Into July 2013 and the wedding of Frank and Tina. We were back at Arnos Court Hotel in Bristol. Unfortunately, as far as outside wedding shots were concerned, it rained pretty much all day. Other than the bad weather though, another lovely wedding day, that ran quite smoothly for me.
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I shot two further weddings in 2013. I thought we’d been busier than that, although we did have lots of future bookings for 2014. In June I shot Ben and Sarah’s wedding at the Holiday Inn, Filton, Bristol.
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Our first wedding of 2013 was in January of that year. The Bride, Nicola, had been a bridesmaid at a wedding I photographed in 2012 and booked me, for her wedding, following that ceremony.
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Away from the bustle of the Medina, a short walk from our hotel, was Nouvelle Ville or New Town. Leaving the Medina through the northern exit in the Medina wall brings you straight into modern Morocco. It’s a smart area with all the outlets you’d expect to see in the UK. McDonald’s, Starbucks, KFC, they’re all here. There’s also a really smart shopping area with the usual designer outlets as well as some expensive looking hotels. We’d walk through in the evening and it’s busy, buzzy and a nice break from the bustle in the Medina.
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Ok all, this is my first attempt at submitting a few images to the Lens-Artist Challenge. I picked up on this after checking out Leanne Coles blog, after Leanne had been kind enough to like one of my posts. I’m pretty much new to WordPress, let alone blogging, and still struggling a bit with both. However I thought this was a great idea and wanted to take part. I hope I don’t mess it all up.
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We returned to Marrakesh in October having really enjoyed our holiday there in May 2023. We used the same TUI Blue hotel as last time which is situated in a superb position in the Medina or old town. We’d booked a balcony room, overlooking the hotel gardens. We were lucky as well though as the room had a superb view of the Kutubiyya Mosque.
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I thought I’d take a break from the retrospective wedding blogs, although I will take up where I left off soon. Instead I thought I’d write about this amazing second hand buy I picked up in a local charity shop today. It’s the Redged RTA-320 pictured above. It needed a wipe over but apart from a few scratches its in almost like new condition. I picked it up for £9.99. I can’t find them for sale in the UK but I saw one listed in the states for $104.
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Reviewing our first wedding photography year
Having shot our last wedding of 2012 it was time to look back and assess how it had gone and where I wanted to go with my wedding photography. We’d gone into the year with about 50% of the weddings we worked on booked, the other 50% were late or short notice bookings. Going into 2013 I hadn’t advertised anywhere other than the work intranet. I was still getting regular enquiries, via word of mouth or being booked on recommendations by my clients from 2012. That was really nice, and encouraging.
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The one with the stroppy Church Warden.
A late booking to shoot Luke and Ashleigh’s wedding meant our final wedding of 2012 would be in November at Aust, South Gloucestershire. Luke had ties to the church there and the couple very much wanted a church wedding, which was followed by a reception at The Grange Hotel in Winterbourne.
The one with the Videographers.
October and the wedding of Tom and Sam, my first professional booking although by this time we’d shot ten weddings. Sam had booked a small wedding venue in North Somerset which was part of a carp fishing lake complex. The venue had two barns, at right angles to each other. The main ceremony room was quite well lit with natural light but it was quite narrow with the desks, the registrars were going to use to run the ceremony, very close to the rear and sidewall.
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