Since my return to the UK I have probably photographed Isabel more than any other small person. She's an unusual little button in that she's not fussed one way or another by the dirty great lens being stuck in her face, and has an incredible - and highly photogenic - quality I find hard to pin down.

Her mama and papa live very close to the Hitchin Lavender Fields http://www.hitchinlavender.com so when an afternoon freed itself up we shook our fists at the darkening skies and hot-footed it over. For a measly £4 a pop we were presented with cutters and bags and told to help ourselves - extra bargain!

Anyway, despite Isabel suddenly becoming preoccupied with the snails that covered the paths due to all the rain and intermittently refusing to move ("Children and animals, Vassie", they said), and an epic rainstorm at the top of the hill that had us hunched all together in the middle of the field under a couple of huge brollies for a quarter of an hour, we managed to get a series of absolute corkers and I've absolutely fallen in love with the shots. I wouldn't normally post so many but she looks so darn beautiful. Hope you like them too...