Wonderfully asleep and very contented I was able with her mums assistance to carefully get her into the poses and hats without any distress and capture these lovely newborn baby photos before she woke up a little again ready for her next feed.  This contemporary style of newborn photography is now our signature style and we are continuing to build a large selection of backdrops, hats and other props to match both the sex of the baby and their skin, eyes and hair colouring.

Mum managed to get a quick glipse of some of the images before she left and I hope you like them as much as she does.

This contemporary panoramic matted album features cedar timber wood covers and a distressed mocca leather spine with white leaves.

The book tells the story of their wedding from hair and make-up early in the morning through to the first dance, and live band playing in the marquee at Marwell. Many of the page designs also feature in the display album which is held at Marwell by the wedding team and which can be viewed on our website as well.

Here are a few images of their album:

I started with Rachel, her mum, and her bridesmaids who were getting ready at a nearby hotel capturing some of the details and preparations as well as getting to know Jo and Claire – bridesmaids for the day. The it was on to Thorney Island to the church to meet the padre and get some images of Garry and the boys and the guests arriving.

After the lovely ceremony we made our way out to the shade afforded by some trees and captured the family groups as well as spending some time alone with Rachel and Garry in some incredible light getting some more relaxed images before leaving for the reception, the wedding breakfast with very moving and fun speeches.

With the speeches concluded it was time for the first dance, and then a Polish wedding tradition with Rachel having her veil removed and donning an apron surrounded by her mum, grandmother and the other female guests. Finally a ceilidah band struck up and every one danced the evening away.

Here are some images from the day. The full gallery will be available soon and anyone without a password should contact Rachel and Garry directly.

Despite it being an overcast day the soft light made for great photographs and we used many of the features of the country house, terrace and surrounding area. Afterwards we went inside and took a look at some of the architecture and worked on how we could incorporate some of these areas into the wedding day without turning it into a photo-shoot.

Tatiana and Robert’s wedding will be a wonderful day and I’m really looking forward to being their wedding photographer.

Here are some of the images from their pre-wedding shoot.

Having travelled down from Leeds that afternoon to visit family I decided to make the short journey to see them and hand over their wedding album personally. The album is a 15×12″ contemporary matted book made in Australia and features a graphite metal cover with a distressed mocca leather spine and white leaves. The album itself is visually stunning and Katy and Rob made a great choice in selecting the materials from our extensive range of leathers, metals and woods. Of course the images inside the album tell a wonderful story of their day and Rob remarked how much it brought back the memories he has of his wedding.

Katy and Rob now have the pleasure of showing their album off to family and friends.

Here are some photos of their wedding album cover and inside leaves:

The unit was in the process of final assembly before being sent to a customer and my client was looking for some high quality images of this new unit for sales and marketing materials (website, brochure etc).

Working carefully in the workshop, and in conjunction with the sales director for guidance on the look of the images and the engineers working on the unit itself we positioned the unit which was about 7-8 feet tall and extremely heavy into a good position and I then photographed it in it’s entirety and key details and features.

Not wanting to slow down the final construction and shipment I checked the images onsite to ensure that I had everything I needed and then departed so they could finish working on it.

Once back at the studio, and after a quick edit of the images, a number were processed including a cut-out of the entire unit to remove the distracting background and provide a neutral backdrop for marketing usage, and then placed on a secure online lightbox for client viewing.

No images until released by the client I’m afraid.

The weekend was the most logical time to photograph the units because of the reduced amount of traffic, and equipment on site making for a safer environment for the tripod based long exposures required to get high quality images and to ensure images which showed the units themselves off. The job was split into two sections early morning and late afternoon to ensure optimal lighting of the units and also to avoid the hottest part of the day.

All the images were taken on high resolution digital capture equipment using specialist architectural lenses to maintain the verticals and correct perspective.

Here are three example images from the shoot.

So this blog post is just to let you know that we are now in the middle of processing sets of images from those shoots and will have some blog entries up very soon to show most of them off, but our priority is to deliver them to our clients.

We are shooting quite a few commercial jobs at the moment and so until those images are released by the client all you will get is some dialogue – but some of it should make for interesting reading.

Please bear with us we should be caught up again for the weekend….

As well as getting some great portraits I also focussed on some of the little details until she decided the session was over !

Here are a few of my favourites from the session, view the full to see the 5 images. The parents have a password protected gallery to view the entire session.

We used the church for most of the classical photographs and then as Rachel and Garry got more used to the camera we moved on and after looking around the reception venue took a short drive to the beach where we got some more relaxed images out in the warm early evening sunlight.

Here are some of my favourite images from the day, which you can view by clicking on the thumbnails. The rest can be viewed in the online gallery if Rachel and Garry have provided you with a password – and their dedicated page on our website can be found here and bookmarked to make it easier to return after their wedding.