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Welcome to my Blog!

Hi my name is Mike French, and I'm a Fareham - Hampshire based photographer, and the owner of Meonshore Studios, a family run business. I'm passionate about my photography, and running the studio and I like to think this shows in the way I interact with my clients and of course in the images I create.

I adore shooting weddings, and I'm always looking to capture those special moments as well as document the day as it unfolds - my style is a fusion of contemporary, classical & documentary photography. However I also love portraits showing families growing together and of course my commercial work.

All the images you see below are mine, I hope you enjoy them and that this blog gives you some insight into what we do and how I work.

Meonshore Studios

Meonshore Studios is based in Fareham, Hampshire and covers clients all over the UK and beyond. Weddings are typically photographed in Hampshire, West Sussex, Berkshire, Surrey and Dorset although we have been asked to cover weddings across the UK and indeed Europe.

Our portraits are most likely to be taken in Hampshire in the studio or on location and of course we travel anywhere for our commercial clients.

We are an award winning studio, and recommended by many venues, wedding planners and vendors and agencies.

This blog is the diary of the studio and contains a mixture of the work that we do - we have dedicated websites for our different types of photography.

Gate Street Barn in Bramley Surrey – Katy and Rob’s pre-wedding shoot

Monday, July 20, 2009 8:55 pm Posted in pre-wedding shoots

This afternoon we photographed the pre-wedding shoot of Katy and Rob at the Gate Street Barn in Bramley, Surrey. Gate Street Barn is rapidly becoming one of our favourite wedding venues and I’m delighted to say I’m already talking to 2010 wedding couples about this venue and my photography.

Anyway enough of that. Once again I was spoiled for choice with the entire exterior of the barn, and the gardens in immaculate condition. With a slightly overcast but bright sky there were no really places we couldn’t shoot and so we quickly got down to the business of making some wonderful images which will provide Katy and Rob with a great reminder of the day and also some practice in being photographed for their wedding which is in a couple of months.

Katy was wearing a stunning red and white polka-dot 50′s dress and Rob looked very cool in his suit, it was lovely to see them dress up for the day to get the very most out of their images. It didn’t stop them sitting on benches and even down on the flagstones near the doors of the barn as we got some very different looks to the shots.

Here are some of the images from the day – there are more after the jump. Hope you like them !