when they're so stinkin' cute.
Oh how I LOVE a new baby. Not enough to have another one, mind, but how lucky am I to get to photograph babies and maybe even sneak in a cuddle, and then run? All the cuteness, right here.
I adore these guys. So laid back, super creative (Donald is a very talented painter, Holly owns Doodles) and just lovely to be around. A photogenic family, full of love for each other. What more could a family photographer…
Before a session, people often ask what they 'should do' when I'm there. Do what you do, I usually say. In this case, that meant whipping out some paper and paint and getting creative among other thigns, which I just loved.
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!
Emily and I met at the swing park (as you do) and I was delighted to have the opportunity to take photos of her beautiful family in their uber beautiful Edinburgh home before they moved back to the Big Smoke. Have a sneaky peek at some of my photos below!
There was a little miscommunication involved, and this session ended up being minus their doting dad who had to work. But as a mom, how lovely to have photos with just the girls? The weather here in…
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.
