If you love taking photos of your kids but are always looking for ways to take even better images, these tips will help you do exactly that. Remembering to use even half of these tips will transform the quality, variety, and depth of feeling in the photos you create.

I’m always encouraging my families to print their photographs and knew how great they look when mounted in a lovely frame. But my imagination didn’t stretch much further than this - until I got to talking to Emma Austin, an interior stylist based in Gloucestershire. Emma showed me a range of beautiful ways to display prints that I hope will guide and inspire you, as much as they did me.

What is your favourite photo from your childhood? The photos we're most attached to usually remind us of a particular feeling connected to someone we love or a place we feel deeply connected to.

There's something magical about returning to photograph a family that has grown a new member. Mum and Dad were super tired after countless nights of broken sleep, so it felt like even more of a privilege to be let into their lives.

If you had to leave the home you live in now, and could only take one memory of your family life with you, what would that memory be? I’m willing to bet that your fondest memory is of something that happens during a normal day.

Making a whole family portrait would be the easiest thing in the world if I posed and directed my families. But being a documentary photographer, I have to find the moment when everyone is naturally all in the frame. What is more, I want each person to be doing something that is uniquely ‘them’.