Daniel

Ackerley

The sunset was amazing but we had a very overcast day here in England so I waited until the sun managed to pop out for a minute, I asked Rebecca & Ash to practice the first dance, and then this happened... magic!

Matt & Kelly had an amazing day over in France, and the sunlight popping through the trees made for a perfect opportunity to catch this beautiful moment, whilst I used a copper pipe to create the 'ring of fire' effect.

It had rained all day long at the venue, but towards the end of the night it became just drizzle, so we nipped out and used the beautiful bridge lights as a lovely setting for this portrait.

Cydney & Matt got married on an old farm, and these grain silos were just outside the main barn they were using next to the car park, and I thought they would make for an interesting back drop to a very moody and dark early evening sky. All of the light in the image was provided by a single MagMod MagBox, camera right, using a Nikon SB910 on 1/4th power. and this not only lit the couple perfectly but bounced light around the scene, providing some lovely soft front lighting on the silos. I simply edited out my assistant in PS to leave me with this final image.

This was a winter evening wedding, so the ceremony took place long after dark, so with that in mind, I decided to get creative with the portraits and really use the venue to its potential. I found a lovely walk way, lit up with fairy lights, so a simple flash placed behind the couple, using the umbrella to bounce the light back onto them, allowed me to capture this magical image.

We were close to the end of the sunlight at Hedsor House, and just as the sun dropped behind these trees, I saw the potential for an awesome moment, so I asked Jeanelle & Stephen to practice their first dance in the pool of light...it worked well :-)

I had an idea to capture these guys using a backlit umbrella between these two barns at the venue, and I choose to use the red and blue lights because they and myself are huge Star Wars fans, and I think it worked out very well.

I had taken Carl and Rowan off for portraits, but as they were so much fun, I just told them to mess around and do whatever they wanted! What followed was a good ten mins of laughter and eventually Carl convinced Rowan he was going to give her a piggyback and it was hilarious :-)

I captured this portrait of Gary & Nicole right at the end of their wedding in Norfolk. The day had been manic, and their opportunity to get away for a quick bit of alone time meant I could suggest grabbing one last shot before I left myself, and this is what we created!

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 :-)

Verity & Phil had the most amazing wedding at the Alnwick Treehouse and this evening portrait really captured the vibe of the place perfectly.

Captured in the hills above Mellieħa Bay in Malta, this image of David & Lisa sharing their proper 1st dance, all alone in the ruins of an abandoned hotel, is one of my favourites of 2018!

This was a collaboration with my friend Ed Bray who helped me capture this image with a drone at Godwick Hall in Norfolk, UK. Alice and Nick were a dream couple, up for anything we suggested, so we decided to use the old abandoned church spire as the location for a 'birds-eye' style composition and it turned out awesome!

We had a pretty gloomy day here in the UK for Katie & Lee's wedding at South Farm, and fog started to appear in the early evening, so I was looking at ways to be creative. A car coming up the driveway at the venue, with its headlights on illuminating the fog around the trees, inspired me to put a MagMod and a speedlight behind my couple to capture this image! It was the perfect end to an awesome day :-)

Abi & Aidan had a quite manic winter wedding, so the idea was to get them away for a little bit to capture something a bit different, and with it being dark outside, and there being an awesome barn available for us to use, I decided to get creative. I used a gelled flash behind my couple to create the silhouette, and some fairy lights in the foreground to create some bokeh, and it ended up looking like this. I think it works really well from a compositional point of view and I was over the moon with the end result.

We had a day of constant wind and rain for Molly & Johnny's Stapleford Park wedding in October , and it really wasn't looking great for anything outside, but deep into the evening we had a small window of opportunity to grab this dramatic back-lit portrait of them both! The light helped them pop and also it helped highlight some of the rain drops falling - pretty pleased with it overall!

I couldn't work out why this vintage car had a box attached to the side of it's boot until Phil & Izzy began to leave the car park of the Church - bubbles just started flying out of the back of it so I ran in close just before they pulled out and I managed to capture this image!

Lucy & Peter organised the most amazing D.I.Y. festival wedding, including a wide variety of lawn games, and I captured this photograph of the bride & groom doing the limbo!

A totally incredible DIY wedding on the farm owned and ran by the couple! They had put these lights across the farm yard and I couldn't resist using them as leading lines, combined with the farm buildings, to create something very different and unique for their portraits.

The venue this wedding was held at, The Granary Estates, warned me before the first dance that they were using confetti cannons, and that they had not had any decent photos from previous attempts at this, so they really wanted me to try and capture the drama of it all - I think I did ok! I put up a couple of Nikon speedlights with radio triggers to provide me with some dramatic back lighting and they just so happened to be in the perfect spot when the cannons went off.

Sarah and James were over the moon with the image and it's certainly one of my all time favourite first dance images I have taken so far in my career.