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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 pre-wedding shoot: Christie and Martin

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:46 pm Posted in pre-wedding shoots, Rhinefield House

Earlier this evening I photographed Christie and Martin’s pre-wedding shoot at the Rhinefield House Hotel in the New Forest.

Although they are not getting married until 2011 Christie and Martin were keen to do their pre-wedding shoot at this time, and it was good timing as well as the grounds will be in similar condition when they get married. It was also great to see them again having initially met at the wedding fair at Botley Park Hotel earlier in the year.

On an overcast day the entire grounds were available for us to use in open soft light and so we walked around most of the extensive rear gardens and also a couple of my favourite spots at the front of the house as well.

Christie and Martin are both dancers and so the posing and acting came naturally, and they are clearly in love making this pre-wedding shoot an absolute delight to photograph, and I’m really pleased with the results. It is amazing how with different couples you can still create unique images and find new locations even in a venue like Rhinefield House where we frequently photograph both pre-wedding shoots and couples weddings.

Here are some of the images from the session, and the full gallery is online with a password that family can request directly from Christie and Martin themselves.

rhinefield house hotel pre-wedding shoot