I’ve been lucky though: whatever experiments I may have tried and mistakes I may have made elsewhere, with my children’s portraiture I always stuck to the same way of working.
Photographers starting up are often like butterflies: they flit all over the place, emulating the styles they see at the latest workshop or in the magazines.  This isn’t a bad thing; it’s only by trying different styles and techniques that we find the ones we love. Back when I shot weddings, I took my fair share of “Ascough black and whites” or “Ghionis styled shots”. It’s how we learn. I’ve been lucky though: whatever experiments I may have tried and mistakes I may have made elsewhere, with my children’s portraiture I always stuck to the same way of working. It’s never been anything but black and white.