Something a little bit different for you today… recently I did a photoshoot as a second shooter for the lovely Katie Byram up on South Shields beach and in Marsden Grotto (a fab venue, and literally built into the cliff). The day was full of wonderful suppliers who were all lovely to work with. I’ve never been a second shooter before, and decided to also try making a short video of ‘behind the scenes’..
So here are a few of my own sneak peeks and my little vid.. Hope you like!
Sally xx
Finally I’ve found some time to pick and upload my favourites from the so-delicious-you-could-taste-it Alice in Wonderland shoot from a few weeks ago!
It has been featured on Brides Up North in the past few weeks, where you can also find the full credits from all the wonderful suppliers who contributed and helped make the day run so smoothly (thanks!!)
Here are my ultimate favourites, it was hard to pick with so much gorgeous detailing going on!
Happy Sunday everyone.
Sally x
I know, I know… I tease too much. The full Alice shoot from a few weeks ago is going to be blogged this week on Brides Up North, but I just couldn’t resist sharing a handful more instant photos. I promise that as soon as they’re revealed I’ll put them all up here too for your perusal.
I am holding my first ever competition in time for Valentine’s Day, you and your beloved could win a Love Shoot…. Check it out here and give it a go ❤
On Saturday I met up with a lovely bride and her mother to chat all things ‘wedding’.. and ended up nattering on about a few nightmare scenarios, including (horrifyingly!) the bride’s mum’s wedding in which the priest had had a few too many sherries and drunkenly began the ‘marriage’ by reading out the funeral ceremony…?! As mishaps go it can’t get much worse than that! *touch wood!*
On Sunday I had an exciting Skype meeting, but more on that later……………
And finally, today I took some promo photos for a feature on an up-and-coming broadcast journalist.. as well as finding out that Andrew & Meri’s winter wedding will be gracing the pages of Whimsical Wonderland Weddings this week too!
Did you all have a good weekend?
Sally xx
PS Yes I have painted my scraggy nails since these photos were taken!
One snippet of news I can share is that I’ve been asked to photograph the making of a short film by Eboracum at the end of March. Andrew & Meri, whose wedding I photographed at the end of last year, have asked if I’d like to get involved, and that they’d be constructing a 1950s film set FROM SCRATCH in Goathland near Whitby. They didn’t need to ask me twice…….
The film is called Fighter Pilot, and in Andrew’s own words:
“Fighter Pilot is a short drama set in the late 1950’s in England and centres around the spiritual act of past life regression*. 12-year old Tommy is the subject of a regression, at the request of his concerned parents, after recently speaking in detail about the war and, in particular, piloting and the Spitfire.
Gathering in the living room to witness the regression, the family are taken on an emotional and shocking adventure by young Tommy.
*Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations. Essentially, the belief that a soul of a person lives on after death and is reincarnated into another body.”
You can find out more about the film here, and the project is also asking for funding if you have a spare few bob, Andrew has even offered incentives for the contributions of different amounts, so if you’re a fan of independent cinema or want to support up and coming talent in the area please see what you can do here.
I love photographing weddings, but I am SO excited to get stuck into a different kind of project, and to work with film-makers and other creatives.
Big thanks to Andrew & Meri for asking me to be part of it, I can’t wait!
Sally x
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