Forty-Fifth Collection

What should have been a cold December day turned into great weather by the beach so found a great spot to shoot but also relax for a little bit!
Nothing like getting the angle from up above!

During a few minutes we had before the coctail, we found a wonderful light.
We took full advantage of 10 minutes before sunset.
A beautiful pine forest, the couple in love and the old car did the rest.
The photo is taken in Simancas, a beautiful town very close to Valladolid, Spain.
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I love this candid moment during the father of the brides's speech :)
Emma's dad was explaining (both verbally and non-verbally) that you should never go to bed on an argument. His solution? Simple; for every husband to always agree with his wife!
I had preempted that something was going to happen when I noticed the covered signed before the speeches had started so I made sure that periodically I and was in the right spot with a 24mm lens which enabled me to capture the action.

Speaking the beautiful words for your bride in public isn't that easy! Thomas wrote 2 pages full of beautiful words & stories...

This where the time Noelia began her journey to put on her dress but she found some problems with the stockings and she began nervous so her bridesmaid and even my assistant get to work on to put them in place, in the process I shot that picture, even the mom pose for it.

Vasilis & Eirilena, a beautiful couple. One of my favorite photos in Skra lake, Greece. After a long walk along the calm river you reach this breathtaking place. The result worth the effort!

The tasting.
The groomsmen splurged on a bottle of expensive champagne and they all took a moment to savour its finery while they were getting ready to head out to the ceremony.

When Danielle and Joe said they wanted a little private time away from their guests, we decided to hide in the ceremony barn, and said I would hang back while they did. They did this totally unexpectedly and I was just fortunate enough to sense something was about to happen :-)

This wedding couple lives close to the forest where they often walk.
He asked her to marry him during one of their hikes and that's why we went there on their wedding day.
This place on a hill was a beautiful backdrop for this photo.

Thank you for the award. This was Alice and James' wedding on a gorgeous summers day outside the church where guests were giving the confetti some gusto.

Rachel and Blake on the swing at Jaspers on the NSW South Coast. I had said that I'd meet them by the swing for a few photographs only to find them like this having a little chat. I let them be whilst I took some images without them realising.

Another from Elmore Court in Gloucestershire. This young lad, the little boy of the bride and groom decided JUST before they are about to cut the cake to sneak a bit into his mouth....and I caught him red handed.

Shooting a beautiful summer wedding with a relaxed and fun-loving couple at Abbeywood Estate in the Uk.
Their ring bearer did an excellent job providing the rings and took his role very seriously!

A moment from a lovely wedding at the botanical gardens in Cambridge.
We were experiencing a heat wave in the UK, and a lot of the grass was yellow,
so I thought it would be a good idea to use the green houses in their portrait photos.

This couple is so special for us. We organize their wild elopement into a small island of French Polynesia, Moorea, in the middle of pineapple fields and along the huge mountain of Rotui. They were only together, we were their only witnesses...

This picture is taken in the Netherlands in the old city called Dordrecht. An emotional moment when bride and groom arrive right for the ceremony. All their family and friends are waiting for them at the entrance of the city hall.

Amazing how you can use a gate in a cathedral as the looks of a heart with some ambient lighting. Add two off camera flashes plus this couple.. And halleluja will sound through this church ;)

The photo was taken in a forest in Masuria (Poland). The amazing bride greatly facilitated the task of making a nice photo. The gentle sun that shone on the face through the branches probably did a nice job ;)

The DJ and I discussed when to set of the Confetti canons. I took some 1st dance shots and then quickly switched to a wide angle 14mm lens and crouched down ready for the canons. I knew exactly the beat of the song for when the were to explode so I locked focus on the couple and fired several shots and selected the best of the bunch. Everyone loved the confetti canons going off.

Couple Ashok and Ashika wanted me to capture a moment that will be preserved forever! It was a rainy day in our place and I took the couple out for a drive and found this place and had to take the shot!
The rain is lit with a strobe from behind!

This was the last shot I had on Salwa & Jesse wedding before the reception start. The bride was very relaxed and the day was going very smooth. I started to ask her and her bridesmaids to kindly start capturing some natural, fun photos. There were kinda hesitated at the beginning about this idea to through their flowers up in the air, but in a few seconds, they were like let's do it. I loved to capture and focus on the faces expressions of each one of them.

Rhi and Olli had planned their wedding in secret, inviting a small band of family and friends to a spurious birthday party in a big house in the Cheshire countryside. Over breakfast, with much of Rhi's preparations already underway upstairs, they came clean to much shock, surprise and tears. Although Rhi's father was in on the secret, her mother wasn't, and they shared a few quiet moments together in amongst the panic of preparing for an unexpectedly big day!

This is at the back of the building where this couple got married.
I saw the architecture and loved how the shape could beautifully contradict with the couple.
Having my assistant point the flash at the couple to create the shadows on the wall, really enhanced the overall feel.

I love the play of light and shadow, my couple loves natural spaces, so we decided to take photos in a nearby forest.
This one was the culmination of the entire day. Hope you like it.

The pictures that look effortlessly beautiful are the ones that take the most effort. A million little details and pitch-perfect co-ordination later, we got to click the exact frame we had in mind. This award is definitely making it to our history books.

Lovely dutch wedding couple is covered in confetti by friend and family.
This couple is from Udenhout that is in the south of The Netherlands had an amazing wedding day with friends and family.

Thank you so much for recognising my work. I wanted to give something out of the ordinary to this couple. This building ( a Buddhist Stupa) has been our city's heritage and the sky was filled with stars. So the thought of a star trail portrait triggered

At a little lovely estate, where this overhanging and knotted hedge which is called the loverslane, had one spot where the light fell trough the leaves. A perfect moment to capture these two lovely people.

I’ve always been passionate about making reflections in my photographs.
So this is also one of them, the moment you see it , you literally feel this is not a photograph, it’s an ART.

Amazing location, Baveno near Milan. The couple chartered a speedboat for half an hour to go with their bridesmaids to an island on the lake for some pictures. This was what I got as they returned to the boat. Wonderful light.