Emotive storytelling for hotels, magazines and design-led travel & lifestyle brands

Emma Lavelle is a writer and photographer, capturing slow-luxury travel narratives for clients including Condé Nast Traveller, Mr & Mrs Smith, Country Life and Blumenhaus.

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Postcards from Wherever is where you’ll find weekly musings about slow-paced travel. Subscribe to my Substack to read about my personal travels, hotel recommendations, interviews with fellow travellers, and my thoughts on everything from room keys to pillows.

A quick shot of fresh blooms in my new pink office, but this was one of my favourite photographs of the past year.

Wishing myself back to The Penny Bun for a cosy festive meal. It was an absolute delight to spend the night in one of their beautifully designed bedrooms (complete with huge bath tub) before capturing every inch of their restaurant and plate after pl

Next years dahlias (a dozen of them) have been ordered in anticipation of my garden once again being a riot of colour and bountiful in blooms. As much as I love photographing hotels and cabins, countryside and coastlines, vibrant markets and talented

I’ve stayed in and loved a *lot* of cabins, so it really means a lot when I say the new Crow’s Nest cabins at Glebe House are among my favourites. The design (a collab with @out.of.the.valley and @akin_studio ) just works so well —

The Rose room at Glebe House: canopied bed, tub in the corner of the room, enviable vintage book collection, and *that* @archive_sdg floral wallpaper.

(yep, I’m already moving on from Christmas and dreaming of hotel rooms to photograph and the

Happy Christmas Eve! Hope everyone reading this has a slow, relaxing, peaceful couple of days switching off from their everyday. I’m not going to attempt a phone-free week, as I know that’s not going to happen, but I am going to pause po

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