Whether it’s a wedding, or here a business networking meeting, my photographic approach is always the same: how do I effectively tell the story of what I see. 4Networking is a national organisation for networking where people in business from each region can meet and build relationships for their mutual benefit. I’m currently a member, [...]
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Landscape Photographer Of The Year Exhibition
December 13, 2011 – 9:40 pm
You may recall that I was recently awarded commendations for two images at the Landscape Photographer Of The Year 2011 competition. You can see the two images on display at the exhibition at The National Theatre on London’s South Bank until 28th January. It’s an amazing collection of photographs, the best photographs from tens of [...]
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011 Winning Images
October 24, 2011 – 9:02 am
Although this has become predominantly a wedding blog, today I’m celebrating a double success at the 2011 “Take a View” UK Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. Both these images were successful at the final stages, and consequently will feature at the exhibition starting on December 5th at the National Theatre in London. They will [...]
Sandbach Wedding Photography – Vintage Wedding in Cheshire
September 21, 2011 – 4:25 pm
This was one of those weddings that I’d been very much looking forward to since we booked it in the spring. Laura and Kevin are a great couple, and despite living just a stone’s throw away from me in Sandbach in Cheshire, found me via the internet. It was clear that they embraced the documentary [...]
Consall Hall Gardens – Wedding Photography
September 1, 2011 – 3:45 pm
Staffordshire Wedding – Laurie and Sid Consall Hall Gardens is a remarkable venue. Amazingly, its grounds extend for 70 acres and contain six lakes. It’s a bit of a hidden gem lying in the Staffordshire Moorlands countryside, just a stone’s throw from the Peak District, and it was enormously satisfying to photograph Laurie and Sid’s [...]
Vinopolis Documentary Wedding Photography – Emma and Jamie Get Married in London
May 18, 2011 – 11:15 am
Two weeks ago, I was privileged to photograph the wedding of good friends Jamie and Emma at Vinopolis, just south of the Thames in central London. Vinopolis’s Great Halls (where the reception took place) form an impressive venue for a wedding – two enormous caverns with 50 foot high brick walls built under a nineteenth-centry [...]
Peak District Commercial Photography: Blacksmith At Work
March 31, 2011 – 5:40 pm
This is Darren Ainsworth. He works as a blacksmith near Buxton in the Peak District. I had the privilege of photographing Darren in his workshop and I have to say that I had no idea how intricate the skill is and how much is involved in producing the finished product. I think I had in [...]
Kingscote Barn Wedding Photography – Chris and Em
December 24, 2010 – 11:53 am
A week or so before Christmas, I returned to Kingscote Barn, a now familiar location on the edge of the Cotswolds. Chris and Em’s wedding took place in that short space of time between the two recent cold snaps. This was a real blessing in so far as all the guests (and the photographer!) were [...]
Capturing the Decisive Moment in Wedding Photography
October 28, 2010 – 11:27 pm
Documentary photography is the art of capturing the events of the day without interfering in those events, to tell a story without becoming part of that story. It is well known that Henri Cartier-Bresson described the concept of the “decisive moment”, that moment in time that can convey so much more than the material sum [...]
UK Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010
October 23, 2010 – 10:41 pm
OK, I admit, it wasn’t me, but I did entertain a distant hope of becoming the Take A View Landscape Photographer of the Year as my mushroom image, below, was shortlisted by the judges for this year’s award. But, as I found out tonight, it wasn’t to be, as the winners were informed today, and [...]