Karen & John wedding day

I first met and Jon whilst in redcar high street, during a creative market. They approached me about capturing their special day for them and how they had brought it forward because of Karen’s mum been ill.

With everything in place the big day came. The weather wasn’t the best, it kept raining and the wind was so strong. However we weren’t going to be beaten. After Karen’s house we headed to the church, to arrive just before the bride. Karen looked stunning as she walked down the isle, only thing was I wasn’t expecting the flower girls to keep on walking and they practically walked straight up to the front of my camera!

Mid-service, while looking through my camera I took a step forward to take an image only to hit my elbow on the lectern, OOUUCCHH, it hurt. I am sure Karen laughed at this point!

Outside the church the weather had dried up but it was still blowing a gale so we decided to head back to the Starting Gate for the reception, there we would do the formal shots best we could.

This has got to be one of the tightest group shots I have had to do and I think it came out just perfect! Karen’s mum passed away a few weeks before the wedding but I am sure she will have been looking down and would be proud of the day. May I wish John and Karen all the very best for the future.

Adie & Pam Danby Castle

Danby castle is a wonderful venue when the weathers right and upon arriving there on Saturday morning the cloud seemed set in with the wind blowing too.

Adie had already arrived in a fantastic Daimler, just as Pam was arriving in a moment of almost god like command the clouds parted to leave a beautiful sunny and warm day.

This gave us some good opportunity to take some nice arty pictures and to show off our new Discovery Photography tops! Its great when the bride and groom are relaxed the images just flow from the onset.

Steve and Rachel at Wynyard Hall

A last minute wedding is always a bit of a rush to organise from our point of view, but it helps when the client, in this case Rachel and Steve are organised themselves. Rachel’s mum arranged us to cover their wedding very last minute as they weren’t going to both with a photographer. Yet with in a couple of days I had all the information I needed.

I am so glad they chose us; both Steve and Rachel are very fun loving people and this made for a very interesting and fun wedding.

The wedding was topped off by the venue, Wynyard hall. Its a magnificent building and this was our first visit.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank them both for choosing us and wish them all the very best for the future.

Sarah & Russ

Last Saturday Kirsty, Gilly and myself headed off to Grinkle Park Hotel, this was our first wedding we had covered there. So we arrived early to scope the venue and gardens, the weather was a blessing again bright lovely sunshine, 27 degrees predicted!

Great for new black shirts! We really should of thought about a winter and summer uniforms black certainly wasn’t the best colour for such a warm day!

In true British fashion we pulled though and carried on with the job in hand. Sarah and Russ had a very traditional wedding and with a good mix of traditional images and contemporary reportage style.

Now working with two photographer s our clients get a good selection to choose from, and with Gilly organising the group photos, Team discovery operates with precision and has the least impact on the bride and grooms day, after all its their day not ours.

Congratulations Sarah and Russ from the Team Discovery.

Family shoot

I have known Fiona, since I worked at Bike Scene and strangely enough our paths have crossed again.

She booked me for a family shoot on Sunday. It was nice to work with clients who simply have a laugh and relax. Fiona had quite specific idea and once we got the images then it was just the trouble of getting the fine details sorted.

Toni & Jay Whitby

On Saturday we covered Toni and Jay’s wedding. They are a lovely couple from Yorkshire who have connection to Whitby and because of this decided to get married there. Jay is in the military and you could tell, we all thought Gilly had a commanding voice… well! It was a fantastically busy Saturday in the height of spring and the weather was beautifully sunny day.

Photographing weddings in such a prominent place can be quite daunting, especially somewhere like Whitby, it got so busy that it was hard to wok out who where guests and who where tourists looking on. Luckily we all had new discovery shirts on and gave a very professional impression. I would like to wish them both the very best for the future and hope to be hearing from them soon.

7 models, 2 hair stylists, 2 clothing stylist, 1 make up artist, 1 videographer and me!

Sunday morning 9AM….. As if you would be at work at that time! We for those of you that know me well that’s quite usual for me, I think I am becoming a work addict and might need help.

There was a reason for this; I had been in discussions with Sally, who owns Kiwi Boutique in Guisborough. She wanted some images for her new online shop (www.kiwiboutique.co.uk) which is due to launch very soon.  So at the drop of a hat I had arranged seven models, two hair stylists, one make up artist and one videographer. Sometimes a team that large is very difficult to control but everyone agreed and turned up no worries and simply got on with the job – I like it when that happens. Sue

and Bernie of Be All You Can, who we share the building with where very good in letting us use another room other than the studio, as a green room, especially on their weekend off.

I have been wanting to another big shoot for a while, something I could get my teeth into. Ever since I had the tasted the stress, with the Angelic Bulldog shoot that we did

This seemed the perfect fix, so after everyone introducing themselves we kicked off and waited for the first few to be made up, have their hair done and styled. Then it was almost a continuous click for the rest of the day until we had finished the full range. Obviously a maccy d’s for lunch was in order but even that went down fast so we could continue.

This morning whilst I am writing this, it seems to be a blur exactly what went one yesterday!

Anyway I just want to say thank you to Sally and Steph of Kiwi Boutique, Carla and Sarah from Saks for the Hair, Gilly for her fantastic make up, Adam from New breed films for the videography and finally but certainly not least the models, Adele W, Kirsty, Carla, Sam, Adele C, Danielle and Shannon it was a pleasure working with all you.

Keep an eye out for the video edit of the day it’s coming soon!!!!!!!!