MUSINGS
Town Head Estate Wedding
Summer 2024 was pretty wet but between the showers there were a few gloriously sunny days, and...
“Hannah was pretty much a non-negotiable part of our wedding. I think I’d sooner have changed fiancé than photographer if you’d asked me.”
Lisa + Posho
Top Hats + Gemy Maalouf wedding at Stanford Hall | Maddy + Jonty
"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. RIGHT. NOW because Maddy + Jonty's wedding day is...
A Sami Tipi wedding at Bawdon Lodge | Sarah + Jon
"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 damp evening I met Sarah and Jon at a tipi open...
A Lake District Garden Wedding | Natalie + Phil
"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 heart, so I was delighted that I'd get to return...
Great John Street Wedding | Fifteen From
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 Watson over at the Great John Street hotel in...
A wedding with a book theme | Dodmoor House | Jo + Matt
"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 to return in December for my final wedding of the...
Wedding at The William Cecil | Charlene + Darren
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 Cecil was so utterly gorgeous that it deserves so...
Dodmoor House Wedding | Hayley + Toby
"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 their recommended suppliers list... Of course I...
Top Ten Bridal Hair Tips // Stacy James reveals all
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 and how she problem solved when Hannah had...
Best make up for wedding photographers
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 found my holy grail of make up for wedding...
Print your photographs // thumbs up for QT Albums!
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 to QT Albums was the right one for me and my...
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Hannah Hearts This: One [Ro / The Old Hall, Ely]
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 Facebook and Instagram. It was such a gorgeous day...
A riverside bohemian wedding | Danielle + Martin
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 by a quiet stretch of river, shaded by willows;...
Bride wears ASOS Bridal | Debbie + Steve
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, intimate wedding that was emotional, heartfelt and every...
A DIY Wedding in Kent | Chloé + Dave
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 though, who planned their gorgeous outdoor DIY...
Shustoke Farm Barns Wedding | Kim + Paul
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 an idea? These guys are such beautiful souls; I...
Alternative Wedding Entertainment Ideas
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 entertain people, after all you're already feeding and...
Do we need a wedding album?
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 myself to part with!) comes a real passion for...
Southwell Minster Wedding | Hannah + Damo
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 going to the Arctic Tundra... So, to help me though...
Do we need two photographers at our wedding?
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 almost always advise having a second... I think...
Furtho Manor Wedding | Amy + Ryan
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 not start the year as you mean to go on? Let me...
Alternative Family Photos / A day in the life
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 children I love the most are those that are...
An urban prewedding shoot in Kettering
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 loved them, so here they are. Chrissy and Graham...
Travel Photography | Paris in 24 hours
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 us over the last few years, so between being...
1000 Paper Cranes | Elena + Dan’s crafty Wedding
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 every since, and I always loved her Pinterest...
Crazy fun wedding at Barton Hall, Kettering | Scott & Guy
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 met Guy and Scott last year to talk about their...
Wedding at The Woodlands, Hothorpe Hall | Amy + Kyle
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 I've ever shot where we LITERALLY trampled down...
A Kent Adventure | Chloé + David | Canterbury to Whitstable
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 their small-holding where they keep their goats (I...
Prewedding photographs | Do we need them?
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 something equally lovely are something I feel really...
Wedding at Stanford Hall | Leicestershire Wedding Photographer | Ellie + Mat
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 started sharing their plans with me, I knew it would be...
Northamptonshire Wedding Photographer | Farm prewedding shoot | Scott + Guy
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, as much as I love shooting families, children can...
Bawdon Lodge Farm wedding | Sami Tipi | VIP Starlight Social
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 just the most romantic of places, and obviously when...
Wedding at Top Farm Tiffield | Northamptonshire Wedding Photographer | Emily + Grant
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 your life when you can get everyone you want to be...
Film Photography | My personality in photographs
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 find the motivation to pick up your camera and...
Aldeburgh Beach, Suffolk | Prewedding shoot | Kirsty + Jonathan
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 so when my couples want to shoot at the beach I...
Barton Hall, Kettering wedding | Jackie & Darren
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 day at Barton Hall in Kettering, the wedding of...
Northamptonshire Wedding Photographer | Farm Wedding | Vix + Tom
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 the end result would be. I loved the idea of them...
Alternative Engagement Photographs | Digbeth | Natalie & Josh
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 a trip to Digbeth was on the cards. We met up a...
Great intentions
...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 weddings to win awards, but I'm pleased as punch that...
Northamptonshire Wedding Photographer | The Raven Hotel | Caity & Sean
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 that Caity's grandparents celebrated sixty years of...
Northamptonshire Wedding Photographer | The Stanwick Hotel | Natalina & Ant
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, kicking off the blog for 2017, behold one of the most...
Crate Brewery Hackney Wedding | Gemma & Kristian
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 Gemma back we were going to get on a storm from the...
Greenwich Lifestyle Photography | Family Morkus
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 camera came from trial and error, hoping for...
Northamptonshire Lifestyle Photography | A family adventure
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!) shooting some lifestyle photography. Autumn is a...
Derbyshire Wedding Photographer | Cattows Farm Weddings | Bohemian Feastival
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 Feastival in a Sami Tipi tipi (another of my...
Steph & Tommy | Back Garden Wedding
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 onto the last breathes of the warmer weather....
Street Photography | London
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 time, I find candids happen pretty effortlessly, and...
Stevie & Cory | Wedding at Barton Hall
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 actually first met Stevie at the opticians where...
Meg & Neil | Relaxed festival marquee wedding
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 AND a fly past. They married in Holy Trinity...
Hannah & Dan | Highgate House wedding
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 year since they'd booked me, I'd really gotten to...
Jo & Paul | Cranford Hall wedding
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 literally didn't stop laughing all day long. Jo and...
Family Walsh | Digbeth Family Photographs
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 recently second shot a wedding in Digbeth and have...
Kim & Rich | Mercure Newton Solney Wedding
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 forecast desperately argued otherwise, no doubt because...
Another Wedisson Award
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 and this image is just the very beginning of a...
Sam & Nicola | Hambleton Hall wedding
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 Hambleton Hall. In the evening they threw a HUGE...
Rob & Nick | No 6 St Chad’s Place wedding
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 me last year telling me the details of his and...
Rachael & Scott | Kilts, ceilidhs and fabulous florals
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 Glaswegian accent... Locals will tell yous...
Katy & Si | Bateman’s Barn Wedding
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 to uni with my husband and had been an usher at our...
Award winning wedding photographer
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 deemed to be award winning, well that's just...
Stevie & Cory | Engagement photography |Chasing Thunderstorms
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 boarder in the middle of a thunderstorm was no...
Jo & Adam | Quirky handmade wedding at the Sir John Moore Foundation
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 Jo's sister Becky's UK wedding reception, so you can...
Emma & Sean | Donington Park Farmhouse Wedding
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 blogging while the new website was under constuction,...
Peta & Rich | Halstead House
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 School chapel, followed by a glitzy, winter...
2015: A Year in Review
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 teacher with a little photography business on the...
Festive Floristry
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 has been so great, and one of them is the new...
The Value of Photographs
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 that's done, I feel like I can probably make my...
Feeling the Love
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 Midlands with a crop of excellent photographers in...
A new addition
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 seems to be double the misadventure, I've found...
Si & Katy | Aldeburgh Beach
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 his big day. David is returning the favour too to...
Derelict Opulence
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 together... Some wedding inspiration! I LOVE all the...
Sea in my Blood
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 makes me. As I've got older, the pull to be by the...
Autumn
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 favourite. I could step on those crunchy leaves all day...
Worcestershire Wedding
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 homesick though, as Sophie is actually a Northampton...
Somerset Wedding
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 Street, Bruton and Wells! It was such a treat getting to...
Barton Hall Wedding
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 sister hotel, Rushton Hall, I was so excited for this...
Why a pre-wedding shoot?
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 important. So often, when I tell people that it's...
What to wear for a photoshoot
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 photographs of them. It was a nice way to showcase my...