The personal blog of lifestyle photographer and writer Nathalie Marquez Courtney


  • Light On

    Just love this video from Maggie Rogers. Raging I’m not in Dublin for her upcoming gig (and that she’s not playing Lisbon!)

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  • Three Point O

    Things that are helping right now, in no particular order: – Getting close to water. The beach, the bay, the bath or the sink. ⁃ A daily household chores rota. Kitchen on Mondays. Laundry on Tuesday. It makes me feel less like the place is going to fall down around my ears and helps me

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  • January Snapshots

    January Snapshots

    When I started writing this post, I had been very much enjoying a slow and mindful start to January. Ben and I had taken a few additional days off after the kids went back to school and kindi; we went to one of our favourite coffee spots, did some big picture planning and thinking, finally

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  • A Nollaig na mBan Mother Nourishment Circle

    A Nollaig na mBan Mother Nourishment Circle

    My buddy Maeve is a special kind of human. Warm, giving, generous and just so authentically herself. I recently heard the phrase “We don’t make friends, we recognize them” and this was very much my experience meeting Maeve. By day, she heads up Music Connects, an amazing organisation who bring the most gorgeous musical events

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  • Is this thing still on?

    Is this thing still on?

    “You are a museum of everything you have ever loved.” – via Well, for a while there it wasn’t. This blog, my teeny tiny digital garden had very much gone to seed. For a variety of reasons, it has been offline for a couple of years, but now, thanks to Ben, it’s back, and, with

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