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Welcome to the Meonshore Studios 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 fine art newborn portraits, capturing little babies for their first professional photograph. I also love creating portraits showing families growing together and the creative but critical commercial work. For personal work I shoot sport, and wildlife predominately

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. We specialize in fine art newborn portraits of babies between 3 and 15 days of age, and location family portraits. These are most likely to be taken in Hampshire in the studio or on location and of course we travel anywhere for our commercial clients.

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.

Rhinefield House Hotel reception followed All Saints Church Botley wedding for Rosie and Scott

Friday, January 1, 2010 7:28 pm Posted in Rhinefield House, weddings

Our first ever New Years Eve wedding was yesterday at the All Saints Church in Botley and then the reception at the lovely Rhinefield House Hotel in Brockenhurst, New Forest. On a cold but otherwise dry day I started at the church to capture the guests arriving. I had plenty of time to re-familiarise myself with the church which I hadn’t been to for a couple of years before Scott and his groomsmen arrived and they were ushered into the church before Rosie arrived.

A lovely service took place in a church still festooned with Christmas flowers and decorations and I managed with the video team from Hampshire Wedding Videos to get some good angles of the ceremony and signing.

After a few photographs in-front of the church, and the confetti we all made our way down to Rhinefield House in the New Forest for the reception. The guests were greeted by resident toastmaster Michael Judd up the red carpet and into the drinks reception and once Rosie and Scott had made it up the driveway in their stunning wedding car and with a drink in their hands we quickly made our way to the rear of the house for the last of the winter light and a short formal photographs session before we needed to return inside for the receiving line and the wedding breakfast.

With dinner complete the speeches took place completed by Rosie who also wished Scott a happy birthday and presented him with a cake and his birthday present, and I wrapped up some of the family groups in one of the rooms having lost the light on this winters day some time ago. It was straight into the evening reception with the first dance, and whilst that was taking place casino tables from Viva Las Vegas and a chocolate fountain were setup in the great hall.

Here are some of the images from the day… for the guests at the wedding the full online gallery will be available here from the 16th January.