Journal
The wedding that moved indoors
The marquee flooded at half past ten. By four it was the best room I photographed all year.
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A slow morning in the Cotswolds
Why the hour before anything happens is so often the hour you will want back.
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How many hours do you actually need?
Most weddings need ten hours. Many would be better served by eight. Almost nobody needs fourteen.
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Why I still make you a printed album
A gallery gets looked at properly twice. An album gets taken off a shelf for fifty years.
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Eloping into the fog
Two people, one cliff edge, and the weather everybody warned us about.
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Three days in an olive grove
Thirty-eight people, one farmhouse, three days. An eleven-minute ceremony under old trees.
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How to build a timeline around light
The one planning decision that changes every photograph you will ever print.
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The family photographs, in twenty minutes
Twelve groupings, one sheet of paper and one loud cousin. That is the whole method.
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Married at eight in the morning
A Tuesday, four degrees, two witnesses off a night shift. Three hours, start to finish.
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What to do with the other six hundred
Forty go in the album. Six get framed. Here is what the rest are actually for.
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