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Wedding & Country Life photographer, self publishing ‘Ashdown Forest: Through the Seasons’ photography book in Autumn ‘21.
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The same location from two angles! I loved finding

The same location from two angles! I loved finding this spot on @ashdownforest last month and photographing it in the sunshine and when the cloud came over. Bluebells really are my favourite of all the woodland flowers!

Tomorrow is my first full wedding since March last

Tomorrow is my first full wedding since March last year and it also marks the retirement of the first ‘professional’ lens I ever bought, my trust @canonuk 70-200 2.8! (Pictured in the first frame) It’s showing all the signs of a much loved and well used lens that’s been used for every job since I turned pro in 2008 and it’s sad to be retiring it, but will keep it as a ‘thank you’ while it’s shining new sister comes out to play… the RF 70-200 2.8!
In other equipment news, and BIG news at that, I have switched to mirrorless! The Canon R5 has been a fantastic camera to use so far and I can’t wait to push it to its limits at the wedding tomorrow. The Canon 5d Mark III and Mark IV’s (Frame 2) have been superb, faultless bodies that I have loved using, honestly I can’t rate them highly enough, but it felt like a logical time to switch to mirrorless as I approach an awesome season of weddings.
Along with the bodies come the RF 24-70 (frame 3), 70-200 and 50mm prime lenses. All these are step ups in quality and usability and I thought it fun to show the old and new lenses. Backup equipment is key as a wedding photographer, so my old set up will still be there in case of emergencies.
I’ll still be using my 11-24mm lens, for ultra wide shots at weddings, 120-300mm lens for photographing wildlife and horses and 100mm macro lens for detail photos of rings at weddings (frame 4).
In this sense I have realised I am quite unusual in that most professionals seems to focus on one subject only, where as I have thoroughly enjoyed embracing equine, then wedding and now landscape photography. I would like to think all these aspects have challenged me in different ways and have resulted in a rounded photographer that is open to capturing scenes, however difficult they may be.
Baring this in mind, and after over twelve months of solidly doing my Ashdown Forest project, I am really excited to see how my wedding photography has improved as I begin a VERY busy summer of weddings 🙂
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Bluebells cover this bank on @ashdownforest while

Bluebells cover this bank on @ashdownforest while an iron rich stream trickles through and a fallen tree lies in the woodland. Not a ‘wow’ scene, but one I really enjoyed photographing and look back at.

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The mist was heavy yesterday morning so I photogra

The mist was heavy yesterday morning so I photographed these horses enjoying the lush grass of their field as the sun rose, at @unicorneventing
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