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Oxford University Church | Wenlin & Shaoyang
Wedding Photography at Oxford University Church Oxford University church, the heart of the town, the heart of the university. Or the full title, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. The location for the wedding of local residents, Wenlin and Shaoyang (Tony) last week. This largely thirteenth-century church still dominates the high street in Oxford. The site of a church since Anglo-Saxon times. Long before the concept of a university in England. This was where Oxford University began. Gradually the university grew up around it so that most of its parish is college and university buildings. Now it sits…
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Old Town Hall wedding | Beth & Nick
Old Town Hall wedding photography Two birthdays and a wedding. No forgetting anniversaries for Beth and Nick from now on. Their wedding, at Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel (East London), was on Nick’s birthday. The following day was Beth’s birthday. There was no wedding cake as such – a cheese tower instead, but a birthday cake did make an appearance later. A winter wedding, with the wet tail end of an Atlantic storm due to head over London by close of day. But all this winter wedding was inside, in one place. The old Town Hall. Beth got ready in…
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Burgh House wedding photography – Abby & Matt
Burgh House wedding photography Burgh House, a grade 1 listed, Queen Anne gem, in the heart of old NW3 and the location for Abby and Matt’s winter wedding last weekend. Built in 1704, the house now houses the Hampstead Museum and it is in The Music Room there, that wedding ceremonies take place. Appropriate, as this was a wedding full of musicians. Chief amongst them that day, the groom, Matt. Or Urby. Urby Whale. ( I got into trouble when I got home. I had failed to pass on my daughter’s message to the band. That she loved their music.…
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So, what did they say?
“Highly Commended” A day in London yesterday for me. First up, a recce at a law firm’s offices near Fleet Street, ahead of a corporate shoot in a couple of weeks. Lunch in a greasy spoon cafe in Holborn with a mate and one of the best photojournalists in the UK. Then a few hours to kill. Popped into a museum I’ve been meaning to go to for years – the Sir John Soane museum. Well worth a visit, a very unique place. Shame you can’t take photos there though. A chance to finally see Hogarth’s “The Rake’s Progress”, hidden…
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A look back at 2015
Wedding Photography in 2015 So wedding photography in 2015…not a bad year! Weddings in 2015 ended for me with a day of the year to spare and with a great wedding too! The 2016 weddings start in just over a week. So a chance to reflect upon a busy and productive year. It’s an interesting process, looking back at the weddings and putting together some images to both sum up the year and the way I shoot. A year with as many weddings as 2014 and a year with some seriously great clients. (Okay there was one where I came…
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The In and Out Club – Elizabeth & Thomas
In and Out Club wedding photography The In and Out Club ( The Naval and Military Club) in central London, was the venue for Elizabeth and Thomas’s wedding at the end of 2015. A transatlantic wedding, with Elizabeth from near Washington DC, marrying Thomas, a British Army infantry officer. After a whirlwind romance! Getting married was on the cards within days of meeting, from what I heard. It was fate. On the day, Elizabeth was ready early and she arrived at the church early. She was getting her man! A girl from the USA had found a tall, rugby playing,…
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Wasing Park wedding photography – Sarah & Tom
Wasing Park wedding photography Wasing Park, a wedding venue in the Berkshire countryside, was the location for Sarah and Tom’s wedding just before Christmas. A wedding with perfect timing. The weather the days before and on the following day (Christmas Eve) was wet, windy and foul. The weather forecast suggested a window of calm and some sunny weather, for this one day – the date of their wedding. Now it might be a bit churlish to complain that the clouds did gather later. A spot of rain made the receiving line into the wedding breakfast move a tad faster than…
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Hedsor wedding – Siân & Lawrence
Hedsor wedding Photography Hedsor, overlooking the Thames Valley, was the location for Siân and Lawrence’s wedding last weekend. A ‘winter wonderland’ theme for the wedding but on the day, the actual weather was unseasonably mild, as much of December has been so far this year. The sun didn’t come out but it at least stayed dry. The ceremony would be in the small 12th-century church, St Nicholas’, perched high above the valley. Appropriate for December – St Nicholas being the Bishop of Myra in Lycia… well, the inspiration for Santa Claus, it is said. It’s that time of year! Siân…