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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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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 ...
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 ...
