Ruth & Steve | Wedding | Moat House, Acton Trussell

You may remember Ruth & Steve from their fun pre wedding shoot on the river ... both are very keen canoeists, in fact they both compete ... they are also mad snow boarders and a favourite destination of theirs is in Canada ... where Steve proposed a year ago.

A while back, they set up in business together selling custom canoes, you can view their stuff at www.hydraasports.co.uk.

So, yesterday found us at their wedding, a beautiful affair at the Moat House, one of Stafford's gems. I got the following text this evening from Ruth:

Hi Gill, jut wanted to say thanks for everything yesterday, I loved having the photos taken and as you probably realised I usually hide from cameras ...

So, without further ado ... some favourites from the day ... oh, I was ably assisted by Matt, who borrowed by lensbaby 2.0 for the day (jealous !) ...

I reckon nerves and heat had something to do with the fact that Steve struggled to fit Ruth's ring on her hand ... that took some pushing and shoving ! LOL

The lensbaby effect !

Fun speeches ...

Lensbaby cake cutting ...

Thanks for having me ... and feeding me like a guest ! Totally appreciated that and man, that chicken was to die for ! Have a great honeymoon and see you both soon ! Gill x


For the photographers ... the majority of photos were taken on Canon 5D with 70-200, 50 1.2 and 16-35. And of course a lensbaby. The BW's were processed using Jeff Ascough's new Silver Actions, either the 400 film or 800 film, depending on what look I wanted.

Lensbaby fun fun fun !

I bought a lensbaby 2.0 a couple of years ago and, after an initial play (as you do), I never really got around to using it. It has been gathering dust in my lens cupboard for a long time ... however, my friend Matt came down to shoot with me this weekend and mentioned that he would LOVE to try one ... so I whipped it out !

Looking through yesterday's images I came across a couple of me that Matt had taken while I was shooting, so I thought you wouldn't mind me sharing them, well, they made me laugh LOL

More from the wedding coming soon ... in the meantime, enjoy :)

Cheryl & Chris | Wedding | Putney, London

I had the pleasure of travelling down to London a couple of weeks ago (actually, on my own wedding anniversary) to hang out with Cheryl, Chris and their family and friends, to celebrate their (long overdue) wedding. They have been together for a whopping 17 years and so there were a great many jokes during the speeches about how long it had taken them.

We started out at home, where Cheryl was getting ready while others around her were finishing off little bits and pieces for the reception. The ceremony was in the very beautiful St Mary Magdalene Church, on the edge of Wandsworth Common and the reception was held at the London Rowing Club in Putney ... a short London bus ride away !

A few favourites.

Beautiful colour scheme

We are not amused

Yet another pair of gorgeous shoes ... indulge me !

This sign made me chuckle

Gotta make sure we look good for the photos ...

Very pretty bridesmaids

Ceremony time

Mr & Mrs

That bus !

All the kids had little "official photographer" badges and were equipped with cameras

The Rowing Club ... and the view out over the Thames

Check out those eyes !!

Super fun speeches

Thanks for having me, guys, it was a lot of fun ! Hope you enjoy the next 17 years as much as the first :)

Sample Digital Art Book

I wanted to share a new sample album with you, the layouts at least ... this is going to be a whopping A3 sized photo-acrylic-front, digital art book ... I can't wait to see it in the flesh, it's going to be stunning !

Enjoy !

By the way, if you hover over it, there are some controls, should you want to stop the show or something :)

Gill Taylor | Photographer | Facebook Fan Page

Well I finally succumbed (read: found some time in between processing LOL) and set up a fan page on Facebook. Click on the linkie below if the mood takes you :)

I have NO idea what I'm going to do with the page, TBH, I think I'll have to mooch around and see what other people are doing (you guys don't mind, right?) but if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments box.

Hope to hear from you soon !

Gill

Linkie :)

NB: This now replaces the Blog Stalkers, thank you to those who followed me there, now move on over to FB if you still like me ! :)

Recent Tesimonials and Nice Stuff

I thought it might be nice to share some recent good vibes from clients and friends :)

Sian & Ryan Wedding

Hi Gill,

The photos are FANTASTIC!! Really love them all, some great casual and posed ones, just as we wanted - perfect thank you so much.

Not only chief cravat tie-er, bustle tie-er, corsage attacher and yet amazing photographer too! Thank you sooooo much we really love them, they are as gorgeous as we hoped and more!

Thanks again
Love Sian & Ryan

Just looked through the photos you took at my cousin Sian's wedding. They are awesome they brought tears to my eyes wished I could've been there. Thank-you for capturing it so beautifully, so i got to share the day even thou I couldn't be there in person. Sam

Stephanie & Mickey Wedding

WOW!! The photo's are absolutely beautiful. I was totally breathless when I saw them and keep viewing them over and over again. I am still on a high and don't want to come down to earth just yet, hope I am not driving everyone silly talking about the day but who cares!!!

It was lovely having you share such a special day with us, you captured it perfectly. Looking forward to seeing you soon and hope that you will join us for dinner (that would be nice).

Be in touch soon

Hugs

Kate (Stephanie's mom) x

Louise & Richard Wedding

Thank you very much for being so great on our big day and bringing it all together in such a special way! YOU ROCK !

Lots of Love, Richard & Louise M x

These mean the world to me ... thank you all so much !

"During and After"

I know, it's usually "Before and After", right? This totally made me smile when I was checking through the files from today's wedding ... mooching through Paul's shots, I came across this ...

Ha! The shapes I get into while trying to stay out of the way and get the shot :)

So, this made me go looking for the same time frame to see if I could pull the shot I was taking and here we go ... groom's speech !

I will, of course, be posting more from Amanda and David's beautiful Crewe Hall wedding soon.

(Image of me Copyright Paul Glavin Photography)