A fresh start by the seaside, in a beautiful Victorian house, nearer to our friends and family, and my favourite curry house. Jeff and I were both born in Portsmouth, grew up in Havant and have spent a lot of time here since we first got together at Chaos on the pier back in the day. The city is full of character and history, there is a brilliant creative scene here, and lots of cool independent shops, bars and restaurants. We will ride our bikes along the promenade, walk to the pub for Sunday lunch, eat cake at the Tenth Hole and take our posh pink BBQ to the beach in the summer. 2011 was a bit crazy in our personal world, so we are looking forward to our new life in Pompey.

I photograph weddings all over Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Surrey and Wiltshire, so although I am 20 miles down the road, there should be no change to where I will be being a wedding photographer. Portsmouth is awesome for portrait locations, and I’ve found a few cool spots for meetings too, so come on down and I will show you our fair city.

Next news: I haven’t blogged a wedding for about a year! Things have been pretty busy and disrupted around here for a while and blogging has been low on the priority list so I have a big backlog to share. Planning a massive best of 2011 post soon and then on with 2012…

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Loads to post this week too, so stay patient for a sneak preview from Melissa and Damian’s Southampton wedding, Nicola and Matt’s pre-wedding portraits and highlights from Claire and Dave’s summertime wedding at Elmers Court.

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Here’s another one from Dave and Marie’s Southsea wedding, featuring the now extinct Ultrasaurus, who also was subject to malicious attack this week and got burnt down

Many people prefer the accessibility of a book rather than a big album and these handy sized books will fit on your bookshelf .

The Wedding Book has a photographic cover, front and back and looks just like the books you’ll buy in shops

Photos are printed directly on to the heavyweight silk coated paper pages in clean and modern layouts.

The pages of the Wedding Book are bound so that they lay flat when you open the book.
This means that nothing is lost in the gutter of the book spine, and you can have photographs stretching across the whole spread.

The Wedding Book  is packaged in a handmade keepsake box which will keep it neat for years to come.

The standard book is a handy 10×10” but you can choose to upgrade to a 12×12” album for an additional £50.

Parent Books, smaller duplicates of your main album, are available in 8x8in size.
These make lovely gifts for your family to thank them for their help in your wedding.

Parent Books are £100 each or £150 for two, so you can treat both sides of the family.

The Parent Book is very similar to the main Wedding Book but has more traditional book binding with the gutter.
Now you can see why the layflat pages of the main book are so unique.

Everyone love them!

Shopping for your business is different to shopping for yourself. You can’t simply go by your own taste, so I was looking for a selection of different types of album so my clients have a good choice. The product is the first and most important thing I was looking for- modern books and albums which make the most of the photos, with excellent quality and finish. Service is important, I’ve been stung before with long delivery times and poor service and if I’m let down by my suppliers that reflects badly on my business. Then of course price- certainly not what it should all be about, but I want be able to offer a range of options to suit different budgets and be able to offer good value without compromising on quality.

So, decisions made  I am pleased to show off some of my new sample albums today.

First up is the Storybook Flushmount album, featuring Jo & Graham’s gorgeous summer wedding at Mottisfont Abbey.

The 10×14” size is substantial but still easy to handle. These books are also available in 12×12 square.

The album has a square spine for a sleek, more modern finish. This album has 40 pages, which is a good size for most weddings.

Every page from front to back will open up and lay flat.

This allows photos to be laid out in full page spreads and photos can print right across the centre fold with no loss into the spine.

Layouts are ‘magazine style’ which allows a mixture of full page prints and smaller photos perfect for a ‘storytelling’ style of album including all your little details.

This Sample has an Acrylic cover, which makes the photographic print on the front really stand out.

A Faux Leather cover with embossed names, a photographic printed cover and a brushed metal style cover are also available.

The Pages are lustre photographic paper, mounted on card. These are printed by one of the UKs top professional photo labs.

The album is presented in a velvet lined presentation box which will keep it safe for many years to come.

Unlike many other albums manufacturers who make this sort of album, these are produced in the UK and should be in your hands within 2 weeks of confirming to print.