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These images are the result of a quick test shoot with this beautiful young woman.

In fact we didnt do anyting to prepare for the shoot, this is just how she turned up to the studio. No photography makup, no ridiculously expensive modelling clothes, and yet she still looks fantastic right 'out of the box'.

I wish all my clients looked this good when they walk in the door!

I am looking forward to getting a real shoot done with her sometime soon!

Just a few of the images from a fantastic wedding at the Tickton Grange Hotel.

This was one of those special days that I really enjoyed.

If your children are like mine, they would rather have teeth pulled than go to a studio for a photo shoot.

Thats why we took these images at a local beach.

The weather on the day was too perfect. The sky was so blue that my wife thought that I had faked these shots in the studio.
In fact it was so windy that we could only use four of the eight balloons that we had taken with us. And even those were hopelessly tangled by the time we got to the edge of the sea.

I was really impressed by the height that she jumped to in the image. It looks almost like the balloons are pulling her upwards.

These types of photo shoots are great fun and the children dont even realise that they are having to work!

This was part of an overall lifestyle shoot that included the whole family. We all went along to a local beach and I took over 250 images on that half day alone.

The young girl was playing on her own near the old wooden breakers, so I kept an eye open looking for an opportunity to catch her off guard.

She stood near this post for a while and I waited until she looked up before firing the shutter. 

The image was converted to black and white and I increased the contrast in the sky to create this moody image.

I like the fact that she looks completly natural and doesn't have a 'forced' smile.

This photo nearly killed us all - (well not quite)

It was shot in the bathroom (hence the water surrounding the model) and I was stood on the side of the bath looking directly down.

The number of times that I nearly fell in doesn't bear thinking about, but somehow we managed to finish the shoot without me standing on the model.

I love the way that the ripples in the water make the image beautifully abstract and send her hair flowing above her head.

Getting the right amout of specular highlights in the water was the trickiest part of the lighting, but we quickly worked out what to do and I really like the final image.

These are just a few of the images from a wedding pre-shoot that I did in the studio a few weekends ago. This beautiful bride-to-be screamed out to be photographed close up and as soon as I adjusted the lighting to suit her I knew that I was going to get a good image.

This young lady is going to make my job at the wedding easy!

I don't normally tag my wedding images with the "beauty tag", but in this case I will make a well justified exception.

Of course I had to create a more masculine image of the groom-to-be, so I captured this one of him with his bride-to-be in the background.

I just love this sort of photography and being able to get portraits of interesting people like this all day!

For the final image I wanted something moody, so I got them to stand in front of the wall and lit them with a very focussed light.

The pre-shoot is an essential part of the build up to the wedding. We use the time to show the best stance for the couple for their wedding images. This goes a long way to reduce the stress on the big day and helps improve the wedding album.