Life is Messy: Friday Photo
The message of this blog post is essentially, life is messy, photos can be messy too. There's a lot of information in this shot, a lot to take in. It could be a portrait of the young blonde girl at its centre, or it could be a detail shot shot during the wedding...
Asian Documentary Wedding Photography, Pt1
ASIAN DOCUMENTARY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY, PT 1 This was my first taste of a full three day Asian wedding, and what is basically a riot of colour and noise and food and people and places. Personally it was a beautiful experience and insight into another culture in a way...
MC Motors Wedding | Ally and Loz
MC Motors Wedding It's been some time now since I've blogged a wedding, which is remiss of me I know. Luckily, the blogs haven't dried up because the weddings have dried up -- I'm actually busier than ever (and which on Tuesday morning included photographing the...
Shoot Everything: Friday Photo
So today I'm going to bang on about the importance of shooting everything. We all have a tendency to self censor, to paint the most flattering pictures of ourselves and pretend that's who we really are. That we're never grumpy, or lazy, or sitting here writing this...
Fashion Wedding Photography & Enigma: Friday Photo
Fashion Wedding Photography Fashion photography is a much maligned mode within photography for reasons that I've never really quite understood. The history of photography is peppered with unhappy photographers that have taken this kind of work under duress to pay the...
Humans in the Abstract: Friday Photo
Humans in the Abstract So I thought I'd go with something a little abstract this week. If last week's photo had a touch of Lee Friedlander's America by Car about it, today's touchstone is Stephen Shore. What I like about this image is that there are so many lines in...
This Is Not Wedding Photography: Postcards From a Wedding Day
Postcards From a Wedding Day First off I'm not here to put down wedding photography. Wedding photography is very often very beautiful. But there does tend to be a shorthand. Whether it's posing an sombre looking miniature couple amid massive Red Fir trees or...
Composition and Character: Friday Photo
Honestly, I could have chosen any one of two dozen images from last week's wedding for today's Friday Photo (and may still do that in the future) but this one just edges it for me right now. Tomorrow it might be different. These things mean different things to you...
Chiswick House Wedding Photographer
Chiswick House Wedding Photographer It's not often you get a bride explaining her style thoughts by telling you "I just love the Amish look," but that's exactly what Stef said to me the morning of her wedding, and that lovely, natural, idiosyncratic take on her...
Royal Wedding Photography, Hyde Park 2011
Royal Wedding Photography, Hyde Park 2011 To commemorate Kate and William's third anniversary I thought I'd look back at my Royal Wedding Photography. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Of course he was the official Royal Wedding Photographer. He uses...