Your destination wedding! We had joy we had fun, we got married in the sun…
You’ve finally opted for a wedding in the sun, your destination wedding It’s your big day, you’ve been planning it for ages. The hotel is booked, the reception is planned, the dresses and suits are all neatly packed. Rings are purchased, friends...
Category: Piers Photography
Weddings … and a silver sixpence in her shoe.
Piers Photography, Wedding Photography
In case you didn’t know, that’s how the rhyme really ends.
Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something blue. And a silver sixpence in her shoe.
Now, I’m not saying you should have a sixpence in your shoe on your wedding day. Tradition perhaps, but limping down the aisle is not going to look good on the...
Bucks Photographer – Finalist in Photographer of the Year
Piers Photography, Portrait Photography
It had been a great day at Newmarket (see last blog) but it got even better when Steve Thirsk of the Guild of Photographers rang to say that they were about to announce the December competition results in which I had been awarded 4 Bronze medals and 2 Commended and this meant that I was third in the Open...
Training days, Weddings, and a new studio
Piers Photography, Portrait Photography
Another new year dawns and the excitement mounts, as I sit here waiting to here waiting to find out if Piers Photography have been placed in The annual 12 months long Guild of Photographers competition. Having achieved 20 bronzes in the wedding competition and 23 bronzes and 5 silvers in the Open and December still to come in, I...
Its been busy, Italy, Brands Hatch, Weddings and Puppies !
Piers Photography, Portrait Photography
Its been a while since I last posted and in that time, we have been to Italy for a family holiday and fallen in love with Italy old cities and their way of life. This included a 4 hour lunch in Cortona, visit’s to Assisi in the rain, Pienza for the most expensive round of...
Event Photography – Naphill Riding Club Open Show 2011
Piers Photography, Portrait Photography
The photographs are now up on www.piersphoto.comThis year I had wanted to just be there and help Mary my wife who organises the show and enjoy the day, but a last minute call to the photographer booked to cover the event on Friday night and I discovered that we have no photographer, oh dear! So the...
Bluebells, how to photograph them and some macro work
Piers Photography, Portrait Photography
Some of the most difficult flowers to photography in the UK are the blue bells that have just been out. Here in the Chiltern’s they fill the beech woods with their sent and colour and look like vast carpets of blue. Why then are they so difficult to photograph? I believe that this is due...
Another busy month – Training, 1 day events, and lambing days
Event Photography, Piers Photography
Photography offers so many different opportunities to develop your skills and try new things. This month has been no exception, I have been asked to photography a model railway set up, which is amazing and all in a loft the detail is superb and I can't wait to start properly. I was then able to...
Piers Photo gains more awards in Feb Guild Competition
Event Photography, Piers Photography, Portrait Photography, Wedding Photography
Another good result from the February competition with even a silver award, which I am really pleased about. My wedding images again all won Bronze and in the open I had a silver Bronze and a commended. Hope I can keep this up in March!
I had an interesting conversation with an organisation that had booked...
Event Photography – My favorite event of the year!
Event Photography, Piers Photography, Portrait Photography
As a photographer there are certain event s that always sit in your mind as great fun and you always look forward to them, for me its the Brinkworth and Earl Danby Spring Ball. This event held in the grounds of a small primary school is a fine example of a complete community pulling together...