What do you start with this amazing festival wedding? And where do you end? This wedding had it all. But when I say that I’m not talking about all the trappings, the big white dresses and country mansions with its rolling grounds and gothic finials. ...
Asian Documentary Wedding Photography So as promised here is the second of part of my recent three day Asian wedding. This second blog contains days two and three. Namely, the civil service, the Nikkah (the religious service) and the promenade along the seafront on...
Humour in Wedding Photography Today’s Friday Photo (on a Monday) comes to you sponsored by the superior caffeine hit delivered by my new DeLonghi Scultura Espresso Coffee Maker (Black). Even my internal organs feel jittery. In fact, if my chest could somehow...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
