A few weeks back a few buddies and I decided to go to Munich to celebrate one of our groups 30th Birthday. We had a reet ol’ laugh and generally drank too many litre steins of dunkel & helles beer and ate slightly too much ...
Today the Canon Professional Services (CPS) visited The Flash Centre in Leeds and offered to deep clean DSLR sensors and generally meet, greet and geek with members. I’ve been a member for some time and dropped by to get my ...
As it’s getting to the end of the ‘off-season’ for us wedding snappers, a few weeks back a bunch of Yorkshire ‘tog’s decided to hook up, grab lunch & have a bowl It’s always refreshing that in ...
A while back my mum sang with her choir at Disneyland Paris to help Walt’s ‘Cast Members’Â celebrate EuroDisney’s 20th Anniversary. Â She said the evening light show and fireworks were something to behold, and a ...
Last Sunday I was asked along by my good pal Jules Birkby to the ‘Teapots and Twirls‘ event she helps organise at Interplay in Armley. Â It’s essentially a get together for young and old to hook up and dance and drink ...
Readers of this blog may know that I love the look of images shot with Tilt-Shift Lenses.  I’ve even got a tilt-shift photo & video app on my iPhone. I wrote a post about them back along (post here) about how a wedding ...
[First off: apologies for a lack of new blogs to read during January – I’ve had my head down getting the accounts in, doing a few pre-weds and a spot bit of business spring cleaning. There’s plenty material in the pipes for you guys, ...
Last Saturday I joined Kate & Sam for their pre-wedding shoot in the pretty Yorkshire market town of Bedale ahead of their wedding at Bedale Hall. I photographed a wedding for their pals (entertainingly called ‘Katie & ...
In late September, between weddings Clare & I took a week off to catch some late summer sun in the resort of Bitez, in Turkey. As late Autumn is turning to winter, and it’s cold and grim out, I thought I’d share a few ...
After the Munich blog post I put up last week, I thought I’d share a few more pics from my recent visit… I joined a few mates there to celebrate a pal’s 30th Birthday. Someone had said to met it was a bit industrial, ...
In anticipation to a November break to Marrakesh in Morocco, I spent a good while trying to decide between Canon’s latest, greatest compact offerings, the Powershot S95 & the IXUS 1000HS. To cut a long story short, I bought ...
On Tuesday & Wednesday last week Rob Booker, Phil Barber & myself took the 3B express train to London to join ‘The Randall Network’ for a few days socialising & networking.  The [R]Network originally started as ...
Before the wedding season really started to get going, I took an adventure to Iceland! (Not the supermarket) For some reason, I thought March would be Springy.  You know, green grass poking through melting snow, raging waterfalls and ...
[ Note: Kefalonia doesn’t really know how to party. Â It’s an island not known for crazy nightlife … I just like the bad pun ] But back in August we had a gap between weddings so decided to take a break. Â It was a ...
After blogging two wonderful short breaks to Paris (blog here) and Bergamo (blog here) earlier this year, two things occurred to me i) images with text over them look ace and ii) like a builder who never finishes his kitchen, I’m ...
What feels like an age ago now, back in early March, Clare & I headed to Bergamo in Northern Italy for a long weekend break. For such a long time now, my mum’s harped on about us going to this picturesque medieval, walled ...
Last week I was in London to snoop around the Houses of Parliament! I was there to meet Abi & Simon, ahead of their wedding that they’re having ACTUALLY IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT in January! It’s always fun shooting a ...
Yesterday I was in York for my last pre-wed of 2012! I was there to meet these snappy kids, Kev & Sarah! They’re getting married this weekend at The Merchant Adventurer’s Hall, an ancient medieval guildhall in the city ...
Recently I discovered these intriguing images shot by photographer Christoffer Relander He’s been creating these beautiful multiple exposure images, in-camera on his Nikon D700. Looking into how he did it, I discovered that ...
I recently treated myself to a new camera body, the Canon 5DmkIII, for another busy wedding season. The battle-scarred mkII has been demoted to Clare for lighter, 2nd-shooty duties & the long-serving 5D, which having had mirror-box ...
As we’ve grown in the world of DSLR videography, Phil Barber, Rob Booker & myself have branched off from our joing photography training company 3B Media to form a DSLR film-making photography company called Shot by Sodium. ...
Last week I spent a couple of days in my dogs spiritual home Staffordshire to network and party with a bunch of amazing UK photographers. Basically, I’m in a relaxed Network of primarily wedding photographers, and we always meet ...
It feels like forever since Clare & I were in Stockholm for her 30th Birthday break. Â Â I posted the first batch of images on this post. It’s an very cool & chilled out place to visit. Â Probably better when its not -14 ...
For my girlfriend Clare’s 30th birthday, I decided to treat her to a winter break in Stockholm. So as January is usually a quiet patch for me, off we flew for a 5-star hotel break Don’t tell anyone, but I emailed the hotel ...
It’s been excitingly snowy of late! A reasonably thick blanket has laid itself across the UK and, as per usual, the country has fallen apart and people are deserting their cars on motorways like it’s ‘The Day After ...
