The number one thing couples say to me before a shoot is some version of this: "We're not very good at posing." And I understand why. Most people have spent their whole lives on the wrong side of a camera. Posing feels awkward. Holding a position while someone points a lens at you feels nothing like real life. And when you feel self-conscious, it shows — in the set of your jaw, the stiffness of your shoulders, the way your smile stops short of your eyes. Here's what I've lear

Almost every visitor to London has Notting Hill on their list. Far fewer leave with photographs they actually love. It isn't that the location lacks beauty. It's that most people arrive to find the pastel terrace queued twenty deep, Portobello Market shoulder-to-shoulder by noon, and the Love Actually blue door surrounded by selfie sticks. They snap quickly, leave quickly, and only realise at home that every frame holds half a dozen strangers. As a London-based photographer o