Dora the Explorer: Image of the Week #12

Image shot on a Fuji X100

Back Story: This is a personal image, of my daughter Rosa.  It was a snapshot I took a couple of weeks back on the Fuji X100.  The camera is pretty much always around, and I’ve got hundreds of shots of the kids doing their thing.  There was something that attracted me to this image though. [...]

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Pembroke Lodge Wedding Photographer

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Kate and Edward asked me to be their Pembroke Lodge Wedding Photographer sometime ago, but it seemed like time just flew by before the wedding came along.  Pembroke Lodge is in the heart of Richmond Park, South West London and it is a truly marvellous wedding venue.  And this was a truly marvellous wedding. As a documentary wedding photographer [...]

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Smile

Child Portrait

There are fewer things in life that make me smile more than my lovely little family.  2011 was a wonderful year for my wife and I. At this time of year I traditionally do a “my favourites” blog post – based on my documentary wedding photography images.  And I will still do that in early [...]

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Street Photography with the Fuji X100

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Yesterday, myself and a few photographer friends went to see the Don Mccullin exhibition at The Imperial War Museum.  It’s a must see body of work for anybody interested in photography or humanity itself.  It’s simply humbling. Whilst there, we had a quick jaunt along The South Bank and I took my Fuji X100 with [...]

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Gloucestershire Wedding Photographer

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Julie and Ben commissioned me to be their wedding photographer earlier in the year.  To say their wedding was magical, would be an understatement. The weather, the location, the planning, the atmosphere all fell into place on their very special day.  The wedding was held in the gardens of the family home and was a veritable feast of [...]

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Albie | iPhoneography

iPhoneography

iPhoneography they call it. In the last five months or so I’ve taken up the usage of two completely new cameras to me. Firstly, came the Fuji FinePix X100 – which is an absolutely great camera and now very much part of the equipment I use at every wedding. The second camera that I have been [...]

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Weddings at The Savoy and Claridge’s London

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Weddings at the Savoy and Claridge’s London can only be very classy affairs – and this wedding, in July, was no exception. Kavita and Anthony asked me to document their wedding, pictorially, starting out at The Savoy Hotel, and them, moving on for a private dining celebration at Gordon Ramsay’s at Claridge’s. The majority of [...]

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Cotswolds Weddings

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Being based on the North Wiltshire Gloucestershire border means I often find myself photographing beautiful Cotswolds Weddings – and this was no exception. Richard and Kate were married at the increasingly popular Cripps Barn (I’m there again this weekend in fact).  It was a late booking for a stunning midweek wedding with their friends and [...]

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Natural Child Photography: Image of the Week #9

Natural Child Photography

Back Story: As you know, I’m a fan of documentary photography.  Although I have a studio, and shoot studio posed work, my primary passion is the documentary or candid image.  This means I’m a big fan of natural child photography too. This is an image of  our new son Albie, taken with the Fuji Finepix [...]

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Fuji X100: Image of the Week #7

Cork Wedding Photographer

Back Story: Earlier in the year I traveled over to Cork, Ireland on a plane with propellers (I don’t like flying by the way).  The reason; I was to be a guest at a very good friend of mines wedding.  My friend, from my days at London Welsh, was marrying his long term sweetheart at [...]

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Stella Cidre

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Being Welsh, but now living in the West Country. Cider is my friend. Stella Cidre is my new best friend. This photo, for those interested, was shot with the wonderful Fuji X100 whilst on a night out in London recently.

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More Natural Baby Photographs of Albie

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I photographed a lovely wedding in the small village of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire this weekend.  That will eventually be on my wedding photography blog of course.  However, Sunday was a family day and we went to the Cotswolds Water Park which is very near our home here in Malmesbury. As I now have the Fuji X100 [...]

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Wedding Photography using the Fuji X100 (as a guest)

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This past weekend I was a guest, at a very good friend of mine from my rugby days, wedding.  Its been a while since I was a guest at a wedding and I knew it would be a perfect opportunity to put the Fuji X100 through its paces. Now, to set the scene slightly before [...]

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Portraits & Macro

Fuji X100 Baby Photography

I’ve had a lot of feedback since my wedding photography using a Fuji X100 post the other day. All very positive. I’ll be doing more testing with this camera but have instantly fallen in love with it. Aesthetically it is pleasing, and the image quality is amazing. Don’t get me wrong – the quality from [...]

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Fuji X100 Wedding Photography

Fuji X100 Wedding Photographs

Yesterday I decided to take my new camera – a Fuji X100 to a wedding that I was photographing.  It was a late decision.  The camera turned up from the brilliant guys at Warehouse Express at 10am and the wedding was at 3pm.  Batteries charged I headed off to Cripps Barn in The Cotswolds. Of [...]

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