WEDDING 365 PROJECT – A documentary wedding image selected each day from ‘the bank.’ Ethos provided for prospective brides and grooms, shooting data for the togs intrigued by that kind of thing.

SHOOTING DATA: 5DMk2, 50mm, F2.8, 1/400, ISO 400, underexposed by a third

VENUE: Bay Tree Hotel, Cotswolds

ETHOS: Sometimes the available light just screams at you as a photographer. This is one such moment. I remember clearly celebrating in my mind that the morning preparation shots would retain a certain mood befitting the low beamed reception room of this historic coaching inn where I initially started shooting. Just enough light to lift faces, perfect. What I particularly enjoy about this capture is the interest created by the wall portraits. This is a photograph of a bride peering into a mirror as the make up process continues. It’s one I take regularly as mirrors create interesting images of their own. But the three faces peering out deliver a far more thought provoking composition. This is not a time to go tight focally.

Those predisposed to disparagy about this Sceptered Isle have clearly yet to visit Burford in the Cotswolds. Sure I drove into the town kissed by a morning sun burning through wisps of Constablesque mountains of rising cumulous (it’s impossible not to feel poetically inclined when writing about the Cotswolds), but it could so easily have been a dowdy grey undramatic day symptomatic of the emotion you’re left with after watching our national football team play Albania for 90 minutes. Burford is just beautiful, whatever the weather. What a place to shoot a wedding. It’s surely only one step away from being able to claim Arcadian status, although it does have traffic wardens. Some images from yesterday’s wedding between Laura and Amit at the fabulous Bay Tree Hotel.