Following on from the wedding photography workshop I did at Chethams School of Music, lead by the lovely Toni Darcy, I have recently taken part in another, this time with the extremely talented Neil Redfern at Eaves Hall in Clitheroe. The most striking thing about the workshops run by Toni and Neil, aside from their talent, is their willingness and enthusiasm to actually help fellow photographers … [Read more...]

I'm a few days late, due to me not logging in to my account, but i'm delighted to announce that this image from Craig & Charlotte's wedding earlier this year, has won me my first award for a wedding photograph, a Bronze Award in the monthly Guild of Photographers competition. The image shows Craig, with his groomsmen, talking to his neighbour over the wall at the front of his parents house. We … [Read more...]

I'd been looking forward to this event for several weeks, having been recommended workshops by Toni Darcy by my friend and wedding photographer Stacey Oliver. It was the chance for me to try out ideas I had and work with the prime lenses I'd recently added to the kit. Toni was brilliant. She gave us time to work, to think out ideas and to play with some of the techniques I'd never used before, … [Read more...]

Welcome to the newly refreshed site! I hope you like it and enjoy looking around. Thanks to Sue at https://fernandescreative.co.uk for all the input and help. To celebrate I am offering all 2019 wedding photography bookings not one, but two, free 20 page soft back books, approximately 8x6 in size, worth £40 each, with pictures from your wedding. These are the perfect gift for Mum's, or Dad's, … [Read more...]

Some weddings throw up sad stories and beautiful stories at different times. When Tom called me, just a month before his wedding, he explained that Nikki's father had passed away earlier in the year, so they had decided to bring the wedding forward 12 months. The beautiful part of the story, was that it meant they would be getting married whilst Nikki was pregnant and that her sister Sam would … [Read more...]

It's not very often you get asked to cover a wedding that you just know is going to go like clockwork. Having met with Adrian and Lucy they excitedly (mainly Lucy to be fair) began to tell me what they had planned. A big red double decker bus, sack race, egg and spoon, bat the rat, bouncy castle and last but not least, a rodeo bull! You don't really have to worry to much about coming up with ideas … [Read more...]