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Top 10 UK Winter Wedding Photographers

David — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:55:04 +0000

Ive just received a copy of Professional Photographer Magazine and am delighted to be placed in their Top 10 List of UK Winter Wedding Photographers. Its a real honour to be placed with some of the other photographers in that list.
This is the second time I have been placed in a List of Top 10 Uk Wedding Photographers, the first being Randolph Quan’s list that he produced last year and this. Its lovely to be recognised for all the hard work I have put into both my photography and the business in general over the past few years.

Maybe now its time to do some seminars ………

Here are some images from Winter Weddings from early this year.

Chris + Jess | Wedding Preview

David — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:22:55 +0000

Asford Castle | Count Mayo | Emma + David

David — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:09:33 +0000

I flew into Dublin the day before the wedding and drove from the airport across to Galway and Ashford Castle. The drive took about 3 hours and passes through some beautiful parts of Ireland. Ashford Castle was built in around 1200 AD and has to be the most spectacular venue I have ever photographed at. I met Emma and David and we headed straight for the church and the rehearsal. This is actually the first time I have been to a rehearsal and it was great to familiarise myself with all the important members of both families and get to meet the priest.

Emma and David both live in Jersey, David’s family are Irish and so they decided to get married in Ireland with close family and friends. The Irish have a knack of making everyone feel so welcome and it was real pleasure to spend the day with both sets of families, all of whom made me feel so welcome.

Here are a few of my favourites from their special day.

Stoodleigh Court | Kylie + Andrew

David — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:22:48 +0000

Andrew and Kylie came down to the West Country to be married close to where Kylie’s parents live. Andrew is a Producer for the BBC and has a keen photographic eye, infact I have seen a couple of weddings he has shot and they were both very good, so the pressure was on. That and it seemed half the BBC cameramen were also present at the wedding

Stoodleigh is a very impressive house just outside of Tiverton, it does however also provide photographers with some very tricky light, with its vibrant red walls and oak panelling. For the first time in my wedding photography life the registrars were late for the ceremony, really late, and poor Kylie was left waiting upstairs whilst everyone waited for the registrars to turn up. Eventually they arrived and the rest of the day went really smoothly. Here are a few of my favourites from their day at Stoodleigh Court

NYC – Anita's birthday

David — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:17:07 +0000

Last week was my lovely wife’s birthday, it was somewhat of a milestone birthday and so we treated ourselves to a trip to NYC. Neither of us had been before and whilst we missed the kids loads, it was great to be away by ourselves, infact it was the first time in 5 years that we had been away just by ourselves. New York is an amazing place, not as cheap as I had hoped but all the same a real experience. Being a photographer means that we have no images of the two of us together, so before everything starts heading south, I asked Brooks + Leigh Whittington, great wedding photographers, from Dallas to come and do a day in the life of us. We also met up with Jason Groupp, Lynsdey Thorne, Gulnara, Aga, Mercin and Beth, all of whom I have got to know through wedding photography. We also met up with Danny and Diana, whos wedding I shot in Paris last year. They were all so kind to us and really helped make our trip a memorable one. Here are some pictures from our trip.

ISPWP Spotlight

David — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:21:46 +0000

The ISPWP is run by Joe Milton . I have no idea if Joe knows this, but he was one of the reasons I got into wedding photography 6-7 years ago. I was online looking through local wedding photographers in the UK and wanted to see something different, something that told a story, as opposed to a whole series of group and posed shots. SO I started to google phrases that I thought might lead me to find something I like. Of course the word “photojournalist”, which is all too commonplace now, was not really being used back then and so I really had to search hard to find what I was looking for. And then all of a sudden this guy from Portland in The US came up. Its fair to say I was emotionally moved by his images and bookmarked his site immediately. I guess its fair to say that Joe was probably one of the first, along with a few others to be shooting this style of wedding photography and it really hit a chord with me.

Joe is also the founder of the ISPWP, which is an organisation I am very proud to belong to. It has some amazing wedding photographers as its members and the standard is being raised all the time.

Its also a real honour that Joe has chosen to spotlight my photography, I am now in my 7th year of shooting weddings, its been hard work , but 7 years of real fun and excitement. I’m continually being inspired by others and hope that this continues to be the case for many years to come.

You can view the whole spotlight HERE.

Julia + Nick | Burwalls, Bristol

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:01:55 +0000

Where to start on this one is tricky. For those of you that follow me on twitter, this is the wedding where I reversed into Julia’s Porsche……..not a great start to any day but when its your brides car it’s even worse. Putting aside my lack of driving skills, this was a really great day. Julia’s father lives in the most picturesque spot overlooking the Bristol Channel, the views were amazing and its where I also bumped into Amy Morris, who was the make up artist for that. I shot Amy’s wedding just over 2 years ago and it was great to catch up again.

The Clifton suspension bridge played quite a major role in the wedding, Burwalls, the venue has a view of the bridge and Nick lived on one side and Julia on the other, before they met, (like a north/south divide)

It was an emotionally charged day, Julia lost her mother 2 years ago and Julia’s dad, Roger, gave a wonderful speech that had alot of the room teary eyed.

Here are a few images from their day.

Ashford Castle | County Mayo | Emma and David | Preview

David — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:02:48 +0000

Preview Images from Emma and David’s wedding at one of the best castles in Ireland, Ashford Castle