Getting images without London’s great and good in the background was equally challenging – at least without walking for miles – but we managed pretty well! Charlotte and John are lovely so it was a real pleasure to do this session in spite of the madding crowds.

Can’t wait to photograph their wedding at the Crazy Bear a bit later in the year!

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Luckily for us, Mark and Chandima opted to have their pre-wedding photography there. A fine choice sir!

The guys first met in Oxford which made a really romantic/nostalgic location for them to have their session. And it just so happens it’s one of the most photogenic locations on earth. That said, we specialise in portraiture (rather than city-scapes) so the biggest challenge was to focus on the couple rather than getting sidetracked by Oxford itself! Note to self: go back and photograph there when I’m on my own time!

Anyway, this session was fantastic. Mark and Chandima are lovely company and so we chilled and chatted our way through the city and down to the meadows beside the river. The sun shone and, in this early part of the season, it wasn’t too busy for us to get quiet gentle imagery in amongst the bustle.

Can’t wait to photograph their wedding at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons in just a few weeks!

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I love our pre-wedding sessions as they’re a very chilled affair: possibly more chat than taking pictures! But that’s the point. And we still get stunning images like these. You don’t need pressure to make it happen – just nice clients like Sammie & Gareth and an eye for it I guess.

We’re really excited about their big day – particularly after so long – and it’s great to get the ball rolling with their pre-wedding session. And, if this session is anything to go by, it’ll be a really lovely one to photograph!

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This shoot is from last weekend and even then the weather was definitely improving. London is such an iconic city it’s a shame we don’t photograph up there more than we do. Should make a note to self to change that. Trafalgar Square, St. James Park, The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Borough Market, – the list is utterly breathtaken and, given we have quite a lot of customers from our famous capital, it really is an opportunity to capture some great images!

We started with Richard and Cassidy at Borough market and then, like three tourists with a somewhat oversize camera, we sauntered along the Southbank chatting and capturing images. I’ve wanted to do this again for so long! Brilliant! The hours just slid past and it was an absolute pleasure: perfect location, perfect weather, perfect people. Cannot tell you how excited I am about their wedding later in the year!

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In actual fact, we’ve been off and running since January. We don’t really slow down as such – though we don’t shoot as much ’social’ photography (lifestyle/weddings etc.) in the winter as we do in the summer, we’re constantly busy with commercial and fashion. But it’s all around now that the pre-wedding photography gets well under way.

Our pre-wedding sessions are a key part of the full wedding packages in that they provide a really nice opportunity to get to know our clients (we’re going to be working with them for a year or more from booking their wedding to the excitement of delivering the final album so it’s good to get at least a little familiar!) and to grab some pictures of them as a couple or a family.

This is one of those sessions and it was lovely. Victoria currently lives in the North of England so she’d travelled a long way down for the session but I think it was worth it! Both she and Samuel were easy to photograph and really nice, chilled, company. And the sun shone! As always, I get stupidly excited about photographing the wedding once I’ve been through the pre-wedding images. I can picture how the guys will look in their wedding attire and I start to get a sense of the type of day they’re going to have. I think this is going to be a truly great one!

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I don’t mean to sound criminally chirpy (believe me I’m really not – I do like to think I have a cool, dark and mysterious side though, admittedly, I could be well wide of the mark here) but there aren’t many things that make me happier than being out with a client and a camera. Being with my family is top of the list of course, just ahead of photography and closely followed by (in no particular order) Guinness; roast dinners; curry; snowboarding; skiing; loud music (Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster 2009 sounds pretty good at the moment with the volume pumped way too high); a hot beach (to be precise, a good book with a beer on a hot beach); Single Malt; mountain biking and maybe just a little traveling around the globe thrown in for good measure.

Actually, that now sounds like a very very corny CV. Still, it’s irrelevant as we’re working flat out at the moment and photography is pretty much the only thing I get to do. It’s a good job it’s high on the list then!

Ben and Barbara had the full force of me being chipper I’m afraid. I can’t help it. The weather for this, their pre-wedding shoot, was dire, but they’re very funny to be around so we just laughed a lot. And occasionally stopped to take a picture or two. Both Ben and Barbara (‘Bird’ to her friends – I had to refrain from using her nickname as if anyone overheard me pointing a camera and saying ‘that’s it Bird, you look perfect’…) are ultra-fit. I don’t mean kinda normal go-to-the-gym-once-a-week-and-play-squash-when-I-can-be-bothered sort of fit. I mean international yachtswoman (Barbara) and alpine mountain bike guide (Ben) fit. Which left me feeling embarrassingly out of shape. Still, I can take a good picture so, given both Ben and Bird are into their photography, maybe they forgave the eagerness with which I accepted a cup of tea after a couple of hours’ shooting!

It’s really nice when our clients are fun to be with like this. Makes the trip down to Southampton completely worthwhile. Even in the pouring rain.

Loved the shoot, love the images, can’t wait until the wedding!

There’s always a sense of style, of drama. A kind of feeling of history everywhere you look. And it’s utterly fantastic. The only other city I’ve loved working in as much is New York. Only for us, London is on our doorstep which makes things a little more accessible than The Big Apple!

It’s going to be great this season as as we have a number of clients in our famous capital city so I’m going nipping in and out a lot!

This particular shoot is with a couple whose wedding we’re going to be photographing at The Crazy Bear in Stadhampton. Now I’m always excited about our Crazy Bear weddings but with the added twist of working with a client in Greenwich, well, things couldn’t be better.

Greenwich park, like many of London’s vast green expanses, is simply fantastic to work in. Even with the world’s tourists – having seemingly broken into some kind of odd-ball clothing shop – amassing tera-pixel upon tera-pixel of self-portraits around you, the parks feel fresh and open – and quintessentially London. And with Canary Wharf and the Millenium Dome (or is that now the O2 Arena?) just in the distance you couldn’t feel closer to the vast metropolis.

I loved this shoot. Even in the pouring rain (have a look at some of the images!). It was a wonderful space to play. And, as is so often the case, the client – Nancy & Phil and their little boy, Oscar, were brilliant fun. A very very fine way to spend an afternoon in lovely company. Oh, and we captured some beautiful images too!

And, once we’d finished and packed the cameras away, we had the added benefit of nipping down the road to some of oldest (a.k.a. long-suffering) friends’ for bit of tea’n'cake. Had I not been driving, it would have been a beer. Or two. Still, pretty much a perfect end to a perfect day.

We don’t advertise anywhere (though look out for our new soon-to-be-branded Land Rover Defender!) so it’s always reassuring to hear that people are finding us online as well as through the many recommendations we get. And modifying our cryptic titles to be something a little more, well, useful is just another small step we’re taking!

Anyway, onto the subject of this particular blog: Amy & Jonny’s pre-wedding session at Wendover Woods. This Buckinghamshire setting (d’you see what I did there?!) is almost certainly our most-visited location along with Coombe Hill and our home village of Haddenham. I must make an effort to find something more industrial this year for our fashion clients but, well, if you have beautiful locations right on your doorstep then why not go with it?!

The weather wasn’t exactly easy to deal with – but it was suitably dramatic! Although the snow wasn’t sticking, it was coming down at quite a pace for a period!

Amy & Jonny are getting married at Nether Winchendon House later this year and we’re unbelievably excited about working with them both. So early this Saturday before the crowds arrived (actually, given the weather, I’m not sure there’d be much in the way of crowds except for dog-walkers, mountain-bikers and photographers but still) we found ourselves on the hillside of this amazing forest.

The session was brilliant fun (they brought their two very lively pet labradors with them!) and the photos are just what I’d hope for. Lots of character and a lot of fun. Can’t wait for the summer to photograph the whole family in such a wonderful setting as Nether Winchendon. Perfect.

This was one of those pre-wedding sessions that we’ll remember I think – beautiful venue (Hunton Park in Hertfordshire), stunning weather, great company and a really very nice pub snack (at the Clarendon – a venue I can heartily recommend!) to break the session up nicely. I think my family may have thought I had managed to get lost on my way home given I was missing for the best part of 5 hours! Still, it was worth it as the pictures are beautiful and besides, Donna and Phil are really lovely to be around which made it a thoroughly enjoyable way to while away a sunny June Sunday!

Ah, I do so love my job.

Neil, Nikki and Tom were fantastic to photograph – very easy going and very much a close family unit. Tom, in particular, loved being in front of the camera and the photos we have of him are just stunning. It’s going to be an absolute pleasure to photograph their wedding!

PS. I should just add that we had the pleasure of photographing Neil and Nikki’s wedding on Saturday (we’re a bit behind on our blogging – but I didn’t want to miss this one out) and it was every bit as gorgeous as we knew it would be!