I'm going to Switzerland!

I am SO excited! I am going to assist and second shoot at 2 weddings in Switzerland next month!

On the on-line photographers forum I am part of, I have "met" some lovely people; one being Fides in Switzerland who does amazing work http://www.weddings-in-style.ch/

She was asked by a couple over there to photograph a wedding but Fides was going to be without her assistant husband on that day, so I was asked to come over and be that assistant and second shooter!!

And Fides says she has a wedding 2 days later around Lake Geneva and I can be assistant/second shooter at that one too!

Flights were booked tonight, so excited as I have never been to Switzerland before, and I am dying to meet Fides; we have talked several times on the phone so I KNOW she will be a lovely person!


And tonight I received a lovely email from the Mother of the Groom from Emma and Colin's wedding;

"hi nikki couldn't believe you had two pictures of the happy couple on visiting your page for prices this afternoon.they are fab i think we are going to have a hard job picking some.thank you for making us so at ease when you were taking the photos not an easy thing to do.
looking forward with great anticipation to viewing all your pictures.thankyou again.
[colins mum]."

It's so nice to get lovely comments like this!

Emma and Colin's wedding

I KNEW Emma and Colin's wedding was going to be gorgeous; good-looking couple, cracking contemporary venue, so all we needed was good weather!

Bah humbug! Why do we have to have Scottish weather!? We did manage to dodge the rain for some formals and bridal shots outside, but no walk along the beach which was sad............

Emma and Colin were married at Orroco Pier in South Queensferry, a contemporary hotel, restaurant and bar, which has a cracking view out on the River Forth and the Forth Bridges.

We did manage to get amazing contemporary shots outside the toilets of all places, I had spied the amazing lighting in the corridor at the recce I did with the couple and knew we would get great shots there regardless of the weather.

Their wedding was beautiful, Emma had the most amazing slinky dress (oh to be young and skinny again!) and I am sure they are currently having a BALL in Antigua!

Good weather tomorrow please!

Here's hoping for good weather tomorrow for the wedding of Emma and Colin, as we have the use of a gorgeous beach as well as a contemporary hotel for photos!

Shooting in America!

Been busy recently, too busy to log into here! But now for an update!

Just back from America, where I got the opportunity to second-shoot a wedding with a top-class US female photographer called Laura Novak of Laura Novak Photography.

I am a member of a wedding photographers forum on the Net and have come across some excellent female wedding photographers around the world, whose work I admire; for example;

Laura Novak Photographyhttp://www.novakphotography.com
Allegra's Studio http://www.allegrasstudio.com
Susan Stripling Photography http://www.susanstripling.com
Jessica Claire Photography http://www.jcsphoto.com

While Graham my husband was working in Boston, MA, I thought it would be great to organise a trip out to see him, and shoot a wedding with Laura who is in Philidelphia, just an hour's flight from Boston.

What a FAB day I had with Laura.

The wedding was just a riot! On the beach, the photographers joined the rest of the congregation and left their shoes at the beachside and shot the whole wedding bare-foot! I fried alive, it was so hot, I was glad I had put on sun-screen! The couple Shannon and Bill were just the lovliest couple going, and their wedding was stunning! I cannot WAIT to see the final results!

Before the wedding, Laura did a beach photo session with Jackman, myself and my husband Graham. Look at this!

and this one is one of my favourites! Isn't my boy cute?