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Hi and welcome to my blog. Filled with images from my recent weddings, engagement shoots, portrait sessions and corporate work. Most importantly its a window into my world...a world where family takes an upper hand and I have the images to prove it. Hopefully you'll take a few minutes to browse and once addicted set the blog as a bookmark. If you have any comments please feel free to add them or just get in touch.

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Another Fab 4.  Another quick as melting butter in the microwave post as well.  Gotta get all geared, charged and loaded up for tomorrow’s wedding.  But I just had to post something from today as I got in earlier than usual and the Mrs is out.  So, a few from Claire and Mark’s ‘Spring’ wedding at Silchester House.  More on Monday afternoon.

silchester house wedding photographer 01 Claire and Mark   A Fab 4 from Silchester HouseI don’t normally like Fab 4s to include a detail…but I quite like this shoe shot.

silchester house wedding photographer 02 Claire and Mark   A Fab 4 from Silchester House

silchester house wedding photographer 03 Claire and Mark   A Fab 4 from Silchester House

silchester house wedding photographer 04 Claire and Mark   A Fab 4 from Silchester HouseMy secret studio!

Sep
13

Amy and Miles at Wasing Park

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Amy and Miles came to me mostly by accident.  When Amy was a child her family met another family on holiday (in Spain I think).  They made a connection and through the persistence of the children the families got together again…and again…and again.  That family had two children as well.  Laura and Lindsay.  Fast forward a bunch of years and Laura then becomes Shootinghip Bride Number 1.  Basically she is like the ‘godfather’.  From her many weddings come.  She is responsible for quite a few weddings in the past few years.  Something I very grateful for.  I’m pleased to say that this time next year I’ll be preparing to photograph Lindsay’s wedding at Lulworth Castle.  Its like going full circle.

OK…this isn’t supposed to be about Laura…its about Miles and Amy.  Miles is the Diet Coke man.  That hunk of a guy that turns up, not window washing in a muscle vest top but rather the IT guy who fixes your problems.  You deliberately put viruses on your computer to get him around.  Devilish!  Amy is the calm one.  Thoughtful, circumspect and focused.  A picture editor as well (no pressure then).  It all comes together in a most remarkable place.  Wasing Park.  Set in the Berkshire countryside in a private estate it not only boasts two function ‘barns’ but also a church within the grounds.  Plenty of accommodation as well.  Its a gem.  Good friends, loving family.  A perfect combination.

I kind of need to get on with my to do list…but I did want to share some images from their day.  There is also a link at the end for more images on my Facebook business page.  So look, scroll and click at the bottom!

wedding photographer wasing park 001 Amy and Miles at Wasing Park

wedding photographer wasing park 002 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkDeep breaths

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wedding photographer wasing park 004 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkAmy’s dress by the infamous dress maker MOB (Mother of the Bride…pretty cool huh!)

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wedding photographer wasing park 009 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkNot a Diet Coke in sight!

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wedding photographer wasing park 017 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkVicar says ‘stop’

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wedding photographer wasing park 024 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkDon’t ask!

wedding photographer wasing park 025 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkWhat a character…some great stories about Utah beach in WW2.  Fascinating!

wedding photographer wasing park 026 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkJoke camera?

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wedding photographer wasing park 028 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkInside the beautiful Castle Barn at Wasing Park

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wedding photographer wasing park 030 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkSisters in a reverse selfy!  Helen has a lot to answer for!

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wedding photographer wasing park 033 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkYes…that is a Michael Jackson glove on the best man’s hand!

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wedding photographer wasing park 038 Amy and Miles at Wasing ParkDance hall days

As promised…more images from Miles and Amy’s Wasing Park wedding on my Facebook Business page

Since there was little time to anything else this morning before racing off for wedding number 2 of 3 this weekend, I decided to do a quick Fab 4.  Miles and Amy were married at Wasing Park in the church on the grounds of the estate.  What a fantastic venue!  More on Monday.

wasing park wedding photographer 01 Amy and Miles   Wasing Park   Fab 4

wasing park wedding photographer 02 Amy and Miles   Wasing Park   Fab 4

wasing park wedding photographer 03 Amy and Miles   Wasing Park   Fab 4

wasing park wedding photographer 04 Amy and Miles   Wasing Park   Fab 4

There’s nothing that Berocca and a long things to do list can’t cure.  I’m steadily working my way through the backlog of August.  This weekend is a blessing and a curse.  3 weddings.  Its great to be booked, loved and working — but perhaps the timing could have been different.  I don’t reckon it will matter in a month or so…just some great memories from a summer’s worth of amazing weddings!

Here we find Louise and Steve who were married at the New Mill in Eversley.  The home of low beams and cars that break down in the ford.  Quite apt as I was speaking to a friend who is also a photographer.  I told him I was at New Mill.  He said “did you hit your head”…”yes, blood and everything”.  Did you see the photos of the cars that broke down trying to cross the ford?” .. “No but I did see a car broken down trying to cross the ford”.  Reputations exist for a reason.

Another quickie post….

berkshire wedding photographer 01 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 02 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 03 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 04 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 05 Louise and Steve   New Mill in EversleyKwikFit has a whole new range of services

berkshire wedding photographer 06 Louise and Steve   New Mill in EversleyLook at him…now think Mr Incredible!  You’re there aren’t you?!

berkshire wedding photographer 07 Louise and Steve   New Mill in EversleyDo not adjust the V-Hold dial on your sets

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berkshire wedding photographer 09 Louise and Steve   New Mill in EversleyLuLu

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berkshire wedding photographer 11 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 12 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 13 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 14 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 15 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 16 Louise and Steve   New Mill in EversleyConfetti has a lot to answer for

berkshire wedding photographer 17 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 18 Louise and Steve   New Mill in EversleySome folks expressed their displeasure at unexpected arrival of Zombies….

berkshire wedding photographer 19 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley…whilst this chap just drinks an imaginary beer

berkshire wedding photographer 20 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 21 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 22 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 23 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

berkshire wedding photographer 24 Louise and Steve   New Mill in Eversley

Yes…its been exceedingly quiet the last week or so.  Not that I haven’t had 3 weddings but rather we were away in between.  A family holiday near Weymouth.  So now its catch up time.  I have to exercise brevity for the next few weeks.  With so many days out of the office with various things I find myself a bit further behind that I would like to be.  I’m chomping on that elephant…one bite a time.  But some things have to give.  So, for Emily and James, here is a taster of their day.  A little snippet to carry them through.

elcot park hotel photographer 01 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 02 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 03 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 04 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 05 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 06 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 07 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 08 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 09 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 10 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 11 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 12 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

elcot park hotel photographer 13 Emily and James   Elcot Park Hotel   Berkshire

OK.  Its been a weekend of added pressure.  As you will read (or have read) in my previous post, I shot the wedding of someone who had a wedding photographer as a Best Man.  Tough.  Today it gets even closer to home in I shoot the girl next door.  Technically Kate no longer lives next door but she still babysits the kids on a number of occasions throughout the year.  The kids have seen ‘nice Kate’…and ‘cross Kate’…’get your but to bed, I’m telling your parents Kate’.  I didn’t really want any of those ‘Kates’.  This was my first trip to Wasing Park.  I had seen a few other galleries of images but until you visit a place you never really know.  I’m pleased to say its great.  Well thought out, great spaces both inside and out.  It only falls foul of the Health and Safety curse…that being exit signs, warning signs — basically just about every sign imaginable everywhere.  But then…where doesn’t?

As with all of my recent weddings I’m posting a Fab Few then backing it up with a few more that were still Fab, but didn’t fit my rather cryptic method for determine the Fab Few.  These can be viewed at the Facebook Preview Gallery.

wedding photography wasing park 235 Wedding Photography Wasing Park   Kate and Richard   Fab FourLook at those leaves…you’d think it was October!

wedding photography wasing park 236 Wedding Photography Wasing Park   Kate and Richard   Fab FourThe newest Bond girl…Giggles Galore

wedding photography wasing park 237 Wedding Photography Wasing Park   Kate and Richard   Fab FourWhen Dad speaks…people listen

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wedding photography wasing park 239 Wedding Photography Wasing Park   Kate and Richard   Fab FourThose little specs of ‘dust’ above their heads…in photography we refer to them as ‘rain’.

Don’t forget about the Facebook Preview Gallery

pixel Wedding Photography Wasing Park   Kate and Richard   Fab Four

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