Busy Week Ahead...

I like being busy, which is just as well as the next few weeks promise to be pretty hectic! In fact this is the first time I've published a blog post remotely, taking the opportunity to do it whilst on the 21:07 from London to Liverpool Lime Street - the glamour! This weekend is full, it starts on Friday with an 8.30pm KO for 7-a-side football in Henley on Thames. An early start on Saturday morning (7am) for Emma & Ben's wedding at Maison Tallbooth and Le Tallbooth in Dedham, Essex. Sunday and Monday are spent in the company of Jeff Ascough, widely accepted as the UK's finest wedding photographer and in 2008 voted one of the top 10 in the world by American Photo magazine for his stunning photo journalistic style.  It's the second time I've been to one of Jeff's workshops, the previous session was with Australian photographer Marcus Bell. This time the focus is on Jeff's workflow, so pretty much everything to do with post editing once the images have been captured. To be the best you have to learn from the best so i think it will be a fascinating couple of days. I hope to see the family on Tuesday...!

Joseph

It's difficult to coax babies into posing for the camera... which is fine as I like to shoot natural and unposed whether this is a family, wedding or baby. It also makes it a challenge, shooting round a wriggling baby with limited patience! I was lucky with Joseph, he was very chilled out... I love the detail when taking pictures of babies, particularly hands and feet. Here are some shots of Joseph that I took recently.

Family Norris

Having had a very relaxing Easter break I have 2 shoots tomorrow - In the afternoon I'm helping out an excellent photographer who I've worked with before and who has established a great business with some 'exclusive' clients. Client confidentiality etc means that I can't go into detail - how mysterious! The morning shoot is at Alice Holt near Farnham. It's a beautiful location and great for family shoots such as the one here for the Norris family taken a couple of weeks ago.

Michelle & Chris

Michelle & Chris were married at Cain Manor near Haslemere. When I first met Michelle & Chris in February the scene was very different as we'd just had 6 inches of snow! Fortunately it stayed clear on their wedding day. I'm currently editing the images from the day, here's an early sight....

Jenny & Jonathan

This is the first time that I've photographed a wedding at Clandon House in Guildford - it's an incredible building and great place to get married. It also coincided with one of the wettest days of recent years, it rained, rained and then rained some more! The weather couldn't dampen what was a fantastic day for Jenny and Jonathan.