Category Archives: Wedding Photographer

Neale James’ Style | The Elvetham Hotel, Hampshire

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Strictly First Dance

As the wife of a very successful documentary wedding photographer, most of my Saturday nights are spent in the company of a glass of red wine watching the latest Ant ‘n’ Dec jungle-talent-takeaway show. That is until Neale returns home, usually around 9.30pm, and starts to download all the images and audio from the wedding, at which point I’ll often glance over his shoulder to see what he’s captured from the day. Having watched him refine his style during the last 10 years, I believe I can now spot what I think of as a ‘signature’ image, and although it will require a degree of skilled re-touching, many of these shots you’ll spot straight from camera. There’s an intensity. A tangible sense of mood. Something which transports me, the viewer, to that moment during the wedding day. So, for my first blog post, of which many more will follow, I’d like to share one of those very shots; a first dance at The Elvetham Hotel, Hampshire. Neale James’ Style.

Heythrop Park wedding photography | David and Holly

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“It’s such a shame that you’re here on a rainy day blowing a gale,” were the first words that greeted me upon my entrance to Oxfordshire’s Heythrop Park. I figured the light airy grand entrance hall, plentifully large sash window lit ceremony room and ceiling illuminated sweeping staircase had perhaps bypassed the eyes of that particular commentator. I’d been there a minute. I could see potential. Plenty of it. It’s worth remembering, of a ten hour wedding day, unless it’s the height of Summer, most couples devote just an hour and a half to an outdoor drinks reception; the time where weather has a relevance. It’s a part, not all, of the day. In my experience, inclement weather does little to dampen wedding day spirits, as David and Holly’s Heythrop nuptials proved.

 

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