Today was a good day. I was in Ratcliffe on the Wreake taking Naomi and Andrew's engagement portraits. The photos were captured at Naomi's parents house, which will be the location of the wedding reception. The marquee will be in the garden and the church is only a 5 minute walk away. Both locations are absolutely stunning and I can't wait to photograph their special day.

Check out all the photos by watching the slide show below. The Bentley photo worked guys and looks awesome. See you soon.

Yesterday I spent the day photographing the Daniels family, who are the coolest family in Nottinghamshire. I put together a slide show of SOME of my favourites. You guys are going to have trouble choosing because there are over 200 beautiful photos in the gallery. As always, looking forward to the next one.

This will be my new ad for Nottinghamshire Today, which I plan on running for six months. It's a great magazine and previous ads have done well. I don't do any other print advertising as most of my business is referrals from past clients and businesses that I work with. The next several months I'm extremely busy with weddings and engagement shoots, so stay tuned for some real cool stuff.

A quote from Martin Barnes:

"Photography touches our emotions with it's ability to freeze time and place...it makes us aware of our inability to witness everything we might wish to during our own comparatively fleeting lives"

I captured this moment in August 2007 at Nottingham Castle. I used my Canon 5D on aperture priority, shutter speed 1/400 at F2.8. Lens was the Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS, which is my favourite portrait lens. A Canon 580ex was set up off camera for some fill.

I'm super excited to announce I have been accepted into the prestigious Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalists Association (AGWPJA).

The AGWPJA is an international community of artistic photojournalists that employ various methods of photographic artistry all while documenting candid moments on a wedding day. In their own words they are:

The Artistic Guild of the Wedding Photojournalist Association [AG]WPJA is a group of international wedding photojournalists, who capture unscripted wedding moments as they happen, and excel in the art of post-production image processing. The [AG]WPJA is a division within the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA); one which specifically promotes Fine Art Wedding Photojournalism.

I'm honored to be part of this international community of outstanding wedding photojournalists.

Check out the photo show, which showcases some of the wedding images I have taken over the last few months. Looking forward to my next wedding adventure on June 7th at Colwick Park. The next few weeks I'm going to be working on the storyboards for my first book. Anyway, enjoy the show.

Yesterday Emma and I photographed the wedding of James and Natalie. Wedding slide show coming soon.

Shot indoors using only natural light, which was coming from two windows located on both sides of Ilona. Camera settings: Canon 5D, Shutter speed 1/8 sec, Aperture Priority mode at f4, ISO 800, focal length 125mm, Lens 70-200 2.8L IS and two stops of exposure compensation. Manfrotto tripod also used as the shutter speeds were super slow. Same settings for both photos except the shutter speed for the monochrome image was 1/13 sec.

Photoshop was limited to minor adjustments.

Camera settings: Canon 40D, Shutter speed 1/800, Aperture f2.8, ISO 400, Focal length 16mm, Lens Canon 16-35mm, Fill in flash.

Camera settings: Canon 40D, Shutter speed 1/200, Aperture f4, ISO 1600, Focal length 22mm, Lens Canon 16-35mm, No Flash.

Camera settings: Canon 5D, Shutter speed 1/500, Aperture f4.5, ISO 1600, Focal length 140mm, Lens Canon 70-200mm, No Flash.