Who he?

How to start a blog?

A quick bio.

I have been photographing weddings for over eleven years now. I shoot weddings in a 'photojournalistic style'. But what does that mean? My background was as a photographer at The Times  for many years and it is that experience that guides my own approach. I still work for many editorial clients in newspapers and magazines ( www.martinbeddall.com ).

My aim is not to setup shots, but to observe and capture moments. These are the images that several years later, the bride and groom will treasure the most - capturing memories. Sounds a bit limp? There are no shots of the groom and all his ushers looking at their watches, of the bride photographed through the arm of the groom - unless this actually took place. Or of the bride in the foreground with the groom posing 100 yards behind, of rays of golden sunlight in b/w pictures, I could go on, the point is, what I see is what I shoot. What you remember, what you forgot about, what you missed, what actually happened.

So this blog?  Hopefully this will become an extension of my website. I'll try to be blunt, to offer advice ( which will be probably be different to the advice in all the glossy wedding magazines - they are selling you their advertiser's products primarily ) and to use this blog to feature more of my wedding photography. Hopefully to also engage in debate about wedding photography from the prospective of photographers and their clients.

I'm starting to sound very pompous, so I'll end this post now and start.