Daniel

Ackerley

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.

I was super excited when Jay & Tessa asked me to travel up to the north of England to capture their wedding, and my excitement only grew when I heard about all the plans they had, and all the fun little details that would make the day their own!

The wedding itself was really intimate, special and emotional, and one of the photographic highlights, was the appearance of an old vintage double decker bus to transport the guests between venues. The bus was stunning, and my thoughts instantly turned to finding a nice spot for them to have a moment alone (well apart from me and my camera!), so on inspection it was obvious the top deck provided a very cool spot for them to enjoy a little quiet time.

I choose to pick them a seat, and rather than pose them, I decided to then leave them to do whatever they wanted - I got a whole series of awesome moments from this setting, but this one in particular really stood out for me as it showed them both naturally enjoying the moment and taking in what they had just done. I think it's a really romantic moment and I'm really proud of it.

Nikon D750 | Sigma 35mm ART

This photograph of Andy & Sarah was captured at the Manchester Museum - the ball of moths was an art installation by Vivienne Westwood and the skull at the top of the frame is in fact that of a whale - incredible venue! It was lit with a single speedlight so as to cast the moths shadows onto the ceiling and really make it dramatic. These guys were great and were up for anything - dream clients!