Journal

Over the last couple days I have been privileged to be the wedding photographer at two amazing weddings, both in amazing venues. At both weddings I got a little carried away and shot over a thousand exposures at each of them, something I rarely do. Recently I have been thinking about what we do as wedding photographers and if I thought too much about it I would question whether the stress of it outweighs the fun of shooting it, we are charged with capturing some of the most important and memorable days of peoples lives. That is one massive responsibility, when I photograph weddings like these it makes it all worth it.

Congratulations to Clive & Nicola who got married yesterday and Chris & Caroline who’s wedding a shot today, enjoy your amazing honeymoon’s and we will catch up when you get back.

best,

Des xx

I had the pleasure of being the wedding photographer at David and Clare’s wedding today in Newry and then onto their reception at Narrow Water Castle. It was such a good day and a privilege to photograph, one of the nicest surprises was the priests words of wisdom during the service, they were kind, heartfelt and relative. In all the years I have been a wedding photographer I have never seen a whole church so engrossed in a sermon. Here is a couple as I wait for the images to backup onto the drives.

I was at the beautiful Cultra Manor for a wedding at the weekend and remarkably the rain stayed away. I have been trying my best to post every wedding I do in some form or another and have only a few to go. One of the great things about living near Belfast is that I am blessed with so many beautiful wedding venues and amazing locations for wedding photography, I am spoilt for choice with locations to take any style of wedding photographs my clients want and Cultra Manor is no exception.

My congratulations to Niall and Helen and well done for the fantastic job you did in organising such a beautiful wedding.

Today I was at Clandeboye Estate for Russel and Kate’s wedding and while the images are being backed up I thought I would share a few. There are so many that I could have added but just wanted to give you a taste of the feel and the style of the day. It was a really relaxed and intimate day with a lot of emotion and tears, a great family wedding that I was privileged to be part of.

Yesterday I was at a wedding in Belfast and went to Minnowburn near Shaws Bridge for the first time ever, sometimes when clients want to go to a particular location for their wedding photography it can be a bit of an anticlimax as they are looking at it from a different perspective than me with my wedding photographer hat on. This time was different and I was happily surprised, what a great place to go for ‘enviromental’ wedding photographs, it was a bit of a vertical hike and it tested my fitness but well worth it when we got there, the view was beautiful. If your wedding is up that end of town and you are looking for something different to Lady Dixon Park it is without doubt a great option.

The wedding season has well and truely kicked off and my last two weddings have been in city centre venues. As usual it’s always a bit hard to find the time to blog full weddings, so here is a couple to keep you all interested until I get a free day to get up to date. I have been working very hard in the background getting other things done like new sample albums, brochures, upgrading computers etc. When that’s all done I’ll get back to blogging, try stopping me !

The great thing about shooting intimate weddings is the time you get to take the photographs, it’s rare to get this amount of time to experiment and shoot in such a relaxed manner at larger weddings. We spent the day walking around Belfast and going to places like Botanic Gardens and the Cathedral Quarter, everything was so much more spontanious than the constraints associated with bigger weddings. If I learned anything from this wedding it was to keep my eyes open for new things, push myself harder to do more original work and not just do the usual type of photographs that are expected at a wedding.

To view another wedding photographed at The Merchant Hotel click on the link below -

Wedding Photographer Merchant Hotel Belfast

I was working on proofing David and Sarah’s lovely wedding today when I decided to do a quick blog while I was at it (If doing a blog can be quick). Every time we meet we always talk about our beautiful children, our dogs that is and where we walk them etc. Their wedding was a very relaxed affair and a rather wet one, but all worked out well in the end.

If you are getting married in Clandeboye Estate and want to get in touch with me about your wedding photography click on the link below.

Wedding Photographers Northern Ireland

I’ve been wanting to post a lot of really great weddings I have photographed over the past few months but I am just not getting the time at the minute, I seem to spend most of my days replying to emails and talking to clients and off course boring admin. Blogging has had to take a back seat.

Paul and Jill’s wedding was really good fun with a lovely relaxed vibe, it seemed to happen so fast, I remember looking at my watch when we started the photographs at the Museum and thinking I had an hour to shoot everything, as you can imagine I was under a little pressure. Thankfully the weather was on our side and the sun was starting to drop low in the sky, I was able to work in that magical golden hour of light.

If you would like to get in touch with me about your wedding photography you can view more of my work and check my availability by clicking on the link below -

Wedding Photographers Northern Ireland

I have just started work on a really fab wedding I photographed recently at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, there’s a lot of really great photographs to share so here is a couple to give you a preview.

The full post is now up on my Journal, to view it click on the link below -

Ulster Museum Wedding