Start to the year and a featured wedding.

Hello to everyone, hoping your year is starting out well and this weather has not caused to much disruption? Here in west Cumbria we certainly didn't have the amount of snow that the rest of the country seem to have had, however, the ice has certainly caused a few issues.

The weather and break from weddings in January has allowed me to pursue a love of being up in the wintery mountains. The conditions up there have been superb, but would certainly be very tricky for anyone ill prepared with deep snow, icy tracks and an extremely nippy windchill factor which at on point was around -30 degrees!

I have also had a couple of the weddings that I have photographed featured on a great new website, click the link to english-wedding.com at the bottom of this post to view this feature.

Happy New Year to you all.

This has certainly been a very eventful year, the birth of our baby son was very much the highlight in February, however, the year has certainly had it's fair share of lows, one of these being the floods in November, which is still affecting Cumbria with alot of people and families including us being displaced for Christmas and New Years.

I am glad to be able to say the after a few set backs with my photography buisness during this time things seem to be running smoothly again and am looking forward to the challenges of 2010 and hopefully some new enquiries regarding my wedding photography service.

To conclude, from myself and my family I wish you all a good New Year full of health and happyness.

Chris, Rachel, Ben & the hounds.

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Mark and Suzi

On Tuesday I was at the Rheged Centre near Penrith for the wedding of Mark and Suzi.

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Ian and Rachel's wedding day.

On the 19th December I was at the wedding of Ian and Rachel. The event was held at The Merewood Country House Hotel near Windermere.

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Anthony and Helen

I was at the Castle Green Hotel in Kendal on the 05th December 2009 to photograph the wedding of Anthony and Helen
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Martyn & Sadie's wedding day.

On the 07th November 2009 I was at Cartmel and then to the Swan Hotel at Newby Bridge for the wedding on Martyn and Sadie.

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Flood update

As you could probably imagine, it's been fairly stressful for alot of people in the past couple of weeks with the major floods that have affected us here in Cockermouth. We have now managed to find new accomadation just outside of town, however, hopefully we will be back in town at the beginning of the new year. I have very limited internet access currently, should you be interested in my photography services then it would be best to contact me via my mobile phone.

Cockermouth floods

Well as you may all be aware from the news west Cumbria had been hit by flooding. Being in Cockermouth and living a few metres away from the river has resulted in our house being underwater. Our thanks go out to the emergency services for there amazing work, we were rescued after 24hours trapped upstairs with our 9 month old son and 2 dogs.

The Whitley Bay RNLI managed to get a small inflatable boat to the back of our house where we were then taken to the offices behind the Main Street. We then had to climb two storeys of scaffolding, through the office windows then back down the scaffolding the other side to a boat waiting for us on Main Street.

With regards to my photography, I have managed to save a good part of my equipment and will be planning on attending the weddings that I have booked in the next few weeks and will be able to continue the same quality of service.

Accommodation has been a major issue as you can imagine with so many other families needing places to live. We have very kindly be offered a cottage at Thursby to stay in until we manage to get back into Cockermouth. Currently we have to thank friends in the town for letting us stay with them and also supplying clothing, equipment and toys for our baby son.

I will be in touch with my customers in the very near future to let them know what is happening, however, should you be interested in my photography services in the new year then please don't hesitate to contact me via email or my mobile phone number which is on my website.

We will be aiming to have as much as possible back to a bit of normality within a couple of weeks and as with the rest of the Cumbrian community will be working very hard to bring business back to our lovely town.

Southport Airshow.

On the 27th September I was at Southport for the Airshow, while I was there I was trying my hand at aviation photography, its not the easiest of tasks but was fun trying. The highlights of the day were of course the Red Arrows also the Euro Fighter which was incredibly loud and to close the show was the incredible Vulcan which managed to set off alot of the car alarms.

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25th September 2009

On the 25th September I attended the wedding of Danny and Natalie to photograph their big day. The event was held at Lodore Falls Hotel in the Borrowdale Valley, Keswick.

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Andrew and Jenny's wedding.

I was at Appleby Manor on the 19th September to photograph the wedding of Andrew and Jenny, the reception was then held at the Appleby Cricket Ground.

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Richard & Claire's wedding day.

On the 12th September I was at the wedding of Richard and Claire from Carlisle. The venue was Greenhill Hotel near Wigton and considering the weather that we had had for a while before it was great that the sun came out for this day.

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Awards

In a recent SWPP competion I received three bronze awards for these pictures, some of the best photographer in the UK enter images for judging and I know I am going to have to work hard to acheive gold in the furture against some incredible photographers.

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Latest portraits.

After purchasing a new studio background a little while ago I was finally able to use it to get these portrait shots of my wife Rach & our son Ben.

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Peter & Jenny's wedding.

On Friday I was asked to photograph the wedding of Peter & Jenny. The church venue was St Bega's at Bassenthwaite and then on to the reception at Hundith Hill Hotel, Cockermouth.

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Chris & Laura's wedding day.

On the 21st August I was at St Michael's Church in Workington to photograph the wedding of Chris & Laura.

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A letter from the Mother of the Bride.

It's not very often that I would post a letter on my blog, however, I received a letter from the Mother of the Bride after a recent wedding up in the Scottish Borders and it was such a pleasent compliment that I thought I would share it.

"Hi Chris,

Since Sunday I have been drawn to your website everyday to have another look at Michelle's and Duncan's photos.

We all had an absolutely fantastic day and the photos are amazing. I keep scrolling through and can't quite believe that I'm looking at my daughter!! I can't wait to see them all.

Many thanks from the bottom of my heart as you have contributed to what was a memorable day in our family and we have the pictures to look back on with pride. You were so professional that most of the time we were not aware of you taking pictures and I can only presume that you didn't get much sleep by the time you got home and uploaded the photos onto the internet!!

I will have no hesitation in recommending you, in fact our florist wants some of your photos for her portfolio.

Many many thanks again"

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Neil & Catherine's wedding day.

Yesterday I was at Hunday Manor Hotel to photograph the wedding of Neil and Catherine.

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Gavin & Hannah.

On Saturday I was at Muncaster Castle for a small wedding for Gavin & Hannah, then straight after the service the couple wanted to travel down to Waswater for some photographs.

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Liam & Kirsty's wedding day.

On the 18th July I was at Castle Inn hotel, Bassenthwaite to photographs the wedding of Liam and Kirsty.

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Scott & Gemma.

A trip down to St Cuthburts church in Clifton and then on to The Shapwells Hotel on the 11th July to photograph the wedding of Scott and Gemma.

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Richie & Lisa's wedding day.

On the 10th July, I was at Hunday Manor Hotel to photograph the wedding of Richie & Lisa.

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Richie & Lisa's pre-wedding shoot.

Sorry for the delay in updating my blog, it's been a very busy few weeks but finally I have had chance. A couple of weeks ago I did a quick pre-wedding shoot for Richie & Lisa.

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Chris & Dawn's wedding.

Yesterday I was at Brantwood, the home of John Ruskin in the 1800's to photograph the weding of Chris & Dawn. After the service and photographs we then travelled to The Coot On The Tarn at Ulswick for the evening reception.

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David & Sarah's wedding day.

Yesterday I attended the wedding of David & Sarah which was held at the Ennerdale Country House Hotel. It was great to work with the couple after the pre-wedding shoot that we had done a couple of weeks ago.

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