Monthly Archives: July 2009

Jul 31 2009

Flash Day!

A few weeks back I met Rob Booker & Phil Barber for lunch & a chin wag at The Cross Keys in Leeds.  I was shooting for the Leeds Guide that day.  We’d decided our current project was to set up a flash photography day to share our respective photonic knowledge-base.  I’m pretty versed in how to get what a wedding photographer requires from a TTL flashgun, but gaze upon studio flash-heads with a certain mysterious awe.  Booker knows his flashheads backwards from his headshot work, and Phil’s like me but was keen to dust off his Elinchrom heads. So...

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Jul 28 2009

Party In The Park [TSG]

Last Sunday was the 96.3 Radio Aire Party In The Park at Temple Newsam.  I was asked along by Radio Aire to photograph for The Sound Gallery. For me, PITP is a festival flavoured hors d’oeuvres for the Leeds Festival at the end of August.  It’s essentially a pop concert at Temple Newsam park in Leeds for parents and screaming teens to see their fave pop acts. Check out these screaming hormones when X-Factor stars JLF hopped on stage!!  Genius. Don’t get me wrong, it was ace being in a rock pit again, but these bands were mainly bland boy...

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Jul 28 2009

Sarah & Adam [Wedding]

So! A few weeks back I was lucky enough to join Sarah & Adam for their wedding around Brighouse.  I used to work with Sarah at The Leeds Guide Magazine once upon a time and she was so organised that she’d actually booked me to photograph her wedding before Adam had proposed to her! We joined up with Sarah & the gang for morning preps at Sarah & Adam’s house.  Sarah’s Bridesmaid was doing her make up when I rolled in.  Check her out, already looking the fox! It’s a mysterious art-form, applying this warpaint. Clare caught this one of...

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Jul 22 2009

My first wedding movie!

Last Saturday Clare & I were guests at a wedding!  I know, GUESTS – at the wedding of two dear pals, Rob & Nikki, at the amazing Stoke Park Pavillions in Northampton.  Rob was the first person I met when I rocked up at Nottingham Uni and we got on from the word go.  He’s a bona-fide legend and found his perfect match in the beautiful and delightfully scatterbrained Nikki.  Here they are looking all resplendent in their wedding clobber… It made a change indeed, being guests at a wedding. I’d attribute the feeling to being at the office and...

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Jul 20 2009

Full steam ahead [Teasers]

Well hey chicos! Man – I’ve been a busy B since my last post. And much have I seened and doned. Here be the teasers for upcoming bloggage… I won’t lie – I was a shade more than giddy to have posted a blog about my fave bloggers and have three of them comment on it!  The [B]ecker & Jasmine Star both dropped flattering thank yous and the excellent David Jay threw me a very big bone by doing a feature on me on his blog!  I nearly shat my keks when I saw it and the blog stats have...

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Jul 17 2009

Bruges, still.

My ‘In Bruges Too‘ movie took me back to our weekend in Bruges and made me dust off a few RAWs.  So here are a few views of that fair city… Lovin’ the labrador watching the world go by out the canal-front window. Bruges is such a great city for a long weekend, and so easy to get to from the UK via the Eurostar.  We left London on the Friday morning and were there for a lunchtime waffle! Completely by chance, in St. Pancras Eurostar station we bumped into two of my old uni hallmates, Claire & New Rob. ...

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Jul 16 2009

My fave bloggers and first ever video post!

I like to meet with my good men & photographic comrades, Philis Barber & Roberto Booker for coffee every week or so, to socialise & chat shop.  It’s great having a genuine network to inspire one another and throw ideas about.  We’re all big fans of the way the American, and especially Californian wedding photographers blog.  They’re a forward thinking bunch, who’ve embraced digital photography and the internet in a big way. They use their blogs to showcase not only their work, but their lives, and often the very intricacies of their business and how they make their photos sing...

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Jul 14 2009

Louise & Mark [Wedding]

A couple of weekends back was the wedding of Louise & Mark. It was a lovely day and we kicked off with the preps at The Woodlands Hotel, a fave spot of mine on the outskirts of Leeds It was a great day all round – lovely balmy weather and loads of fun details dotted about the place.  One of their bridesmaids was a gent too, who went on the Hen night in his very own set of fake boobs (see the gallery below).  I loved that he called himself a ‘Bridesmate’.  Here he is having a bit of trouble...

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Jul 14 2009

Sonya & James [Pre-wed]

Last Friday I joined Sonya & James for their Pre-wed over in Bradford to discuss their impending wedding. Sonya’s family are Ukrainian and they’re taking loads of cool Ukrainian traditions on board on the day.  All sorts of mad fun stuff I’ve never seen before, including lots of Vodka drinking, walking under the cake held up by the wedding party, taking bread and Vodka with the parents and generally lots of other things that involve doing stuff while drinking Vodka.  Either that or sipping it & throwing the rest over shoulders behind which stand the wedding party! It’s gonna be...

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Jul 14 2009

Becky & Tom [Pre-Wed]

Today was an interesting one; my first pre-wed photographing a pro photographer!  Here we have my good friend Tom Arber & his excellent fiancée Becky Day. After getting ourselfs all giddy about the details of their big day we ventured out for some practice pics before their big day near the end of July.  Still being English ‘Summertime’, our ‘friend’ Mother Nature gate-crashed the party. The irony was that we postponed last weeks pre-wed to hold out for better weather. That cheeky wench Mother Nature, even decided to pop back on her sunhat as soon as we’d wrapped up the...

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