Wow, 2014 – what an amazing, mind-blowing, exhausting, educational & inspiring year it was! I had the pleasure to not only photograph many, many beautiful weddings, but also many pregnant ladies, new babies, older babies, grown up babies and families. I met Dr Brian May (and took his photo – what an amazing, gentle and friendly man he is!), once shot three weddings in one week, had Agne make a wonderful behind-the-scenes-video for me, traveled abroad to shoot an old friend’s wedding in good old Berlin (blog post to follow soon), designed a brand new website and have more new project ideas in my head now than I will ever have time for.
I have decided to show the best of 2014 in two blog posts – one about wedding photography and one about maternity, newborn & family portraits (coming next) – it would be too difficult to show all of these pictures in one post.
Selecting images for this blog post was hard and took a long time. I narrowed it down from 300 (i know…) to almost 100 (hopefully that won’t crush my or your server). I tried to show you a great variety and hope you enjoy looking through this long blog post.
And last but not least, this is me according to Ian Lloyd:
If you made it till the end of this long blog post, I thank you a lot for your patience and interest. I cannot wait to see what 2015 brings and am so excited!
I took this photo in the Bath Registry Office last September. The groom was in the Alkmaar Room, waiting for all the guests to assemble, while the bride waited in reception for the registrar to call her in. The bride and her uncle (who was giving her away) were just practicing to walk festively in sync, when the registrar turned up and watched them for a while, before calling her in.
An engagement or pre-wedding shoot also gives you the opportunity to take photographs that you can incorporate into your wedding invitation. A ‘save the date’ notification tells your friends and family which date to keep free, even if you are not at a point where you want to give away where the wedding is going to take place.
Simply tell me before the session if you would like to do a save the date photo and I’ll bring additional props that you can incorporate.
You will receive your engagement portraits on a USB therefore you are under no limitation of use and you can freely use the photographs in the design of your wedding invitations.
Hi Betty, Wow – wir sind total begeistert – eins besser als das andere! Vielen vielen Dank, das sind Erinnerungen die uns lange begleiten werden. Liebe Grüße, Tom und Tine
In English: Dear Betty, we are exstatic – one better than the other! Many many thanks, those are memories that will be with us for a long time. Best regards, Tom & Tine
Tine and Tom are from Germany and got married early October. They contacted me in September to tell me they were coming to Bath for part of their honeymoon and would love to do a portrait session.
Firstly I love the fact that they are coming to beautiful Bath for their honeymoon! Tom used to live here for a while and they both know it well. Secondly I have more and more German or half-German couples contact me to photograph their weddings or babies, I am so happy that part of my heritage is coming to use again! It actually turns out that there are many expats like me here, married to beautiful Brits, some of them with even more beautiful multi-lingual kids. What a colourful life I have chosen!
Back to Tom & Tine. We were lucky to have a beautiful sunny autumn day and went for a long walk through Bath centre, starting at the Royal Crescent and finishing just outside Holburne Museum. Their testimonial made me so happy!! Getting married is a great time. Even better if you have fabulous wedding photos. But to have fab wedding photos (note: I didn’t take their wedding photos but saw one and that one was outstanding) AND honeymoon portraits, now that’s something we should all do from now onwards. 😉
If you want to celebrate your love and you are still looking for a photographer to create creative portraits then I would love to hear from you. You can call me on 07984 029 639, email me or fill in my simple & easy contact form.
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Hi Betty, The pictures are fantastic- love the after eight chocolate faces! Thank you so much! Chrissy & Rob
This Saturday everybody remembers. It was the only (Satur-) day in July we had hideous amounts of rain. Thankfully only for the first half of the day though – I have never been so glad to see the weather forecast being incorrect!
When I arrived at Chrissy’s house in the morning, the sky was back and the rain dense. The bride to be and her family stayed fairly relaxed about these unchangeable circumstances and magically pulled out ten white umbrellas. My second shooter Agne, who covered the boy’s preparations found them in equally good spirits. The rain was pounding on the roof of Kingswood Chapel during the wedding ceremony but magically stopped and turned into the most glorious sunshine the moment the couple emerged from the Chapel for their confetti shot. The rest of the day everyone enjoyed the beautiful setting of the nearby Summerhill Mansion and everyone agreed, the day couldn’t have turned out more perfect!
If you are getting married in Bath or anywhere else and you are still looking for a photographer to create a mixture of natural reportage photographs mixed with creative portraits then I would love to hear from you. You can call me on 07984 029 639, email me or fill in my simple & easy contact form.
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