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South Bank Centre wedding | Helen & Mattie | A single

Rebecca — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:18 +0000

I’m not going to say much because I’m so tired I’m almost dribbling … except that here is one from Helen and Mattie’s wedding a few hours ago. It features the South Bank Centre’s distinctive 1951 net and ball carpet designed by Peter Moro and Leslie Martin, which Helen and Mattie very much like.

Haymarket Hotel wedding | Elizabeth & Patrick | A single

Rebecca — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:34:54 +0000

Elizabeth and Patrick married today at the Haymarket Hotel, just off Trafalgar Square – and here’s a single from the day, taken in the hotel’s basement bar next to the pool and it’s amazing light sculpture, which is throwing the pink light into this picture. I’ll put up a full blog post from the day later in the week.

London business portraits | Jeremy from the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Rebecca — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:34:19 +0000

It’s great to be able to share these business portraits of Jeremy Frost. He has rather an interesting job – or seemingly range of them – being Anglican chaplain at Maritime Greenwich and joint co-ordinating chaplain for the University of Greenwich. He’s also chaplain for the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, where he uses his musical experience from his former job as Precentor and Liturgist at Canterbury Cathedral. Jeremy commissioned his business portraits after a consultation, where he explained he wanted a number of photographs to use in his Greenwich roles and separate musical projects.

We shot most of the portraits around Greenwich and its riverside walks, ending at the Old Royal Naval College itself for its gorgeous columns and stonework. Here are a selection of photos from our session.

Rendah & Paul | Farm Street Church & Altitude 360

Rebecca — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:29:21 +0000

Rendah and Paul’s guests started their day at the Punch Bowl in Mayfair’s Farm Street, then moved down a few doors to the cool of Farm Street Church. Rendah arrived slightly early in a white taxi with her dad, wearing a Temperley dress and Jimmy Choo silver snakeskin slingbacks. After the ceremony and some family group photographs, Rendah, Paul and I took a black cab to Tate Britain to have some photographs on its steps in the gorgeous sunshine, before going to Altitude 360 in the Millbank Tower. Altitude is a stunning white and light space that was such a pleasure to work in. Rendah had set up a sweets table, which some of their young guests immediately took to … it was also a success with many of the older guests!

Rendah gave a speech alongside her dad, best men and new husband. One of my favourite photographs from the day was of her speech when she is looking at Paul, talking about her father being such an inspirational force in her life and just the three of them are in the image.

Rendah and Paul’s wedding photos are displayed below in a modern album design to reflect their day.

Please click on the thumbnails below the main photograph to see individual album layouts.

London Embankment wedding | Ruth and Bruce | A single

Rebecca — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:48:58 +0000

Today I photographed the sweetest couple – Ruth and Bruce – who married in Holy Trinity Brompton in South Kensington and had their reception on the RS Hispaniola near London’s Embankment. We did their couple wedding portraits in the late afternoon sun and this bridge was definitely a place we were going to use after they loved their engagement portraits taken there so much. This is one from today … more to follow in the coming 10 days.

Wimbledon family portraits | Monica and family

Rebecca — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:56:48 +0000

Monica wanted some casual photos of her family taken in the park near their Wimbledon home to capture where her children spend so much of their life, as well as having a more formal portraits for a grandparent’s 80th birthday present.

We started with a family group.

Then moved onto the important task of Jedi warfare.

Next up, some running along favourite paths and scooter action.

The games don’t stop: girls versus boys in trying to get to the other side of the square without being caught.

The wonder of a bug … but if you put your arms like THIS (Jedi warrior stance, obviously), you are safe.

A hill means running, if you’re a small boy.

Or a bit of a meander in your favourite stripey socks. Amazing how tiring this all is.

All too soon, it was time to collect our belongings and return home.

Finishing the afternoon with Looney Tunes cartoons on the TV and Hula Hoops on the fingers.

Small people and sunshine

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:43:55 +0000

I last saw Peter and Amanda several years ago when their son Henry was a baby. Now they have baby Sasha and Henry is very much a young man, seriously interested in sticks, transformers and investigating locked gates. We got together this morning before his school sports day in Dulwich, taking some relaxed family group photos. Children are usually a delight to photograph anyway, but when they are playing and cuddling with the rest of their family, it’s really special. I often wonder how treasured those photographs will be in the future for the children themselves.

London marathon & coffee

Rebecca — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:21:23 +0000

Photographer friend Helen Bartlett ran London Marathon yesterday and we estimated her ETA about the 10-mile mark, at the end of Deptford High Street. I took a camera – theoretically to photograph her – but as it turned out, missing her completely in the busyness that is tens of thousands of runners. Here are a few of the day. I found out, through the wonder of Twitter and Facebook, that the person inside the bear outfit for Action Medical Research was a fellow photographer from Southampton – Lee Collier (twitter id: @LeeCPhotography). His Twitter stream showed he survived the marathon day.

These two guys are brothers, raising more than £3000 for Action for Kids.

There was at least one casualty from the day.

Afterwards, I went to the nearby Gallop Cafe for some Monmouth Coffee in their art installation style eatery. One of the owners joked yesterday to customers that they used whatever they had to fit it out – “like Wombles” – but the effect is very lovely, clean and chic with items on each white table: mine had a white toy Ferrari and a David Ogilvy biography hardback. The cafe has a miniature film booth behind a hidden door and is hosting this month’s Deptford Film Club. The coffee was delicious – had to have a second cappuccino – the cakes looked scrummy and the bread and jam received a huge approval rating from the little girl with long eyelashes sharing a table: she demolished a plateful, leaving her mother a very tiny piece after much negotiation. Thanks to local blogger Deptford Dame for the tip-off about Gallop.

London engagement portraits | Ruth & Bruce

Rebecca — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:13:00 +0000

Here is a full blog of Ruth and Bruce’s engagement portraits on the South Bank. What was especially fun with the shoot was the randomness that strangers can create in portraits. Much of the time, strangers are very polite and will wait for you to take a photograph before they walk in between you and the subjects, which can be lovely, and sometimes it’s just fun if they don’t see what’s going on and just want to whizz by on their scooter.

One of the locations featured in these portraits is an absolute fave for Bruce and he was very excited when we were there. If you think you might know which location and perhaps why, do please post in the comments – I’d love to hear from you.

London engagement portraits | Ruth and Bruce | A single

Rebecca — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:48:21 +0000

Ruth and Bruce are getting married in nine weeks, so we spent a few hours yesterday afternoon in central London on their engagement portraits. Our meandering took us past the restaurant where they had one of their first dates and where Bruce proposed. I’ll post a selection of their images later in the week, but for now, here is a single from their session.