I met Gemma and Jonathan last year to chat about their wedding and during the conversation, they mentioned that although getting married in a beautiful little village in Hertfordshire, they live and work in Munich. I jokingly suggested we could do their pre-wedding shoot there and that thought must have remained in their heads because when they contacted me in January to book their pre-wed, they asked if I would fly out to Berlin, where they first met. They didn’t need to ask me twice - I have been to Berlin once before (to see german band Rammstein) and there is nothing I don’t like about the city - it’s fantastic!

I asked my friend and fellow photographer David McNeil if he’d like to come over with me as a travelling companion and to get some shots of his own and together we recced most of the city (or so it felt - David walks, like, REALLY FAST)! We also enjoyed a lunch of pretzels and butter, currywurst with frites and beer, followed by apple strudel and warm vanilla sauce….absolutely delicious!

Anyway, here is the shoot and it wouldn’t be right to go to Berlin and not include some shots of the remaining sections of the wall, which are now art installations in their own right - stunning!

Here’s a pre-wedding shoot I did with Sam and Chris last weekend, along the beautiful grand Union Canal near their home in Rickmansworth.

The light was quite dull when we started but as usual, it brightened up as we went so all spring the colours started to come alive!

Sam and Chris get married at Fanhams Hall Hotel later this year and if these images are anything to go by, they’re both (especially Sam) going to look stunning! Enjoy…

Well, after a manic 2010, a Christmas and New Year that flew by, another manic month designing new sample albums and getting my tax return done - I finally had the chance to get out and do what I love most - photographing people! I met up with Gemma and Dylan last week and we went to Pembroke Lodge, which is situated within the beautiful Richmond Park in west London. I love the park - as we arrived, a herd of deer went trotting past us no more than 10 metres away - where else in London could you experience that?

The daffodils were in full bloom and as Gemma is Welsh, I thought they enhanced the shoot very well. Although the weather was dull, it was quite warm and it really felt like Spring had arrived - it was great to be ‘back in the saddle’ as it were - enjoy these images.

(There’ll be two more pre-wedding shoots featured here this week - one of which took place in Berlin - so check back to see!)

A quick one today, as Charlotte and Lester get married tomorrow at Northbrook Park in Surrey and I haven’t yet blogged their beautiful autumnal pre-wedding shoot!

We did this a few weeks ago when the weather was much kinder (warmer) and the colours were fanatstic. They live in Twickenham so that’s where we wandered around - there was a massive England v New Zealand rugby match on at the stadium that day (which England lost - boo!) so it was teeming with people in Twickenham and all along the Thames but we found some lovely spots out of the way.