Emma & Matthew Wedding at Marriott St. Pierre

Just finished downloading the images from yesterdays wedding of Emma & Matthew at the Marriott St Pierre in Chepstow. I would just like to say thank you to Emma & Matthew and their family for their hospitality, and a special thank you to Emma's mum for the delicious wedding cake, I made sure I grabbed a piece for my journey home, it was delicious.

Here's a few images from the day.

Karen & Patrick

Had some fun last week shooting Karen & Patricks wedding. They decided to get married only 3 weeks ago, so take your hats off to them for doing such an awesome job getting everything organised in super quick time. The marriage was a civil ceremony and they were then having a hindu ceremony later in the day.

They are a lovely couple and were a real pleasure to photograph, I especially enjoyed taking some pictures of them down on the beach.

All the very best to you guys in the future and I'm glad you like the images.

Chris and Claire tie the knot at Spiney Palace

What a week ! Just got back from a week up in Scotland mixing business and pleasure.
Me the wife, our niece and the 2 dogs travelled the 10 hours up to Elgin in Scotland, to visit family as there are 2 new additions to the clan. Little Kian and Ebony Rose. 2 Bonnie babies only a couple of weeks old. So much swooning over the little ones, before me and Laura(the wife) headed off up the north west coast to camp at Lochinver with the intention of climbing Sulliven.

On the way we stopped by Ullapool which is a stunning fishing village, and the best fish n chips I have had in a long time. Unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse on arrival at Lochinver which scuppered our mountain climbing plans, plus Suzi the dog had also managed to cut open one of her pads, so this definitely meant we couldn't do the climb. Not to worry I will definitely be going back to conquer the formidable looking Sulliven, it has certain magnetism about it which draws you in.



So another meandering road trip back to Elgin, taking in more sites from the East coast. As soon as we were back it was time to get the business head on as I was photographing Chris and Claire at their wedding on the weekend.
Chris and Claire got married at Spiney Palace a beautiful wedding venue. They also had a Humanist service, which was most interesting, it involved the mixing of coloured sands and the exchanging of gifts and tying of knots.
It really was a pleasure to be part of their day and capturing some great images for them to treasure.

New Website

Not posted in some time now, I have been busy working on my new website in all my spare time. It's always the hardest thing in the world when it comes to working on self promotion. 

When selecting images too upload you are constantly reviewing them and after while even convincing yourself that they are not good enough. A few emails to friends and a couple of tweets to the twitter community have helped allay my fears. So here it is, still not 100% finished, I have many more images to go up. But at least it's new fresh material which is an improvement on what was already there.

Any feedback from anyone out there is going to be very appreciated.

Cheers big ears

UPDATE - Tavis Burning brightly against the Azzuri !!!

Following up from my previous post, Tavis had an awesome game last friday, giving a man of the match performance. For more info check out this article on the South Wales Evening Post.

Celtic Energy Fueling Welsh Rugby

Celtic Energy's very own Tavis Knoyle has been selected to play for the Welsh under 20's rugby team to face Italy next week.

My brief today was to capture some shots of Tavis in his welsh kit and also of 3 of Celtic's employees are in their 40th year of employment, and were being presented with a gift for their years of service.

I have been lucky enough to shoot up at Onllwyn previously and the managers Keith and Paul are always very welcoming and helpful.

Anyway back to the shoot, I decided that I wanted to have some evidence of the washery in the background, but bring the emphasis back to the subject by lighting the subjects and dropping the ambient back a couple of stops.

I also wanted to make the portraits of Tavis a little more interesting by adding a bit of rim light and I also warmed up the light with a CTO gel. I also played around with the white balance to add a little colour to the overcast sky.

Tavis was a great subject, he was such a nice guy to work with a real pleasure and I wish him all the very best for his rugby career, and rest assured I will be watching next friday when they play the azzuri !

Gwalia Housing Fundraiser

Had a nice evening on Friday night covering a fund raising event for Gwalia housing. Roy Noble was the guest speaker, and they also had the Gwalia Singers male voice choir singing after the dinner.