I love doing group shots, particularly with children, since you never know what you're going to come back with. This little lot have been friends since birth - each of them arriving within a few days of each other - as their parents all met at an NCT class and they are all still friends nearly three years later.

They are a real bunch of characters and the sequence of photos from this shoot on a hot sunny day in one of their back gardens in Caterham, Surrey, was priceless.  This photograph is one of my favourites, but there are others where a couple of them are pulling a different facial expression in each one (they'll definitely be the jokers of the pack later on...!).

While I completely understand the desire for a lovely picture of all the kids facing the camera and smiling, for me at least, the images that make me smile (and in some cases belly laugh during editing) are the ones where each child is doing their own thing, and basically just being themselves.

So while in the end, we did get one of them holding hands, facing forward, with a few "cheese"s, my personal favourites will always be the ones with tongues poking out, coy shoulder shrugs and uncontrollable giggles.