Twenty Second Collection

Most people stress about the weather on their wedding day, but not Charlotte & Chris. I got very lucky - just the right kind of rain and a willingness to create something truly original and beautiful from the end of their wedding. Using a little team of guests which I assembled we went outside, each person with their specific role (from umbrella holder, to the person who put the flash in just the right place). This was actually a 'test' shot, a REAL moment of intimacy between 2 people on their wedding day.

Lorraine and David had a festival style wedding in a field near their house in Leicestershire, England.
As being suited to each other, not many couples are as suited as these guys. Lorraine and David, the most stylish, cool and relaxed couple of the year.

We were talking about inspirations to use for her in Venice. Something to compliment the epic beauty and historical wonder around her. We found the red cape and she gave it the pop we were looking for.

This gorgeous bride to be wanted some wedding boudoir photos as a surprise gift for her fiance, so we used a white lace veil to do some beautiful shots of her! Not much to say, as this woman is simply stunning!

This picture was done at a venue that doesn't deliver much backdrop on an awful winter day. With sideways rain there was no way the bride was going to go outside, and with little scope for anything too exciting indoors I made this composite image with about 7 exposures using just a speedlight on the couple.

A windy day at Waimanalo beach on Oahu, Hawaii. The bride was walking out to the beach with incredible difficulty so the groom grabbed the dress to help her. This image in black and white captures the intensity and solidarity of love these two have while expressing it through the presence of wind.

The couple were walking through Castlefield in Manchester after getting married at Hilton's Cloud 23 Sky bar. As they walked over the bridge in Castlefield, I asked them just to stop, have a moment and they decided to practice their first dance. This was what I captured!

There were already several photographers who were also photographed their couples, at the Spring of Bosna river / Bosnia and Hercegovina. I just wanted something unique and special. And just at that moment the sky got opened above my newlyweds and I couldn't to not catch that amazing moment.

Married couple lying on the carpet in the hotel Kempinski, High Tatras, Slovak republic. This picture was taken without using dron.

I flew out to Phoenix, Arizona for Jen & Scott's wedding day. Two days after the wedding, we made a trip up to Sedona to take additional portraits of the couple in a unique setting. They were running behind in getting ready, which set us back for the day (more on that later).

Our first stop was Tonto Natural Bridge, where we captured the photos of these two inside of a canyon-looking area. We first had to hike about 30 minutes down into the canyon. My assistant Mark and I each had lighting and camera gear to carry, and the couple had their wedding clothing in garment bags which they carried over their shoulders.

There was a beautiful waterfall within the basin of the natural bridge, and we used it as a backdrop for one of the photos. We used the view from the opposite direction as an additional background. Jen and Scott changed into their wedding day clothing once we arrived to the location we wanted to capture their photos in.

After we finished up at Tonto Bridge, we decided to make a drive further into Sedona to Devil's Bridge. We had hoped to arrive on time to have daylight, but miscalculated the time it would take to make the drive. We ended up arriving at the park exactly as the sun went down, but still had a hike to make in order to get to where the natural bridge was. We decided that since I was equipped with a tripod, some lights, and since we had come such a long way, to move forward and aim for a nighttime capture complete with stars.

What we didn't know was that the hike would take would take a full hour of brisk walking, while carrying even more equipment than we had before. We also were minimally prepared as far as flashlights go - three smart phones; two of which were nearly dead. We couldn't see much further than in front of our faces, and with a moonless night, things could have gotten bad without working together to make sure we were all safe. The last portion of our hike literally involved some pretty steep climbing (fully equipped, remember). We all discussed turning around and going back at this point, as we had no way to know how much further we had to go in order to make it to the bridge.

We carried on, and finally made it! My camera needed massive help to even lock focus on the couple (my eye couldn't have done it on manual if I wanted to), and so I had Scott aim the light from a smart phone toward Jen's face so that I could lock focus. I set the camera for both 20 and 30 second time exposures, and was only able to create a total of 3 images (we were all pretty anxious to leave and to be back at our cars where we would be safe, AND it was a struggle to pose them between the canyon gap and where I was standing; there was over 1,000 foot drop between us).

An hour after finishing, we made it safely to our cars, and that was that!

A very cold UK night, 3 days before Christmas. Gemma and Joss were up for the 5 minute walk up the pitch-black drive of the venue to get this. One flash, one couple in love and John Dent lighting them with a torch so I could focus..

Carla & Becks tied the knot at the stunning Didsbury House, Manchester just a week before Christmas. The girls were stuck inside as it was freezing (literally freezing at -2°).

It was Christmas Eve morning, she was looking out towards Ponte dei Sospiri, taking cover in her lace hood from the crisp morning air. Her and Venice.

Joni and Greg were married at a beautiful lakeside resort hotel near the forest. They are both passionate about trees and this particular forest had some of the oldest trees in Saskatchewan so we went there for some photos! When we got there, it started to lightly rain and when the sun came out it was absolutely beautiful!

It was spontaneously, unexpected and crazy.
It did not take me long to persuade Muidu and Sanel to move out from the wedding hall to take a photograph of them in their Car, which attracted a lot of attention during the Wedding.
And if the weather was not quite right, we used it as our advantage to do a good photograph for which I came back into the wedding hall with wet pants.

I flew out to Phoenix, Arizona for Jen & Scott's wedding day. Two days after the wedding, we made a trip up to Sedona to take additional portraits of the couple in a unique setting. They were running behind in getting ready, which set us back for the day (more on that later).

Our first stop was Tonto Natural Bridge, where we captured the photos of these two inside of a canyon-looking area. We first had to hike about 30 minutes down into the canyon. My assistant Mark and I each had lighting and camera gear to carry, and the couple had their wedding clothing in garment bags which they carried over their shoulders.

There was a beautiful waterfall within the basin of the natural bridge, and we used it as a backdrop for one of the photos. We used the view from the opposite direction as an additional background. Jen and Scott changed into their wedding day clothing once we arrived to the location we wanted to capture their photos in.

After we finished up at Tonto Bridge, we decided to make a drive further into Sedona to Devil's Bridge. We had hoped to arrive on time to have daylight, but miscalculated the time it would take to make the drive. We ended up arriving at the park exactly as the sun went down, but still had a hike to make in order to get to where the natural bridge was. We decided that since I was equipped with a tripod, some lights, and since we had come such a long way, to move forward and aim for a nighttime capture complete with stars.

What we didn't know was that the hike would take would take a full hour of brisk walking, while carrying even more equipment than we had before. We also were minimally prepared as far as flashlights go - three smart phones; two of which were nearly dead. We couldn't see much further than in front of our faces, and with a moonless night, things could have gotten bad without working together to make sure we were all safe. The last portion of our hike literally involved some pretty steep climbing (fully equipped, remember). We all discussed turning around and going back at this point, as we had no way to know how much further we had to go in order to make it to the bridge.

We carried on, and finally made it! My camera needed massive help to even lock focus on the couple (my eye couldn't have done it on manual if I wanted to), and so I had Scott aim the light from a smart phone toward Jen's face so that I could lock focus. I set the camera for both 20 and 30 second time exposures, and was only able to create a total of 3 images (we were all pretty anxious to leave and to be back at our cars where we would be safe, AND it was a struggle to pose them between the canyon gap and where I was standing; there was over 1,000 foot drop between us).

An hour after finishing, we made it safely to our cars, and that was that!

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984)