Blogposts
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Cornwell Manor wedding | Amelia & Pete
Cornwell Manor is a grand old house in the Cotswolds that sits within 2000 acres of land, including a church and the hamlet next to it, all privately owned. A big grade II listed, principally eighteenth-century mansion, that is available to be rented out for the weekend. Sleeps 24 people and comes with a live-in
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Small Wedding Photography
Small Wedding Photography Coverage Small wedding photography doesn’t mean less. In some ways, it can mean more. There is often a deeper intimacy in a small wedding that shows in the final images. Capturing a small wedding in photographs often results in this more intimate result. The focus being on fewer people than with a
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Weddings in 2020
Weddings in 2020 – a strange year for wedding photography No real need to talk about how 2020 has been a strange and for many, dreadful year. Everyone knows how different and difficult it has been for so many people, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. But at this time of the year, this blog usually
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Cain Manor wedding | Erin & Jon
Cain Manor wedding photography Cain Manor, an Elizabethan country house on the Surrey/Hampshire border and the location for a wedding that went ahead post lockdown, albeit downsized. September 2020, it was meant to have been in July. But instead of postponing to 2021 or beyond, Erin & Jon decided to go for a smaller wedding
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Brighton Bandstand wedding | Jessi & Rob
Wedding at Brighton Bandstand 2020 weddings. A wedding in August, at the Brighton bandstand. It had originally had been scheduled for June, at another unique wedding venue, The Asylum Chapel in South London, but then Covid-19 appeared. This was a short coverage gig, just two hours, although it did spill over into almost three in
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Post-Lockdown wedding
Post-Lockdown weddings…welcome to 2020! It goes without saying that getting married in 2020 has not been easy. For over three months, once the lockdown began in late March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, weddings were effectively banned. The restrictions only eased slightly on July 4 – no more than 30 people, social distancing measures
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Quiet moments in reportage wedding photography
Quiet moments: the key to reportage wedding photography Every wedding day has its own rhythm. There are moments of frantic activity, such as the confetti run or the dancing, and there are moments of calm. My aim as a reportage wedding photographer is to capture all the nuances of that rhythm. There should be a
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The Father of the Bride
The Father of the Bride on a wedding day A wedding has a list of players, each having a particular role in the drama of the day. As a reportage wedding photographer, my job is to quietly observe the different characters and how they interact with each other. As a father myself, of two girls