"On the day she was great - she was almost impossible to notice apart from when we wanted her, when she would magically appear as if from nowhere." Turn off your televisions, put down your devices and STOP....
"Hannah hasn’t just given us back the memories, she has allowed us to feel the emotion in each and every image for the rest our lives." I find it hard to believe that it's two years since the cold...
"I loved how all the photos are action shots capturing memories!" SHOCKING TRUE FACT. I had NEVER been to the Lake District until last year, but within minutes of being there it had stolen my...
February feels a very long time ago now, but as the temperatures start to drop I've been thinking about some of the weddings I shot earlier in the year, and my mind turned to a wedding I second shot for Rob...
"We knew we wanted to choose Hannah from the moment we looked at her work - it was candid, fun and had real heart." This year I'll have shot five weddings at Dodmoor House and as I write, I'm four down, set...
Remember to look up as you walk down that aisle! I've got so much lovely stuff to blog from last year, it's about time I pulled my finger out and got on with it. Charlene and Darren's wedding at The William...
"We didn't even make enquiries with any other photographers, we knew Hannah was the one" I recently made my third of five visits to Dodmoor House in 2018 and was absolutely over the moon to be asked to join...
TOP TEN BRIDAL HAIR TIPS I first met my hair dresser Stacy working at Hannah and Dan's wedding back in 2016 and I knew that day that I wanted her to be my hairdresser too. I loved her style and her attitude...
The holy grail of make up for wedding photographers I've spent the last three years trying to find the best make up solution for me that seems to survive a long day at a wedding and I think I've finally...
Emma + James love their QT Album You may not be aware but at the end of last year I made the decision to change my album suppliers, and after meeting the team at Snap Photography Festival, I knew the move...
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NEW THING! HANNAH HEARTS THIS. Basically, an opportunity to show a few of my favourite frames off and tell you a little bit about why! So today I put up my sneak peak from Ro + James' wedding at The Old Hall, Ely on...
Remember summer? Maybe not, but if I think back to the sunniest of weddings from 2017, this one is up there in the top five. Tucked away in the Northamptonshire countryside, The Kings Head at Wadenhoe sits...
Debbie and Steve booked me literally three weeks before they got married. It was a match made in heaven, and these two have a really special place in my heart. They celebrated their day with a small,...
A reception at an outdoor wedding venue when there's been more rainfall in the last three days then Kent has had for months might sound like some couples stuff of nightmares... No dramas for Chloé and Dave...
I barely know where to start telling you about just how much I love Kim and Paul, just how much I love Shustoke Farm Barns and how much I loved Kim and Paul's Shustoke Farm Barns wedding. Does that give you...
The date is set, the venue is booked and now you're probably thinking about how you're going to entertain your friends and family on your wedding day. It might sound silly suggesting that you need to...
It's no secret that I'm a closet romantic and a soppy sentimental old fool, despite my hard exterior, and with my need to hoard memories and physical stuff (you should see the box of my girls' baby grows I can't bring...
I don't know about you, but I feel like I've been frozen to my core for weeks now and while I love winter weddings, I'm dreaming over summer and long evenings and not needing to prepare for a day at work as if I'm...
I enjoy shooting weddings alone, and for the last three years the majority of my weddings I have shot by myself. However, increasingly I'm asked my by my clients if they need two photographers at their wedding, and I...
OH HIIIIII 2018, here you are! 2017 was an absolutely incredibly year for me and I'm starting to think about rounding up my best images of the year... But on top of that it's really time I got back to blogging, and why...
It's true what they say; you project what you love into the photographs you take and while I took my annual break from family photography while wedding season get busy, I started to realised that the photographs of my...
Life is busy, the business is busy, blogging takes a back seat but last night I came back to some images I'd shot at Chrissy and Graham's urban prewedding shoot around Kettering back in May and I'd forgotten how much I...
I've just come home from a 24 hour visit to Paris. I know you're probably thinking I'm mad but there's method to my madness. My best friend Nici and I haven't had a night out in YEARS. We've had four children between...
Elena and I had known each other virtually since 2011 when we both found out we were having babies in March 2012 and joined an online community for pregnant people having babies in the same month. We'd stayed in touch...
I'm trying so hard to keep the blog up to date as well as ploughing through editing in the peak of wedding season... It's hard, but this wedding was a blinder and I couldn't wait any longer to write about it! When I...
Amy and Kyle chose to hold their wedding at The Woodlands at Hothorpe Hall back in May and I'll remember it as the first wedding I ever wore a straw hat to, as well as one of the most fun and fearless portrait sessions...
Some of my favourite prewedding shoots have been the ones that haven't gone to plan, or the ones that haven't had a plan at all. When I planned to visit Chloé and David down in Kent last month we said we'd meet at...
I know what you're thinking... *of course she's going to say yes*. Well yes, I am. Yes, you do. And I have good reason!! Prewedding photographs, sometimes known as engagement shoots, e shoots, in love shoots or...
It's hard to believe that it's been almost half a year, but back just before Christmas, Ellie and Mat got married and held their wedding at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire. When I first met Ellie and Mat and they...
Historically, I don't seem to book March weddings, so I generally spend the month packing in prewedding shoots ahead of the summer. I do love a prewedding shoot; having a bit more time for portraits is a real luxury,...
A unique wedding venue in the Leicestershire Countryside If I could get married again, a tipi wedding would be a serious contender; I don't think you can beat the way a tipi transforms at dusk and after dark they're...
When I meet prospective clients to talk about their wedding, I can never stress to them enough the importance of my job getting not getting in the way of their day. Weddings are expensive and likely the only time in...
What I have struggled with most as my photography work load has increased is retaining the love for my camera for personal use. When you've walked around at a wedding with two DSLRs on all day it can be really hard to...
I'm a girl who has the sea in her blood; I grew up in Norfolk and took living near the coast for granted. Now that I'm smack bang in the middle of the country, I literally couldn't be further from the coast if I tried...
My editing screen has been filled with gorgeous winter weddings for the fast few weeks, which is no bad thing, but it was definitely time to hop back to August... When I realised I hadn't yet mused upon this wonderful...
Despite being a creative, I think I really lack vision for turning unusual spaces into party spaces, so when Vix and Tom showed me where they were planning to hold their wedding reception, I struggled to picture what...
Natalie and Josh are SO MUCH FUN, and when they emailed to book in their prewedding session and told me they wanted alternative engagement photographs that would really contrast with their wedding pictures, I knew that...
...and I intend to smash 2017 out of the park. Great intentions! So, waking up last week to the news that I'd won a Wedisson in the 22nd Collection was a pretty good start to the year. I never ever started shooting...
Reeeeeewiiiiiiind back to July (I know, how long ago does summer feel right now?!) and I was shooting super close to home in Corby for Caity and Sean's wedding at The Raven Hotel. These guys married in the same week...
New year's resolution: Blog more weddings. It's so easy to get bogged down in everything and it's easy to forget the blog, but here is my public declaration that I will blog at least once a week in 2017, and so,...
I have so much love for Gemma and Kristian's Crate Brewery Hackney wedding I barely know where to start! I will start by telling you the Gemma and Kristian found me on Instagram - how cool - and I knew from following...
When I was just a girl with a camera who dreamt of being a photographer, I totally relied on willing friends to let me take photographs of them... I guess it was a winner for them, but so much of my experience behind...
The warmth of summer is a distant memory, the frosts have arrived and wedding season has just about come to an end. No rest for the wicked as my attention turns to whizzing around Northamptonshire (and further afield!)...
Cattows Farm Weddings My gorgeous friend Thomas is the best wedding caterer I know. I'm super lucky to have had him cook for us at my husbands 30th birthday party last year, so when he asked me to cover his Bohemian...
Autumn is firmly here, the wediting list is getting shorter but there's so much good from the summer that I've not had a moment to share on the blog, so Friday evenings are officially all about catching up and holding...
Over the last year I've become increasingly interested in the spontaneous stuff that happens at wedding and really enjoy the informal parts of a wedding day and all the fun that candid photographs bring. Most of the...
Goodness me, it seems like weeks and weeks since I last blogged! I bumped into Stevie and Cory this morning so it seems pretty appropriate to share some photographs of their amazing wedding at Barton Hall last month. I...
Oh my days. Lost for words, although I know that for many of you that'll be hard to believe. Behold the wedding of Meg and Neil, a day that included a handfasting, a Firebolt, a pudding table, face painting, a fire pit...
Hannah and Dan got married last month and IT. WAS. AWESOME. Their wedding was held in their church in Kettering, before driving across my favourite part of Northamptonshire for their reception at Highgate House. In the...
Cranford Hall - the most serene of wedding venues Jo and Paul, where to begin? Such gorgeous people in beautiful surroundings, thoughtfulness, belly laughs and the best cocktail sausages I have ever eaten. I...
I don't normally blog my family work, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this shoot from last month so much that there was no way Family Walsh's family photographs from our session in Digbeth WEREN'T making it onto the blog... I'd...
Kim & Rich's wedding at the Mercure Newton Solney will definitely be a memorable day for me... Why? Because in 2016, it's not about the odd wet wedding, it's about the odd dry one... A dry one even though the...
Delighted that the folks over at Wedisson have awarded one of my images from Nick and Rob's No6 St Chads Place wedding as part of the 16th collection. Do pop over to the blog to see more from their day; so much awesome...
I had a gorgeous email last night from Sam and Nicola. They tied the knot last month with just seven guests at Oakham Registry Office before celebrating their wedding with an intimate meal in a private dining room at...
WHERE DO I BEGIN?! A day that threw tradition and convention out of the window, a day that celebrated everything about the two of them, a day where love poured out of everyone and everything. I knew when Nick emailed...
Here in Corby, we're often referred to as a town as Little Scotland. My neighbours' kids are third generation scots who have lived here all their life yet they speak with what, on the face of it sounds like a thick...
Bateman's Barn: A dream wedding venue There's something I really love about photographing our friends, so when Katy & Si asked me to photography their wedding at Bateman's Barn I was absolutely delighted. Si went...
As weeks go, last week was a pretty good one; three awesome weddings and my first Wedisson award! Of course my job isn't about winning awards, but when couples are delighted with their images AND their photographs are...
I love engagement photography (or pre-wedding photographs as I often call them) for so many reasons. Stevie and Cory's shoot last week, in a field of oilseed rape, somewhere near the Northamptonshire/Leicestershire...
I had a blast photographing Jo and Adam's wedding last month at Jo's home church of St Margaret's, Stoke Golding followed by a reception at the Sir John Moore Foundation in Appleby Magma. Back in 2014 I photographed...
Emma and Sean married in February at Donington Park Farmhouse Hotel in Derbyshire. They fell in love with their venue because of it's rustic charm and decor which embraces its agricultural roots. After a break from...
If you were concerned about rain on your wedding day, Peta & Rich are the couple to prove the weather won't put a dampener on your day - or photography! They married a couple of weeks before Christmas at Oakham...
So here we are. The first blank page in the book of 2016. A great time to reflect on all that has been and think about what lies ahead. 2015 was the year that changed my life. I started it as a secondary school music...
At this time of year everyone likes to reflect on what a year it's been, and I'm shouting from the rooftops about 2015. Of course, I'm over the moon with how business is going, but there's other reasons why this year...
I've been wanting to write this post for a couple of weeks now, but I held off as I was struggling to put a lot of what I wanted to say into words, and there was someone I needed to thank in person first. Now that...
I can't believe it's been two weeks since the East Midlands round of The Wedding Industry Regional Finals. Folk who keep in touch with me on social media will know that there was stiff competition here in the East...
My camera is heavy. Its a beast. On the whole I'm so used to carrying two cameras around at weddings, so going out with one doesn't bother me. But now that we are a pram free household and running around with two kids...
I love photographing our friends, so I was really touched when Si and Katy asked me to be their wedding photographer. Si went to uni with my husband and was one of his groomsmen, so it's lovely to get to be a part of...
I can't recall exactly when the planning started, but it must have been back before the summer. While chatting with my lovely friend Sian from Elysian Weddings & Events I got a real itch to throw a styled shoot...
There is absolutely no denying that I have the sea in my blood. I feel at my most content by the sea; I don't care how cold I am, how messed up my hair is or how out of breath contending with the terrain underfoot...
I love Autumn. If I could pick a season for all year round, it would definitely be Autumn. The nights are drawing in, everything's a little bit more cosy, the knitwear comes out, and the colours are my absolute...
To start my double header of a bank holiday weekend back at the end of August, I travelled down to Worcestershire to photograph Tim and Sophie's wedding at the foot of the beautiful Malvern Hills. I didn't feel too...
Waaaay back in August, I had the complete and utter pleasure of being the photographer at Kerri and Ashley's Somerset wedding; and it was exactly that, because the various components of the wedding took place in...
It seems a life time ago now, but way back in June after a week of wet weather, the sun came out in full force for Jade and Richard's beautiful Barton Hall wedding. Having had our own wedding reception at Barton's...
A pre-wedding shoot, sometimes called an engagement shoot, is something that I offer all my couples these days, and I've had very few turn down the offer after I've taken a few moments to explain why I think they're...
Back in the time before photography became my full time career, I used to write a blog. My blog was primarily a record of what was going on in my children's lives and my parenting successes and fails, littered with...
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