New 2012 availability.

Firstly, I hate the fact that I've gone back on what I said just a few weeks before but let me explain a little about why, and why the sudden U-turn. 
I'd originally decided to accept a limited amount of bookings for 2012 to enable me to focus on everyone without spending every evening at my mac, furiously editing away, to give me time to enjoy my summer and time to spend with my wonderful boy and stupid cats but now the gloves are off.  Firstly, something miraculous has happened to my workflow. Instead of  it taking weeks of Sundays, and most of my evenings too, suddenly it's quicker.
Secondly, following Dominique and Matt's beautiful wedding this weekend, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is what I want to do. I want to do what I love every day, I don't want to waste any more time doing what doesn't make me happy. I want to surround myself with love, there's no greater privilege than sharing the most significant moment of a couple's life together. That's what I want to do. 

And in order to be able to do it full time I need to book up the Summer. 

I have last minute availability on these dates: 

Sunday April 15th (yes, this Sunday!)

Saturday 21st April

Saturday 19th May

Saturday 9th June

Saturday 16th June

Saturday 30th June

Saturday 14th July

Saturday 21st July

Saturday 18th August

Saturday 8th September

Saturday 15th September

Saturday 22nd September

October onwards

If you book a last minute date, which at the moment will be an April date. I'll give you a discount because of lack of time to do an engagement shoot. Just get in touch and we'll work it out. 

Dom & Matt {sneak peek}

Dom and Matt got married on Saturday, and it was wonderful. I can't wait to get the rest of the images ready and over to them, but in the meantime, here's a little preview.

That new term feeling

It's April, and the wedding season is upon us and from twitter goings on it looks like I'm not the only one shooting my first wedding of 2012 this weekend. In fact I've got a whole new-term feel, I'm full of inspiration of things to do and where I want to drive this little business and part of what I want to do this year is to blog more, not just to talk about the shoots but also the business end of it as I see it; things I've learnt, post-processing and workflow, inspirational stuff - business things really which might not be entirely interesting to all of my lovely couples, or potential couples so to that end I'll be adding a little something to the top of the page so you can hop straight to weddings and engagements. Partly, what feels so real this time round is that I've just invested in new equipment - I'm so excited I could scream about it but instead of doing that I took it for a little spin round the house and garden, just to check all the buttons were in the same places as the old ones (and they are) so here are some random bits and bobs. Apologies in advance for the number of cat pics. Pippin Poppy

  To the left are my artificial roses from Atelier Abigail Ahern, they actually look amazing real, in fact all of her faux flowers are fantastic. To the right is a painted Mexican diablo from a little store in the East Village in NY. Incidentally, all of the above were edited using VSCO film, a new aquisition. I'd never really had much love for editing within Lightroom - basic RAW adjustments, exporting and converting to neatly sized blogable jpgs were all well and good but I'd really honed the look I do within Photoshop and was happier to trade off long hours in front of my Mac for images that looked the way I wanted rather than like they looked after full editing in Lightroom - always with highlights blown, colours skewed and things just generally looking, frankly, a bit dodgy.

When VSCO film came out it seemed everyone was waxing lyrical about it but I've held off until now to buy it. I'm pretty impressed by it as a Lightroom product but I don't see that I would ever stop using Photoshop completely because of it - there's still not quite fine grained enough control for my liking and the cool grey tones need something warmer, which I'm not sure that you can achieve using this product alone. Pinks look a bit odd too - it renders them too magenta somehow.

It is, however, a massive leap forward to be able to achieve Photoshop quality as quickly as you can using VSCO film - a full review to come once I've used it a little more.

Dominique & Matt {engaged}

Eeek, the first engagement session of 2012 and what a shoot. Dom and Matt were amazing to shoot, so natural and easy going and we had fabulous light so what's not to like?
We took a stroll through some of their favourite parts of town, ending up in their local greasy spoon enjoying tea (and a diet coke for me). Their wedding is also the first of this year, and I'm so excited I could just about burst. So without further ado, here a few images from the shoot.

2012 availability

I'm beginning to get pretty booked up for 2012 dates - I currently have availability from October 2012 onwards, and on the weekend of the 28th/29th July.

I'm also taking enquiries for 2013, so get in touch via my website if you're interested and want to chat further...

I {heart} NY

A couple of weeks back Joss and I took some time off and headed over to New York. I had an amazing time, and want to go back ASAP. I took lots of photos but sometimes it's wonderful to see and feel with your eyes rather than through a lens and to travel without the weight of a camera.
I also ate some pretty amazing things - the best being a chocolate peanut butter pie in an assuming bar on Broome Street in SoHo. After our few days there we did truly heart NY.