I’ve photographed more than a dozen weddings at Trinity Buoy Wharf, and I’ve never seen the sunlight mottle the lighthouse bronze quite like it did on this day for Alex and Fayjel. If you do nothing else, skip down to those magic-hour photographs. The light was extraordinary.

One of the things I love about Trinity Buoy Wharf is its connection to Michael Faraday. Born into a working-class family, the son of a blacksmith, and with very little formal education, Faraday largely taught himself before becoming one of the most consequential experimental scientists of the nineteenth century.

He spent decades working on electricity, magnetism, light and the relationship between them, and later worked here as Scientific Adviser to Trinity House, using the experimental lighthouse for optical research. The bronze oxidising inside the structure is chemistry continuing to play out more than 150 years later, the visible evidence of forces that Faraday spent his life trying to understand.

That synchronicity felt rather perfect while I was up there photographing Alex and Fayjel, who are both, incidentally, peripatetic emergency dental care surgeons for the NHS.