The right light can turn a good image into a great  one. It is an essential  ingredient for any good  photograph. It lends atmosphere, emotion, mood and focus. In documentary  photography, and weddings in  particular, it is unfortunate that  this important component of any image is one of the hardest  to  control, you must  learn to  work-with and get the best  out of any  ambient light. So, it’s all about understanding how to  use take advantage of this light and position yourself to  capture the best and most meaningful  images.

This. Wedding. Rocked. Literally.

Angie and Paul are Macclesfield born and bred. Everything  was kept as local as possible and incorporated old and new traditions. Music is really important to of them – woven intro their lives and that  of their friends. All guests were asked to come as they were to  show their personalities in what they wore.  Angie and Paul had bucked tradition. They were given away by their children.  It included a circle of and the wedding rings being passed to their Celebrant by the children. Instead of readings were poems and instead of hymns, everybody sang along to rock anthems. The couple and their guests walked through Macclesfield to their reception at Macclesfield Masonic Hall.

Chloe and Serina’s celebration at The Upper House, Barlaston, was a unique civil humanist ceremony with elements of spirituality from pre-Christian traditions, but heavily meaningful and solemn in terms of the binding and devotion of the couple to each other.