I have three loves in my life; my wife, my daughter and photography. A bit cliché? Probably, but it's the truth!
In 2004, before our honeymoon to the Maldives, I got myself a camera. Two years later I was shooting a wedding. There was no grand plan, it just happened. I enjoyed it, so carried on doing it when asked. And I kept getting asked!
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 11:34AM One of the many blogs I've wanted to do for a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time!! So where do I start? Ok, so since I want to blog a lot, I'm doing this in two parts.
I started the day with Jenny and the girls, photographing the preparation is often so much fun, and this was no exception!
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 01:25PM Just a walk around Canterbury and snapped a few buskers, taken with my pocket E-PL2 + 45mm...
*EDIT* The problem with blogging too quickly is that you perhaps don't write everything you should and instead focus on just getting the photos out there. I just wanted to give some credit to these performers, they were both superb and help make Canterbury so vibrant!!
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 06:02PM One of my "slightly different but favourite" shots of the year... (tip for all brides - hire a cool disco in the evening and you can get shots like this!)...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 05:16PM A little hobby of mine at weddings is trying to get the best picture of people... taking pictures.
I really like these two shots, there's something sweet and innocent about them...
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 06:55AM There's no other word for it other than cute!
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 05:56AM This year has been far and away my busiest in photography (and in life!). So far this year I believe I've done 32 weddings on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
They started in April (which seems like a lifetime ago!) and this Saturday will be one of my last for the year. April to October. And it's gone faster than you can ever imagine.
Anyway, I still have several weddings to blog from September, but for now I wanted to start a little thing I've been meaning to do for a few months now - posting shots from this year's weddings that I particularly love.
I'll start with this one from Kelly and Mark's wedding, Friday May 27th. When Kelly pulled up in an original 1960's Fiat 500 my eyes lit up - she was beautiful (as were you Kelly ;0) and the ideas soon started formulating....
I love this shot..
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 01:03PM I sit here trying to write about yesterday and don't know where to start. I've said enough times, and heard people say enough times, that a wedding day goes too quick... and it really does, even when it's not yours.
I had so much fun yesterday, "Lou Lou" and Mark are such lovely people it was kind of hard not to have a good time.
When I got to the Old Kent Barn it wasn't just raining, it was, to quote Forrest Gump: "Big old fat rain..."
Once it calmed down I went in to join the chaos... A crazy blend of girls, toddlers, Monster energy drinks, champagne and Peppa Pig. Oh, and enough hairspray to give my lungs a severe work out!
From there on in the whole day seems almost a blur, it really did just fly by!
Suddenly the guys have arrived... suddenly the rain has stopped and we can have the ceremony outside.... suddenly the ceremony is underway (and then temporarily halted while the heavens opened, much to everyone's amusement!)..... suddenly I'm having my hour (the most important hour of any wedding ;0)... and before you know it it's 4:30 and the new Mr and Mrs Jackson are being introduced for the wedding breakfast! And I'm sitting down for the first time since I got out of my car 6 hours earlier wondering "where did the time go!?!"
Other highlights worth mentioning.... the best sausage and mash I've ever had, meeting and working with the lovely and very talented Smokescreen Visuals ("videographers"... is that the word???), the best "mens" speeches, I laughed. A lot (sorry Mark but it was just too funny, you'll get your revenge next year...), "the twins"... absolutely lovely chaps, to be seen to be believed.... and finally, Lou Lou's Adidas tracksuit top. Louise, I will always believe that my suggestion for you and Mark to have a Run DMC v Jason Nevins dance off for your first dance was truly genius and an opportunity missed!
I could go on, but I'll get boring. How about a few photos?
Lou and Mark, you are beautiful together, I wish you all the best for the future!
Gav
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 05:29AM And 8 weeks ago I got a call from Lilly asking if I was available... and guess what? I was... September the 10th was my only free Saturday between the end of July and Oct 1st!
The ceremony took place at the Guildhall in Sandwich from where we went for a few photos around the lovely streets of Sandwich, before going to the Crispin Inn at Worth for a few drinks, food and ice creams, lovely!
Anyway, here's a few photos (the second to last is classic!)
Cheers
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 05:25AM Just thought I'd say that, having shot about 600 weddings this year (well, about 30) I will soon be updating my wedding gallery with some fresh content! Hoorar, in the meantime I continue to share my latest work at www.facebook.com/gavinphotographykent
Cheers all,
Oh, and here's a couple from the weekend that I'm particularly pleased with...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 04:50PM Saturday 6th August,
Faye and Mark's wedding was just the best fun for me. Yeah it started raining just as we came out the church, and didn't stop until about 3 hours later. So what? We still went up the seafront, we still had fun (a massive "well done" to dad whose ability to produce 6 big white umbrellas from nowhere was greeted with a big cheer from me!!).
The ceremony was held at St George's Church on the High Street and from there we headed to the seafront for some group shots, gathering everyone around Ruby the campervan for a few shots!
After this me, Faye and Mark took a walk down Middle Street, which provided the perfect backdrop for our little walk 'n' shoot.... and gave them a chance to take 5 minutes out to savour their day.
From there we headed up to St Mary's Primary School for the reception (well, party!). This in itself was cool for me as I was a pupil there a depressingly long time ago! The hall looks fantastic, covered head-to-toe in bunting, Faye did a superb job here, and the atmosphere in the hall was brilliant.
Fish and chips, speeches and then the band followed - truly one of those evenings that everyone won't forget for a while!
Cheers
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 08:41AM I first discovered Solton Manor early 2010. Back then it was yet to have held its first wedding, but Perry showed me the plans of how they wanted things to look and I was excited. Very excited! There are many venues in the local area, but few are (in my opinion) as beautiful as Solton Manor.
So imagine how happy I was when Sarah and Nick contacted me midway through 2010 regarding their wedding, which was to be held at this new venue called.... Solton Manor! Also, throw in the surprise element of Nick turning out to be an old school mate. To say I was happy about this booking would be an understatement!!
Fast forward a year and I have just had the pleasure of shooting their wedding day. And it was every bit as excellent as it could have ever been. The venue, the people, the double decker bus, even the skies behaved (not too bright, nice bit of cloud cover - lovely!).
Congratulations Sarah and Nick, cheers!
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 02:59PM Hi, and welcome to my new website, and my first blog!!
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Gavin (I look like that guy on the left, thanks to my SEO guy for the photo, cheers Russ!), 34, photographer of basically anything that moves.
Before I crack on, a quick thank you to Russell at fuelledbydesign for the new website. I hope you like it as much as I do! And another thanks to Russ my SEO/"something's not working" mate for all his help with the web side of things.
So, anyway, I'm here to show you photos, and photos I shall show you. And what better way to start than with a portrait shoot I was lucky enough to do on Monday. Little 5-week-old baby William!
A brief background to this first - early last year I shot Ceri and Bens wedding, so I was incredibly happy when they contacted me recently to do some photos of their little boy (for 2 reasons: 1, William is REALLY cute, and 2, it means they liked me enough the first time around to want me to do some more photos for them!)
Anyway, Ceri and Ben will have lots of photos to choose from, but here's just a few,
Cheers
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