ABOUT ME
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Your wedding photographer is one of the people you’ll spend the most time with on one of the biggest days of your life — from nervous mornings to questionable dance moves later on. So it really matters that you actually like them. You should feel comfortable, relaxed, and able to be yourselves, not like you’re being followed around by a stranger with a camera. That’s why this “about me” bit exists — to give you a feel for who I am, how I work, and whether we’ll get on.

I started my photography career at the ripe old age of 17, taking photos of mostly old people on holiday in hotels around Torquay. Glamorous stuff. Think sunburn, socks and sandals, and a lot of tinsel and turkey. Somehow, that turned into a real job… and eventually, weddings.

My love for wedding photography actually kicked in after my own wedding in 2015. We were lucky enough to have an incredible photographer — who also happened to also be my wife’s old A-level maths teacher (yes, really). When we got our photos back and sat down to look through them for the first time, the feeling they gave us was almost as special as the wedding itself. That was the moment it clicked. I wanted to give other couples that feeling.

That same photographer took me under his wing as his Padawan (robe optional), teaching me the ropes while I second shot weddings before I eventually branched out on my own in 2018. I shot a lot of weddings… until a ruptured Achilles, another business, and life generally doing its thing, convinced me to hang up my camera for a while.

Fast forward to recently, when a few close friends asked me to shoot their weddings. One wedding turned into a few, and suddenly I remembered exactly why I loved this job. So here I am. Back. Camera in hand.

So what am I like on a wedding day? I’m laid back, a little sarcastic, and very good at blending into the background when the emotional stuff is happening. On the day, I’ll mostly follow your lead. I work in a documentary style, which means I’m there to capture real moments and real emotions as they naturally happen, not to constantly interrupt them....unless you introduce a wedding game. If there’s cricket involved, I make no promises. At that point I may temporarily forget I’m working.

I’m very good at reading the room and adjusting to whatever the day needs — whether that’s being polite and chivalrous with the mums, a bonus background bridesmaid for the bride, or having a laugh and some banter with the groom. Basically a photography chameleon. I won’t be dragging you away every five minutes or shouting instructions like a drill sergeant (unless you have unruly guests who have drunk too much to get themselves together for the group photo). That said, it is nice to have a handful of formal group photos and some posed couple shots (future you will thank us). I’ll keep these parts as quick, relaxed, and as pain-free as humanly possible, then get you straight back to enjoying your day. My priority is that you get real moments, real emotions, and photos that feel like you — not a staged version of your day.

Then there’s Linzi — my wife, second shooter, editor and the emotional one. While I’m being calm and sarcastic, she’s the one sobbing while editing your photos and gushing over your dress. When childcare allows, she joins me on wedding days as my second shooter, chief dress fluffer, and full-time emotional wreck. She will cry. Probably more than once. Definitely during the vows.

When I’m not photographing weddings, I’m a busy dad of two, a football lover who is still very much in denial about being too old to play, an aspring cricketer, and someone whose personality is at least 30% pizza.

So if you’re after relaxed vibes, honest photos, and someone who takes your wedding seriously but doesn’t take themselves too seriously… we’ll probably get on just fine.