Three years and freebies ..

On Saturday I did something I've never done before! I arrived at The Park Royal in Warrington to begin photographing Dawn and Mike's Wedding only to find a 'different' bride and groom sitting at a table in the hotel's foyer. "Hang on.." I joked "Am I at the right Wedding?" ..

Turns out the couple had just got married a few minutes earlier but had decided on a "low-key" Wedding with very few people in attendance. Low key? I counted four people! "No photographer?.." I asked, nodding at the front door. "Come outside, I'll shoot a picture for you..", and so it was that Rob and his new bride got a free Wedding portrait from Manchester Wedding Photography!
I'm just too nice ...

(Note to accountant: I'll try not to do this too often!)

Today's picture was taken three years ago to the day! Happy 3rd Wedding anniversary to Wendy and Phil, whose Wedding I shot at Manchester Town Hall ..

 .. for money!

She's behind you...

252!!! That's how many people we had through the door of the gallery on Saturday! Two hundred and fifty bloody two! In six hours! I'm absolutely amazed! That means that almost 500 visitors have seen my photographs already, and we've only opened to the public three times! How good, as they say, is that? I spent the whole day chatting and listening to fantastic stories about 'the old days'. People really are engaging in the project and it's so exciting!

A couple of visitors were trying to identify where today's photograph was taken. It's actually in front of the Co-op funeral parlour on Liverpool Road. Glamorous, eh? Anyway, speaking of glamorous, I was telling them that the shot is actually labelled in my negative file as 'Fit Birds'! Hey, I was only 17! "Be careful.." I heard a voice say "You never know who might hear that!" I turned around and there was .. the 'fit bird' on the right! "Good job you didn't call it anything else!" she laughed!
Phew! Good job...