Tim & Olivia Wedding

A belated update to my blog, but as I can schedule my posts, I can be sneaky and make it look like it was posted the day after the wedding...

The last wedding of the, was a lovely coastal one at The Cliff Hotel in Dunwich. Heather was at home with Ava, so I was all alone for this one. I knew the groom previously, as I used to play football with him, and he was at school with my brother. I also knew a lot of the guests for similar reasons.

Despite being at the end of summer, the couple had stunning weather. It was very difficult not to join in with the guests and sit outside with a cold beer... it was very tempting!

I know Dunwich reasonably well, and had scouted out the area again a few weeks earlier. I was also so pleased that despite it being a difficult walk to the beach, the bride and groom were very much up for having some photos taken down by the sea.

With a tinge of sadness, this was our last wedding of the year, but a thoroughly enjoyable one to be a part of. Below I have shared a few photographs, and can't wait until wedding season starts again next year (diary is already getting filled up!).

Poppy & Jon Wedding

Our second wedding of the year, was of the lovely Poppy & Jon.

Their wedding was at St Mary's Church in South Walsham, and their reception at the local village hall. My usual assistant, Heather, was at home looking after our newborn, so my brother Matt stepped up to help out. I don't mind photographing weddings by myself, but it's really nice to have someone else with you, to catch bits and pieces you may inevitably miss, and also, to bounce ideas off.

Everything about this wedding was absolutely lovely. I think it sums up how much everyone was fond of the couple, when I was waiting for the brides arrival (who was a tad late after forgetting their flowers!). There were people in the churchyard waiting for her arrival, they weren't guests for the day, but knew of them both (mainly through Poppy cutting their hair) and they just wanted to see her on her wedding day.

I will let the photographs do the rest of the talking. More and more, I enjoy being part of peoples special day, to see everyone having such a good time is lovely company to be in.

It must also be noted, that this is the first time I've been asked to create a Church selfie... maybe the start of a trend??

My camera rig...

A few months ago, I did a piece on a Camera Rig I'd made for a video I was shooting at work.

I had the chance to use this again recently while shooting a video for an RC car we'll be selling soon. My rig, and the film me and the copywriter shot, are now online for all to see. I would love to have shared a behind the scenes video of me running along side the car, pulling the camera rig along with shoelaces!...

http://www.hawkin.com/blog/we-made-a-rolling-camera-rig/

http://www.hawkin.com/blog/the-most-fun-weve-had-at-the-office-this-month/

Annual Snowdrops

Its feels like I annually go out and photograph the snowdrops.

So here they are! The snowdrops are up in our backgarden, so I went out with my camera once again, each year I seem to have different equipment, so they do change....slightly... this was with a Canon 100mm 2.8 macro lens.

We've actually just sold our house, so we're now thinking that as soon as they die off, we will dig them up and take the to the new house to be photographed, once again, next year!

Trying to reshoot London

Last weekend, after visiting the wonderful Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National History Museum on the Saturday, I had a free Sunday to wander London, as my wonderful wife had a conference in another part of the city.

So I decided I would take the common walk along the Thames from Westminster to Tower Bridge. I hadn't had a chance to play with my 10 stop filter for a while, so saw this as a perfect opportunity to take a bit of time (as I was on my own) to have a little play. The only issue I had, was that I didn't have a tripod with me... so I spent a lot of my time finding flat surfaces to rest my camera for the 30 second exposures I was capturing. The view of Parliament has a decent ledge, and I liked the surface the view of Tower Bridge offered, but otherwise, it wasn't the easiest task.

I also realise that these shots had been taken thousands of times before as well, but always nice to bank my own take on these popular locations, and try and do something a little bit different.