2013 has been an awesome year...
...I have had the honour and privilege to be part of so many wonderful wedding days and I have met some truly lovely people. Here are some of my favourite images from the year, I hope you enjoy them. 2014 is already shaping up to be a cracking year - thank you to all my couples, past and future, and I wish you all a very Happy New Yea...
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Eleanor and Jonathan's Jesus Church and Cragwood Hotel Wedding Photography
Cragwood Wedding Photographer Lake District Wedding
A little rain - and a whole lotta love.
I was completely and utterly inspired that I didn't hear one complaint about the rain all day long. In fact I was amazed at everyone's willingness to get outside in the beautiful Lakeland surrounds of the Cragwood Hotel and have their photograph taken...
Claire and Steve's Newby Bridge Swan Hotel Wedding Photography
Newby Bridge Wedding Photographer Lake District
I often say that you couldn't wish for a better subject to photograph than a wedding - there's scope everywhere you look! All you have to do is keep your eyes open and capture the moments...and with a couple as lovely as Claire and Steve, the day is a real pleasure...
Hilary and Alasdair's Argrennan Wedding Photography
Argrennan Wedding Photographer, Castle Douglas Wedding Photography, Dumfries & Galloway
Hilary and Alasdair's wedding introduced me to two new venues - the gorgeous New Abbey Church and the properly magnificent Argrennan Manor House! Both gave gorgeous opportunities for photographs, and I'm really pleased to be able to show off Argrennan - it's a stunning location, with lovely staff, and so much scope for wedding...
Gemma & Alan's Friars Carse Wedding Photography
Friars Carse Wedding Photographer | Friars Carse Wedding | Friars Carse Wedding Photography, Dumfries
Friars Carse Hotel is becoming a real favourite for me - I've spent many happy days photographing here, and for Gemma and Alan's wedding Friars Carse looked at its most stunning.
My day began with the girls getting ready, and some lovely moments for wedding preparation photography - a relaxed, but excited atmosphere, and...
Jayne & Ed's Summer Crichton Church Wedding Photography
Dumfries Wedding Photographer | Dumfries Wedding Photography | Dumfries Summer Wedding
One of the hottest days of the year and some of the most dynamic light I've ever experienced in the Crichton Church. A day of sun, and summer merriment provided the backdrop to Jayne and Ed's Crichton Church wedding...
Robyn and James' Haugh of Urr Church and Craigadam Wedding Photography
Haugh of Urr Church and Craigadam Wedding Photographer
Robyn and James travelled back to the UK from Australia for their Haugh of Urr wedding, and they brought the glorious weather with them! Sun all day long, which meant great light! As I look back through the highlights from Robyn and James' wedding at Craigadam I'm reminded of the fantastic light throughout the day - light that makes wedding photography...
Cheryl & Sean's Mabie House Hotel Wedding Photography
Mabie House Hotel Wedding Photographer Dumfries
As Cheryl's Made of Honour remarked in her speech, Cheryl & Sean have always been…'Cheryl & Sean'. So it was really an honour to see them formalise their lives together. Mabie House Hotel and it's grounds, in the tranquil setting of Mabie Forest, was magnificent as always, providing a beautiful backdrop for the photographs outside. Even the rhododendrons...
Deborah and Douglas' Crichton Church Wedding Photography
Crichton Church Wedding Photographer Dumfries and Galloway
Reportage wedding photography - is one of the phrases I use when describing my approach to weddings (yes, I know, me and every other wedding photographer out there) - but being in the background and capturing moments as they happen in a journalistic style; is a very rewarding approach....
Stacey and Daniel's Friars Carse Wedding Photography
Friars Carse Wedding Photographer Dumfries and Galloway
Stacey & Daniel and their families were so friendly and welcoming that I thoroughly enjoyed my day. Stacey & Daniel make a fabulous couple - so completely happy and in love on their wedding day. And this was a wedding day everyone hopes for - sunny and warm, a perfect summer's day - allowing for an beautiful outdoor ceremony on the riverbank at Friars...
Sandra and Antony's Marthrown of Mabie Wedding Photography
Marthrown of Mabie Wedding Photographer, Dumfries and Galloway
I used to wonder if life as a wedding photographer would turn into 'Groundhog Day'.
But no chance, you guys out there are just too imaginative to ever let that happen. I so look forward to those unique twists every bride and groom give to their day. And it's wonderful to see how personal every wedding can be.
So, taking this to the next level...
Gemma & Kevin's Moffat House Hotel Wedding Photography
The Moffat House Hotel always Inspires - and never ceases to surprise me. Every wedding I photograph at the Moffat House creates such a different atmosphere and the photographs are always unique.
Gemma and Kevin's ceremony was held outside, on the lush green lawn, beneath the hotel's magnificent ancient oak tree.
And being a Moffat Wedding Photographer - it's always lovely to photograph a wedding so close to...
Jacqui & Duncan's Orroland Lodge Wedding Photography
Orroland Lodge wedding photographer Solway coast, Dumfries and Galloway.
Spring and Summer - rolled into one for an amazing day of Solway Coast wedding photography, for Jacqui and Duncan. The weather gave a spectacular flourish of sun - with it all the freshness of Spring bluebells, punctuated by rosettes of wild garlic and the warm romantic light of a Summer's day....
Emma & Chris' Inn on the Lake Wedding Photography
Lake District Wedding Photographer, Inn on the Lake, Ullswater
Preparation before a wedding - is crucial. And I always like to be ready for any eventuality - particularly the weather. For a Lake District wedding in Spring - the weather can do anything, and sometimes, everything… That's what I reminded myself before heading to Ullswater for Emma & Chris' wedding at the Inn on the Lake, Glenridding. ...
Claire & Michael's Springkell Wedding
Springkell Wedding Photographer, Springkell Wedding Dumfries and Galloway.
'Little looks' are one thing I'm always hoping for during the wedding day. Little looks? …those fleeting moments when someone forgets everything else and is completely spellbound by the moment - in their face you see exactly what they're feeling - unguarded, captivating and very special.
These little looks are fleeting - but they sum up the sentiment...
Sarah & Chris' Pitlochry Wedding Photography
Pitlochry Wedding Photographer, loch-side at Loch Dunmore
Location, location, location… that's what they say about property - and clearly, it's pretty important for weddings too. So when Sarah's enquiry arrived for me to photograph her wedding at the spectacular loch-side setting of Loch Dunmore near Pitlochry I jumped at the chance!
I love Spring weddings and as a wedding photographer Scotland always has the potential...
Anna & Paul's St. Mary's-Greyfriars' Church & Hetland Hall Wedding, Dumfries
Anna & Paul's beautiful March wedding... in Dumfries... in the snow!
For March - snow was ... kind of unexpected, but Anna looked amazing and the wedding day was wonderful. For a Dumfries wedding photographer, it was gusty, slippery, and the drifts over the A75 to Hetland Hall were ... ominous. But Dumfriesshire looked beautiful in the unexpected whiteout; Anna didn't let the snow phase her at all - there...