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Relaxed Business Portraits – Reset Dorset
On a recent trip to the south coast I met up with two awesome women who have set up a fab new business to take care of you when you need it. Reset Dorset creates pop up wellness events incorporating a combination of fitness, treatments, workshops, demos and food all...
Woodland Smoke Bomb Engagement Shoot – Alice & Ben
I was so excited when Alice asked if we could include some smoke in their woodland shoot, I wasn't so excited about the rain though. Turns out I needn't have worried because these two took it all in their stride, danced as it poured and jumped in to the back of their...
Family Farm Marquee Wedding – Rosa & Freddie Hitched
HOLY SHIT BALLS THIS PREVIEW WAS HARD TO CHOOSE! Like really really REALLY hard. I was still buzzing at 1.30 in the morning after this wedding, it was the kind I would have happily stayed at till the last guest had left! When the heart of my wedding season kicks off...
Fun Family Photography For Days
I love taking photos of families and I'm here to give a little shout out to those that might be thinking about booking me...please do it soon if you are! Fun family photography is my favourite and I don't want to put any pressure on your or anything but once wedding...
Tipi Festival Wedding – Vanstone Garden Centre
Adele and Paul are regulars at Glastonbury and knew exactly what they wanted from their day. Their hearts were set on a tipi festival wedding and what they pulled together was exactly that! After getting engaged in Sydney back in 2017 they started planning every...
The William Cecil Stamford Wedding – Charlotte & Joe Get Hitched
BUUUUSH! Was the word I shouted the most times today to make people laugh and it worked...a lot. The less said about that the better really! Charlotte and Joe got married today at their William Cecil Stamford Wedding and I can honestly say that they are two of the...
What Would You Do With An Empty Swimming Pool?
On Friday I got to draw a big red line through one of the items on my photography bucket list and can happily say that 'photo shoot in an empty swimming pool' has been well and truly done thanks to general maintenance at Catmose Sports Centre. When they called...
Dream Autumnal Wedding at The Woodlands
The Woodlands at Hothorpe Hall is one of my favourite alternative venues in this area because for starters is has a blummin' tree house as the honeymoon suite. And who doesn't love a blummin' tree house! Secondly, you can get married outside in a pretty little...
Wedding Photos on Film
Every so often I take my Olympus camera along to weddings with me and snap a few extras so that couples can also have some wedding photos on film. Waiting for scans to come back from development is a little like waiting for Christmas and it's always awesome to see the...
Florida on Film
Aside from the regular digital camera I took to Florida with me this January, I also took a film camera and I'm in love with the results. I used two different films, Agfa and Revlog on my Olympus OM1n which I adore...as well as Elsie's face and the colours that came...
The Wedding Industry Awards Regional Finalist
I didn't blog about it at the time but having just read all the feedback that my awesome couples submitted to show their support of my entry I thought now would be a good time to shout "I AM A WEDDING INDUSTRY AWARD REGIONAL FINALIST FOR THE SECOND YEAR...
Rutland Wedding Highlights Video – Lucy & Richard
Lucy and Richard got married back in June in their home town (and mine!) of Uppingham. The ceremony was in the church and the party was in their back garden which they completely transformed! As well as photos, these two had a Rutland wedding highlights video as an...
Elsie Takes Florida by Storm
January is the month for me to slack off a bit and take in some winter sunshine. It was also the perfect opportunity to take Elsie across the Atlantic for her first trip to America and a state that holds many happy memories for me as a kid. If you've explored my...
January Doesn’t Have to Suck!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Did you get engaged over Christmas?! If you did then I have some lovely news for you. I'm giving away prizes to all couples who book their weddings with me in January. ALL OF THEM! Who doesn't love prizes in January? I know I do! 1ST PRIZE - An...
Rutland Water Winter Wedding
And so to my last wedding of the year, I closed 2018 exactly the same way that I started it and I couldn't be happier! This was a local blow out with a full on Rutland Water winter wedding on NYE...the guests even braved the cold to drink champagne and eat mince pies...
Brownsover Hall Winter Wedding
Laura & Casey's Wedding - December 2018 Oh Laura and Casey, thank you for being the wonderfully awkward, utterly beautiful human beings that you are. Their Brownsover Hall winter wedding was ace and it's more than OK that the kids stole the show a little bit...
Auction Fundraiser – A Day In The Life Family Photos
Time for a little auction fundraiser while doing something I love I bloody love taking pictures of families at home, you're in your happy place with all your comforts and favourite things around you. It's the place you can be most yourself and the easiest place to get...
Elsie – Aged Two
Turns out I'm way behind on all those things I said I would do when it came to documenting Elsie's life. Thank goodness for Instagram stories or all would be lost. I filmed her well over a year ago in an attempt to capture just how gentle she was at the time and this...
2017 Wedding Highlights
I'm a little late to the party but I wanted to get my 2017 wedding highlights out to you lot by the end of January and I've managed it with a few days to spare so it's not all bad! I really did have an epic year of weddings and would happily have made the...
Rosie & Andy’s Relaxed London Wedding
On the 16th September 2017, this lovely pair planned out their perfectly relaxed London wedding. The sun, city and couple shone for this classic but quirky ceremony. After getting engaged in our very own Rural Rutland, the couple swapped muddy welly boots for...
The Story of The Dress
Yesterday was a wedding day, like a Saturday often is for me, and I was headed to Rushton Hall for the wedding of Nathalie and Mike, prepped, peppy and photo ready! I arrived at 10.30am all ready for an hour of bridal prep before the wedding at 11.30am, only to...
The Stotts – Family Photos At Home
My family photography has come a long way since I started out, but I still completely adore being invited to do family photos at home, especially when people ask me to travel all the way to London to do it! The Stott family recently had a new little arrival who has...
Laura & Jon’s Family Fun Wedding At Shearsby Bath
So I've set myself a new challenge, and that is to blog more, and to keep it brief! The summer is such a mental time for me that I barely get the chance to do it but I really want to and to that end I've set myself an image limit of 50 to sum up each...
She & I – Self Portraiture – Roll One
Ever since I was at university, I've wanted to point the camera towards myself, in a non narcissistic way, and delve a little deeper in to the art of self portraiture. I wrote my dissertation on female photographers who photograph themselves and their motivations to...
Rap Your Way to Snap…Or Not? Snap Photography Festival Entry
So...this is a bit of an odd one and I'm going to start out by saying that if you don't know what Snap Photography Festival is then you should read up on it. Because I have and I really want to go! I didn't get the chance last year because I bought a house instead,...
France on Film
I went to France last week and took my film camera. With mild trepidation I set about capturing my holiday in France on film. My old Olympus has a faulty light meter so I had to use one on my phone, then my own knowledge of lenses and light to estimate my settings and...
Jillie & John’s Oakham Castle Wedding
The first wedding I ever photographed was my brother's and it just so happened to be at Oakham Castle, a well known local landmark. To my surprise I haven't actually been back, until earlier this year when I photographed Jillie and John's Oakham Castle Wedding on...
Zoe & Jon’s Bassmead Manor Barns Wedding
Zoe is the sister of my husband's best man's wife. Which makes us practically related right?! Well OK, not really, but we've met a couple of times which made it lovely to be asked to be their wedding photographer because they'd actually met me and still wanted me...
Debs & Daryl gifted me my first Sherwood Forest Wedding and despite being at dusk, in March, the weather did not misbehave and these two got just the wedding they planned...even if it was pitch black by the time the ceremony ended because the bride was a little...
Laura & Adam – Rutland Water Engagement Pics
When I suggested to these two outdoor, bike enthusiasts that we hire a tandem and head to the water they didn't argue one little bit! As it's on my door step, Rutland Water Engagement photos are something of a speciality of mine so it was great to add a little bit...
