Thursday 27 January 2011

Going Home.

I shot a wedding a few months ago in Brighton.
I like Brighton, spent a lot of my formative years watching bands there. I never lived there, at the time I was living in Bexhill or as its more commonly known, God's Waiting Room, so for any entertainment it was either Hastings, which was close but well past it's sell buy date even then (although I did see the Jam and the Specials on the now burnt down pier), Eastbourne which was scarily like Bexhill or drive the 35 miles to Brighton, which is what we did!
Watched a lot of great bands there, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, The Police, Thin Lizzy and Rod Stewart at The Brighton Centre, The Undertones and Stranglers at the Top Rank and Hazel O'Conner and Sade at the Dome. Great days!
So I love going back as often as I can and when the chance came up to shoot Becky and Matt's wedding I jumped at it! Really nice relaxed wedding, in fact Becky was so relaxed she didnt worry at all when her limo failed to show up, Becky and the bridesmaide's just jumped in Dad's car! 
The day was spent at the Claremont Hotel just off the sea front so we were able to use Dads car again to shoot a few images by the sea. Lovely day, here's a few pictures from it.





Thursday 13 January 2011

2011 Already!

Well, what happened to 2010, one minute its spring, the next I'm sitting on the M25 for five hours stuck in snow a week before Christmas!
So, another New Years resolution, blog at least once during the winter, spring, summer and autumn!
To make amends for my lack of blogging, again, here's a few shots from a family portrait session I photographed last September in Whitstable.
I love shooting urban portraits, much more fun than having people sit in a sterile studio with a tacky background, doing exactly the same shot you did yesterday, lets get outside and find, or dare I say it, create, something a bit different!Many thanks to the wonderful Farlam family for going with the flow!