Monthly Archives: September 2008

Choosing your wedding photographer

Twice in the past two days, I’ve heard of brides who have been let down by ‘friends’ shooting their wedding. With one, the friend had their camera stolen the day before the wedding, so they couldn’t capture the day, and with another, it was a male friend of the groom who seemed to only capture...

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London engagement portraits | Islington | Helen and Richard

I’m photographing Helen & Richard’s wedding in December, and we recently did their engagement portraits around Islington, where they like to spend time at weekends. We found some magical places for their portraits that none of us had been to previously. We especially sought out buildings to use as backdrops because Richard is an architect....

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River Tango

River Tango festival has just been in London, with lots of free events in front of the Tate Modern over the weekend. It seems that loads of the people attending were from out of town (based on an unscientific poll from a friend who went to many of the events and found most of his...

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London wedding | The Gherkin | Rachael and Charles

Rachael and Charles recently married at St Bartholomew the Great at Smithfield, with Rachael looking completely fabulous and Charles very happy and smart. Rachael wore pretty Louboutin heels and carefully sourced tiara, as well as a borrowed blue necklace. Their flower girls had distinctive patterned dresses (again, chosen by Rachael after much research) and as...

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Dulwich Picture Gallery: What are you like?

Dulwich Picture Gallery last night launched a fascinating exhibition called “What Are You Like?” In a collaboration with The House of Illustration, 45 public figures have contributed a kind of self-portrait based on illustrating eight of their favourite things from a list of 12: animal, book, clothes, comfort, food, pastime, place, possession, music, shoes, weather...

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