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 ...
Barnaby Aldrick Wedding Photography Blog
Welcome to the true heart of the website – The Blog!
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!
Use the Search bar & Category Selector to find specific posts/venues (eg search: ‘Sarah + Graham’ or ‘Priory Cottages’, or select category). Otherwise, enjoy recent posts below:
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 ...
Wedding photography at Woodlands Hotel in Leeds, Yorkshire: Louise + Mark
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 ...
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 ...
Becky + Tom’s Pre-Wedding practice shoot
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 ...
Jane, Mark & little Archie [Family photography]
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 ...
All sorts, coming soon…
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 ...
Jemma & Chris [Wedding]
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 ...
May & June's Sunday Service [TSG Images]
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), ...
Matt & Nigel [Pre-Wed]
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 ...
Carol & Jon [Wedding]
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 ...
Angie & Chris [Wedding]
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 ...
Caroline & Damien [Wedding]
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 ...
How and why I love travel photography, a long-winded tale
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 [Wedding]
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 ...
An excellent first dance song choice!
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 ...
June pre-wed blitz! [Pre-Weds]
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 & ...
Some like it hot!
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 ...
Carly & Darren [Wedding] 24th May 2009
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 ...
A snap I liked
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 ...
Mark Geary at the Sunday Service
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. ...
Carol & Jon [Pre-Wed]
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 ...
Wedding photography at Woodlands Hotel in Leeds, Yorkshire: Sarah + Jenna
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 ...
Carly & Darren [Pre-Wed]
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 ...
Not exactly what a photographer wants to see!
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!