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I’ve known Shannie and her family for over 25 years, so when she asked me to create some family portraits of her and her sisters as a 70th birthday gift for her father, I was delighted.
So meet Shannie,
Farida,
and Yasmin.
I really hope this is what they were looking for and that dad Ahmed enjoys his gift.
For Katie and Crispian’s pre-wedding shoot last week, we headed over to Wimbledon Common, one of my favourite spaces in London. The weather forecast was dreadful, so we were really lucky that the rain stayed away and the sun decided to come out for us – here’s what we got:
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Sophie and Marc will be getting married at St. Bride’s Church near London’s Fleet Street next month,
so we decided to do our pre-wedding shoot around that around, and quickly found ourselves in the courtyard of the Temple Church. After that we strolled down towards the Embankment. Unfortunately, weather was not on our side and the rain that had been threatening all day, properly started towards the end of our shoot. But being the troopers we all are, we carried on!
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I’ve known singer and actor Roger Wright for nearly twenty years, but the last time I saw him was a long time ago when he was starring in the title role as the first ever UK Lion King. Since then, Roger has gone on to perform in many different kinds of musical theatre in London’s West End and overseas, most recently in Dancing in the Streets and Thriller – The Musical.
Roger asked me to do some new headshots for him, to accompany the launch of his new material on i-tunes. I particularly like his lovely and mellow tune TIME
Anyway, here is a selection of what we shot. Great to see you, Roger!
Find out more about Roger’s career and music HERE.
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My second wedding of last weekend, this time, I travelled to Twickenham, where Lucy was getting ready at her parents home.
In the meantime, Dean was greeting their guests at St. Matthias Church in Richmond and seeing to some last minute details.
Then Lucy arrived and it was time for the ceremony.
During the ceremony the heavens opened, so we stayed in the church for a while waiting for the downpour to pass whilst the bride and groom mingled.
Eventually the rain cleared and we headed off to today’s wedding venue, the gorgeous Royal Holloway University in Eggham, Surrey.
Once we had finished the couples portraits and the formal groups, the couple rejoined their guests at the reception.
Everyone is a photographer these days…
Finally it was time to head up for the wedding breakfast…
… which was followed by an emotional set of speeches.
And once the cake was cut, Lucy and Dean took to the dance floor for their first dance.
I trust that Lucy and Dean are thoroughly enjoying their honeymoon right now.
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For Julie and Andrew’s wedding I photographing the bridal preparations, so my day started nice and close to my home at St. Owsald’s Church in Norbury.
Then we headed off to the gorgeous Dartmouth House in the heart of London, just by Green Park for the reception. I couldn’t let the beautiful light on the staircase go without a couple more portraits
The room was beautifully set up and I love the fact that you get such a lovely amount of light flooding into the room.
Pianist Tom Green entertained the guests during the wedding breakfast, prompting the happy couple into an unscheduled dance…
After the wedding breakfast it was time for the speeches, including a few emotional words by the bride.
The cutting of the cake was greeted by the usual amount of guest papparazzi
But my eyes truly lit up, when I saw THIS little display being put together:
And I wasn’t the only one excited..
There wasn’t a formal first dance, instead, Andrew and Julie invited everyone onto the dance floor to boogie with them.
It isn’t often that I have nice things to say about videographers, but Nick and Vejay of Eclipse Weddings were an absolute pleasure to work with.
And also a big Thank You to wedding planner Helen Carter for helping what was quite a tight schedule run so smoothly.
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Another set of headshots – this time for Shannie.
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Last week I had to pleasure of photographing little 8 month old Thommy and his family. Like many little boys his age, he didn’t really like being held or cuddled and had a couple of teeth coming through, so he had his grumpy moments too, but you couldn’t stop him from crawling across the floor at breakneck speed.
Here are a few of my favourite images from the session, followed by an album layout I created for his parents.
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My dear friend and fellow photographer Rebecca Portsmouth was kind enough to model for me last week.
I wanted to apply some studio lighting techniques that I have recently been working on. The timing was good as Rebecca also needed some new portraits for her website. I had a hard time choosing, but these are my favourites.
Cheers, Bexx!
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Last weekend, I had the great pleasure to photograph the wedding of Emma and Richard at the Woodlands Park Hotel in Surrey. It was an absolutely gorgeous, sunny day, and Emma looked stunning in her Pronovias dress. So here are the images (you may even notice that I’ve gone just a touch bigger with the images as I think you now all have big enough computers to handle it! Let me know if it’s too slow to load).
Unfortunately, as seems to be often the case with female vicars, who take a seemingly more draconian stance when it comes to photographing the ceremony, I was banished to the back of the church. However, no one was going to stop this little chap from enjoying himself during the ceremony:
Then it was time for the Wedding Breakfast..
After the wedding breakfast there was more mingling in the gardens as the room was being turned over for the evening festivities, which was my cue to head off home.
Many congratulations to Emma and Richard on their wedding!
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