Author archives: lrphotography@mac.com

  • The Sunflower Wedding

  • This week has been one of contrasts – and one that proves that as a Lancashire wedding photographer you have to be ready for anything. Scorching conditions. Battering rain. Cows. The usual… Gill and Tim’s wedding didn’t feature battering rain (see my next post) but it did feature glorious skies, [...]
  • Vive La France

  • The story of a perfect day. Of course, it helps when the location is just gorgeous, but Brian and Corina’s wedding was memorable for all sorts of reasons. There was the intimacy. 45 guests makes for some wonderfully intimate wedding photography. There was the international flavour: a Texan[...]
  • Corina & Brian - A Dordogne Wedding

  • I’m packing. You see, Corina and Brian from Texas are marrying this weekend at a gorgeous Dordogne chateau, and I’ll be supplying the wedding photography. So how is it, you might ask, that a Lancashire wedding photographer ends up as the man with the camera at a US wedding in France? Well… Th[...]
  • Top 4 wedding trends 2014

  • Spend enough time photographing Lancashire weddings and you start to notice certain themes cropping up again and again. This year’s wedding trends are proving brides and grooms are as inventive and outdoors-y as they’ve ever been. So here, in a completely non-scientific way, are my top 4 wedding tre[...]
  • Make more of your wedding photography

  • A week or two ago I mentioned that I was looking forward to shooting a wedding reception at one of my favourite venues: Beeston Manor near Preston. In the event, Aimee and Graham’s day turned out to be even more glorious than expected. Partly that was a result of lovely people having a wonder[...]
  • Before we get too serious...

  • …is the name of my latest portrait project. It’s a celebration of childhood, of a time when we really could do whatever we wanted and feel entirely uninhibited by it. Following the project launch a couple of weeks back I’ve been busy taking shots of some fantastic kids who’ve helped get thing[...]
  • Back to the future

  • As a Preston wedding photographer, there are some venues you just look forward to seeing again. Beeston Manor, just outside Preston, is one of those places. It’s a warm, welcoming venue with lovely grounds and glorious views. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve photographed brides and grooms[...]
  • More top Lancashire wedding venues

  • It seemed like a simple enough plan. I pick my 5 favourite Lancashire wedding venues of the past 12 months and share them with you. So I did. And then it occurred to me that I’d left these out… Bartle Hall, Preston And the winner of most popular venue of 2013 (if my booking list was anything[...]