The reception venue for V & R’s wedding is the beautiful Monkey Island in Bray. I know from today’s session it’s going to to be a nice relaxed wedding – I’m looking forward to it :)

Here’s a couple of favourites.

We took a walk along the river by the lock and past the church where the wedding is going to take place, K & D are both from the area so it was nice to tie in these images with their home town so  to speak. I always think the engagement photographs are a nice reminder of this pre-wedding period and wonderful to look back on when you are an old married couple :)

Here’s a few favourites from the afternoon.

I hope you liked the engagement session photos, more information about our pre-wedding shoots here.

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Aah, sleepy baby, always nice to see :)

Here is 8 week old Baby Elsie. I photographed her parents wedding in ‘03 and their son Sidney a couple of years ago so it was a pleasure to see Elsie today. She’s lovely but was quite sick everywhere sadly. The poor little munchkin had been quite ill recently but is on the mend now. I love black and white for babies, I think it’s a really good choice as the pictures have much more meaning when the child is older or grown up even – the monochrome concentrates your attention on the subject I think.

Here’s a couple of favourite pictures from todays session.

There are many aspects to photographing a wedding – the journalistic pictures which form the bulk of the day for me, the family shots and the bride and groom pictures, ’scene setting’ images etc. Recording the little things are also a very important part of the day for me as well. A typical preparation for the wedding day for the bride and groom (OK, mostly the bride :) ) is around a year, give or take, and a lot of that time is spent on deciding the little things that make the special day, well, special.

The small details that personalise the ceremony and the reception are often the things that take most of the time when planning the wedding. I always make sure we have plenty of detail images to choose from  - this kind of image whether singly or in sequences, really bring an album to life. They often act like glue and bind storytelling sequences together. Usually I try and photograph these in a creative way, I think it’s really cool to have the details shots photographed contextually i.e. with the setting or background part of the composition. This is a really nice way of bringing the location(s) to life in the wedding album.

In this post I’d like to focus on shoes – during the bridal preparations it’s nice to have some images of the these – along with the flowers and the dress they often finish the day in a totally different condition than they were in the morning :) Here’s a few favourites from last years weddings.

Thanks for looking – comments always welcome!

Of course, the quality of the phone camera leaves a little to be desired but just being able to snap those little moments in life is a wonderful thing.

Here’s a few recent iPhone images.

EDITED TO ADD: I decided to start a little tumblr iPhone photo blog – you can see it here.

Happy Christmas and all the best for 2010 from Hyde End Studios. We are looking forward to an exciting year and have some great new products and services lined up. 2010 will be my 17th year of shooting weddings and I am as excited as ever about the coming year. Stay tuned…

Some favourites from the morning.

irelE/Eleri

Jazz hands!

Brides: choose velcro.  It’d be so much easier :)

Meanwhile…at a nearby church…

A couple of favourite ceremony images

All aboard for Bradfield College.

Bradfield college, the sun just setting.

Just a few minutes of light left for a quick walk around the college.

The new Mr. and Mrs. in the beautiful wedding breakfast room.

A couple of reception images that caught my eye.

I couldn’t resist these last two pictures of  the day.

Thanks again Eleri and Rich, have a brilliant mystery location honeymoon :)

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