Gizza hug ..

These are literally the first and last shots from last week's Wedding. I thought it was so great that the whole day was wrapped with hugs! To me the shots are so honest yet capture the all-important minutiae of the day - the toast and jam of the 'first' Wedding breakfast of the day, the bride with the orange juice for the Bucks Fizz and - at the other end of the day - the groom and a pal proving they might have sampled quite a lot of those drinks during the day! This is what Wedding photography's about. Forget all that posed crap that seems to pass as the 'right way' to shoot Weddings these days - silhouettes, smoke bombs, blurry shots through trees and railings! It's all art for art's sake! A lot of Wedding photographers seemed to have crawled up their own proverbials, and they're staying there. Well great, 'cos I'm happy to say there are still plenty of brides and grooms that can't be bothered with all that fakery. They're the ones that book me, and get the nitty-gritty of it all. Captured moments that actually happened on their Wedding Day. Now, of course I'll shoot a great set of 'posed' shots too. One just doesn't need to go over the top, that's all! Real Life! Just saying ...