Member: Rob Lamb

The best sessions are just plain fun.  The kids aren’t performing, they’re just being themselves and I’m lucky enough to share that and get to capture it in a series of stunning images.
And what’s more beautiful than young ladies gathering bluebells!

Clearly I’m not a believer in the old motto ‘never work with kids’. Why would you not work with them when there’s so much fun to be had. The thing about photographing kids of any age is to realise that they generally won’t do what you want – they’ll do what they want.  Which is only a problem if you [...]

So May is here and we’re looking forward to Summer.  We’ve already started the Outdoor Sessions and had a lot of fun picking bluebells and running free in the Forests of Cork. Lots of lovely images I’d love to share so ’stay tuned’ and I’ll try and get them up here in the next few days. Also keep [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, the Gallery Sessions last year were a big hit: a convienient way to get a great range of pictures of a whole family at a reasonable cost (and with no initial outlay). But me, being me, couldn’t help messing with the format a bit. It’s no news that I’m not a [...]

With the Easter Holidays approching and Spring definitely here, it’s time to get out in the local parks and forests and take some pictures! People always love our Forest Sessions and to encourage you to get out there this Easter break we’re offering a special promotional offer. For €50 you get: A full Outdoor Session in [...]

St Patrick’s Weekend meant two things for us this year: both girls in the Parade; and the chance for three lie-ins in a row. It’s been a busy few weeks for all of us and we definitely needed some time to re-charge the batteries. Thankfully our kids are now old enough to get themselves up and get started [...]

One of my favourite quotes relating to what I do has to be: If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses. – Margaret Bourke-White , Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White This comment resonated with me before I really understood it. [...]

Following the success of last year’s Studio sessions in the Gallery on Communion Days, we’re offering the same packages again this year. These sessions are designed to be a convienient way to drop in to the Gallery on the day of your child’s First Communion.  They last around 10 minutes and there is no session fee. Ten minutes [...]

Monday’s special Valentine’s edition of RTÉ’s Nationwide programme carried a piece on Lesley Stothers and her Love Spoons. I’ve photographed Lesley’s amazing work a few times over the years and a number of my pics were used on the show to illustrate her story. Well done Lesley, the whole thing came across really well – and my pics [...]

Just back from Glorious West Cork.  There really is no place like it.  This kids spent 5 hours on the beach yesterday digging holes and playing Flags.

On a photographic note (this is my business blog afterall).  I left the usual kit behind and took almost everything else: I did a portrait [...]

We’re taking a couple of days out over the mid term so the Gallery will be closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week (13th to 15th Feb). I will be available on the mobile for anything urgent but otherwise feel free to drop me an email and I’ll get back to you on Thursday. [...]

I’m always interested in reading what other photographers have to say.  To be perfectly honest a lot of them don’t make a bag of sense but sometimes you find something that resonates with your own personal experience and expresses it in a way that you can’t. “Photography is one percent talent and ninety-nine percent moving furniture” Attributed to [...]

Your child’s Confirmation day certainly isn’t as big a day as their First Communion but it is not less important as a milestone in their lives. In fact in many respects it is more significant because it coincides with a major transition in their lives: the move to senior school. Now my [...]

It’s over.  It’s offcially been handed in.  Good luck to whoever is marking them. The History Project has become a major part of our lives over the last few weeks: any spare time we thought we had has gone to it; the combined resources of four families have been devoted to it. In fairness they [...]

I’ve just finished re-reading Annie Leibovitz’s ‘At Work’ .  I’m a big fan and I went back to it looking for ‘January Inspiration’.  Unusually (for me) it’s a photography book with more words than pictures but it’s her perspective on her work that I find most enlightening. So there’s a few things that I want to mull over and [...]

In some respects I deal in Happy Faces. It is a simple truth that the pictures that sell are the happy, smiley-face pictures – and we go to great lengths at times to get them.  I think that’s fair enough: photographs are permanent memories.  We want to remember ourselves in our best, happiest [...]

I have just added two new pages to the blog giving information about the Communion Sessions and Packages for this year. First Holy Communion Photographs for 2012 contains details of the various types of services offered for Communion Days First Holy Communion Packages 2012 contains details of the print packages available to both Communion and [...]

We made a good start to 2012 by finally managing to make it to a Bishopstown Orienteering Club day out in Currabinny.  It’s something Mrs Lamb has been wanting to do for ages and thanks to friends we made it on 1/1/12. Great to be out in the woods after a [...]

Happy 2012! I don’t hold with New Year Resolutions on the whole.  Why try to be good in January just because you let yourself go a bit in December? However normally it’s a bit quieter in January following the rush to get things out before the hols in December and it is a good time to dust of the plans [...]

Merry Christmas to everyone from all at Rob Lamb Photography!
I hope you have a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and we hope to see you soon in the New Year.