When I became a mum and I was suddenly at home with a little baby, it was much easier to just take a snap on my phone than it was to go and find my camera, connect to my laptop, upload photos, cull them, edit them etc. Turns out babies don’t like to wait around for that stuff!

Instead, my iPhone camera was in my pocket, with me day and night through every breastfeeding marathon, every ‘throw the food out of the high chair and onto mummy’s shirt’ moment… and all of the cute cuddles as well. Naturally, the iPhone camera became the only camera in my life for a while!

But as a professional photographer, I got frustrated with the quality of the photos I was taking and my Camera Roll starting filling up with dozens of blurry photos of my first born (and, I’m not going to lie, my dogs). I also never really did anything with these photos. I didn’t print them or share them or frame them or… anything really.

I started playing around and googling and practicing and learning, and I realised, ‘oh wow, this works just like the way my big, serious, professional camera works’. YAY. Yes okay, it’s not quite as good, but when you know how to use it? That iPhone camera is a powerful thing.

I wanted to show other mums how easy it can be to take great shots of your kids, and so The Memory Gift was born. You’ll use what I teach in this guide to go from a full Camera Roll of not-so-great photos to a curated Camera Roll filled with amazingness – and thinking of you in a few years’ time sitting down with your kids poring over photo albums full of memories? Well, that is a gift for me too!