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Lindsay & I-Chun – Solihull & Wroxall Abbey

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:08:29 +0000

Winter weddings are becoming really popular, and Lindsay & I-Chun decided to have theirs in January of this year, surrounded by their closest family and friends -which meant travelling over from Malaysia for some of them.

Their wedding ceremony was at the picturesque local family church of St Peter’s in Bickenhill, and the celebration continued at the impressive Wroxall Abbey.

p.s a special mention has to go to their cousin and her friend, who made the edible flowers on the cake – wow

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Josh And My Canon 5Dii

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:55:58 +0000

Josh is now 3 1/2 and loves to pick up and use my cameras. From an early age he has been interested to find out which bits to what, and although he has a small kids camera he always prefers to use mine. Although they are quite large for his small hands I love the way he is so careful and considered with them, and doesn’t just randomly press the shutter.

One afternoon just before Christmas I had my Canon 5Dii in the house, and he decided that he wanted to get some photos of me, so I filmed it with my iPhone. One of these images has become my profile picture on my social media pages, and I wanted to share how the picture came about….

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Our favourite Photographs from 2011

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:16:05 +0000

Picking out our favourite photos from the last year has been really tricky – we have had such a great year, and looking through the thousands of photographs has reminded us how lucky we are to be able to have our own business doing what we love. Some of you may not realise that we cover a huge range of both social and business photography, which is what makes our job so interesting and keeps our photography fresh. There are lots of exciting developments coming up in 2012, so don’t forget to come back and take a look at what’s new in the coming months as well.

Huge thanks to all our friends, family and clients for your support this year – and Happy New Year for 2012.

K&J

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Introducing… Baby Theo

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:45:52 +0000

Bonnie & Toby from the gorgeous wedding venue Alrewas Hayes recently had a beautiful baby boy, Theo. I felt really honoured to take photographs of such a warm and genuine family.

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Abi & Duncan – Lincoln’s Inn, Savoy & Highbury Hall Wedding Photography

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:41:28 +0000

Earlier this year, I was very happy to be a part of Abi and Duncan’s intimate wedding down in London. Although they both live in Birmingham, when they were looking at where to get married, they decided that it had to be in London, because of some strong emotional connections to both Lincolns Inn, and with the Savoy Hotel – both of them beautiful venues, and perfect for a small and very personal wedding.

Abi spent the morning getting ready at the Savoy (she had a Jenny Packham dress that suited the style of the hotel perfectly), in one of their stunning suites – the Katherine Hepburn Suite, with fantastic views over the Thames, before taking the short journey to Lincoln’s Inn for the ceremony at the chapel. One of the nice things about small weddings is that you get to know the family and close friends much more, and they in turn participate more in the day. This wedding was no exception. During the ceremony, as I was walking down the aisle to photograph the signing of the registry, several members of Duncan’s family were walking in the opposite direction. It took me a moment to realise that they were heading for one of the choir stalls, where they proceeded to give the most stunning choral rendition – it seems they all sing together in a choir, and Duncan would normally be there with them (but for the fact he had the minor task of making the marriage official).

After the ceremony the guests went down to a beautiful vaulted cloister for tea and cake, and enjoyed the extremely unseasonal bright warm sunshine. Lincoln’s Inn is a lovely setting – with impressive buildings and a sense of calm in central london (certainly on the weekend anyway). After which the wedding party went back to the Savoy for drinks and the wedding breakfast in one of the stunningly renovated rooms – wood paneling, even a bust of Winston Churchill… and as you would expect, impeccable service.

Two iconic venues, just 30 people and an Indian summer’s day made it very memorable….

It was followed up by a fabulous reception party with their friends and family at the historic Highbury Hall back in Birmingham a few weeks later, which I also had the pleasure of photographing.

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A bit of Soul Food….

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:14:35 +0000

One of the things my lovely little boys love is baking with Mummy. This is one of my first experiments with the video on my Canon 5Dii and editing it into a movie.

Love my boys…. And their Mum.

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Majid Family Portrait

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:33:39 +0000

The beauty of children is that they don’t care whether it is a sunny day, they just love being outdoors. I met with the lovely Majid family in Sutton Coldfield last week and we spent some time just enjoying the park, and capturing that on camera.

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Brothers in Love

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:32:08 +0000

We recently met Amrinder and Dhanwant, two brothers who were about to get married on the same day, to Bavinder and Hardeep. We met them through our fabulous Jewellery partner Rudells, who are based in Harborne (Birmingham) and Wolverhampton. The outfits for their shoot were stunning and brightly coloured, so the shoot was a real pleasure…

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Introducing… Jasper

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:39:30 +0000

Jasper is a beautiful little rescue cat, who was given a loving new home by Sarah & Ed in London. Because of his past, he is a little timid, so I took my time, letting him get to know me, and then followed him on his adventures…

Going for a stroll

Hello gorgeous

Who are you again?

Surveying my land

Don’t forget – you can buy portrait shoot vouchers for the pet lovers in your life for Christmas – or something from our exciting Christmas Hamper Range too

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Julian & Thelma’s Pomeranian Portraits

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:51:01 +0000

One of my other recent photoshoots in Jersey was with Julian and his friend Thelma, or more specifically, with their pomeranians. They both breed pomeranians and between them they had 17. It was always going to be an interesting shoot…. There were manic times when all I could see was a blur of fur (Blur of Fur sounds like an 80′s new wave band…), and trying to calm down 10 dogs enough for them to sit, even just momentarily took a concerted effort from all three of us, but at the same time it was fun, especially seeing the personalities of each of the dogs – some excited, some showing off, others just causing trouble in the pack.

I wanted to get a mixture of groups and individuals, and I had an idea in my head to get them all together for a photo (although for various reasons we couldn’t get all 17 of them together, but we did manage 10), and I really wanted to get some images exploring my new direction for my dog photography which is developing at the moment.

I have posted some more previews on my Facebook page too, but here are some of my favourites. A big thank you to Julian and Thelma for their patience and help corralling the dogs, and to their beautiful pomeranians for an unforgettable shoot (in a good way)…

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