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I am back from Cornwall, but my mind hasn’t quite caught up with the hectic pace of the city yet. Next Saturday’s wedding is bound to snap me out of my stupor and give a kick start to blogging properly again. Also, more pictures (and maybe even video!) from Cornwall to come, once I’ve gotten around to taking a closer look at what I captured while down there.
If there was an award for the craziest engagement shoot weather ever, Simona & Dan’s shoot would win hands down. Oh. My. God. Gale force winds and horizontal rain made this one of my most challenging shoots to date. I have to say that Simona and Dan were absolute troopers, and despite the slightly ‘windswept’ look, Simona managed to look absolutely stunning throughout! They are one of my (many!) couples getting married at the Andaz next year, and as if that wasn’t exciting enough a prospect, their evening party will take place at the Gherkin. I can’t wait!
This thumb print family tree guest book by Lovli Day is just so very awesome. If you’re getting married you need to get this for your wedding. That is all.
As a rule us photographers generally have a very turbulent love affair with light. More often than not dark clouds and grey skies try to come between us (unless you’re lucky enough to be a photographer in California), but sometimes we just manage to be in the right place at the right time. On those days, when the sun comes out to play and it’s all good, you know that you and light are as tight as can be.
It was pretty much the perfect autumn day when we went to Primrose Hill for Erika & Jon’s engagement shoot on the last weekend of October. The gloriously warm and beautifully low autumn sunshine made me a bit giddy, and all the colourful leaves were like sensory overload. If only every day and every shoot could be like this!
October was all about the engagement shoots. I did so many that my head got a bit dizzy. Now in November I actually have at least a couple of well-deserved weekends off (woo!) until my weddings pick up again in December.
For Fiona and Pete’s engagement session we tried to think of something a bit different from the standard wandering-around-the-streets-approach. I got the idea of using the spaces at Andaz Liverpool Street, as there are so many different nooks and crannies with completely different atmospheres, and kindly we got a permission from the hotel to do our little shoot there. In the end I think that all the logistics and organising that went with this shoot possibly made it a bit more highly strung than the average engagement shoot, so I think in the future I’ll be sticking to the old trusted wandering model. But still, once we got going, we did have a blast shooting our way through the hotel.
Thanks so much Fiona and Pete for your patience on the day. Not long to go until the wedding and I for one am really looking forward to it!
