22/04/2026
Taken from my website blog…
“We all have moments in our lives and careers that change the way we do or see things.
One image that has always stood out to me and others has been this photograph (1st one) made almost 11 years ago; on 1st August 2015 at St Margarets Church, West Sussex, just after their ceremony and during some directed group photos we were making.
I’ve been asked before about why I wanted to be a photographer and the true and very simple answer is that I wanted my photographs to be hanging on peoples walls - at the time I didn’t think about wedding photographs particularly, just any photograph i’d made that someone liked enough to frame it and hang it on their wall for others to see (and selfishly to be amazed by)
Looking through the hundreds of thousands of images I have made over the last 20 years it’s really hard to choose just one image that takes me back to the exact moment I made it. But every now and again this photograph stands out to me and I wanted to share it again - as it’s probably my favourite image i’ve ever made.
That’s a BOLD statement I know and doesn’t take away from any other wedding or image I worked hard to get but it just keeps coming back as the most impactful one for me.
Sometimes it’s the moment, sometimes it’s the light (which good photographers are obsessed with by the way) and sometimes it’s both and if you can get a decent composition in there too it’s even better.
This is the only photograph i’ve ever made (since 2006 when I started to shoot weddings) that has had a handful of complete strangers in tears when they see it - literally in front of me - the reaction has always been from the mothers of the bride or groom when i’ve showcased it at wedding shows.
It’s a lovely big print with a beautiful black frame and a plain white mount and I set it up just behind my albums that are on show too.
