Here are the fruits (literally in a couple of photos) of last week’s bridal fashion shoot.  The shoot was to showcase Lisa Redman’s stunning and timelessly elegant bridal dresses for Luella’s Boudoir — a fantastically welcoming wedding boutique in the heart of Wimbledon.  The remit was to be a little different and go for something [...]

Christina and Alistair’s wedding in Hampshire (about 5 miles outside of Winchester) was a wonderfully British affair.  A village church, a horse drawn carriage, extraordinary hats, waistcoats complete with fob watches, a marquee reception that barely took up a corner of what can only be described as a gently rolling back garden, rock oysters brought [...]

Somehow, booking over a year in advance, Gawain and Mary-Kate managed to land their wedding day on pretty much the only period of warm spring sunshine so far.  The day was absolutely perfect for a park wedding, bright blue skies, golden light, wispy clouds and pink Japanese blossom.  The day started out at the grand [...]

Below are the photos I shot for Charlotte, an instantly charming and chatty aspiring actress, who wanted a vintage look for her portfolio.  I knew ahead of time that Charlotte would be great for vintage, but I didn’t realise just how great until she rocked up in victory rolls and the best cheesecake pout this [...]

These are the photos taken from my latest wedding.  In Dorset, on a day that oscillated wildly between torrential downpours and brilliant sunshine.  Lucy is an amazing old friend.  In fact I was a writer when I met Lucy and didn’t even own a camera, so things have changed a little since then.  It was [...]

There’s an ineffable beauty to a great Holga image.  In part it’s the dreamy soft-focus that gives each image a genuinely vintage feeling.  The other part is it’s so damn hit-and-miss.  The Holga has two aperture settings — sunlight or cloudy (but basically really you need sunlight — and four vague, hard to pin down [...]

While I was out in India I took a few photos from an animal rescue charity called Mad Dogs Trust based in Fort Kochi, Kerala.  Run by Penny Shepherd its aim is to rescue, care for and repair all the wounded, malnourished and often half-dead street animals of Kerala it can.  (Mostly cats and dogs [...]

This is Teo, the brand new son of my dearest, and oldest, friend, Ed.  (Oldest in terms of longevity but let’s face it, none of us are getting any younger.  Okay, let’s not face it..  We are all getting younger.  There.)  Apparently Teo liked me, so I’m in.  Which is lucky because one false move, [...]

My post processing is now a slightly complicated mixture of Lightroom and Photoshop.  I mean it was always a mixture, it’s just now it’s slightly more complicated.  Mostly because the more I learn the more I tinker around with it.  And to be honest with you I went back to basics with Lr recently, using [...]

Here is the reason why I really didn’t mind the snow and black ice and biting winds this winter.  I spent most of it in Southern India.  A week in Kerala and then just shy of four beatific weeks on the Andaman Islands — a remote archipelago two hours by plane from Chennai (formerly Madras).  [...]