Warning: Church Weddings May Seriously Damage Your (Photographic) Memories

If your wedding photography matters to you enough to hire a professional wedding photographer, and if you’re planning to get married in a church, you may want to think carefully when choosing your church. Continue Reading »

Posted on September 16th 2008 by Jon Silver

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New Wedding Photo Albums Page

If you’ve considered having an album for your wedding photos, take a look at my new wedding albums page. I’ve included a flash video slideshow of the page layouts from a real album created for Lee and Jill whose wedding I attended in Summer 2007 at three Sussex venues: Cisswood House Hotel; All Saints Church, Roffey; and Mannings Heath Golf Club. It’s all set to the Frankhams’ first-dance music, “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias. I hope you enjoy watching it as I think it perfectly encapsulates what their wedding day was all about. I’ll be producing more slideshows like this very soon, so watch this space…

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Posted on March 29th 2008 by Jon Silver

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Wedding Photography - Humility, Empathy and Confidence

As a weddingAn photograph of an intimate moment during a wedding ceremony captured despite restrictive and difficult conditions photographer, I consider it a privilege to be present on a couple’s wedding day. There they are getting married in front of everyone special to them - parents, family, friends - and then there’s me, hired because I can take photographs with the right look to suit the couple’s tastes. But hopefully it goes deeper than that.

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Posted on June 19th 2007 by Jon Silver

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New Wedding Photography Season

The Wedding Season is upon us. From May to September is when most people who are getting married actually choose to do the deed. But why? Is it just the thought of more reliable weather? Here we are in April basking in the sort of weather we would normally expect in June - so what on earth can we look forward to in June? Weather people (meteorologists) say it’s going to be the hottest Summer on record. So what does that mean for all the happy couples getting hitched this year?

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Posted on April 15th 2007 by Jon Silver

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A blog? On a wedding photography site?

We’ve all been to weddings. We’ve all seen the guy with the huge camera and tripod shouting at people to line up, pushing guests with cameras out of the way so he can get his shots. But take a more modern, enlightened approach to wedding photography… what makes the contemporary wedding photographer different? Why does he do it? How hard can it be?

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Posted on April 15th 2007 by Jon Silver

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