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Just wanted to share a quick tip for those of you who love afternoon tea, like I do!

My lovely friend Vicky from Vintage Teasets recently started supplying uber chic London hotel The Sanderson with vintage cake stands for their amazing Alice in Wonderland afternoon teas.

Featuring pineapple lollipops that turn your mouth from cold to hot and multicoloured finger sandwiches, this Alice in Wonderland inspired tea is for those who love to play with their food. Other highlights of the quirky Mad Hatters afternoon tea at Sanderson include a an Eat Me multi layered Victoria sponge and a Drink Me banana, peanut and sea salt smoothie served with a vanilla straw.

Mmmm!!

We popped in to the Sanderson while on a recent trip to London and had to take a quick photo of this amazing treat!! Highly recommended!!

I wasn’t planning on doing any more blog posts until my newly designed blog is up and ready, which should be sometime soon next week… However, me and my family recently did a shootswap with fellow photographer, the very talented Maryanne Hawes from Light & Day Photography and I can’t wait to share it!

The idea behind a shootswap is that as photographers, we are often the ones always behind the lens – and therefore have loads of lovely family photos, but none with us actually in the photo! I thought it made sense to team up with some of my photographer friends and photograph each other’s families while having a lovely day out. This was the first time I’ve done it and I’m pretty sure everyone really enjoyed themselves! I am certainly really pleased with the results and will treasure them forever!

Maz has a holiday home down in Devon, so we scheduled an afternoon to photograph each other’s families when they were down in the South West. The weather had been very unpredictable, so we weren’t quite sure how things would work out in terms of locations, but fortunately the sun shone bright all afternoon and we had a ball!

We had a wander around the village and did some shots outside her lovely farm conversion, then Maz and her family supplied us with a fabulous Devonshire cream tea in the garden which was just the icing on the cake for such a wonderful day!

Not only do I love the photos Maz took of us (check out her blog) but we had such a lovely time hanging out with her and her family. Let’s hope she is up for doing it again sometime!!!

No coloured borders today I’m afraid coloured-border fans (and I know there are a few of you!!). I won’t be watermarking my images on my new blog and as everything will be changing soon, I’m going to make a start now!

Just a quick heads up for clients and regular readers of this blog, that I’m in the middle of working with a fab graphic designer in the States who is creating a reworked new look for my website and blog!

I do love the current design, and I loved it for when I was mainly doing weddings in urban venues around Bristol, but now that I’m living in Devon I wanted my site to reflect that and we’ll be going for something a bit more fresh, vintage and with a bit of a coastal vibe but still keeping close to my current look logo.

To begin with, I’ll just be having an all in one blog and website, so in a couple of weeks if you go to www.rosieparsons.com or www.rosieparsons.com you’ll be sent to the same place.

I hope you’ll all like it when it goes live, you’ll have to let me know what you think!

A few weeks ago, Lee’s Dad Paul came down to visit us for a couple of days in Hontion. One of the reasons we love living in Devon is the huge number of wonderful days out you can have down here, and while Paul was down we took him over to Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in search of fossils!

We had a great time walking along the beach and they both were fortunate enough to find some very rare dinosaur eggs…. or they could have been large pebbles, who knows?

After such an incredible find, we thought it only right to celebrate with some rather delicious ice cream sundaes from the fab Rinky Tinks which is a little cafe set right on the beach. Mouthwatering!!

I’m very excited to share with you what I’ve been working very hard on for the last couple of months!

I’ve always thought there wasn’t that much community and support for fledgling professional photographers, and when you’re starting out it’s so important to get advice and connected. That’s why I started The Photography Parlour – a new blog aimed at aspiring pros!

It’s packed with interviews with professional photographers from all sectors – we’ve even got an amazing interview coming up with the legendary Gered Mankowitz who took probably the most iconic photograph ever of Jimi Hendrix and was the Rolling Stones official photographer!

On the site we’ll be regularly featuring work from up and coming photographers who have just shot their first paid assignment and they’ll share the experience and the highs (and lows!) with us. We also have our “Industry Insider” posts from VIPs in the photographic community like Terry Hope, the Editor of Photo Pro Magazine and Owen Beiny who runs controversial paparazzi photo agency World Entertainment News Network.

Finally, we will also have weekly Marketing Monday posts which will give us all an insight into the different ways we can promote our businesses! Already on the site we have Kat from Rock n Roll Bride who talks about getting work featured on blogs, and coming up there will be posts on optimising your website for search engines and an amazing branding two parter from American wedding photographer Ken Luallen!

I really hope this will develop into the hub for the up and coming photographic community – so come and make yourself at home, and don’t forget to leave a comment or two!

www.thephotographyparlour.com