In addition to Rob and Lenka’s wedding blessing, this weekend was also my grandfather’s 90th Birthday. I took my studio kit along to get some photos of the family, especially of Jack with his 3 great-grandchildren. Two of the little ones were grotty for much of the time as they were busy fighting over the dolly and pushchair, but having the studio up for most of the day enabled me to get at least one decent shot of each of them. Once I’ve finished editing Rob&Lenka’s photos (60ish to go) and other work for customers, I’ll edit the rest of these and put them up on this site. Whilst I don’t really count family as clients, using this site is the easiest way for them to choose their prints too.

Yesterday I did a fairly short job for a client who wanted me to record her birthday dinner at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. The dinner was the colleges normal evening formal hall, with the added addition of a cake being presented to her. She was particularly keen that I should capture that presentation. As one of the senior members of the college she was seated at the high table and happened to be facing the organ loft, making photos from balcony possible in addition to those from nearer the table. The lighting was challenging as it was fairly dim, but not impossible. Although high ISOs were needed and using the flash meant I couldn’t be as discrete as I would have liked.