I photographed Richard and Daphney’s wedding last week at St Andrew’s in Sudbury and then at Trailfinders in West Ealing. Daphney’s from South Africa, Richard’s a local and a talented musician and runs his own recording studio. Cue a very colourful and musical wedding. As they came into the banquting hall the African women in traditional dress broke out in song and dance. Utterly amazing and a sight I’ll remember for a long time. A lovely couple to work with and here are my favourites from the day…

Metal…well that’s easy, metal’s everywhere. Taking a photo of it and getting it to say ‘metal’ rather than ‘car’, ‘knife’, ‘paperclip’ or whatever, not to mention reflection, was not so easy.

I was at the RAF museum with a few people from my camera club today and thought while I was there I might just be able to take some sort of photo that would say ‘metal’ as I wanted it to be. I had a look at some of the planes and while they were mostly made out of metal, they were generally painted in various liveries that covered up the metal I wanted to take a photo of. However, there were lots of engines about and I found this one. I didn’t want to show the whole thing as I think it would have said engine rather than metal, so here’s a slightly more abstract point of view that says metal to me. I think this could probably have done quite well for ‘mechanical’ earlier this year too…

“Metal”

Next in this double post is ‘grunge’. I suppose there are two ways to capture this…either dirt, muck, filth etc. or photographing someone who’s jumped on the style bandwagon of Kurt and Courtney…that’s Cobain & Love not Geiger & Cox.

Who am I kidding though? I know nothing about fashion so let’s have some good old fashioned grime. Another from the RAF museum, the photo opportunity that just keeps on giving. This was the front end of a plane fished out from the bottom of the sea.

“Grunge”

Julian and Rasvinder were married at Gentleman’s Rown in Enfield and held their reception at Forty Hall. They were really good fun to photograph and to have such great venues was an added bonus. It was the most Indian influenced wedding I’ve shot so far and the colours were amazing, not to mention the food. Here are a few of my favourite’s of them from the day…