Dorset Beach Engagement Session, Jenna and Dave

So much fun to spend time with Jenna and Dave for their Dorset engagement session on the beach, if you're wondering, Dave was savaged by a wood ant but thankfully made a full recovery. Looking forward to their wedding at one of our favourite Dorset wedding venues Athelhampton House - can't wait! :)

Sandbanks Beach Pre Wedding Photography, Michelle and Max

Michelle and Max wanted to include the beach in their pre-wedding or engagement session so we met up not far from Sandbanks near Bournemouth and used the wooded areas as well as the beachy scenes to give a nice variation to the images.

Teri has applied a contemporary style to the image processing, it's becoming very popular with our clients and looks beautiful in large prints!

Looking forward to seeing Michelle and Max for their Exeter wedding in December :)

Sandbanks Pre Wedding With Selina and Seb

Teri and I met up with Selina and Seb for their pre-wedding session, as is sometimes the case we agreed to met up with no fixed plan for photography locations, just a general area and a meeting place and time.

Selina and Seb were great fun, we knew they wanted to include the beach in their pre-wedding images and so we headed over to Sandbanks and the area by the chain ferry as there are beachhuts and the dunes there make for a beautiful backdrop. Teri has applied a digital process to give contemporary look to the last couple of images which works really well, in fact Selina and Seb picked the second the last image of them in silhouette against the sky to have framed in washed oak which looks amazing.

Looking forward to blogging their Lulworth Castle Wedding which should be a lot of fun as it is one of our favourite Dorset wedding venues! :)


*Update* Selina and Seb's wedding images are now on the blog, see Wedding at Lulworth Castle in Dorset :)










































*Update* Selina and Seb's wedding images are now on the blog, see Wedding at Lulworth Castle in Dorset :)

The Repercussion Band Shoot, Dorset

Something slightly different!

We love photographing weddings in and around Dorset, Hampshire and the New Forest. Dan and Becky, of our wedding couples from last year asked if we would photograph their band, we thought it would be something a little different, it turned out to be very different..

Dan knows a local farmer and he was happy for us to photograph around his farm, farmer Alan and we came to know him was slightly bemused about us going into the cow field but not as bemused as the cows!

Teri sustained a cow related clothing incident but all in all everyone enjoyed the experience :)

Check out the bands music via their website The Repercussion

New Forest Wedding Encore Session with Claire and Darrell

Claire and Darrell were such fun on their wedding we asked if they would be interested in an Encore Post Wedding Session. One of the locations they suggested for the session was one of their (and our!) favourite places, The New Forest!

Other photographers, particularly in the US have variously called these sessions Trash the Dress (no really, though we could never imagine doing anything that would cause damage!) or Cherish The Dress or Romance The Dress.

Well to us it's not about the dress (trashing it or otherwise!). It's about creating some beautiful images that perhaps were not possible on the wedding day and having total fun with the photography. I'm sure if Claire and Darrell had their wedding ceremony within the New Forest we would have gone out for some forest wedding photographs!

Putting Claire on the Redwood tree stump was Darrells idea and it worked really well, to the extend that an older couple out for a walk in the forest came up and asked if we mind they take some pictures of Claire. If you can go out and create photographs that make people smile as they walk past it makes everyone smile.

Teri processed some of the images to make them look more unusual, on the day of the session we knew that Darrell's wellies and Claire wearing heavy boots under her beautiful pink wedding dress would make for some fun post wedding images. The first image below has a daguerreotype style treatment we (well me mostly!) have titled 'Russian Peasants' as it looks like they are returning from a hard day working in the fields :)

Claire and Darrell's wedding photographs are also on the blog, Wedding at Lillibrooke Manor

Thanks for Claire and Darrell for being so much fun, the session was a blast and we got to try out some new ideas, thanks guys! :)