Last weekend on one of our wedding-free weekends, Clare & I joined a few buddies for our bi-annual stomp in The Lake District. Really they’re an opportunity to eat pies and visit microbreweries, but are easier justified when ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pinch and a punch! Â Happy February kids! Last week a buddy and I decided to head into the snow to explore the ‘Grand Old Lady of Morley’, St Mary-In-the-Woods. It’s a Grade II listed church with over 1000 years of ...
Last December, a past wedding client called Rob, who married the beautiful Vicky at their wedding at Priory Cottages in Syningthwaite (blog highlights here) commissioned me to come and photograph his company ‘Portfolio ...
Back towards the end of 2012 I was asked along by the boys of Apollo Junction to document their intimate Album launch over at their rehearsal studio’s in East Leeds.  It was a fantastic evening and their tunes sound just as good ...
Happy Boxing day everyone!  Last Christmas Eve eve, we threw our annual Sunday Service Xmas Charity Special in Leeds.  The festive Sunday Service is one of my most favouritist things about the Christmas season.  The SS is a gig night I ...
Hey readers! Â May I (& my festive pooch, Kyra) wish you a very Happy Christmas indeed! It’s been such a brilliant year all round for me; with 40 wonderful wedding couples (both foreign and domestic!), an amazing pre-season ...
Last Friday I was lucky enough to be asked along by a pal on an Urban Exploration ‘permission visit’ to Sunny Bank Mill in Farsley, Leeds Here’s the man that can, Joe Stenson; an architect, photographer and a gent, ...
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 ...
As I’ve only had one wedding in October, it’s been a nice quiet oasis between a nuts summer and a busy upcoming November.  So I’ve  taken it as an opportunity to both get ontop of the summer’s wedding workflow ...
As we had no weddings to pap this weekend, we spent it with some good buddies up around Wasdale in the beautiful Lake District On Friday night we packed the TT & Clare, Kyra & I hit the road! Unfortunately we had a pretty ...
Before and after wedding season each year, a fun little network of photographers I’m in hook up for a social somewhere to unwind, share and inspire one another. Â We call ourselves the r-Tribe; the r coming from Stewart ...
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 ...
So this past week, we took a week off in a busy wedding season for a spot of R+R in France! The first half of the week we spent in the beautiful Alsace… …where we joined our dear pals Rich & Anne-So, whose wedding I ...
A few weeks back we were lucky enough to fly to Malta to photograph the wonderful destination wedding of Maria & Bert! [ In case you missed the post: click here for part 1 and here for part 2 ] We enojyed 4 days at the 5* Radisson ...
Hey peeps! Â Hope you enjoyed the closing ceremony last night! Last Wednesday we had a fantastic day catching the Athletics at the London 2012 Olympic Games! After a tad much Malbec the night before with an old uni pal, it all felt a ...
Shooting a few wedding portraits at Oakwell Hall last Saturday reminded me that a few weeks back I was there on social duties with our rescue dog Kyra for the Yorkshire Rose Dog Rescue charity ‘Doggie Fun Day’! It’s ...
Man! It’s clearly shooting season when pretty much every blog I post is either a wedding highlights or a pre-wedding shoot! But even when times are busy, I do still try to make time and take the opportunity to get out and shoot ...
For a long time a good buddy of mine has promised to take me out exploring some woods near Adel, where he grew up. We finally set a date and a during a beautifully summery day a few weeks back, out we set, starting by clambering up ...
Wow!  Check this group shot out: It’s 116 stars of Paramount Studios in Hollywood, shot by Art Streiber to celebrate Paramount’s 100th Anniversary. [ Click on the image to see it larger and see how many stars you can spot! ...
When I was asked by the the Editor of Digital Photographer magazine in Australia to write a feature on Wedding Photography (featured in this months issue, and available to read in my blog post here), he asked if I fancied doing the ...
It’s been a while since I hit the blog with something that wasn’t mine, so I thought I’d share some inspired macro images I found a while back shot inside musical instruments. Amazing eh? Â Considering the size of the ...
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 ...
