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  • Photography by Martin Beddall published in The Independent newspaper

    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

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  • Wedding photographer featured in local paper after winning an award

    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

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  • Braxted Park wedding

    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

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  • Award-winning wedding image takes Professional Photographer of the Year Award

    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

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  • A flowerfirl hits her sister with her flowers

    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

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  • Matted wedding album

    Are wedding albums extinct?

    Weddings albums….do we need them? Weddings aren’t cheap. Wedding photographers aren’t cheap.* Wedding albums aren’t cheap. But certainly with the latter, as we are currently discovering with the horsemeat/burger scandal, you get what you pay for. Cheapest isn’t always best. We live in a world that in the last few years has seen an explosion

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  • Award-winning wedding photograpy in 2012

    A look back at 2012 – a year of wedding photography

    Wedding photography in 2012 Wedding photography in 2012 began for me in the Spring and finished on New Year’s Eve. A bit late maybe, being mid January, to post a look back but then I wanted to wait until the final wedding at the end of the year – it was worth it, it was

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  • Dome cinema wedding

    Dome Cinema wedding | Stacey & Jono

    Dome cinema wedding photography So, the last wedding of 2012 and it was always going to be a special one! A cinema wedding and special because that was how Stacey and Jono had planned it. On New Year’s Eve, with a raging winter gale outside, rain lashing down and the waves pounding the beach opposite,

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