SNAPPER Jenny Stewart has captured a year in her life through 365 beautiful pictures.

One of them – a shot of a cupcake – led to her launching her own photography business.

The 41-year-old, from Great Rissington, started taking a daily snap last August to record her life on social media platform www.blipfoto.com.

Capturing a cupcake through her lens at a networking meeting, she blipped it and sent the link to its baker Sophie Brown, from Bourton.

"She said she'd never seen a picture which made her cakes look so good," said Jenny. "She asked me to shoot her kids' baking class – my first professional job – then commissioned me for her website.

"She was completely and utterly in love with my pictures and had confidence in me. Then I took the website shots for Alex Doggett, who runs Cotswold Health and Fitness Club in Bourton, and I thought: 'I can do this'."

Jenny set up her company Raining Light – but didn't let up with her one-a-day documentary picture.

"I'd set myself the goal of doing beautiful pictures," she said. "It's become a daily discipline and has ranged from shots of my border terrier Bill to food, flowers, scenery and self-portraits.

"Some people who do this on blip are serious photographers, some might just be mums documenting their family growing up, but I was doing it as a creative project.

"I could never have imagined something as simple as picking up a camera and taking a picture every day for blip could lead to where I am now.

"I'm constantly looking at things through an imaginary lens now – and I'm so much more aware of things around me.".

Blipfoto has thousands of global members who unload one new photo a day to document and share their lives with others. It was started in 2004 as the personal online photo journal of Edinburgh photographer and designer Joe Tree.