Jenny Martin Photography

29/12/2022

Hi everyone! 🌟 long time no posts, but FB just gave me a way to earn some pennies. Hope you all had a great Christmas and have a wonderful new year. I had a peaceful time in my lovely hostel bu the river watching the wildlife ❤️

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23/11/2022

apparently their are popular posts I may have missed. I will say no 🙄🙄🙄

04/07/2022

My passion has always been people. However throughout the last year's, we were not allowed and I basically I decided my business wasn't viable and leaving the EU scuppered my ten year plan.

However, shooting on my phone is an interesting experience and exercise. Might even make me a better photographer.

light really motivates me to pull out the phone and explore. Sunsets and the golden hour always peaks my interest. Light, shadow, angles, reflection and the sinking sun. ❤️

The key? explore, move and experiment. No pressure or deadlines no work 🥺

03/07/2022

Feeding the ducks. It was awesome watching the huge fish take the bread. Trying to get a good shot of it was impossible, the two in this show them the best

03/07/2022

Some simple river images. It was a climb down and then a wash and a paddle. Beautiful place.

02/07/2022

Morning new moon and new month. New home? We shall see.

29/06/2022

A few simple sunsets

26/02/2022

Not here much as I am not available for your UK weddings. I can only do EU unless we talk flight cost and Brexit. Eu I can do ❤️

16/12/2021

Currently exploring phone photography. Yes it has its limitations and frustrations, but as the saying goes the best camera is the one you have in your hands. Theme has been, light, reflection and the golden hour.

Nice thing about phone photography is I don't spend hours editing at a computer. The quality for print or on a computer is not acceptable to me, but for social media and on a phone it is fine and all about the feel and atmosphere.

17/10/2021

Sending some love from Portugal. Hoping all is well in blighty. Just an update I will be working from Portugal and once I set up home I shall be shooting and editing again. I miss you all, but life moves on. Currently not available for UK weddings, events or portraits, but if you want a wedding in any EU country I will be more than happy to capture your day. Be extraordinary

11/05/2021

Hope you are all well. Not posted for a while, as I am just taking phone photos and missing my lenses, as they were too heavy to travel with, bit here are some from my train ride the other day

01/03/2021

Oh god yes to this and us big children. ❤️ Keeps us sane 🤪

If children can consume media through screens 1200 hours a year on average than the time is there and at least some of it can and should be shifted towards a more productive and healthy outcome. ​

18/02/2021

Rust against blue paint always grabs my attention. Throw in a tractor too and you have one happy photographer. Obviously a model or two would have ticked ALL my boxes.

12/02/2021

I miss photographing you children who are all superheroes. Hug them from me ###

I’ve lost a year with my kids battling over school and I’m done.

My seven year old and I were in the midst of our usual asynchronous day battle. I had his writing homework in my hand from school. He’d written several full, well-thought-out sentences.

But he won’t do the same for me, at least not without a fight.

I told him he didn’t have to write about his best day like his teacher asked, he could write about his worst. He could write about whatever he wanted as long as he wrote a few sentences.

He said he’d get in trouble. He said he was doing a bad job in first grade. He was on the brink of tears but didn’t know why.

And it hit me.

Instead of getting frustrated and pushing the assignment, I sat down with him at his desk in his superhero bedroom.

I said “you won’t get in trouble and you can’t fail first grade. In fact, you’re kind of a superhero yourself.”

He sat up in his chair just a little and looked at me with disbelief.

I said, “Do you know that no kids in the history of kids have ever had to do what you’re doing right now? No kids in the history of kids have ever had to do school at home, sitting in their bedroom, watching their teacher on a computer. You and your friends are making history.”

A visible weight lifted from his seven year old shoulders, “What does that mean?”

I told him it means I haven’t given him nearly enough credit for rolling with the punches. I told him how proud I am of him and his friends. That kids this year are doing the impossible and they’re doing a really great job.

I apologized for not saying it sooner and more often. A little tear fell down his cheek.

We’ve thanked everyone from healthcare workers to grocery store employees but we haven’t thanked the kids enough for bearing the burden of what we’ve put on their shoulders this year.

We’ve said kids are resilient, and they are. But they are the real superheroes in this whole scenario for having ZERO say in their lives but doing their best to adjust every day.

We closed his school-issued laptop and spent the rest of the day playing. This was supposed to be temporary and here we are a year later still trying to hold our head above water.

This is our home and I won’t turn it into a battle ground anymore over something we can’t control. Something that no longer makes sense.

Hug your little superheroes today and don’t forget to cut them the slack we’ve given everyone else.

Join me in the trenches at Christine Derengowski, Writer !!

09/02/2021

Decay is part of nature and I enjoy studying the weather worn effects on what is man made.