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  • iPhones at weddings

    IPhones, iPads and cameras

    A few months ago I had an old client get in touch about their image files from their wedding in 2003. Having found the set of images, I ran through them, tweaking the files as much as you can with files from 2003 (Nikon D1X wedding photography). This was still the early days of digital…

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  • dark wedding venues

    Dark Wedding Venues

    Dark wedding venues – working with the light Dark wedding venues is the title of this post and how the light at venues affects the resulting wedding photography. Not every wedding venue has perfect light. This may be due to the layout of the venue, the lighting, the weather, and the time of year, there…

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  • Highley Manor wedding ceremony

    Highley Manor | Rhys & Chris

    Highley Manor wedding photography Highley Manor is a wedding venue that sits just near the Sussex village of Balcombe and a few miles south of Crawley. Not far from where the M23 becomes the A23 and the road heads on south to Brighton. Once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, although that particular…

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  • Bosham Church bride arrival

    Bosham Church wedding | Ellen & Oliver

    Bosham Church wedding Bosham church sits close to the quay in the small Sussex village near Chichester. Holy Trinity church, surrounded by flint walls, is considered the oldest place of worship in Sussex. This Grade I listed building sits on Saxon foundations, in turn, that may sit on the remains of a Roman Basilica. The…

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  • Weddings in 2024

    Weddings in 2024

    Weddings in 2024 – May to December Weddings in 2024 started in May for me, with a small wedding at the Waterside Inn in Berkshire and ended in December in Kent, in some very wintry weather. In between I also captured weddings in Sussex, Surrey, Suffolk, London, Cambridge, Bath and Shropshire. More on that Shropshire…

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  • Bride arrives on horseback on Cheswardine High Street

    Cheswardine wedding | Caroline & Simon

    Cheswardine wedding A Cheswardine wedding, a small village near the Shropshire/Staffordshire border. Just north of Newport and south of Market Drayton, the Shropshire Union Canal passes nearby. Now with all due respect, I doubt that most of the UK population has ever heard of Cheswardine, but when Caroline emailed me in March, the name popped…

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  • local church wedding photography in Fishbourne

    Local church wedding | Tori and Joe

    A local church wedding in Sussex A local church wedding in Fishbourne, West Sussex. Local because the tiny St Peter & St Mary church is just around the corner from Tori’s parents’ house in the village. Fishbourne sits just a couple of miles west of Chichester. The A27 bypass slices through between them and right…

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  • Wedding guests head out of Royal Hospital Chelsea

    Royal Hospital Chelsea | Charles & Shane

    Royal Hospital Chelsea wedding Royal Hospital Chelsea, is home to those famous scarlet-coated pensioners, as well as the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The London wedding venue, on a sunny Saturday in September, for Charles and Shane. A venue that had a family connection for Charles. The first time I’ve shot a wedding here. The…

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