Truly International Wedding Photography

Truly International Wedding Photography

We get to go all over the UK photographing weddings. Very occasionally we are asked to work in other parts of Europe. Svetlana and Martin are taking us to Tuscany to photograph their wedding next year and we are talking to another couple about a European city wedding as well, can’t give any more details yet.

On Sunday we had a meeting with Gemma and Garth. Remember their story? We were their photographers, and witnesses for their romantic Lake District wedding day on 26th May. Gemma and Garth are from Australia but live in London. They are moving back to Brisbane next year and it was always their intention to have a Vow renewal ceremony in Brisbane on the 2nd anniversary of their wedding. We made a joke at the end of our blog entry that we were available. Gemma and Garth were so pleased with the pictures we made for them last time that they… I don’t need to say any more do I?

We signed the contracts on Sunday. I don’t know if there are too many other UK wedding photographers getting booked for weddings in Australia but we take it as a very great compliment and endorsement to the quality of our work.

We are very excited.

Cumbria almost sweeps the board.

Cumbria almost sweeps the board.



We stopped entering awards in 2005. That year finished with one of Steven’s pictures making the exhibition and publication of the Swcheppes Portrait awards at the National Portrait Gallery. That was a pretty good achievement. There were over 6,000 entries and the most talented photographers in the world hotly contest the highly prestigious award.

We actually stopped entering because, with the advent of digital photography, entry requirements changed and as we were still shooting film at the time we were not meeting a lot of the requirements. Anyway as we are now fully digital we thought it was time to start entering awards again. We tentatively sent 4 images in to the first round of the Kodak Wedding Photographer of the year awards, Steven has won that before so we thought that would be a good one to start with.

So on Friday afternoon I got a call on my mobile. It was from our friend and most fierce competitor, Steve Yates from Keswick. “Congratulations mate, you’ve got a picture in the final of the Kodaks.” Apparently The MPA put the winning images on their site before they inform the winners. So, and here’s the best bit, there were over 4,000 entries from all over the UK and the judges only select 5 pictures to go forward, we have one and Steve Yates of Derwent Photography got 3 of them. Cumbria nearly sweeps the board.

We want to, publicly congratulate Steve, that is a phenomenal achievement, and Will and Keely, our couple who win a digital camera from Kodak and go forward to the final with the potential of winning themselves £1000. The next round of judging is in September and we will be entering a lot more with the intention of getting more through than Steve this time.

What a great weekend.

What a great weekend.

We had a good weekend apart from photographing the wedding of Rachel and Gavin, we will blog that during the week, we had two lots of good news. I am going to make two posts in the order they happened.

Oh what a perfect day...

Oh What a Perfect Day…

Remember Steve and Gosia? Their wedding was in London on 17th April. Our blog entry about them was spotted by Gavin Burrell, editor of Perfect Day magazine and like us Gavin fell for them straight away. So, their wedding and our pictures have two double page spreads and a back cover in Perfect Wedding’s “Real-Life Weddings” supplement. In your newsagents now. It’s only the 2nd ever issue of “Perfect Day” so we wish Gavin and his team luck and good wishes.

Thank you....

Thank you…


Getting paid for our work is pretty important but we love it when get a thank you card.

We got one today from Peter and Catherine whose wedding we shot on 10th April, they said,

Dear Steven and Josh


A quick note of thanks for the wonderful photos of our wedding.
We had high expectations after seeing your web site and we were not disappointed! We have had lots of compliments about the high quality of the photographs and we are delighted to have them as permanent reminders of our perfect day. We can’t wait to see the album.

Best wishes

Peter and Catherine