SWPP Monthly awards – September

The SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) run a monthly competition for all the members to enter into. This month I entered the shots below in the following categories: Group portraits: Landscape: Pictorial: Portraiture Environmental: Wedding...

Urban Angels – Didsbury

A few months ago I shot the launch event at the uber cool Urban Angels salon in Didsbury. The day was great fun, Fiona (owner) and Lisa (senior stylist) worked tirelessly on some AMAZING catwalk styles and we then paraded our models around Didsbury village spreading...

Dreamcatcher bridal brochure

A few months ago I collaborated with some of my favourite wedding friends on The Fylde – Lytham Hall, the fantastic Flower Design in Lytham and of course, the fabulous girls at Dreamcatcher Bridal in Kirkham, to shoot a series of fantastic bridal fashion images....

Jonny Draper LSWPP

So August was quite an exciting month for me – I’m a member of The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, an international body for professional photographers who operate a recognised qualification system which I decided to tackle. The SWPP run a program...

George and Matt’s wedding in beautiful Devon

Emma and I spent a few days in Devon a couple of weeks ago, we’d headed down for George and Matt’s wedding on the friday (encountering the WORST traffic I’ve ever seen on the M5!!! We set off at 11:30am and didn’t arrive until 8:15pm!) spent...

Paul Guard – swing singer extraordinaire!

This is a good friend of mine from the wedding game – Mr Paul Guard, swing singer, entertainer and all round thoroughly nice chap! Paul has recently recorded a new album of tracks and needed some shots to use on the album artwork and some of his other marketing...

Katie and Rob pre-wedding shoot

This is Katie and Rob – they’re getting married at a lovely venue called The Ashes near Leek in a couple of weeks time – it will be my first time shooting there and I’m REALLY looking forward to it. We used the ultra cool Castlefield area of...

Welcome to my new blog!

So here it is at last! My new blog is up and running alongside my new website and I’m VERY excited about how much better they both are than my previous ones! This blog is infinitely more flexible than the one I had previously. The absolute most important thing...

Styal Lodge shoot – sneak preview

I had the great honour and pleasure with working with some amazing wedding professionals recently at this shoot at brand new venue, the very cool Styal Lodge in Cheshire. Far more detail to come about who was involved, what we shot and why we did in the next few...