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Given the sunny weather we're being treated to at the moment, it's hard to imagine that just over a month ago we were experiencing snow drifts of up to 10 ft in Yorkshire. The day before the wedding I was actually wrapped up on our Sofa with the log f...
Where to start with this wedding? The handmade bouquets? The hundreds of handmade cranes hanging from the ceremony room? The stunning food from The Crown Inn? The fact it was pretty much the last sunny and warm day of the year despite being October?
It's funny how quickly weddings come round. As wedding photographers we tend to get booked up about a year out before the wedding. It's probably the first thing that comes after booking a venue. Once you have a date, you go out to suppliers and start finding availability. Becky first got in touch around April last year for hers and Roberts wedd...
This has to be one of the most fun and inventive Engagement Shoots I've ever had the pleasure of doing. Whilst I love doing more conventional Engagement Shoots too, it really gets my creative juices going when a couple come with their own ideas. Steve & Jade came to me looking to create some band posters that would be put up in The Crowne Inn dur...
When Chimmey first got in touch about arranging this shoot before Christmas, I jokingly said "Maybe there'll be some snow in January, that'd make a good backdrop in Valley Gardens!" So when the Friday evening we'd planned to do it came round and it was blowing snow sideways, we decided it'd be best to wait until morning and see what the weather wa...
Laura is seemingly a glutton for punishment. She's already planning on running the Great North Run next year. She got in touch a few weeks ago wanting a photoshoot with her 5 year old daughter Sienna, having hired a personal trainer in January and losing loads of weight. We had to postpone the shoot by a couple of weeks due to me going over on m...
It's funny photographing children. They can look at their best right up until you ask them to look at the camera. My niece is the worst for this. Most children (and most adults for that matter) find it impossible to display a natural smile when prompted. It's all about catching them off guard wh...
One of the things I'm going to try and do this year is to get out and do more personal work, even if it it just in the form of wandering round Harrogate taking photos. There's a figure of 10,000 hours bandied around as being the mark you need to hit to truly master any artform, it originally comes ...
An incident over the weekend at a major high street computer retailer got me thinking about the service I provide to people and how easily trust can be lost over the tiniest of indiscretions. Now I'll be the first to admit, I rarely shop on the high street anymore. It's especially difficult when the service from online retailers is so efficient. ...
*Disclaimer - Please read in the voice of Morgan Freeman*In 2012, Chris Turner photographed a wedding. All they found of him was a muddy set of clothes, a bar of soap, and an Nikon D90, damn near worn down to the nub. I used to think it would take two hours to get his equipment back. Old Chris did it in less than twenty minutes. Oh, Chris loved...
