Laura Mares & family | Edinburgh family photographer

It was such an honour to have a fellow photographer choose me to photograph their lovely family when on holiday in Scotland!

Laura emailed me a few months back, told me about her family’s plans to visit Europe this year and booked a family photoshoot with me in August.

Laura Mares is a Pittsburgh newborn and family lifestyle photographer for laid back families who offers a creative and artistic photography experience. She is specialised in taking beautiful family portraits, combining photojournalism and fine art. Laura is not only amazing at capturing beauty and real emotions, but also very easy-going and super easy to talk to. We exchanged our experiences of living in different parts of Europe and how different are cultures of each European country comparing to the UK and the US.

Laura has always loved to travel and thanks to that passion, some time ago she took a job as an English teacher in Prague and that is how she met your soulmate, now husband, a Czech lawyer with whom she now lives in the States and has three beautiful children. When pregnant with the third child, she decided to pursue a photography career and is now a successful family photographer in Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh area in Pennsylvania.

You can find Laura’s work at LauraMares.com.

Circus Lane & Dean Village – family photography session

Edinburgh is one of my favourite photography spots in the city. And yes, definitely every Edinburgh photographer is in love with it. How can you not?

Plus – Stockbridge in my number one area in Edinburgh, I’d absolutely love to get my own place there one day. Stockbridge is full of atmospheric lanes, little cafés and old buildings.

We combined our visit to Circus Lane with a walk along the Water of Leith to have our next stop at Dean Village. It was raining but so so much fun, just have a look.