In the past 10 days I have shot a wedding, a couples shoot, several commercial shoots ranging from accessories to entire building development sites, a party, a museum, several cars, ladies fashions over the past 200 years and a boudoir shoot. This has all taken me from Norfolk to Hampshire, to Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Scotland. Weirdly, at one point I had to collect some keys from someone – who turned out to be the lady I’d bought my house from! A good friend of mine, Matt Hart, remarked that;
“Funny thing is people want this for a life but don’t realise how full on it can be ! Ha ha have fun”.
I think he added the last bit because he knows how much editing there is to do now! Some of my journeys across the UK I drove myself and others I was lucky enough to have a driver – although that was essential, because in between using my camera, I had several interviews to carry out. Some beds were really comfortable, with a great view; others were really cosy and warm. Some were spartan, and I’d wake up with an ache in my side. But it all really opened my eyes to how lucky I am. Once I went to work at the same place, after taking the same journey, day after day. Now I see different people and different views, sometimes with very little notice at all! Although I’m exhausted, its a good exhaustion, resulting from a hard but physically and creatively satisfying day. Consequently and ironically, I don;t have many pictures to share with you today as the majority are still sitting patiently on my hard drive waiting to be edited! But I will share a few from the Wiltshire couple shoot.
Which leads me on to a thought. Every single photo for that shoot was taken in the one barn (which had a roof and 2 walls. That wasn’t choice, we were forced to take shelter as within minutes of us all arriving, torrential rain slammed down – and continued to slam down for the remainder of the day, There was truly no hope that it would pass. And yet I found the forced static nature of the shoot to be challenging in a truly creative way. I’m really pleased with the results and I’m told my lovely couple are too (well, from the sneak peeks that they’ve seen). A while ago, the very lovely Tamara Peel told me it was a good exercise to shoot as many different photos as you could without moving your subject. Ok, the barn was just about large enough to move around – (you did have to jump over giant straw bales to do it, but it was possible) – but it still provided a great opportunity to see how I, the photographer, could move – instead of that easy to fall back option of moving your subject to a different space. It’s something I have been meaning to try – so although this ended up happening on a real shoot rather than a personal one, I have no doubt that working through the difficulties helped contribute to what really are, a lovely and natural set of photographs. Oh and so did cutie Bill the Dog, who was a gorgeous gooseberry on the couple shoot!
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So sweet and romantic! It's great that you're able to travel and work on something you are passionate about, it's still tons of work but it sure must be so rewarding xox
beautiful … love how you turned the weather to your advantage & such travels, i am jealous!
Fabulous images! Its so great to hear about what you have been up to – cant wait to see some of the images. You are so right, we are blessed to have this as our work!
Lovely images! I adore your post processing. Also, have fun with all that editing after a full schedule of shooting! I understand 🙂