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Since 2006 I’ve been posting my passion for photography here. As well as the occasional post featuring my rescue dog dressed as Star Wars characters and the odd travel post, you’ll find an almost bottomless trove of wedding inspiration and ideas from beautiful venues around Yorkshire, the UK & even exotic destination weddings round the world!
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August is a funny time for us wedding togs. I was just reading a bit of shootsac chat from the lovely Jessica Claire saying that August for her has increasingly become about balancing balancing fun and responsibility. She’s so ...
So I got up to a little michief again recently doing a bit of Urban Exploration with my pal James Lester. He know’s some ace spots of hidden Leeds. We started around a new flyover in industrial Hunslet, and saw this funky old ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I spent a couple of hours in Roundhay Park today with our pals Jane, Mark & little Archibald. I think they’d said to us at a dinner party that they hadn’t really got anything but point and shoot photos of Archie, so ...
Hola chicos! It’s all systems go here at BAWP HQ, and I wouldn’t want to leave the fans wanting, so I thought I’d drop these teasers of recent work in progress… I’m a day or two off finishing the ...
A couple of weekends back I had the pleasure of photographing these funky characters at their most excellent wedding in York. A few weeks previous we’d done their pre-wed in the sunshine in the gardens around their venue, The ...
Last weekend was June’s Sunday Service, my monthly acoustic night at Verve bar in Leeds. On the Glastonbury weekend we decided to have a blues special, featuring our old SS regular Ben Pike (http://www.myspace.com/benpikemusic), ...
Yesterday, on possibly the toastiest day of the year yet, I met Matt & Nigel at Woodlands Hotel for their pre-wedding meeting. We chatted through the details of their upcoming civil partnership (shaping up to be a lovely downtempo ...
One sunny weekend a few weekends back I joined Carol, Jon & gang for their wedding at Goldsborough Hall in North Yorkshire. It was such a lovely, downtempo affair on a glorious day. Being their second marriages, they didn’t ...
Not too long ago was the wonderful wedding of Angie & Chris. The weekend before and weekend after were glorious, but their date sadly fell on a rainy one in between. But hey – as I always say, in England most of a wedding is ...
The sun certainly was smiling on Damien & Caroline on their wedding day back on the last weekend in May – so much so that I inadvertently topped up my sunburn. Clare & I had a lovely day photographing the goings on, at ...
I’m a traveller. Always have been. There’s nothing I love more than taking in and soaking up interesting cultures, cuisines and places. Throughout my childhood my parents thought it wise to annually pack 3 naughty ...
Kate & Andy’s wedding a few weeks back was quite possibly one of my favourite weddings yet. It was held in the amazing Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, Britain’s only intact medieval castle. Not only was the venue picturesque ...
Last weekend I shot Angie & Chris’s wedding at Hey Green, a fabulous venue deep in the rolling Yorkshire countryside. The week previous I’d been posting about how summer’d come and showed all those suns on a BBC ...
Well it’s shooting season again! Weddings are rolling up & through thick and fast now. I don’t think I’ve a free weekend till mid August. B man’s starting to envy these kids throwing mad weddings & ...
I take very little heed of weather forecasts, especially the 5 day forcast. It’s an educated guess and I’ve rarely seen it be right. But I do like to check the ‘Next 24 Hours’ bit before setting out, to see ...
So – Carly & Darren’s big day arrived, and the weather was gorgeous! I managed to get sunburnt, in Yorkshire in May! Check the sunshine… This is Oulton Hall, a luxury Hotel and Spa in South Leeds. This was the ...
