The wedding of Ben and Stacey.

To know ben and stacey is to know a great down to earth couple who are both friendly and welcoming, this came across in thier wedding. It was a fab day, everyone was friendly, fun and knew how to have a laugh. At one point it looked like the weather might not be on our side but in the end it was, taking the couple from the wedding ceremony for a stroll around queens park in burnley got some beautiful shots of the couple happy and at ease with the camera present.

Until next time  – enjoy

It was a beautiful sunny day which worked in my favour as it meant i could just use natural light for the shots. Apart from the master bedroom the other rooms were of adeqete size and just enough room to get a full room shot in

As was expected the rooms were beautifuly decorated and the furniture looked great in the house. The clients were very happy and should be using us again should any more developments happen in the near future.

What to Expect in the coming weeks?

Nursery shoots

Fashion day with added smoke machine

A piano on the moors

Weddings, weddings, weddings

and not forgetting some new personal landscape shoots.

So  keep your browsers pointed here for all the new stuff.

Until then

Enjoy

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With visits the the Rheged centre in Penrith and Happy mount park in Morcambe the kids had a great time, the father in law also had an attempt at BBQing with pretty good results (mainly)

"now is it meant to be on fire?"

Happy mount park features a great water play area which is totally free (always a bonus) and it made me want to be a kid again! I did get the eldest cousin to pose for some photos though, i think he got a bit cold lol.

The father in law also drove to the campsite in his morris minor so i couldnt miss the chance to get a classic looking shot of this english icon in a field in the lakes.

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Thats it for now, next time we have weddings, railway photoshoots and much more.

Until next time, Enjoy

©Brain Duffy

As one of the ‘Black Trinity’ (a moniker awarded to Duffy, Bailey & Donovan by Vogue photographer Norman Parkinson) Duffy was not only a pioneering force in fashion photography from the late 1950′s onwards but also a technical innovator who developed many of the practices now employed in modern photography.

Famed for his bad temper and mood swings and perhaps the only man in the industry with the ability to shout down his famously rancorous friend David Bailey, Duffy is actually remembered by those who knew him as a witty and humorous man, happy to impart his wisdom on those willing to listen. His best known work spanned 3 decades, a number of styles and was responsible (alongside Bailey & Donovan) for revolutionising fashion photography by taking it out of the salon and adding a sense of reality 30 years before Corinne Day, David Sims et al redeveloped the look in the early 1990′s.

During his career Duffy worked with all the top fashion magazines and models of the day, as well as a number of high profile commercial clients. His portraits of David Bowie for the Aladdin Sane album and his partnership with Allen Jones for Pirelli being particularly memorable despite his dissatisfaction at having to hand over his work to a 3rd party “to scribble on”.

Later in his career he became a highly sought after advertising photographer developing the modern commercial/art style for clients such as Benson & Hedges, a visual language which is now de rigueur among blue chip brands but was then highly original and technically advanced. However, his frustration with commercial work led to perhaps the most famous photographic melt-down of all time when in 1979, after being told his studio was “out of toilet paper” he realised he was no longer a young pioneer photographer but the head of a large and growing business. His next move (and final significant act as a photographer) was to burn most of his negatives in front of the studio. Precise accounts of the scenario vary, with reports of the local council stopping him because of the smoke and David Bailey failing to stop him as he passed by, on the way to his own studio.

In later life Duffy became a furniture restorer but his legacy remains; a high profile retrospective of his work was held at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London in 2009 and a BBC documentary titled The Man Who Shot the 60′s is due to be re-broadcast on Saturday 12 June on BBC 4, we highly recommend you watch it.

All text courtesy of 125 magazine

I need to give a massive thanks to my assistants on the day, without them it would not have gone as smoothly as it did.

Until next time, have fun

Of course i am not one to be beaten and did get some shots of the twins together and the parents loved em.

So bring on the mayhem and fun this sunday.

Until next time, have fun.

Ok so this one was a bit late for Easter but I am so glad that the parents ran with the Idea.  Very very simple, wait for a nice day, put some little bunny ears on a cute baby and sit in a field or near flowers. The day finally came and it was action stations, our little model was a star, ok she started eating a daffodil, then a leaf and er a daisy (yum yum) but look at how cute she is.

Until next time, enjoy