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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.

Marwell Hall Pre-wedding shoot: Tanya and Mike

Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:20 pm Posted in Marwell Hall, portraits, pre-wedding shoots

This morning I met up with Tanya and Mike for their pre-wedding shoot at Marwell Hall. We arranged to meet early at the entrance to the wildlife park and walk up to the Hall overtaking most of the general public and ensuring that we had some peace and privacy for the duration of our pre-wedding shoot.

With the sun obscured by light clouds both the front and back of the hall were in play and we started with the front of this lovely building culminating in a walking shot before moving to the back and the ancient tree followed by the quiet little alcove next to the golden lion tamarins which came out to see us, probably to see what all the laughter was about with both Tanya and Mike enjoying the session.

While we were around the back of the hall we bumped into the lovely Izzy Brown, wedding and events manager, who looks after the weddings at Marwell Hall with her team and we briefly said hello.

With a little practice of some formal poses and lots of relaxed portraits and contemporary images created we headed back to the Marwell Hotel for a quick recap of their September wedding days plans.

Here are some of the images from the day.

Marwell Hall pre-wedding shoot