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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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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 ...
I saw this while I was out with my camera and it caught my eye. Something inside of me always wants to know what’s left and why we’re being told to go right. No doubt it’s for our own good (turning into oncoming ...
You may know I shoot a lot of music with Phil Barber for The Sound Gallery in and around the North of England. I also help run an acoustic night called The Sunday Service down in Verve Bar’s cellars on the last Sunday of every month. ...
Well it was ace to return to Goldsborough Hall again for Carol & Jon’s Pre-wed shoot on Thursday. I won’t lie, driving over in the driving rain I thought gloomy thoughts about how I should move & set up shop in ...
May 10th was the wedding of the lovely Sarah & Jenna!  A classically grey English spring day, held in its entirety at the Woodlands hotel in Leeds.  There was lots of laughter all round, loads of thought put into the details and a ...
I met the lovely Carly & Darren today for a pre-wed at Oulton Hall on the South side of Leeds, heading Wakey way. It’s the first time I’ve been there and it rules! I’ve glimpsed one or two snaps of it’s ...
My first photo at my last wedding made me smile… I bet some people wish they could wear one of those round their necks when I’m sneaking about like a photo-ninja!
Check this crazy place out!! It’s Peckforton Castle, Britain’s only intact medieval castle set a hillside above the rolling Cheshire Plain – I’ve got a wedding here in 3 weeks! I’m giddy as a kipper about ...
The Leeds International Swimming Pool facility closed in October 2007 and is scheduled for demolition in June this year. A gifted photographer and friend, James Lester, likes to go ‘Urban Exploring’ and I decided to join ...
I was lucky enough to be asked to Ireland recently to hang out with and photograph a band I’m really good friends with [in fact I used to play bass in this band once upon a time]. They booked Clare & I a flight and off we ...
It’s been a busy patch of Pre-Wedding shoots for me recently in the run up to a wedding-filled May! I’m really looking forward to it and have spent a lot of April clearing my desk, organising my calendar & tweaking my ...
A few friends and I host an acoustic band night at Verve bar called The Sunday Service where we round up and serve what we think are is Leeds’s musical cream. It’s only once a month and therefore not too stressful always ...
I did this food shot for a Chef Special feature for the Leeds Guide Magazine while I was shooting their features recently. It reminded me what a challenge it is to make food look appetising. This shot was taken in a catering unit in ...
My girlfriend detests and mistrusts all incantations of Satellite Navigation. Personally, I firmly believe that even though it might not always feel right, it ultimately always knows where we should end up and therefore, will get us ...
As you may know, I share the duties with a fellow wedding photographer Tom Arber photographing features for the Leeds Guide Magazine. Every month we get a brief to photograph people, food, products, buildings inside and out & a ...
In a run of pre-wedding shoots it was great to find time to meet with Caroline & Damien for coffee and a catch up. I’ve known these two for years, have been on holiday to Barcelona with Damo & went to the same school as ...
We had a fantastic wedding on the first weekend of April covering the wedding of Andrea & Aaron. The weather in the week running up to their big day was ominous and yet on the day, as is guaranteed with all Barnaby Aldrick ...
A cool childhood pal of mine called Isobell disappeared off the radar for a bit last year, and all of a sudden she pops back up with a baby!! Er, hello?! More than a little surprised was I! After dropping congratulations I was asked ...
Emma & Ben’s big day came at last, and a fantastic day it was too! Clare & I joined them during the morning to document preparations in Gomersall & Bingley, before heading over for a Catholic ceremony at Sacred Heart ...
Just thought I’d post a few images from another interesting couple of day’s shooting for the Leeds Guide. I’m really pleased with the food shot above at the tasty Bar 166 in Horsforth, lit with window light and a ...
It was cool to meet up with Andrea & Aaron again for a Pre-Wedding meeting and shoot today. It was a while since we met, so after a chat about logistics and a nosey around the impressive Morley Town Hall we set about ...
Dan and Louise’s big day came around at last, on a crisp winters day. Lots of my friends were around as guests or members of the wedding party. I’d even photographed Lou’s Dad’s wedding a few years back and it was ace to see Bob ...
Emma & Ben’s friends refer to them as ‘Wakefield’s answer to Posh and Becks’, and it was great to see they’d put in the effort when they turned up for their pre-wed meet at Woodlands Hotel in Leeds! You may have heard me harp on ...
Dan and Louise are ace. I’m best mates with Dan’s younger brother Dave & have known his side of the family since we were but scamps. Lou is a great lass (with a fab manc accent & a wicked laugh!) and is the perfect match for ...
This month I had the good fortune to photograph The Dagger Dames ‘burlesque troop’ at the excellent Shakey Jakes Milkshake Bar in Headingley! When I saw that on the brief an eyebrow involuntarily curled. These things are ...
