Had a fun shoot with the Thomas family on Wells beach on Tuesday evening, the weather was perfect and the boys Louie and Harvey were bundles of energy so lots of jumping around and plenty of sand flying!

We’ll start of below with a ‘formal’ family shot – as formal as you can have on a sandy beach with bare feet!

Louie was fearless when it came to dune jumping (…and on the rope swing and tree climbing and pretty much everything, in fact Louie was just fearless!)

Harvey is laughing here because he got to sit behind his little brother and pinch him, which brought a squeal every time he did it.

Boys will be boys…and I make sure I encourage it!

This was exactly 0.325 seconds before myself and both cameras were completely covered in sand. All part of the hazards of photographing on a sandy beach I guess!

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Just received some lovely feedback from Rayna & Andrew, whose wedding I photographed a few weeks back…

“We couldn’t be more pleased with the wedding photos!

Having Chris as our photographer was one of the best decisions we could have made for our wedding. Very few people would have taken the time or care that Chris has taken for a pre-wedding shoot to ensure that we were comfortable with him behind the camera. I normally hate having my photograph taken but Chris has this infectious love of photography, you just can’t help smiling. It makes a world of difference on the wedding day. It felt like a close friend was taking our picture rather than someone we’d just met.
Andy and I would definitely love to have Chris photograph us again someday. :)”

I arranged a pre-wedding shoot with Catherine and Sam at Blickling Hall for yesterday (Monday), if you are planning on having a look round Blickling one Monday – don’t bother, they are closed on Mondays.

Nevertheless we went ahead with the shoot in the grounds around the hall and got some varied and different shots – I’ve never used a cattle water trough as a prop in a shoot before but I actually really like the shots with the reflections in the cow saliva!

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I was honoured to be asked by the good folk at the Broad House Hotel to go along yesterday and photograph the visit by HRH Princess Anne. The Princess had been visiting Great Yarmouth, arriving in the Queen’s helicopter for lunch before heading off to Wroxham Yacht club.

We had glorious sunshine for the visit, the hotel and grounds looked spectacular.

Princess Anne arrives.

The Princess meets Philip and Caroline (owners of the Broad House Hotel).

Signing the guest book.

The hotel reflected in what has to be the most polished helicopter in Britain.

Visit over, the Princess departs.

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Gail contacted me a few weeks ago to ask if I would come over to the Blakeney Hotel to photograph the family who were getting together for her mother-in-law’s 60th birthday.  Unfortunately it was still raining so we had to conduct pretty much the whole shoot indoors but we got some good portraits of everyone, below is the birthday girl….

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The first of two 60th family birthday get togethers today – unfortunately it was raining non-stop today so we had to conduct the shoot indoors – luckily the family were staying at a huge farmhouse in Roughton (Jonas Farm) so we had plenty of room to photograph in. The nature of shooting indoors meant the shots are all fairly formal which is a shame as we were hoping to have the shoot at Wells beach but until Canon make a weather-controlling camera we’ll just have to roll with it.

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Back to Voewood for Paula & Mike’s pre-wedding shoot, it was a drizzling afternoon so we didn’t get much chance to make use of the gardens but with an interior like that it really doesn’t matter too much!

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So to Park Farm for the wedding of Katherine and Paul.

Actually the day started at Katherine and Paul’s home for the preparation shots, Louise from u-treatments was there to take care of the make up and she did a superb job, here she is in action with Katherine below.

While downstairs Louisa and Sarah were trying a completely different beauty treatment of ice cold tea-bags!

Really beautiful flowers by Libby Ferris Flowers, the muted colours and design of the flowers created quite a retro look, I can’t recommend Libby highly enough – not only does she do outstanding wedding flowers but she also has great words of advice for the bride!

Paul and his best Man Lee, both being RAF personnel, wore their uniforms which made for some great shots.

Below Paul enjoys a post ceremony cigar…

The image below has been worked quite heavily in post-production to acheive this look, in moderation I think it can be quite effective. It’s art dahhhling!

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Great wedding weather on Saturday – very slight breeze, pleasant temperature, broken sunshine in the day leading to a lovely sunny evening – good for photos, good for brides & grooms and good for guests!

I started the day at Lisa & Dom’s house for some preparation shots of the ladies getting ready, shot below sees Lisa handing the girls their bouquets – great flowers from Libby Ferris Flowers.

Bridesmaid Harriet (below), I was all ready to impress her with my knowledge of the Disney Princesses when she told me she had grown out of them so I had a masterclass on ‘High School Musical’. I think Harriet has got to be one of the most photogenic bridesmaids I’ve ever photographed.

Below, Lisa arrives at Weston Park and has a quick chat with the Registrar prior to heading up to the wedding ceremony.

Dominic (right) and his brother and bestman Alex nervously await the arrival of Lisa.

Antonio and Laura show us how to blow raspberries Italian style!

Alex’s bestman’s speech went down really well, along with a little sprinkling of ritual humilation for Dom!

Harriet really got stuck into the chocolate fountain.

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Just a quick posting today as I’m halfway out the door to the next wedding (photographing three this weekend), below are a sample of the shots from Amber and Peter’s wedding yesterday – they were married at Voewood and went onto a reception at the Michelin starred Morston Hall, now that’s style!

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