{"id":10987,"date":"2022-07-18T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:11:37","slug":"graduation-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/index.php\/graduation-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I spend most of my working life as a London family photographer, I also love creating beautiful graduation portraits. The students I photograph are at an exciting time in their lives, as they graduate from their universities and colleges. And it\u2019s wonderful to capture their happiness in a series of natural portraits.<\/p>\n<h2>Natural\u00a0family portraits<\/h2>\n<p>As well as taking lots of graduation portraits of the students on their own, I also include their families in some relaxed portraits. I just know these photographs of proud parents with their talented children will be treasured for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful young lady in the photo below had just graduated from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\">University College London<\/a>. She had a wonderful time studying at this prestigious London university. And although\u00a0sad it was over, she was also delighted to start making her way in the London working world. I look forward to seeing what she ends up doing. I think it\u2019s going to be something pretty special!<\/p>\n<h2>University College London\u00a0graduation portraits<\/h2>\n<p>She was such fun to spend time with, and incredibly easy to photograph. Her lovely smile and happy nature shone through in all her graduation portraits. I also really love the photos of\u00a0her with her doting parents. They were obviously so proud of everything their daughter had achieved already in her life.<\/p>\n<p>After we\u2019d got a lovely selection of individual and group portraits, it was time to get\u00a0something a little different. We were taking the photos in the grounds of University College London, and it had a beautiful stone staircase that I knew would look really striking in some of the photographs. I asked the young lady to walk down the stairs. As she made her way down the steps, she lifted both arms in the air so elegantly and I just love the resulting graduation portrait! This talented lady making her way carefully but confidently into the next stage of her life.<\/p>\n<h2>London Graduation Photographer<\/h2>\n<p>If you or anyone in your family is about to graduate from university or college and you\u2019d like to have some unique portraits to remember this special time, please do get in touch. You can find details of my work on my website here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\">London Family Photographer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Price-3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Graduation-portraits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Graduation-portraits.jpg\" alt=\"graduation portraits\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Graduation-portraits.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Graduation-portraits-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Graduation-portraits-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I spend most of my working life as a London family photographer, I also love creating beautiful graduation portraits. 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