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Colin Perkins Photography

Wedding, Lifestyle and Commercial photographer based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Hi!

I'm Colin and I'm a UK and destination wedding photographer, who shoots in a creative documentary and reportage style. I'm based in the steel city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, where I live my wife, Rae, and daughters, Ada and new arrival Meg. For the last five years, a high percentage of the weddings I’ve covered have been across the Derbyshire border in the ever beautiful Peak District, which is also where I spend most of my free time, either with the family or out running. I’ve also had the pleasure of travelling to the coast of Wales and the beaches of Jersey to capture some fabulous festival style weddings. I'm an easy going, friendly, approachable, music-loving, guitar-playing, mini-driving, motorbike-riding Sheffielder. I start early and finish late so as to capture the full story of your day and I do it in a friendly, discreet and unobtrusive manner. I like the post-wedding response to be “I don’t even remember him taking that!” I'm there to capture your day, not influence it. So if you like what you see and think I’d be a good fit for your day, get in touch and let’s have a chat about your plans!

11/10/2026

Fancy some Sunday night reading? Michelle & Remus just landed on the blog!

Link in the first comment so Facebook might actually show this post to people 😀

10/10/2026

Headed up to Huddersfield a couple of weekends back to spend the afternoon with Danielle & Jack as they got married at the town hall and then on to the top of Holme Valley for a gorgeous village hall reception.

The result? Some seriously relaxed, happy and unobtrusive wedding photography.

16/09/2026

August bank holiday weekend I jumped in the car and headed off to the rolling Surrey hills for Camilla Southwell & Joe Walker awesome wedding day.

Marquee erected around one of the garden orchard trees? Check.

Assistant Director Cam’s friends on hand to make sure the day ran as smooth as a Netflix production? Check.

A first dance replacing first song by the happy couple that brought family and guests to tears of laughter and junior guests ears covered? Check.

What a day 🤘

15/07/2026

Wedding bookings come in all different ways, recommendations from previous couples, family members, images catching people’s eye’s on here and other social media, google searches, venue recommendations.

Miranda and Ross however found me via Miranda’s Mum seeing me playing a birthday gig with my punk / new wave covers band (S.P.G.) and hearing I photographed weddings.

Miranda & Ross had a great day with a service at their local church before heading out to The Maynard in the Peak District where the sun was Shining, drinks were flowing and the dance floor bouncing.

They’d assembled a super strong supplier team for this one as well:

Photography: Sheffield Wedding Photographer + Dainty Weddings
Video: Sheffield Videographer
Venue: Events at The Maynard
Music: Musical Covers from Adam McCulloch
Hair: BRIDAL HAIR STYLIST AND COLOUR SPECIALIST
Makeup: BLUSH by Peplow • Bridal Makeup Yorkshire & UK

17/04/2026

I’m always open to learning and expanding my skill set so last week I headed down to Oxfordshire to the Ignite Workshop.

Lots of chat about where wedding photography is at the moment, ideas for new things, a serious look at some gorgeous new wedding albums that’ll soon be hitting my page and also a shoot with two stunning alternative models.

I like how I capture weddings and my couples do too but playing and learning with the camera is how I got here and adding some new ideas into my shooting toolbox feels great.

Big thanks to all involved. 🙌

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Smoke grenades :

08/04/2026

So yesterday I found out this image had won a This is Reportage award!

Seriously happy with this as they’re one of the hardest awards to get. Only 60 out of 10,000 images this time around and judged by some of the worlds best documentary wedding photographers.

Do I shoot purely for awards? No.

I shoot to capture the energy and uniqueness of my couples wedding days. An award win does bring a huge geeky smile to my face though.

The image comes from When Michelle + Remus day on the coast of Wales. Whilst chatting to them they said they were planning an early morning swim with their wedding guests in the Menai Strait. I knew it’d lead to some great images, because they are a fun, outdoor loving couple and so were their guests. So at 8am people weren’t just swimming. They were diving, front flipping, and back flipping into the sea with Yr Wyddfa in the background.🤘

Huge thanks to Alan and all the judges This is Reportage

06/02/2026

Lots of familiar faces at H**e & Matthew’s dance filled wedding last Saturday.

Bridal hair and flowers brilliantly colour coded, “If Your Happy and You know It” should be a wedding ceremony staple and Powerhouse Ceilidh absolutely rock!

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05/02/2026

Blog update!

Ellie & Charles sun, fun, wild flower, quizzing and Ceilidh filled wedding at Whirlow Hall Farm Trust

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02/02/2026

Just found out I landed another award
AND made it onto the Top 20 Photographers of 2025 list as well 🙌

27/01/2026

As I often do around this time of year, I sat down and looked at my blog back log.

I find the writing side of things a bit difficult it’s a rather large back log of beautiful, brilliant, individual weddings that are sat waiting to go on the website but are lacking words.

I’ve tried some Ai help but they just come back reading like they were written by a computer, not very me and not very the couples featured.

So I sat down today and set myself a goal of getting one written. I managed two and a half.

So up first is Clare & Lee from the Summer of 2024 Lower Damgate Farm Cottages & Wedding Venue. Dovedale Animal Sanctuary

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31 Arran Road
Sheffield
S101WQ

Website

http://www.colinperkinsphotography.co.uk/

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