Jenny & Adam’s wedding on Saturday was SO great!
Despite a rubbish weather forecast, the sun was shining and the rain held back for all the important moments. The ceremony was in a lovely church in Glossop, and then the reception was in the absolutely stunning Manchester Town Hall - such an amazing building!!! Beautiful staircases, ceilings, floors and corridors - a photographer’s dream! The reception itself was super fun, and the first dance routine was brilliant! So funny!
This wedding was also Ewan’s debut as my second photographer and he did SUCH a great job! I’m excited for many many more weddings together. TEAM.
Huuuge congrats to Mr & Mrs McClean! Thank you for asking me to be a part of your wedding - it was so great and I wish you a lifetime of happiness together!
Oh. My. Lakes. I may never return home.
My blog’s had a make-over - check it out!
Also… I’M GOING ON HOLIDAY TODAY YEY YEY YEY!!!!
In celebration of these 2 things, here are some cows that I found at last week’s wedding… See you next week!!!
(p.s. I may take longer than usual to respond to emails while I’m away, but I will get back to you ASAP!)
John & Isabelle’s wedding on Friday was my first of the season and it was such a lovely way to start the summer! The weather was perfect and John & Isabelle looked absolutely beautiful together.
These are just a few of my favourite photos from the day, and there are a few more over on my Facebook page.
Massive congratulations to Mr & Mrs McCombe! Thank you so much for having me at your wedding!
It raaaained for this engagement shoot! But Ali & Caroline were absolute troopers and we got some beautiful pictures!
We even went to the bridge in Leeds where people are starting to attach ‘love padlocks’, and Ali & Caroline added their own - such a cute idea! There’s a bridge like this in Paris that has been one of my ambitions to visit and add a padlock to for a while now!
Maybe my fiancé Ewan and I will go and add our own padlock to the bridge in Leeds soon. But one day…. Paris!
Hint hint Ewan… ;)
My exams are over! Which means my entire degree is over!! Hello full time photography job! :D I get my results in just over a month, but I’m straight into a summer full of engagement shoots and weddings! I feel so incredibly blessed to be going straight in to a job, especially one that I LOVE.
And what better way to start the next step of life than with an engagement shoot! Adam and Isabel are both junior doctors, and are so lovely (and very photogenic!). I had such a lovely time getting to know them while we wondered around Roundhay Park yesterday evening. Their wedding is in just over a month, in a little village in the countryside and I’m predicting it’s going to be beeeautiful!
But for now I’m off to another little village in the countryside, to make lots of invites for my own wedding! I love summer.
2 exams down, 1 more to go… And the bluebells are coming!
I’ve been staring at this image for the past few minutes trying to put words to it’s meaning… Because it has a meaning.
Every photo has a meaning. Whether it’s a phone snap taken in a moment of hilarious stupidity, a holiday memory, your child’s first day at school or just a self-portrait like this one. Every photo is taken because the person behind the camera sees something worth photographing. Someone worth photographing.
This is the only photo of me that has ever been on the internet. The real me. No make-up. No hiding behind what I’d prefer to look like, or what I think society would prefer me to look like. Just me.
I am a fairly private person anyway, but for most of my life I have been afraid of people. Afraid of meeting new people. Afraid of letting old people in. And wearing make-up is just one of the many masks that I hide behind to make myself feel safer.
But slowly that’s been changing.
It could be my search for beauty, or being in love, or just part of getting older, but maybe it’s more than that. Maybe I’ve just understood a little bit more about what it means to be wonderfully created by God.
In my opinion, everyone is worth photographing exactly as they are.
In God’s opinion, everyone is worth photographing exactly as they are.
Including me.
SUPER exciting to see the lovely Laura Oakes get through to the next round of The Voice tonight!
You might remember the behind-the-scenes photos I posted from her latest music video shoot a few weeks ago - but now the videos are out! Beautifully filmed by Matt Coggrave with awesome sound by Ewan McKechnie:
Spectrum - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK2ObfkfxAA
Teenage Dream - www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6SOMxcDcs
Good luck to Laura for the rest of the series!!
Ewan and I have been back home in Derbyshire for the past couple of weeks dog-sitting my beautiful (and slightly crazy) Skye while my parents and little bro are on holiday. It’s been so great having a nice warm house to work in, a freezer full of meat to eat and the lovely countryside! We’ve also seen some lovely friends and family. We even introduced Ewan’s dog to my dog, which resulted in Tilly weeing on Skye’s bed! Although Skye didn’t seem too bothered…
My highlight of our time away has been having some quality adventure time with Ewan. Wondrously (and very unusually for Buxton) it hasn’t rained yet so we’ve been using our new/future car (an amazing early wedding gift from Ewan’s parents) to explore round Derbyshire. These pictures were taken in Castleton, where we climbed a hill and sun-bathed (YEY for Spring) at the top! I never get bored of how beautiful Derbyshire is. Plus Ewan is a BABE.
I’m a little bit sad it’s nearly time to venture back up to Leeds and the real world - it’s been pretty fun having a house, a car and a dog!
Yesterday I went for a lovely (but freezing) walk with one of my lovely BFF’s around Lyme Park. We took our completely crazy dogs who went slightly mental. It was SO good to have a catch up, and obviously I couldn’t resist the chance to get some photos of Hannah and her puppy Lilly - what a pair of beauties!
Hannah has been my friend for over 10 years now and she is truly GREAT. I’m very excited for her to be one of my bridesmaids later this year and I’m also very excited to be one of her bridesmaids (and wedding photographer! eek!!) at her wedding next year! I think we might be growing up….!!
Please head over to my Facebook page and give it a *like* if you like these pictures!
