So after the exoticism of recent weeks — destination weddings in Croatia, and Brazilian / Irish civil partnerships — we return to a more traditional English wedding, set below the baleful, louring clouds of Northern England.  In wedding photography terms this was Jeff Ascough territory — but Jeff Acough is just imitatin’…  Children were at the centre [...]

So as you emerge squinting and blinking into the numinous light of 2011, your dessicated brainpans scratching against your battered skulls like voles on a New Year’s crack detox, spare a thought for these poor forgotten photographs.  For they are, My Best Beloved, already yesterday’s news.  Consigned to the annals of history, fragments of fading [...]

They say never work with kids or animals, but I have to say that’s not my experience.  I really like kids at weddings.  They bring a real energy to the day.  It’s like they’re having their own tiny prom as a satellite function just slightly separate from the main event.  They’re dressed up, giddy, mischievous and it [...]

Orwell Park School in Nacton is not like my experience of school.  A grand Georgian Mansion, it stands imperiously, with its own observatory, overlooking 110 acres of rolling land that descends gently to the river Orwell.  An elegant haha borders one side of the cricket pitch.  My school, with its utilitarian design, its redbrick walls, [...]