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River Cottage wedding – Cath & David
River Cottage wedding photography River Cottage was the idyllic location for last Sunday’s wedding and it was a cracker! You’ll have heard of River Cottage, it’s bound to be on the spine of one of the cookery books on your kitchen shelf. It’s the River Cottage HQ, Park Farm, the focus of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Channel 4 series. A rustic old farmhouse on the Devon/Dorset border that looks so familiar as you descend into the valley, thanks to the many series filmed there. Cath & Davey had not only chosen a great spot, they had also chosen the right date. Blue skies…
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Is it Spring yet?
Chanctonbury Ring, early morning on May the 1st 2013 and one of those quirky, very English customs – morris dancing. An annual ritual to welcome the coming of Spring by the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men. But this morning the Spring and the sun forgot to turn up on time. Well that’s not entirely true. The sun did follow me, half hidden behind the low lying clouds, as I trudged up to the top of the South Downs Way. So why blog this? I want to show a bit more than wedding photography here from now on. The reason I fell…
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Coverwood Farm wedding | Emma & Graeme
Coverwood Farm wedding photography Spring looked like it had finally arrived at Emma and Graeme’s wedding last Saturday, as the daffodils glowed under blue skies and fluffy white clouds. There was however to be a sting in the tail later, as the weather turned! The coverage began at St Peter’s church in Newdigate, Surrey. I’ve driven past the church countless times, as it’s practically down the road from me. I’m in West Sussex, but you can walk to the Surrey border from my house, with Newdigate being the second village you come to. ( I’ve just realised that this is…
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wedding magazine
In the post today, the Spring issue of Square Meal Weddings magazine, featuring one of my weddings from last year – Sophie and Ross’s wedding at the OBE chapel, St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Anyone who has even glanced at my website will recognize this wedding from last September – certainly one particular image! It’s a nice layout over three pages ( the cover shot isn’t mine, it’s from a nicely shot fashion shoot in the magazine. But I’ve added it so you recognize the magazine on the shelf ). ( I also shot the wedding last year of the magazine’s…
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Photographer snaps up a national photography award…
Digital cameras – that is the subject of this short post. This is not meant to be another post about that award – although everyone tells me that I’m meant to be marketing it, marketing it a bit more and marketing once again. 😉 The first photo below is from my local newspaper talking about the awards. Maybe the less said the better about the accompanying text – may be no sub-editors there, certainly no proofreaders, but publicity of a sort. That said, this post is related to that awards night. When the category winners had been revealed, so were…
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Braxted Park wedding – Eleanor & Daniel
Braxted Park wedding photography Braxted Park was the venue for Bank Holiday Monday’s wedding. Eleanor and Daniel had chosen a location very close to their own home. With bridal preparations and the wedding reception taking place at Braxted Park, the wedding ceremony itself was at St Mary the Virgin church, in the nearby village of Kelvedon. Braxted Park is a very smart Essex wedding venue that I’ve shot at a few times now. A trip around the M25 for me. They had chosen a Spring wedding but don’t be fooled by the sunshine you’ll see in these images –…
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Professional Photographer of the Year Award
Wedding image wins Photographer of the Year award Photographer of the Year. I’ve never been the type of photographer forever shooting for and entering competitions. In the early days of my career, I once had a book thrown at me across the newspaper picture desk. My crime was I had failed to enter a recent front-page shot of mine in the annual Press Photography awards. But in the last eighteen months or so I’ve entered a few wedding images into various wedding photography awards and with some success. Yesterday evening I was in Cheltenham for the PPOTY awards ( Professional…
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Looking back…first weddings (shot on film)
There was a recent thread in an online forum for photographers asking about the first weddings that everyone had shot and how they compared to their current work. There were some shockers! 🙂 Work that was a million miles away from the imagery some photographers were now shooting. Much of that must be experience, some of it due to the advantage technology now allows, but it got me thinking, how has my work changed and has it? ( I can’t post a link to the debate as it’s a closed forum for invited photographers only ). Then last week,…