What are the top 10 Excuses I hear for not having a photoshoot? I bet you can guess number one, but you will have to read the blog post to find out…. I give my top 10 excuses I hear and then turn them around into 10 great reasons!

Musings from Amelia McLeod about Valentine's Day.

 I bet you see reminders every day on social media: “Take care of yourself first so you can take care of others”, “You can’t pour from an empty cup” and “Self-love is not selfish”. We are being inundated by the message, and we (read I) think that I will start tomorrow, and just keep on keeping on.

 Sound familiar? You aren’t alone.

I bet you see reminders everyday on social media: “Take care of yourself first so you can take care of others”, “You can’t pour from an empty cup” and “Self-love is not selfish”. We are being inundated by the message, and we (read I) think that I will start tomorrow, and just keep on keeping on.

Sound familiar? You aren’t alone.

Mid life crisis? or mid-life re-alignment?

Don’t judge me…

Friday is International Woman’s Day.

A day we can celebrate all the achievements of the women before us, ourselves and the future achievements of the women who follow us.

In honour of this I started to write a piece about feminism and what it means today, but then someone asked a really good question in one of my photography groups: “are [we] empowering women when we photograph them as glamour girls, etc. In a feministic sense, does that really emancipate them?”

Have you ever opened a photo file on your computer and not been able to look at it? Is it distorted with too much noise, colours off? You don’t frame a USB, so why keep them on your digital devices?

Has anyone recently asked you for a photo and you’ve had to search through hundreds of photos that you had taken over the last year to find just one that you liked? You are not alone…

When was the last time you looked at yourself in your natural state? I don’t mean the detailed investigation of each new wrinkle that appears on our faces, but allowing your hair to just be, remove the make-up, allow yourself to rest and recover and become peaceful? When was the last time you looked at yourself and did not compare yourself to others around you?

What an amazing year it has been for me, I can't believe it is almost over. I thought I'd share my takeaways for what I've learnt this year.

Two girls donate their hair to charity while raising money for the Childhood Cancer Association. Let's toast to Yovani and Sryia!