Portrait & ceremony studio
Thyme Craft is a two-room studio inside an old plant nursery. North glass, unhurried afternoons, and frames you will still want on the wall in twenty years.
The studio
The room was built in 1961 to grow seedlings, which makes it close to perfect for faces: twenty-two feet of frosted north glass, a concrete floor that bounces nothing, and no overhead light we are obliged to use.
Marlowe Enns runs the diary and shoots every session personally. Nothing is handed to a second shooter, and the room is never double-booked in a day — so if your afternoon runs long, it simply runs long.
Frame index
A photographer's portfolio should tell you how a picture was made, not just that it exists. Each frame below lists the format, the light and the room it came from.
Sessions
Everything is quoted before you commit, and every session includes the edit — there is no separate retouching fee and no gallery you have to buy your way into.
01
One or two people, one light source, one unhurried hour in the glass room.
£240Includes one 20 × 25cm hand-trimmed print
02
Up to eight people, both rooms held for you, and no expectation that anyone sits still.
£390Print credit of £75 toward the delivery order
03
A full day photographed quietly, on location, in whatever light the day gives us.
From £1,450Includes a pre-day walk of the venue at the same hour as your ceremony
The afternoon
Most people arrive convinced they are unphotogenic. The schedule below exists to make that irrelevant.
1
Fifteen minutes to hear who the pictures are for, and to agree the hour of day that suits the light you want.
2
Deliberately throwaway. We photograph while you are still taking your coat off, and show you the back of the camera early.
3
Two or three set-ups, moved as the sun crosses the glass. Direction is given out loud — nobody is left guessing what to do with their hands.
4
A proof set lands in five working days. You mark favourites, we finish those, and the print order follows if you want one.
Prints & files
Files are useful; prints are what survive. Both are made to the same specification for every session, with no tiered packages hiding the better paper.
Questions
Nothing. The glass room works in rain, and overcast days are usually the better ones. Only the outdoor extension depends on weather, and we simply photograph inside instead and tell you so on arrival.
Yes — once, free of charge, up to seven days before the session, and we will try to find you the same hour of day so the light matches. Inside seven days the deposit moves with you if the diary allows it.
A third of the session fee holds the date and comes off the final invoice. The balance is due the week after you make your selection, not before the session.
It is the normal condition of a family afternoon. Four hours exists precisely so that nobody is rushed, there is a warm room for a reset, and the pictures people end up framing are usually the unposed ones anyway.
Colour, contrast, a stray hair, a temporary blemish, a bramble scratch. We do not reshape faces or bodies. If you would prefer even less, say so on the enquiry and the edit will stay closer to the negative.
Personal use is included with every session. Commercial use — websites, press, packaging, advertising — is quoted as a short licence alongside the session fee, so you are never paying for rights you do not need.
Yes, but not in the glass room, which comfortably holds eight plus equipment. Larger groups are photographed outdoors at the nursery or at your own venue, and quoted on the brief.
Enquiry
A few lines is plenty. You will hear back with available dates, the light at that hour, and a quote for the session you described — no package sheet, no follow-up chasing.