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  • I'm a documentary wedding photographer based near Basingstoke, Hampshire. Well-known amongst my peers for my photojournalist approach, composition and eye for the moment, I photograph weddings all over the UK. In 2009 I shot in Surrey, Wiltshire, Somerset, Berkshire, Dorset, Sussex and London and in 2010 I'll be travelling even further afield and right across the UK.

    I'm a member of the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers - a global organisation that accepts, in their words, 'quite simply the best wedding photographers in the world'. I'm also a member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association, a professional organization composed of photojournalists and wedding photographers from around the world. I use Nikon professional cameras and lenses, and am a member of Nikon Professional Services.

    I'm 40 (groan...) and live in North Hampshire with my beautiful wife Nicky, and our even more beautiful daughter, Jessica (that's us to your left). I'm a keen cyclist, competing in the 2010 l'Etape du Tour, and retired from racing in the late 1990's.

a lovely email arrived this morning….

I had a lovely email from Grant and Amy, my February 20th wedding, this morning. It’s always lovely to get such wonderful feedback from clients and I’m delighted that once again I have such happy clients!

Just a quick note to say a huge thank you! Having admired your work for a while, we both knew as soon as we had met you that we wanted you to photograph our wedding day and we were delighted when you said you could do it – Basingstoke to Birmingham is not a journey anyone would envy!

We were so surprised to see the sneak peaks before we left for honeymoon and were thrilled to find the DVD with a full set of images on the door mat when we returned. We have been looking at them at least once a day since!  We are incredibly pleased with the photographs and we are getting lots of emails from our guests saying how much they love them too.

We love the way you work, fitting seamlessly into our day, and you manage to make everyone feel at ease in the most testing of situations.  We now have an amazing set of photographs to treasure forever and we are so excited that they will be displayed in a Queenberry album!

Thank you for being the perfect photographer.

Amy and Grant

Thank you for being the perfect couple – having clients like this makes my job even more enjoyable and I can’t wait to start the design and order for what’s going to be an amazing Queensberry album.

March 12, 2010 - 6:31 pm

Kim Noel - What a great compliment. Well deserved I’m sure!

A Parisian wedding beckons this July….

Some tremendous news last night – I’ve been booked for a wedding in Paris in July. Needless to say I’m thrilled about that and somehow suspect that I won’t be struggling for locations with this one….it’s the weekend before I fly to Toulouse for l’Etape du Tour, so a real French flavour that month!

Watch this space in 4 months….

March 11, 2010 - 9:30 pm

Guy - Ha – thanks Tom. Let’s hope so. France is only an hour away..

March 10, 2010 - 5:31 pm

Tom Astley - Can I come and hold the reflector……………great news and hope it’s a sign of things to come for you.

March 10, 2010 - 2:49 pm

Guy - Thanks Kevin. It should be a real experience and one I’m looking forward to in a big way.

March 10, 2010 - 2:39 pm

Kevin Mullins - Very cool Guy. I shot a wedding last year on the Western coast of France. Stunning. Paris is definately one of my favourite places in the world too. Well done.

Queensberry albums & an excellent trip to ‘focus on imaging’ yesterday

I was back up in Birmingham yesterday, but this time for the huge Focus on Imaging trade show rather than a wedding. I travelled up with a good friend and fellow photographer, Simon Jones, and we spent a great day in some superb talks by Martin Oliver, met with the legend that is Damien Lovegrove, lusted after some very serious kit indeed and finally looked at just about every wedding album supplier on the market.

It’s the last part of that sentence that’s key. I’ve been considering my album options for a while now and had always come back to one company. Queensberry. I made a decision to hold fire until I could really see their album options and talk to them in depth yesterday.

Once seen the decision became very, very easy. I’m now under no doubt that they are the finest photography albums in the world. The attention to detail, design, build, quality, heft, options and overall level of service is incredible.

As of now I am only supplying Queensberry albums. They’re not the cheapest, but then the best rarely is. They are, however, of such a high quality that there’s little doubt in my mind that the investment is worth every penny. Nothing else comes close.

I’m absolutely delighted to be Queensberry partner photographer and I know that my clients will be equally thrilled when they see what’s available.

March 11, 2010 - 12:29 pm

Guy - Hi Adam – they’re so lovely though that they’re worth it.

March 11, 2010 - 12:29 pm

Guy - Thanks Ian – I’m really looking forward to working with you all.

March 11, 2010 - 12:11 pm

Adam Cavanagh - Great choice! I use Queensberry as well. Great customer service and great product, but definitely not the cheapest,

March 10, 2010 - 4:35 am

Ian Baugh - Guy, thank you sincerely for the gracious comments. – Ian and Heather

Christchurch, pretty young things and a bitter wind

We popped down to Christchurch today to see our old friends Iain and Sarah, and their 2 gorgeous kids, Amelia (2) and Harry (4 months). After some late Xmas present exchanges (the January snow storms had put paid to previous planned visits) we wandered down the coast and MY LORD IT WAS COLD – the second shot of Amelia shows you how fierce the wind was with her eyes streaming. Iain and I sensibly elected to leave our scarves in the car. We’re very clever men. Amelia and Jess had a play in the park and then we all decamped to a restaurant to warm our bodies and fill our tummies. Iain works for Shazam, the awesome iPhone app people, so if you haven’t already downloaded it do so now. It’s very, very cool….and it’s free.

Obviously I took my camera….

Jess, I know I’m biased because I’m your dad but when I look at you I think my heart might burst…you take my breath away.

March 12, 2010 - 10:51 pm

Ebphoto, Photographe mariage bruxelles - Lovely portraits, my favorite is the 7th. You have captured interesting and natural expressions, what a cute family!!

March 12, 2010 - 5:09 pm

Washington DC Wedding Photographer - Beautiful family and children’s portraits! Very natural. Love the black and white finish.

March 9, 2010 - 10:36 pm

Scott Allan, Portrait Photographer - Great images. You have a very perceptive eye.

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