Mike and Louise :: July 2009

Starting off at Ilfracombe Parish church and then onto my favourite venue of the Woolacombe Bay Hotel, this July wedding throw it's best and worst at me, a great fun couple made the day so much better but heavy rain mid way through the formal's saw us resort to using a corner of the bar to finish off getting those few missed shots, it just goes to show why the Bay Hotel is one of the top locations in North devon, in my opinion, it is just so versatile. Although this wedding was my one and only wet wedding of 2009 we still managed to get out at sunset onto Woolacombe beach for a few shots and trash the brides dress with sand and some scissors! I kid you not. It was such a great day and I wish Mike and Lousie all the happiness for the future.

16/52 - Wedding shoes.

Well this month's theme seems to have landed on weddings, which ironically is what I am shooting a lot of this year. So what better than another wedding realted shot. This time taken on Woolacombe Beach as the sun was setting. Can't show you any from the wedding just yet as the bride and groom haven't seen them But you all will in due course.
I got down real low for this shot to give that slightly different perspective on my shots as ever.
On a side note I took this on my new 7D which before had started to play up but shortly after this shot it died completely. Not bad to be able to kill a new camera in 48 hours!

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15/52 - Happy Anniversary darling x

10 years on the 8th of April I said "I do" to my beautiful and supportive wife. On that day our passion flower was in full bloom and so too was the cherry tree where we got married. Today was the first time in 10 years I have seen the cherry tree's blossom at this time of the year. Must a sign.
Taken on my iphone using the hipstamatic app.

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14/52 - Pre wedding recon.

I have a wedding in June at the stunning location of Tapely Park, Bideford. I meet with the couple in the grounds today to go through the final details of their day. After the meeting I stayed for a while to scope out lighting, angles etc etc.
This is where they are getting married so played with lighting set ups. Two speedlight 580 exii's just above each side pillar point to the ceiling and stofe'd, 1/4 power 24mm zoom triggered by cactus v4's. Hopefully that should give enough lighting to balance out the ambeint and flash on the day.

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Blog and site updates.

I know I have been a little quiet recently on blog updates, but hopefully posting should return to a normal pace again. It has been a mental few weeks of wedding album design, meeting with clients and general day to day business running stuff. But I seem to be over the worst of it now, so I can turn my attention to a new website design with plenty of extra content and look forward to what is shaping up to be a very busy 2010 wedding season for me, with literally one or two dates left this year, and I am all ready taking bookings for 2011 and 2012. Hopefully I won't have to increase my prices for next year but book now and I will honour this years prices next year or the year after!
Looking ahead to my new site design, I shall be adding plenty of links to wedding related suppliers in the North Devon area, so if you are such a person / business and would like to be included, then please drop me a line (My email can be found on my mail site or over to your right →), areas I will looking to forge links with are venues, entertainment, catering, suit and dress suppliers, cars etc etc. Also in the new site design this blog will be moving to my main site and there will be an updated client and general gallery system too. All exciting stuff. Thanks to Gareth at Dogleg Design (www.doglegdesign.co.uk) for doing the work for me.
Oh and one final thing don't forget my 52 project is still going strong. Not sure on what the next months theme will be yet but I have a few things on my mind for it.

Cheers
Matt

13/52 - Oh this is fun.

I set aside some Daddy and Tomas time tonight in order to get a few quality shots of my boy, not just for my 52 project but also for his year book. So laid down in his cot surrounded by all his "friends", I held his attention with a musical mobile and winnie the poo musically thingy. Found it hard to maintain eye contact with the camera, he was more interested in the mobile. But this shot is close enough. Just love how his hands are clasped, just like his mothers.
Again, not to be out done by his younger brother, JAckson insisted on having his photo taken, even though it was bath time. Nothing more than simple adjustments were done on this shot.

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12/52 - Finally.

A bit late in uploading I know but it's been a mental few weeks since my holiday. Wedding albums, client meetings and office organisation. So little time to shoot images, which is very annoying. So grabbed a few minutes the other morning before heading out to get my weekely shot 52 project shot. Still continuing the theme of my youngest this month.
Captured this one whilst he was rolling on his play mat.

Not to be out done by his younger brother Jackson demanded he have his picture taken, but refused to stop eating though. So here he is with a mouth full of biscuit. Lovely.

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