Category Archives: Musings

Just me rambling on about art, creativity and all things photographic. This is a new addition to my website and hopefully it will build into a collection of thoughts, stories, inspirations, an area for my personal work, a resource for other photographers and just a place where you can get a feel for my philosophy on photography.

My photo for today: A family reflects.

I really love this photo from the wedding day of Rebecca and Carl who got married at Gorcott Hall near Birmingham. This is just as Rebecca is about to step out of the car and I love the interplay of the reflection of Rebecca’s sisters who were the bridesmaids and then the transparency effect of […]

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Serendipity

So my blog today is about serendipity in my photography and how in particular I seem to have good luck finding relevant chapters or passages in books that seem relevant to a wedding day. The first time I did this was at the wonderful Hampton Manor in Solihull, Warwickshire. They have this really lovely library […]

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Speedking Fashion Shoot

Although wedding photography is my main creative outlet I sometimes get asked to shoot model and band portfolios and was recently asked to photograph a lifestyle fashion shoot for a clothing range for Speedking. Speedking market unique branded automotive gifts and products and wanted some photographs of their clothing range so they could be featured on their website, brochures and […]

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You looking at me?

So this musing is on one of my pet hates in portrait and wedding photography when there are two or more people featured but you only want to put emphasis on one person. So one of the classic ways to isolate your subject in photography is to use a wide aperture to blur out/defocus the […]

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If Saul Leiter had done wedding photography.

So this musing is a sort of follow on from my previous musing on reflections in photography where I spoke about how showing images of reflections has a much more engaging effect on the viewer. You can see this previous musing here. Having recently become more familiar with the work of the famous photographer Saul Leiter, I thought […]

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