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Where to Photograph Carlisle Wildlife

Where to Photograph Carlisle Wildlife

Where to see and photograph wildlife around Carlisle February 22nd is National Wildlife Day and what a better way of celebrating this day than to go out around Carlisle and see and photograph some wildlife and maybe take some photos with your phone camera or some...

Tullie House Wedding Photography

Tullie House Wedding Photography

Weddings at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery always bring back memories Tullie House museum and Art gallery in Carlisle makes a great venue for weddings and for receptions, with loads of photo opportunities for wedding photographers like me.  I should know because...

Outside Dance Photography in Carlisle

Outside Dance Photography in Carlisle

Carlisle Dance Photography I've been a dance photographer in Cumbria for nearly 15 years, taking photos of outside dance photography in Carlisle, and I really enjoy seeing and photographing the skills of the graceful dancers across Carlisle, Cumbria and all along the...

Girls First Birthday Cake Smash Photo Session

Girls First Birthday Cake Smash Photo Session

Birthday Cake Smash photo session in Carlisle Little M's mum first got in touch about a cake smash photo session early in January and after a couple of emails, we booked in a date for the photo session around little one's birthday in July.  This year then went a bit...

Gretna Wedding Photography

Gretna Wedding Photography

Gretna Weddings are always great for a wedding photographer I love finding out the stories behind why Gretna has been chosen and working with the couple to ensure their wedding goes the way they want.  My advantage is that being based very close to Gretna that if a...

Ideas for VE Day 2020 – 75 years since Victory in Europe

Ideas for VE Day 2020 – 75 years since Victory in Europe

Ideas for Celebrating VE Day 2020 at Home How will you be celebrating VE Day 2020? This Friday sees a bank holiday to celebrate VE Day - Victory in Europe Day and this year is the 75th celebration year.  It was hoped that they would be big parties all across the UK,...

Top 8 Lake District Wedding Venues

Top 8 Lake District Wedding Venues

Lake District Wedding Venues The Lake District is a great place for wedding venues.  There's a place for everyone's taste, so no matter what your heart desires you will find a wedding venue for you.  From small elopements, small groups or loads of friends and big...

Blaithwaite House Dance Photography

Blaithwaite House Dance Photography

Dance Photography with an amazing dancer I love dance photography and organised a portfolio day at the beautiful Cumbrian location of Blaithwaite House just outside Wigton, taking photos of Jordyn Louise who runs a dance studio in Carlisle. The drive out to...

Carlisle Registry Office Wedding

Carlisle Registry Office Wedding

I really enjoyed taking wedding photographs at the wedding of Lisa and Lee’s in early August at the Carlisle registry office also called Lady Gillford`s House. The Bride and Groom have known one another for many years, they would often see one another as they went...

Stoneybeck Inn Disney Wedding

Stoneybeck Inn Disney Wedding

The Wedding  The Wedding day started out looking as if the rain would come at any minute as the bride got ready for her big day.  When I arrived at 8:30am at Adele's parents house, where Adele was getting ready her make up was already half completed and all was very...

Santorini meets Scotland Wedding

Santorini meets Scotland Wedding

The Wedding Santorini is in the Aegean Sea and is one of the Greek Cyclades islands. In the 16th Century BC it was devastated by a volcanic eruption in the 16th century BC, forever shaping its rugged landscape. This landscape is very picturesque and with its...

Heather Glen County House Wedding

Heather Glen County House Wedding

I Loved this Heather Glen County House Wedding Awad and Paula got married earlier this year at the amazing Heather Glen Country House, which is an old Victorian County House close to Carlisle where the Lake District meets the Pennines.  They chose the venue because it...

Brydekirk Pre-Blessing photoshoot

Brydekirk Pre-Blessing photoshoot

Brydekirk is a village a few miles from Annan on the Scottish borders in the county of Dumfries and Galloway.  The church sits proudly at the top of the village and can be seen as soon as you cross the bridge over the river...

Boys First Birthday Cake Smash

Boys First Birthday Cake Smash

First Birthday Cake Smash Photographs are great fun! What a great way to celebrate their first birthday by having photos taken at a first birthday cake smash. Baby N had a fantastic time eating the cake. If you fancy a cake smash photoshoot for your baby Girl or Boy...

Ullswater Winter Pre-Wedding Photo shoot

Ullswater Winter Pre-Wedding Photo shoot

I met Anne-Marie and Dan at a car park on the west side of Ullswater in the Lake District on a cold misty morning in January.  The 17th Century farm, not far from Glenridding has evidence of a prehistoric settlement in the form of earthworks.  Ullswater has quite a...