Author archives: lrphotography@mac.com
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- 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, [...]
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- I spend most of my year at Lancashire’s best wedding venues. So I thought I’d share a few thoughts from the perspective of your wedding photographer – the sort of things you’re unlikely to find on a review site.
No, it’s not part of the garden centre anymore (that’s further up the A6) – this is B[...]
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- If you’re looking for a Lancashire wedding venue right now, your head will probably be spinning from the options available. Given that I spend most of my year at Lancashire’s finest halls, hotels and stately homes, I thought I’d share a few thoughts from the perspective of your wedding photographer [...]
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- 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[...]
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- The Preston wedding photographer you really want will be booked up months in advance of your wedding, won’t they?
Well usually, yes, but as with any line of work plans sometimes change. When they do that can mean there’s a gap in the schedule that your wedding could fit into very nicely. And the [...]
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- 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[...]
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- 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[...]
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- 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[...]
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- …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[...]
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- 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[...]
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- April has arrived. Every year that’s effectively the starting pistol for the Lancashire wedding season and from now until the clocks go back I’ll be trying to find new and exciting ways of making your wedding photography look like no one else’s. But before I make a start on 2014’s crop of “I do’s” –[...]
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- 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[...]