Blogposts
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Coltsfoot Country Retreat – Leila & Colin
Reportage wedding photography at Coltsfoot Country Retreat Coltsfoot Country Retreat, at the end of a narrow country lane in Hertfordshire – between Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage. The venue for Leila and Colin’s wedding reception, bathed in brilliant March sunshine. Albeit with a chilly March wind too! It was where the coverage starts too
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Anteros wedding – Cathy & Steven
Reportage wedding photography at the Anteros Arts Foundation Anteros – In Greek mythology, Anteros was the god of requited love, literally “love returned” or “counter-love” and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love.* It’s also the name of an Arts foundation in
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A look back at 2016 weddings
Wedding photography in 2016 Wedding photography in 2016 – what a year. Let’s skip over events outside of wedding photography, the subject of many a wedding speech in the latter part of the year. #brexitdisaster. For me, the busiest year of weddings ever and I’ve shot 500+ over the years. Not a month clear of
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Dark winter wedding – Sacha & Andrew
Dark winter wedding photography Dark winter weddings have their own look, their own atmosphere. My last wedding of 2016, like the first one of the year, was in the dark. A 4pm ceremony in December means it’ll be dark when everyone leaves the church. A grotty weather day, as it was for Sacha and Andrew,
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The Actuary’s Wife | Theo & Peter
Turners Hill wedding Turners Hill, a village in West Sussex, sits on a ridge of the High Weald, overlooking the Sussex countryside. Just near East Grinstead, with a view of the North Downs and Gatwick airport in the distance. Here, Theo and Peter got married at St Leonard’s church, on a bright but cold
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Town Hall Hotel – Corrina & Frode
Winter wedding at the Town Hall Hotel Winter is coming! Well, Storm Angus was at least. I don’t think I’ve ever left a wedding at the Town Hall Hotel, in Bethnal Green, not in the rain. But for much of the day, it was dry, if a touch cool, rather than very cold. A
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Rebirth of a Legend – Nikon 105mm
Nikon 105mm and reportage wedding photography Nikon 105mm f1.4. A new legend? I think so. I’ve only had it a few months, it was released at the end of August, for the eye watering price of £2049 (inc vat). It’s one big, heavy, very big, expensive, did I mention it’s big, lens. But it is
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Highclere wedding | Kelly & Mike
Highclere church documentary wedding photography Highclere church on a mild, late October Saturday and the wedding of Kelly and Mike. No sunshine, a bit of light rain but still not bad weather for the time of the year. Clocks about to change, winter is coming… One of my earliest bookings for 2016, Kelly contacted