The phone rings in a reportage wedding photographer’s office one day a long, long time ago… Phone: “ring ring” Me: Hello? Phone Person: “Is that the photographer?” Me: Err yes, yes it is (?) Phone Person: I’m looking for a photographer for my wedding Me: OK… what style of work are you after, and how… Read More…
Creating Candid Wedding Memories
Right back into another hectic season of weddings and being a documentary wedding photographer. Creating candid wedding memories, and I’m getting happily back into a good working rhythm. Already this year I have put in some miles around the country as I do every year, Cork, Kerry of course and certainly beyond. What I personally… Read More…
An Unplugged Wedding
“An Unplugged Wedding” Sure, it’s as naff as a phrase can be but there is plenty of value in gently insisting that friends and family enjoy the wedding without having the urge to photograph every single minute of it with their cameras or phones. There’s generally a zealous type who will spend much of the… Read More…
Have I photographed at your venue before?
While rare enough, it is a concern to some regarding their venue and if their potential photographer has or has not worked there before. In the past I recall to have lost only one booking because the couple felt that since I had not worked at their proposed wedding venue previously they had concerns, they… Read More…
When it comes to the Wedding just let the kids be kids!
A while back as I was going around the reception during a wedding somewhere in West Cork. There was a young lad, probably about eight or nine. He was looking really dapper in his cool suit and dickie bow. He seemed to be a bit of a character. Each time I passed him he’d stop… Read More…
Documentary not Mockumentary part 3
“Philip, it’s important for us to not have to do anything on the day regards to posing and the like. It’s just not what we are about, we’ve seen it at other weddings and it is not us. We strongly feel that you may be the man for photographing our wedding…” And it… Read More…