Showing the cause and effect often yields great storytelling in an image. Here, each half of the story is presented in its own frame— the bride shown framed in a mirror and her misty-eyed father subtly framed by the artwork behind him. As their gazes connect across the image, we find ourselves invested in the...
Norwood Park wedding photography for Laura and Oliver I’d last photographed a wedding at Norwood Park around 7 years ago and was delighted when Oliver and Laura asked me to be their wedding photographer. My coverage started at Laura’s parent’s house in Ruddington, Nottingham, where Laura had her hair styled and make up applied. Oliver met...
Part one of an occasional series on my thoughts behind a photograph. I’d just arrived at a country house in Devon that was the location for this wedding, the groom said he was about to take a bath before getting dressed for the ceremony, having seen this beautiful bathroom I asked if I could pop...
Expressions. Part one of a series of articles on what I look for in a wedding photograph. Expression noun 1. The action of making known one’s thoughts or feelings 2. A look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion. A number of elements make up a great wedding photograph including light, composition, emotion and...
Menorca wedding photographer I am a wedding photographer based in the UK and available for your Menorca wedding photography. If you live in the UK and are getting married in Menorca it makes sense to hire someone UK based for your Menorca wedding photographs as this allows you to easily meet up with them before your...
Blake Hall wedding photography – Lauren and Matt I was delighted when Lauren and Matt booked me for their Blake Hall wedding photography in Essex, a venue I always enjoy working at. Set in the grounds of Blake Hall the restored 17th century barn is a popular wedding venue within easy reach of the M11. The venue...
Scraptoft Hill Farm wedding photographer. Lucy and Chris got married on the 8th August 2015. I’m not exactly sure where August went, I was so busy I didn’t see much of it. I photographed two or three weddings every week and spent the rest of the time processing photographs in Lightroom and designing wedding albums....
A Jewish wedding at Hedsor House Weddings at Hedsor House are always fantastic and Jewish weddings are always great to photograph, so I knew I’d get some amazing photographs from Emily and Dan’s wedding at Hedsor House. Simon Atkins ticked all our boxes, having photographed Jewish weddings and ceremonies at Hedsor. With a photojournalist style, we...
Occasionally I give my photography as a gift to deserving causes and such an opportunity came along for Naomi and Graham’s vow renewal which took place on punts in Cambridge. Naomi Thomas is a remarkable woman who when faced with terminal cancer set up a charity to organise and fund weddings for terminally ill people....
Lyveden New Bield wedding photography I had been looking forward to this Lyveden New Bield wedding ever since I first met Michelle and Jonny last year. What a beautiful location for a wedding, situated in the Northamptonshire countryside and described by The National Trust as “an Intriguing Elizabethan lodge and moated garden”. Lyveden New Bield...
Every day I post an image of the day on twitter (@wedding_PJ) and on the Simon Atkins Photography Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/simonatkinsweddings ), please follow me on these to see my latest news and offers as well as my image of the day. Once a week I will post a roundup of the images used...
A quick break from weddings to show you a photograph from the partial solar eclipse in the UK this morning. I’d been planning to photograph this for a couple of weeks and had purchased a Seymour Solar filter in preparation. I eagerly checked the weather forecast last night which claimed it would be cloud free...
I’ve finally caught up enough to start blogging some more of my weddings from last summer which seems so long ago now. I had a really busy year of weddings and then January was very busy with admin, meeting clients, wedding bookings and designing albums for the weddings I’d done in December. I’ve just booked...
Fran and Dave’s winter wedding at Dodmoor House in Northamptonshire. Dodmoor House is a very popular venue for weddings in Weedon, Northamptonshire. It is based around two stone barns with a courtyard. The wedding ceremony takes place in one of the barns and the wedding breakfast in the other. I’m based about 40 minutes from...
Another week, another beautiful wedding. This time it was Abbie and Luke’s wedding at Weston Park in Shropshire. Weston Park is a stunning venue set in parkland, it’s home to the V festival (but I am way too old to go to such things). It’s described as “One of England’s most stunning park and gardens”,...
One of the wonderful things about being a wedding photographer is travelling all across the country to beautiful venues each wedding. I couldn’t work in just one place, in fact after 14 years of being self employed (and another 12 years on top of that as a staff photographer at newspapers) I really couldn’t do...
Hilton St Anne’s Manor wedding photography On the 27th June I photographed Kate and Peter’s wedding in Wokingham, the ceremony was at All Saints church in Wokingham with the reception at St Anne’s Manor. Kate is a relationship columnist (at GQ magazine) and has written several books on the subject, Kate’s books include titles such...
St Paul’s Walden Bury wedding photography in Hertfordshire. It’s that time of the year again when I get behind with adding new weddings to my blog, recently I have been extremely busy with one or two weddings every week. At this time of the year I start to get a lot of my favourite type...
Janine and Stephen’s wedding photography at Allerton Castle By pure coincidence I had two weddings at Allerton Castle over a week, I had never photographed a wedding here before so it was unusual for me to be at the same venue for two weddings so close together. I was recommended to both couples by another couple...
Hengrave Hall wedding, Alex and Jenny. Hengrave Hall is one of those wedding venues that takes your breath away as you come along the drive and the hall comes into sight. Set within 350 acres of Suffolk parkland just a short distance from the A14 road. I was last at Hengrave Hall in April last...
Alice and Mark’s wedding photography at Eastington Park. April has been a very busy month for weddings and has seen me travelling all over the country. A couple of weeks back I was the wedding photographer at Eastington Park for Alice and Mark. It doesn’t seem that long since I did their engagement photography here...
Sayle and Martyn’s wedding at Barton Hall Hotel. I had been looking forward to this wedding since visiting Barton Hall last year for a look around while it was still under construction. Sayle and Martyn’s wedding was the first wedding in the function room at Barton Hall and the first exclusive use wedding. The venue...
The dark days of December seem so long ago now, looking out in my garden at the spring flowers and blossom and with the recent sunshine I had almost forgotten that just a couple of months ago it was dark at four o’clock and I was photographing weddings using 10,000 ISO on my cameras. Then...
A winter wedding at Dodford Manor. This was my first visit to Dodford Manor, near Weedon in Northamptonshire. The ceremony took place at St Mary’s church in Dodford, just behind Dodford Manor. It’s always a challenge to photograph weddings in the darkest days of December, I love working in these very low light conditions as...
Oakham Castle wedding photography Zoê and Chris had a winter wedding on the 27th December with the ceremony at Oakham Castle and the reception at The William Cecil in Stamford. I arrived to take some photographs of Zoê’s preparations at the William Cecil before driving across to Oakham. Both Stamford and Oakham are beautiful towns, the drive...