Creative wedding, couple & family reportage photography covering Cornwall, London, UK and overseas
Springtime in London! It was such a pleasure to get to know Rebecca & Craig while walking some of my favourite streets during their London engagement shoot. These two are getting married in Aynhoe Park later this year, which fills me with such excitement, magical things always happen at Aynhoe!
The loveliest couple, a beautiful summer evening, and London showing its best. What more could you ask for? I just loved spending a magical golden hour photographing Isabel & Angel’s anniversary session. It was such a pleasure to meet you guys, I hope you’ll have many more gorgeous anniversaries to celebrate in the future! x
The weather was outrageous on the day of Fleur & Nick’s engagement session. The wind and the rain felt like an impossible obstacle when we started, and then something magical happened. The rain stopped – just enough for us to do our thing – before returning with a vengeance. I think we got mysteriously lucky, because Fleur & Nick deserve all the luck and laughter in the world. They fell in love in dramatic circumstances, as survivors of a horrible accident, and for them to get through all that together, the happiness they found with each other feels all the more poignant. I can’t wait to celebrate their wedding day at the end of the summer!
Eileen & Noel are both from New Zealand, but met while living and working in London. Now they are engaged and planning their wedding and move back to the homeland. To celebrate their engagement, and their time together in London, on a beautiful London afternoon we made the most of the sunshine and buzz of the South Bank.
This blog post means a great deal to me. It is both a return to something familiar, and the beginning of something new. Before I shot weddings, before I got lucky enough to be too busy to think about anything but weddings, I used to make a lot of personal work. Photography was an outlet for my ideas and an expression of what was going on inside. And while I obviously love love love calling photography work now, for the longest time I’ve missed not making personal work, not shooting anything just for myself.
Sure, I’ve talked about starting a personal project. A lot. I’ve abused Instagram and I’ve tried to complete a 365 project on the iPhone. But it is not the same. When ever I thought about a ‘proper’ personal project, I felt it should be something… grand, something with a wider reach, something that would help people… and yes, that’s something I still want to do down the line. But I realised that in order to start making more personal work, I have to start with something more straightforward. I have to start from within. I have to start with what gives me joy, right now.
So, almost by accident, I finally stumbled onto a project. The music of Message to Bears has been hugely inspirational to me for a while now. Many a wedding has been edited to the beautiful songs written by Jerome Alexander, and I felt this huge pull to spend some time with this man and make a few photos along the way. When we got together and walked around Southwark chatting about music and chasing the sun, a feeling of a flame being ignited took over. I had nearly forgotten how amazing it felt to be taking photographs just for myself, just because. And then and there I decided that this would continue…
The working name for this project is ‘Dreamers’, and I mean to photograph people who inspire me in different ways. People who dream big.
I am so fricken excited.
