Archive for London Weddings
Pre-Wedding Shoot – London – Emma and Effi
Posted by: | CommentsSo far the rebel youth hasn’t been in contact to ask for image rights. I’m safe…for now. But I do want to share a bit more of the shoot I did with Emma and Effi last week in London. I’m sure we picked the busiest day in history. With the fabulous weather and the fact it was a Friday I’m sure there thousands more people around than normal. Saying that, I reckon it worked just fine…who doesn’t like a challenge? Due to time constaints I’m not going to be making excessive comments today. I’ll be joining Emma and Effi in Tel Aviv for their wedding soon…time for lots of comments then :)
Pre-Wedding Shoot in London – Emma and Effi – Just One
Posted by: | CommentsI wouldn’t normally do a Just One from a pre wedding shoot. But then sometimes…there’s just something that you never planned for that suddenly pops into your viewfinder and you can’t hold it back. OK…I’ll admit, this may never end up on their wall. Working in the thick of it all is often annoying, but when it deals you lemons, make a Tom Collins! More next week…no weddings this weekend.
Rebel yutes!
Wedding Photographer London – Natalie and Marcus
Posted by: | CommentsFunny…I was just looking on Natalie’s Facebook news feed and someone called Marcus ‘Marcoos’. I’m wondering if they too are referring to that Eddie Murphy film where the aging vixen calls him ‘Marrr-coooos’. Never mind. Saturday’s epic journey took us to London…the big smoke, up town, Londres. Waterloo was especially interesting given all the football fans en route to the FA cup final. Unlike last year, our trip to London didn’t involve lots of public transportation nightmares and even if they did we were prepared to take them head on.
Working at Temple Church was an amazing experience to say the least. The reception took place at The Delfina. An amazing venue space in a converted chocolate factory. The lightening engineers did some amazing work (even if it was nearly impossible for us to work in…ok, not impossible, but pretty ‘interesting’). Saying that, what we’ve got, in my opinion is bloody brilliant given the environment (photographically…I must emphasise my basis is from a purely photographic viewpoint). By far the darkest space I’ve worked in. But let’s just let the photos do the talking. You might think based on my comments I would never go back…and you’d be wrong. I loved it!
Best of luck to Natalie and Marcus and have a great honeymoon
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Bling
You gotta think about this one
Bridemaids doing a quick check
This ain’t no barn in Hampshire
Marcus and his tag team Best Men get comfortable
so sayeth the shepherd…
…so sayeth the flock
Yes…there will be a quiz later
Not your average recessional
As Mr Hendrix would say … ‘foxy’
The Chancellor has more on his door step than first bargained
Something I’ve never seen before. Dangling nibbles
awwww…bless
Sweet light…
Wowza!
Cake…LOOOOVE the cake
Sing it Frank
Flash assisted in case you were wondering
Fry and Laurie
God himself put a tunnel there just for me!
Sharing a cup a tea down at the lumber yard…seems perfectly reasonable
Saturday Night Fever…its contagious
Maaaarrrrccccoooooooooos!
D-I-S-C-O! Actually it wasn’t…there was a band… an AMAZING band called Fake Tan. I think you have to have a serious set of ‘ahems’ to open up a set with Duran Duran ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’. But these guys clearly did have that set and it rocked. Totally rocked. I can now add these guys to the list of my all time top bands (along with The All-Stars and Madhen). Totally brilliant!
And a few from my Rockstar sidekick…DARREN!
Darren would like to say that Delfina lighting was a walk in the park compared to the cellars at the Ye Old Cheshire Cheese pub
Sweet…he scares me sometimes when he thinks just like me
Proof, unlike Roswell, that I do formals
BTW…this a ‘damn you Darren’ moment. Love it!
Ready to go Nikon yet D?
Tunnel of love
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London Wedding Photography – Natalie and Marcus – Just One
Posted by: | CommentsSure…I could find a few images to make the Just One for Natalie and Marcus’ London wedding on Saturday. I could even tell you a few things about the one I picked that just don’t sit that well with me…but ultimately what does sit well with me is the way she (in this case not Natalie) jumps off the screen at me. So I suppose being a sucker for great light I nominate today’s Just One.
Wedding Photographer London – Lisa and Michael
Posted by: | CommentsLondon weddings always scare me. Ok…not really. But its that moment when you let go of your own transport and turn to public transport that things start to scare me. Like last year when the tube was closed when I was trying to get to Pimlico. Hence why I arrived an hour early to make a 3 mile taxi journey. Shame I didnt look at the map in terms of walking and not in driving as it wasn’t more than 20 minutes. Duh!
Friday’s wedding was always going to be unique. I wasn’t disappointed.. I would travel to 3 venues by taxi and boat. Its a far cry from my barn experiences. Everything went along smoothly…a little too smoothly. Then we boarded the boat. By then it was too late to mention I get seasick. Thankfully the boat trip from Orleans House to The Wharf only encountered a Force 2. What made the boat trip really unique was that we were going to be having speeches. I imagined each speech would start off with sometime nautical. “Women and children first” or “I’m the king of the world” or “We’re going to need a bigger boat”. Sadly none happened. My days as a speechwriter are surely numbered.
Eventually we saw land…the Thames is big you know…and the baying cannibals rushed off. A narrow escape me thinks. Lucky for them a tasty bit of beef awaiting them at The Wharf, Teddington. Speaking of which…wow…great food. Shame its an hour from home. I would love to pop in there on a quiet weekend.
Thanks to Lisa and Michael — a referral from Cara and Alex (where were you?) — have a great honeymoon in FLA.
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Ceremony venue: Orleans House Gallery, Richmond on Thames
Reception venue: The Wharf Riverside Restaurant
Some like to flip, others flop
A motto to live by
Calling card
Michael’s mum made the dress…wow.
Rawhide
Go for solid rocket jettison
Firestarter
Butter or marg?
I love the peace in this…the empty chair and the ‘stuff’ all still around. I’m a softie.
Wagoner’s hitch?
Three Bridesmaids in a cab…one says to the others……
Phew
The Watchers
Le Groom
Orleans House…sweet light
“Thank god I didn’t soil that cab”
This is not a wonder picture…just a nice shot of 4 generations.
…and a garter in a pear tree
Taxi for Poppins
Captain Pugwash
He’s 2…but he’s voting Conservative
the mystery masked man was smarter…he got himself a Tonto..cause Tonto did the dirty work for free — listen on Spotify
We all have an ‘ex’ that runs through our head
Michael’s mum is a quiet woman. The very heartfelt thank you from him meant she had to adopt a credible position — IOW, she’s the one with her hands over her eyes
She managed to convince us she WASN’T getting a sneak preview and her laugh was exceedingly credible
Never trust a best man who makes a speech with half of his body out the escape door
Thankfully no Poseidon Adventure here
Snoggin on the dock of the bay
My Just One…you really should be fan
“In New York, Concrete jungle where dreams are made of”
Night night Macca Pakka
Just to say that if anyone would like to be notified when the entire gallery is available and be given a promotional code for a 10% discount on reprints, be sure to email me at rob@shootinghip.com
London Wedding Photographer – Lisa and Michael – Just One
Posted by: | CommentsI hate being up this early. Ughh…Thank goodness I don’t have a wedding today. I’m up because I’m feeling rather unwell. I want to ralph…but I can’t. TMI!
One benefit is that I get to peruse yesterdays London and Teddington wedding of Lisa and Michael. A referral from Cara and Alex (who I didn’t actually see before I left…bummer — where were you guys?) from December 2008. Tough decision as to what to use…that’s got to be a good thing, right? More on Tuesday. It’s a Bank Holiday you know!
Originally I went for a focused beam of light…didn’t really work, so I spread it wide not thinking about the shadow…at first I was ‘bothered’ by it then I felt it was a happy accident
