So… it’s been three months since I last blogged. THREE MONTHS! I think I accidentally went into hibernation. Anyway, the sun is shining today and it feels as though spring is in the air. I haven’t actually been hibernating either – with 4 weddings since January and a whole bunch of engagement shoots it’s been…
Sun. Rain. Wind. More Sun. Early mornings and late nights. Bouquets sitting patiently in water. The smell of hairspray. Lots of hairspray. Tissues and lip gloss being packed in to handbags. That one guest who’s always late, running into church. Rings that don’t. quite. fit. The first kiss. And the one after that. Confetti getting EVERYWHERE. That…
Apparently 300 million pictures are uploaded to Facebook every day. 300 million. Every day. That means that every two minutes we take more photographs than the whole of humanity did in the 1800s. Who knows quite where this is going to lead, but it’s definitely an interesting time for anyone who is involved in telling visual stories….
Well it’s been a busy year, to put it mildly! Things are starting to calm down just a little now as we head into winter, although I’ve got some lovely weddings coming up before Christmas and in the New Year. On Saturday I was down near Totnes at the very lovely Kingston Estate. It’s a relatively…
A fantastic wedding to share with you today – Olivia and Chris’ Black Swan inspired back garden wedding. Way back when the days were long and the sun shone (July, to be precise) I travelled up to Oxfordshire for their awesome wedding. Starting off with some of the most beautiful light I think I’ve ever…
Well then, things are finally calming down (a little) at Gibson Towers after a busy busy summer. So to celebrate here’s a fresh, fun-filled and flamingo-flavoured blog post! Lucy & Rob’s wedding at Bristol Zoo Gardens was brilliant. To say I was excited is an understatement. As a big penguin fan I was particularly excited…
What do you get when you put a bunch of people in a field with lots of cider, pimms, amazing food, games, tipis, a mobile pub in the back of a converted military truck and of course, jaegerbombs? an epic day. Anna and Sam’s festival style wedding had it all, and they couldn’t have looked like…
I have genuinely lost track of the number of times that couples will whisper to me “what do we do??” just before they’re about to cut the cake. It turns out they needn’t have worried – you can do whatever the hell you want… More to come from Anna and Sam’s awesome wedding in the…
Here’s an extended preview from Millie and Alex’s awesome wedding on Dartmoor last month. I’ve had a fantastic year so far, 2014 has been amazing – more weddings than ever and a really busy summer. So busy in fact that I am absolutely, positively failing to blog anything at all. Sorry folks, but that’s life I…
Hello blog-visitors! Apologies for the lack of full weddings over the last month or two – it’s that time of year I’m afraid where I am pretty much flat out shooting and editing :D there have been a lot of previews over on my facebook page, if you want to keep up with what I’m doing…
a pre-wedding shoot in sunny Bristol from earlier this week – Lucy and Rob are getting married pretty darned soon and I can’t wait :) that is all
soooo… it’s been ages since I last blogged! apologies for the silence, but we had a little family holiday and went off to Turkey to seek some sun. I’m back now and raring to go on the weddings coming up in July, August and September. I kicked things off with an engagement shoot with Rachel and…
awesome time exploring the forest on the weekend. here’s one image from our time in the woods!
A little preview from a recent engagement shoot in Bath with the super lovely Kelly and Jim. Gotta love that warm summer evening light :)
A mini post today for Julia and Nick’s preview of their wedding at the fantastic Coombe Lodge, near Blagdon. I absolutely love Coombe Lodge, it’s one of my favourite local venues and I am lucky enough to work there a few times each year. A beautiful building nestled in fantastic grounds… and a great team…
I love engagement shoots. They’re bloomin’ brilliant. What better way to spend an afternoon than exploring the countryside, making some cool pictures and flying a kite on a beach? Chia-hui and Nick were cuter than cute. The abandoned chapel where we started, up on the hill overlooking Abbotsbury, is actually where Nick proposed too. A…
A preview from lucy and chris’s wedding at Athelhampton House last weekend. I think Athelhampton is one of the most picturesque places I’ve been in quite a while – a glorious 15th century Tudor pile nestled in the stunning Dorset countryside. The formal gardens are beautiful and the resident white doves must have one of…
A wedding at Paintworks in Bristol for you today, from Alice and Charlie’s wedding last summer. Paintworks is a really great space and pretty special if you’re looking for a city centre wedding in Bristol. It’s often used as a gallery but just as suited to being a great venue for cool and modern weddings…
A gorgeous sunny evening engagement shoot in Portishead graces the blog today – and this is hot off the presses from last night. I had a lovely time getting to know Katrina and Tim a little more and wandering around the sea front, lakes and hills of Portishead. I love a good wander and explore,…
A quick preview today from one of last week’s weddings, held at the Royal Pavilion at the end of the longest pier in the world. I first met Eve and Dave almost 3 years ago, at Heidi and Jim’s wedding. And I’d been looking forward to photographing their big day for quite a while now….
A few weeks back I went down to London for an engagement shoot with jenni and will. They’d chosen the Southbank and Borough Market as the location (one which I heartily approved of I might add, I’m never averse to a trip to borough market!). We set out on a crisp, sunny winter’s morning and…
A few frames from this weekend’s wedding at the AWESOME Tunnels Beaches, a superb wedding venue down on the Devon coast in Ilfracombe. Nina and Chris had possibly the best weather I’ve seen at a March wedding in quite some time. There were times during the day when it actually felt like we were in…
Hello folks! Feast your eyes on the preview from Annie and Nathan’s awesome wedding day this weekend at the lovely Curradine barns in Worcestershire. I’m not sure Annie and Nathan believed me when I told them that they were absolute naturals at the portrait stuff – but they were oblivious to me being there and…
I met Marianne and Graham at a wedding early last year. Graham mooned me while I was shooting portraits of his friends Natalie and Jamie. When he got in touch about his own wedding later in the summer I knew that it was bound to be a fun day!! And so it was. Marianne and…
Hey folks! I can’t believe how fast this year is going already. It’s almost mid-february and my 2014 kicked off in style with Lydia and Jon’s black tie winter wedding at the awesome Coombe Lodge in Blagdon. This was previewed over on my facebook page last week and now it’s making its debut on the…
For your viewing pleasure today we have the absolutely wonderful Clare and James joining us on the blog, with their wedding at Larmer Tree Gardens last summer. If you don’t know Larmer Tree then you’re missing out on something very special indeed. It’s a unique place – an old victorian pleasure garden nestled in the…
Hey lovely blog visitors, just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year! Hope everyone has had a great christmas and is looking forward to the year to come, I know I am! I’ve had a busy start to the month with lots of venue visits and meetings and I just wanted to…
So. This is Christmas… Another year over… And with that in mind, I’m pleased to present my annual wedding photography round-up, a meandering wander down memory lane for myself and for all the wonderful couples I’ve worked with over the last 12 months. This post originally started with me looking through 36,000 images. Yes, 36,000….
A small preview for you today from last weekend’s gorgeous wedding at the Assembly House in Norwich. Amy and James tied the knot at Thorpe St Andrew Church and then travelled (in style) to the Assembly House for their reception. It was one of those lovely crisp days with soft sunlight and there were fairy…
A very special day yesterday – I just wanted to share this single image from a couples shoot I did yesterday. Anniversary photography is such a great idea. (apologies for lack of recent blog posts too – there will be a wedding coming shortly! I’ve been enjoying some time off with our new baby and…
Shakira and Pete’s wedding gets the full blog treatment on the site today! When I met these two at Crowcombe Court to have a look around, a few weeks before their wedding, I just knew it was going to be a fun day from start to finish. Shakira has one of the most infectious smiles…
I woke up this morning fretting that I haven’t blogged a full wedding in quite a while. This is the sort of thing that wedding photographers wake up fretting about, believe it or not. What with a particularly busy September and October, and a nearly 3 month old baby, I haven’t had a great deal…
A preview from this weekend’s fantastic wedding at the amazing Matara Centre in the heart of the Cotswolds. I’d wanted to shoot at the Matara Centre for a while. Not only does it have some really interesting inside spaces (the dining room looked amazing as Sally and Rich had hung pom-poms and lanterns from the…
A quick preview from last weekend’s wedding at Charlton House Hotel in Shepton Mallet. I met Jodie and Chris what now seems like absolutely ages ago, although was probably last year sometime. We shared a coffee and chatted about their plans for the day. Jodie told me she was also a photographer and hoped that…
I had a blast this weekend – Shakira and Pete got married at the rather lovely Crowcombe Court and luckily for me they chose me as their wedding photographer. It was my first time at Crowcombe, an 18th century country house nestled in the Quantocks. To say I was excited about this wedding is a…
Claire and Jon’s wedding at Cirencester parish church followed by their reception at the magnificent Barnsley House gets it’s full showing on the blog today! As I sit here typing, looking out over a drizzly, grey Bristol, it’s rather lovely to look back at the sunny images from their day. I joined Claire and her…
Lucy and Tom got married and they did it in style. Vintage morris minors, a gorgeous afternoon tea, a vintage bus for the guests (although the less said about that the better) and general fun and merriment. I wanted to share a few images from their day while I work on the rest, so here’s…
So. This is a single frame preview from a gorgeous wedding on Sunday. Q: What do you do if it rains all day at a wedding? A: Wait until it stops then go out and make some awesome pictures.
Last weekend saw me making a trip to the awesome Southend-on-Sea for Michelle and Paul’s essex wedding at the Roslin Beach Hotel. I met Michelle and Paul through photographing their friends’ Jim and Heidi’s wedding back in 2011 (hey guys!). It was lovely to see some familiar faces on the day and we had a…
Saturday saw me venturing up to Oxfordshire to the wonderful Cornbury Park, for Alex and James’ wedding. They were married at a nearby church in Charlbury and hosted their reception at the glorious Cornbury Park. An amazing backdrop to a wonderful party. The last day of summer saw sunshine and blue skies which were a…
Today I bring you a preview from last week’s amazing shambala inspired festival wedding up in Northhamptonshire. Marianne and Graham got married at the lovely Kelmarsh Hall, just across the lake from where the Shambala festival was being held. It was such a fun day, with some familiar faces too (nat and jamie whose wedding…
A gorgeous wedding from one of my favourite recent venues, the marvellous Hotel Endsleigh near Tavistock in Devon. Ruth + Christian got married here a few weeks ago and it was the most beautiful day. Neslted in a tranquil valley overlooking the Tamar river, Endsleigh looked incredible. The roses were in full bloom, the birds…
A quick preview for you all from a lovely wedding this weekend at the awesome Paintworks in Bristol. A really cool, contemporary gallery space that made a beautiful venue for alice and charlie’s fantastic wedding day. I had a great time with them both and their families and I still can’t quite believe how lucky…
Morning folks! A lovely preview from a great day last week at The Swan in Streatley with Jess and James. We only met on Wednesday, as Jess and James live down under, and then they were married on Friday. It was a glorious day and the drive back from the church, meandering through the countryside…
Here’s a lovely summer wedding for you from the depths of South Devon. Charlotte and Neil married at a gorgeous church in Dittisham with THE MOST AMAZING flowers inside that I have ever seen. When I arrived in the morning Charlotte said ‘oh you must see the flowers in the church and get some photos…
I was so excited when Clare got in touch with me last year as I’d been wanting to shoot at Larmer Tree for a while. It’s just such a fantastic venue, with quirky buildings dotted throughout these wonderful old Victorian pleasure gardens. I was even more thrilled when we started talking and she told me…
A preview from Friday’s awesome wedding at the lovely Hyde Barn in the Cotswolds. Suzie and Kurt had a brilliant day. There’s so many things to write about but a lot of it will have to wait for the full blog post. For instance, I can’t tell you about all the hard work Suzie put…
False teeth. Welly wanging. Duck fishing. Valencia. A new dance move. Fine, fine food. Sun, flowers, laughter and even more laughter. Just some of the things that stick in my mind when I think of Charlotte and Phil’s amazing wedding at River Cottage. It was one of those days where, from a photography point of…
Hey folks! I sincerely hope you’re all enjoying the heatwave and aren’t moaning about being too hot ;) Last weekend I had the great pleasure of shooting claire + jon’s wedding at the frankly awesome Barnsley House in the Cotswolds. They were married at Cirencester Church first (what a beautiful place – as you can…
You may have noticed that I’ve been at River Cottage quite a bit recently… This was my last wedding there for a little while and what a way to end. Jess + Ben were married at the gorgeous Musbury Church and then had their reception at River Cottage. Every time I’ve been there has just…
This got a lot of love over on facebook this week so I thought I’d share it here so my regular blog visitors could enjoy it too! Two frames from Charlotte and Phil’s fantastic wedding at River Cottage a few weeks ago. I often prefer spontaneous confetti shots to the more posed ones – there’s…
Hey everyone – a full wedding for you this week! And what better than Ben and Gilly’s awesome tipi wedding in Hampshire from the start of the summer this year. It was a lovely, lovely day. They had what can only be described as just about the coolest wedding car I’ve ever seen – a…
Another gorgeous River Cottage wedding preview for you today. I don’t know quite how this happened, but I seem to be the River Cottage Photographer of Choice™ for June. I’m not complaining! The sun shone for us and welly’s were wanged, fine food was consumed and everyone had a jolly good time. This was also…
Yet another small preview for you today! I sound like a broken record at the moment – I promise I’ll blog a full wedding soon… it’s the busiest few weeks of the year though, so I’m concentrating on getting everyone’s images ready for them as soon as I can. I know what I’m like when…
Another preview for you today – this time of Philippa and Simon’s wedding at the Alexandra Hotel in Lyme Regis, followed by a reception at the gorgeous River Cottage last weekend. I cannot stress how much I enjoy shooting at River Cottage. It just has such a special feeling about it. It’s just as well…
A preview for you today from Emily and Rob’s lovely wedding last weekend. I was put in touch with them by Emily’s friend Zoe, who I’ll say a big thank you to now as I had a great time on the day and was really grateful to her for putting us in touch. Emily and…
This week’s Friday Finds image just goes to show one thing. You can be as stealthy as you like, but sometimes people just want to play up to the camera. Taken at an awesome wedding at the Red Barn, near Southend-on-Sea.
Another quick preview for you today from last weekend’s wedding in Hampshire. I know I haven’t done a proper blog post in a few weeks, and I will do soon, but it’s that time of year where shooting and editing everyone’s weddings takes over! So, in the meantime, enjoy a few teaser frames from ben…
This week’s friday finds image is one that makes me chuckle whenever I see it. A moment of proud glory for the father of the bride, as he enters the room to show everyone how well he has managed to tie his cravat. Simple, yet a lovely reminder for the bride of a moment that…
Over the course of the last few years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of the other people in Bristol and the South West who also work at weddings. I love meeting new people and by working alongside them I have had a chance to see those who are also really passionate about what…