I follow Tim on instagram, I LOVE his beautiful candid images of his daughter Nellie, his wedding photography isn’t too shabby either.

I decided that his adventures in fatherhood were simply too good not to share, so he’s kindly offered to tell us a bit about his role as a daddy and has supplied a gallery full of make-your-Thursday-that-little-bit-lovelier pictures of happiness and joy. You’re welcome.

Tim: I’m Tim, a wedding and family photographer in Leeds where I live with my other half Jude and our daughter Nellie (AKA Nellie Noodle).

Ever since Jude went back to work part time and Nellie started nursery we decided that as Jude works a full day on Monday I’d not work and it’d be a day for me and Nellie to go adventuring, which Nellie quickly decided to call Daddy Day.

It’s great fun to get up in the morning and wave Jude off to work and then let Nellie decide the plan for the day. “I want to see a castle” “I want to go on a train to see the countryside” “It’s too rainy here, let’s go to Manchester it doesn’t rain there” – Incredibly on that day we did, and it was a gorgeous sunny day in Manchester!

Having decided one morning she wanted to go to Ilkley for a walk up to the Cow & Calf rocks, she then had us get off the train two stops before as she “didn’t know what we did there”. Having quickly established that Burley-in-Wharfedale was very pretty but not terribly exciting for a three year old she reverted to plan A, but rather than getting back on a train she wanted to walk. Having stopped a local to ask the way and agreed that yes, it was a long way, and yes, we knew there was a train we set off over the moors. After an hour or two of walking, having spent a while on a rope swing we found on the way, we spotted a remote retirement village, with what looked like a cafe. Nellie insisted we investigate. When we established it was in fact a cafe open to visitors she asked for “a scone with jam, some orange juice, and you should have a beer daddy, it’s a lovely day”. It was, and I did!

I know every parent thinks their child grows up too fast, and starting school is an exciting time, but I’m really going to miss our Daddy days when she starts in September.

Header Image by Jude Padmore, all other photography by Tim Dunk.