I’d like to take a moment to talk about sickness in the industry. Last year I covered a couple of weddings for another photographer* who was quite unwell. Recently, while writing a blog about one of those gorgeous weddings – Cat & Olof’s beaut of a day – I started trying to cover the ins…
Last weekend, my wife and my brother decided it’d be fun to head to Windsor for the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle. It was, genuinely, great fun and the atmosphere was remarkable. The sense of being at the centre of a rather historic ‘good news’ story was palpable. The only thing I…
On this day, a decade ago, I photographed my first wedding. 10 years of wedding photography! My good friends Miles & Ruth were married at Keble College, Oxford and, though I didn’t know it at the time, it’d be the first of a great many weddings. Many congratulations Mr & Mrs N! If you’d told…
Despite what advertising might suggest, Valentine’s Day is rarely the most romantic day of the year. However, it reminds us about the idea of romance. When photographing a wedding, one of the hardest things to capture is true romance. It’s a fleeting thing and never remains visible for long. On the 14th February, I found…
I’ve been using Folio Albums since 2010 because they are quite simply superb. When I started out there were two main categories of wedding albums. Glossy, highly reflective books which mirrored any lights in the room or old-fashioned mounted tomes that were reminiscent of my parents’ wedding album. The first type was a disaster, the…
March 2018 will mark 10 years since I began working in documentary wedding photography. In that time I’ve seen all sorts of trends come and go, and the number of photographers offering their services has grown considerably. One of the questions I hear most often when I chat to potential clients is, “What do you…