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Victoria + Paddy – Cornwall, UK

Victoria and Paddy recently moved down to Cornwall from London, where they had spent much of their post-university lives together. So, me, being the local, probably should have known anywhere they could have possibly wanted to go for their pre-wedding photos. However, Chapel Porth near Truro was a new one for me, but I am very glad they took me there for an explore around the cove.

After meeting at Chiverton Cross for a coffee and a chat about their upcoming Cornwall Wedding celebrations, which are being held in Cornwall too! We then spent 10 minutes in the car driving down to Chapel Porth. Initially, it was a little sad to see it drizzling and the high tide in the cove. However, it was soon clear that this presented a great opportunity to go walking up onto the headland overlooking Chapel Porth and the English Channel.

Growing up in Cornwall, it’s sometimes easy to take the natural beauty for granted. Yet walking around and seeing Cornwall in it’s murky (but somehow spellbinding self) was a breath of fresh air that I needed in a year that has seen me spend more time outside of the UK (and Cornwall) than within. It’s good to get away, but it’s certainly always rewarding and refreshing going home.

Here are a few pictures of our brief walk around the headland and of Victoria and Paddy ahead of their Cornwall Wedding celebrations, which I am sure will also be up on the blog in the not too distant future. :)

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Wedding Engagement Shoot in Fowey, Cornwall

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After all the terrible weather we have been having since the new year began, it was nice to meet up with a couple last week near Fowey in Cornwall for their wedding engagement shoot and be blessed with a little (ok a lot) of nice blue stuff both up in the sky, as well as in the sea. It actually occurred to me whilst going to the Fowey area for this pre wedding shoot, how little I had explored of Fowey and the immediate coastline around it. However I was in (arguably) safe hands with the bride to be, as she grew up in the local area and took me to some great looking spots, I only hope I have done them justice. :D

This being the first time I had met the groom to be, it was particularly good to spend the time with the couple travelling from A to B to C, around proper cornish back lanes from Beach to Field’s to Fowey harbour front. Seeing as we haven’t seen much Blue Sky in the south west recently it seemed only fitting to make use of it for a number of ‘big sky’ related pictures.

Hope this small selection goes some way to show what fun we had and the variety of pictures we were able to shoot during this couples hours exploring the coastline around Fowey together. This is about 20% of the pictures, a few of my favourites from the different places we went.

I am now certainly looking forward to seeing this pair again in a couple weeks to photograph their wedding at Trevenna Barns on Bodmin Moor.

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A Wedding Engagement Shoot near Colliford Lake

A few days ago I met up with a couples who’s wedding I am photographing next summer at Trevenna Barns on Bodmin Moor near St Neot. As they live in Singapore this was the only time we were really going to get to spend a bit of time together before the wedding next year and so we had arranged to shoot a few pictures around the area in which they will be getting married next year. Having only previously met on Skype we first caught up over a coffee in nearby Liskeard before heading off around the moorland between the a38 and a30 which includes Colliford Lake and their wedding venue, Trevenna.

When I post engagement shoots I seem to always go on about the importance of them, so today I thought I would give that a rest! If nothing else, if none of the pictures came out, it was good fun spending an hour or so with this pair, having a chat and just generally going exploring and myself learning a little more about Singapore. :) – somewhere I have only spent 8 short or perhaps very long hours! That being said, the pictures have of course come out and below are some of my favourites.

We had some wicked skies, moody and dramatic in one direction and bright blue with dazzling sun in the other, a nice mixed bag to play with! :)

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Wedding Engagement Shoot in St Mawes Cornwall

So the summer weather continues, and whilst I would like to sit here all day and share thought after thought, I would also like to get out and enjoy some more of the glorious sunshine! So apologies if this is short. :) Looking back on the weekend it all started, I was down in St Mawes town, around the countryside and had a tip to St Mawes Castle with a couples who’s wedding I am photographing in St Mawes Castle itself in a few weeks time. Although they don’t live locally, it soon came to my knowledge that they knew more about the area than I did, so after having some coffee and a chat about a few things we went off and checked out a few spots around the local area that we could use on the wedding day, and that also happened to make good spots for a few pictures on the day.

Normally with a pre shoot, I meet up with a couple at a location, a beach for example and we spend a little time there, have a chat and take some pics; it was nice in this instance for a change to move around a few locations within a short distance of St Mawes Castle and spend just 5 or 10 minutes at each, then eventually going to the Castle and having a little look around to discuss their wedding plans and for me to make a couple of suggestions. It was also nice to go to the venue to shoot a few frames with them, especially having not photographed a wedding there previously, and if you know the castle, you’ll know its like a maze with dozens of view points! Excited for the possibilities of the wedding pictures I must say. :)

Let me leave you with a few frames from our Engagement Shoot around St Mawes. Hope you like. :)

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