Blog - Photographer Sabina Lorkin

Personal - Emilie cuts her hair for a good cause - Solidhair For those of you who don't know I'm a mum of three and our youngest, our daughter, has been growing her hair for several years (you may have seen her in a personal blog about our Mother & daughter trip to Paris in the Spring). Well the time came when she asked me if she could have a short...

Are you planning to get married in France? Tips on how to choose your photographer *Please note that I no longer carry out Wedding Photography. If you're planning on getting married here in Normandy feel free to get in touch and I'll be happy to pass on the names of some fabulous local photographers that speak English. One of the important decision...

Family Photographer - A flame-haired girl in a Normandy forest - Autumn photo-shoot This is why I encourage everyone to discover and make the most of the Normandy forests at the moment. The colours are just stunning. This isn't about me trying to gain more work. I just hope that everyone can experience it, whether it's with me as your photographer,...

Family Photographer in France - An Autumnal woodland photo-shoot in Normandy This weekend is full of surprises. It's the beginning of the school holidays and I'd been thinking about going out to capture the wonderful autumn colours that are just appearing on the leaves here in Normandy. The cloudy Saturday started with my 13 year old son asking me...

Commercial & Editorial Photography - Normandy - The Citadelle Restaurant - Granville Earlier this summer I was again contacted by a Paris based communications agency to be commissioned to photograph another restaurant for a magazine. It was a wonderfully sunny day at the port of Granville in Normandy and it was a pleasure to meet Anne Desaint-Germa...

Why choose a professional and not use 'Uncle Bob' for your Wedding Photography. *Please note that I no longer carry out Wedding Photography. If you're planning on getting married here in Normandy feel free to get in touch and I'll be happy to pass on the names of some fabulous local photographers that speak English. So why not use 'Uncle Bob' for...

D-Day Anniversary Normandy - Gunner A. W. Glover returns to the D-Day Landing Beaches at Arromanches to lay a poppy wreath for his friends who didn't come home in 1944. A couple of days before the 71st Anniversary of D-Day I had the pleasure and honour of meeting Gunner 'Bill' Glover as he arrived in Arromanches for the commemorations. I discovere...

Event Photographer Normandy - 70th Anniversary of D-Day - The Official ceremony at Omaha Beach - 6th June 2014 This is one of photographic projects that I'm most proud of this year. I don't mean that in a bigheaded way about my photos I mean that I was honoured and privileged to be invited to photograph one of the official ceremonies on June 6 to c...

Family Photographer - "A girl in Paris" Discovering the capital aged 8 years old - Part 2 Discover Part 1 {Our adventure begins as we arrive in Paris by train} Hopefully you've already discovered the first part of our adventurous weekend in Paris where my daughter and I took the train from Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandie (where we live) to Montp...

Family Photographer - "A girl in Paris" Discovering the capital aged 8 years old - Part 1 A few weeks ago I went to Paris to photograph a male model (photos to come). I decided to make it more of an adventure on a personal level by taking our eight year old daughter along for her first ever trip to Paris. Her two elder brothers have been before so...

My first photo exhibition « Normandy, so beautiful » at the Sainte-Mère-Eglise Tourist Office gallery - Summer 2015. I thought I'd share with you the story of my first photo exhibition and its installation in the Tourist Office at Sainte Mère Eglise last week. I was contacted a few weeks ago by the lovely Lucie of the Tourist Office as they'd se...

Normandy Event Photographer - The Retrobessin Classic Car show 2015 - Tour-en-Bessin - Calvados It was another lovely sunny day in April for the first Retrobessin Classic Car Show at the beautiful Château de Vaulaville en tour-en-Bessin not far from Bayeux in Calvados, Normandy. It was organised by the Office de Tourisme d'Omaha Beach it was a succ...

Photographer in Normandy - Utah Beach at low tide - Oyster beds and cockle picking. Lisez cet article en français> It was a sunny and breezy Saturday of a weekend of "Spring tides". I set off with two of my children to discover and capture a few photos of the Utah Beach area of Normandy to possibly add to my upcoming exhibition of photos (details t...

Photos of the 2015 Tour de Normandie - Prologue at Saint Lo It's been a busy few days, after having captured the 'Super Tides' at the Mont St Michel and the now infamous solar eclipse at the weekend. On Monday I went to Saint Lo to photograph the Tour de Normandie's prologue event, the time trials. Much like the bridal preparations for wedding phot...