I had the pleasure of photographing Hayley at the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel on Monday with her soon to be bridesmaid Sarah. They had a wonderful time and are a brilliant duo to work with. Enjoy the photos and if you are due to get married don’t forget we offer a free pre bridal shoot, it’s great fun and you will be so much more relaxed with the photography on your big day

This is a very different post and has nothing what so ever to do with photography. One of my hobbies is cycling and on Saturday night  in a car park in Poynton near Manchester myself and about 40 other cyclist left for a over night ride to Newtown in Mid-Wales and then  back to Poynton a total distance of 315 KM or 195 miles. The ride is an Audax ride which is a  long distance ‘challenge’  ride normally with less than a 100 people taking part.

The ride left Poynton at 11pm and as went through Winsford, Nantwich, Whitchurch, Wem before crossing the Welsh border at Montgomery for the decent into Newtown at just under a 100 miles. We had two stops before Newtown one in a 24H garage in Whitchurch  to collect receipts as proof of passage another at ‘Dinky’s Diner’ at Ford between Shrewsbury and Welshpool. Dinky’s Diner at 3.30am is a brilliant place for a cup of  tea and a plate of beans on toast before heading over the the border roads to Montgomery and decending just before dawn to the halfway point in Newtown for another cuppa in the 24h McDonald’s.

At Newtown the route is retraced to Dinky’s and then on to Wem, before turning off for Aldlum, where I had a puncture but the brilliant Priest Cafe took a table outside so I could sit and drink tea and eat a cream scone in the sunshine as I repaired the tyre. From Audlum it was up to Alsager and back to Poynton. The weather was variable but mild for April but was a little damp overnight!

It was a lovely ride and keeps me fit and allows lots of cake eating Funny thing is I am just as tired after doing a wedding – sometimes more so!

For those of a technical bent the figures for the ride where 315 KM or 195 miles in 12hours and 12 minutes cycling time. The tea stops and puncture added another 4 hours – but you have to eat!  The moving average speed was 16 mph or 25.7 kph with the GPS saying a shade under 10’000 calories consumed. Now that is one big cake

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Last October I had the pleasure of photographing Natasha & Mat’s beautiful wedding at St Mary’s Church in Pulford on the North Wales and Cheshire border. Here is a selection of the proof pages for the album. Natasha and Mat have chosen around 250 images for the album and I really love (nearly) finished album. It is a Graphi album with a metallic front and pages and will look amazing. Natasha and Mat’s reception was at one of Cheshire’s top wedding venue, The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel. As always at the Grosvenor Pulford the staff looked after Mat & Natasha flawlessly.

I had the pleasure of meeting Ffion & Steven on a glorious day for their engagement photos. We took a variety of images both indoor and out. Ffion and Steven have booked me to shoot their wedding in the summer and they enjoyed the portrait session so much they are now really looking forward to the wedding day photography This is the main idea of the pre wedding portrait sessions I offer with every wedding package it relaxes the couple when they realise photography can be great fun and it is one less thing to worry about on their wedding day.

Wow what a lovely weekend With lovely sunshine and the daffodils out in full bloom spring feels wonderful and Sarah and Ben picked the finest day of the year so far for their big day. The service was at the futuristic St Columbus Catholic Church in Upton, Chester followed by the reception at the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel right on the Welsh border. It was a pleasure to be asked to record Ben & Sarah’s big day. Enjoy the photos.

I’ve got the pleasure of photographing Joanna’s wedding in May and she will be a wonderful subject I always offer a pre wedding bridal shoot to all brides as I think it offers a fun afternoon of photography and also has the additional benefit of relaxing people in front of the camera on their big day – after all the photography should not be one of the things the couple are worried about! Joanna was a wonderful model and I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.