Its not often I see the bride setting up the marquee on the morning of her wedding! This was a really relaxed wedding, with the marquee in the garden of the bride and groom's farmhouse in Staffordshire.
Here's another picture that doesn't necessarily say "wedding" immediately. Taken at dusk, I wanted to show the location using the illuminated keep of Cardiff Castle as the main subject, but still needed somebody in the picture to make it interesting. It was quite cold and all the guest were inside, so I had to wait a while for these three to go for a walk and was lucky to also get the birds flying across the frame. Even better that the little girl in the foreground is pointing up at one of them. The smallest things can take a photo from OK to great.
Venue : Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight
When you first caught sight of this picture did you see it as the woman on the left lifting the man next to her by his jacket?
I can't help seeing it whenever I look at this picture quickly. I'm not going to pretend that I saw it at the time and shot it intentionally. Maybe it registered subconsciously and caused me to release the shutter at that precise moment. But if I'm being honest it was probably just a happy accident. I did however, see it straight away when I was later editing the day's images and making my selects.
Street photography relies on this kind of trick quite a lot. And I often wonder how many famous photos from the masters of the genre were intentional and how many were discovered later, when looking through the contact sheets.