{About Me}

I’m an imaginative, fresh, inspired photographer with a passion for beautiful portraits. I own Glacier Cake Studios in Hampshire, England with my fantastic hubby.

I’m also a blogger. Yes, that’s right…blogging is a proper job now! I blog on DPS and here on my site. I write tutorials for DPS and here, I like to write stuff about editing using PSE (Photoshop’s version for amateurs) and tips for plain old parents who just want to take cracking good pics of their kids. Why does everything have to be aimed at the professional photographer? I don’t use mumbo-jumbo and I don’t think I’m the master of anything. I just share what I know with you fine people.

I’m a bit addicted to social media. LOVE twitter and have a constant connection to Facebook wherever I am. Oh and I just discovered StumbleUpon. A little bit of genius right there!

I grew up in Florida where I was home educated for my entire schooling career. I now live in Hampshire in the South of England where I raise my family and work in church ministry as well as the field of photography. I began my photographic education as a makeup artist. Attending many TV tapings and photo shoots, and always had one eye on the face, one eye on the photographer.

In my mind, I am ALWAYS thinking about photography. It never ends. My brain takes shapshots everywhere I go and because of this, I have a very keen photographic memory. This comes in to play often when my husband can’t find something and I can tell him precisely where I last saw it, even if it was months ago!

A few {more} random facts about me…I’m a published author. I would rather read than watch tv. I love to ’stick it to the man’ and never ever do something because it’s popular (for example, I got rid of our TV so I could stop paying the BBC TV license. THAT’LL show ‘em!) Oh, and I love my dad’s Mexican food!

My photographic passion is people. My favourite thing about people is their hands and I particularly love photographing children in their natural environment. I am excited to begin shooting births as I have personally had a photographer at the birth of my daughter and it turned out to be such a beautiful record which we will cherish forever.

Please view the different pages here on this site to view the forms of photography which I enjoy and get in touch to book your session!

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Sara - January 15, 2010 - 11:19 pm

Elizabeth,

Found you through “DPS” and just wanted to say that your blog is extra special! It is so well laid out and it was very easy to find things. Your creative eye blows me away!

elizabethhalford - January 16, 2010 - 3:31 pm

Oh thank you so much! I find blogs difficult to navigate and couldn’t figure them out at first, so I tweaked mine to be more like a traditional site and a blog in one. Glad you find it easy :)

Matt Fulkes - February 5, 2010 - 11:04 pm

Interesting. I was born in Hampshire (Basingstoke), and now live in America (have lived here most of my life.) I’m an aspiring photographer myself, but still very much an amateur. I just purchased a Nikon D90, and am in the process of learning all that it can do. I read your comments about prime lenses, and that’s what I’m saving up for at the moment. Any recommendations as to which type of lens I should by first? Any information would be considered helpful.

Thanks for the wealth of information and resources on your Website. I’ve bookmarked this site, and added you on you FaceBook and Twitter. Keep up the great work, and have an excellent weekend.

elizabethhalford - February 5, 2010 - 11:11 pm

Wow thank you so much! Actually, I’ve gotten an excellent question about the ‘nifty fifty’ lens for my reader question Wednesday but I’m impatient I can’t make everyone wait until Wednesday! Will post that as soon as a get a second to write it. In the studio all day tomorrow so look out for a recap on that and the answer to that question!

Ron Melancon - February 26, 2010 - 12:04 am

Hello Elizabeth

Enjoy your writings for DPS and your Blog. I also use PSE, and have encountered a problem with Elements 7 that I have never had with any other version of PSE. When I load pictures into my computer with PSE 7, when trying to view them, they appear as a square with an hour glass in the middle and I have to click on each one to view them. Have you ever encountered this?

thanks

Ron Melancon

Woodland, California

elizabethhalford - February 26, 2010 - 1:23 pm

@Ron: Thanks! Do you mean that you’re using PSE to import the photos into your computer in the first place? I don’t do that so I’ve never encountered that problem :(

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{About Me}