My wedding last weekend was on the windiest day of the summer so far and Sam and Adam chose St Margaret’s in Downham for their service - a church which sits atop of one of the very few hills in Essex. Years ago I saw a photographer use clothes pegs to weight a veil - might be an idea to have a couple in the bag…….

My favourite shot of the day - just for novelty value is of the Vicar actually doing my job, rather than trying to stop me!

Entering a print competition is always nerve wracking, I’ve just entered my second one and pleased to say didn’t come away empty handed. The question is whether I’m brave enough to enter the British Professional Photography Awards in a few weeks time - we’ll see.

My award came form a print of Emma & Mark’s wedding shot at Leez Priory at the end of May. Thanks to them for making it such a lovely job!

Jo

Our sincere apologies to those of you who have experienced a problem accessing our website since Wednesday. The server, on which our site is hosted suffered a catastrophic failure of it’s on board RAID controller, which handles the array of disks used to store our website. Our hosts have been working continuously since then to restore service and have advised us this morning that our site is fully functional once again. There are a number of events that will need to be uploaded once more and we will endeavour to do this today. Our thanks for your patience during this time.

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Jo

At the end of 2007 I was lucky enough to win an award at the British Professional Photography Awards - the category of You and Your Wedding, Bride’s choice. The May-June issue of the magazine has just gone on sale and includes a free supplement specifically about wedding photography, in which the studio is featured - our first national editorial! I will be doing a live webchat at www.youandyourweddding.co.uk from4pm on Tuesday 20th May, please come and join in!!

I spent last night with Gemma & Rob choosing images for their album. It’s always lovely to watch a couple’s reaction when seeing their photographs for the first time and I was really pleased that a sequence from the church service that I had loved were also amongst their favourites. For all of the vicars, priests and registrars out there who don’t allow photography during the ceremony - please reconsider!

Jo

Gemma realising that Rob had initially given her the wrong hand

Chris telling the congregation what Rob had just said….

…”you only have a choice of two!”

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