Huge discount on your North East Winter Wedding

25% Discount on North East Winter Weddings!

If you're looking to book a top end, documentary wedding photographer for your wedding in the very near future, do take a look at Emerson Photography.  Any weddings booked in for dates between now and April 2015 can enjoy a £300 reduction (over 25%!) on an eight hour package with all the beautifully finished photographs on a disc.  Incredibly simple, incredibly priced and you'll be working with a friendly, professional photographer who has been shooting weddings in the north east for almost ten years!

This offer is limited to the north east region of England, including Durham, Newcastle, Darlington, Middlesbrough and Northumberland.  Total price after discount will be just £880, which includes eight hours coverage (enough for a full day wedding) and all the full size images on disc, ready to print, copy and share.  Lots of weekday dates still available and some weekends too.

It's definitely that time of the year again - waking in the morning to atmospheric mistiness and fabulous colours just threatening to break out in the trees...  I do love Winter weddings in the north east - the very thought conjures up images of fur stoles and jackets, log fires, seasonal bouquets, warm inviting venues, ivy and berries, maybe even a touch of decorative snow!
Whatever the weather on your wedding day, it's still one of the most memorable days of your life and capturing it in a friendly, candid fashion is what I do best.  Enough waffle - here's a fairly random selection of wintery wedding images to get you in the mood.  All taken in the north east, bar one Scottish jaunt.
To hear more about this frankly, huge discount, please feel free to call Jamie on 07866127732 or email me at info@emersonphotography.co.uk  You can also get in touch through my wedding photography website or start by reading about what my clients have to say.

Candles really help add atmosphere to a winter wedding!

Warm, inviting colours at a north east wedding

Note the fur stole - no need to freeze!

Again, even little jackets keep you that much warmer!

Raining / sleeting outside?  Have your ceremony in a huge greenhouse - you even get flowers!

Hailstones again - we'll make this swift!

Even the dogs get a seasonal buttonhole...

Evergreens and berries make a beautiful bouquet at this time of year.

Rockliffe Hall, Darlington on a winter's evening

Less light often means more drama!

Seasonal sweet stuff for your guests always goes down well!

There's always a splash of colour if you look in the right place.

If we're lucky, we'll get some beautiful, low, winter sunshine.

Once it gets too cold, come inside, warm up and use the last of the winter sunshine.

Getting every last ounce of light from the watery winter sunshine...

Sparklers add a bit of welcome light and love on a dark winter's evening!

Wedding Faves from 2009

Emerson Photography's Wedding Photo Favourites from 2009

Well, this time of the year is usually pretty quiet - less so this year what with family commitments and an exciting new line of work taking photos of various horrible injuries for a lawyer's firm (sorry, no pics...).

So in a spare moment, I thought it'd be nice to have a quick flick through my hard drives and pick out, say, a dozen of my favourite photos from this year's weddings.  Hmmmm - the first cull got me down to about 30, and after an hour of staring at the screen, I've managed to whittle it down to under 20, picked in fairly random fashion.....  If you have a minute, please do have a look, and as ever, if you want to see any of the pics at a decent size, just click on them.

Hallelujah!!

Ah hahahaha!  Well, I thought so.....

More comedy moments....

Aaaaaw - look at those eyes!

Newcastle fans, please look away now!

Moments like this prove that formals don't have to be dull and stuffy.  Even better, the groom got poo-ed on by a large pigeon seconds later - how lucky is that?  Actually, not so lucky for me, as I had to Photoshop it out on every photo thereafter :-)

A quiet moment at the edge of the dancefloor - Damn, I'm sneaky!

Weddings are B-O-R-I-N-G when you're a kid....

Fireworks and snow, WAHEY!  What a fantastic end to a fantastic year of photographing fantastic weddings .  Have I said fantastic enough times yet?

Cameras for Pleasure....

Well, it's just gone Christmas, and everyone deserves a break, even wedding photographers.

My wife and I (still sounds wierd!) are at my Mum's house on the Isle of Skye for a few more days before heading home. It's been many a month since I've used any of my photography kit for fun - shooting weddings is a passion for me, and the creative possibilities are endless. Now and again though, it's absolutely necessary to get outdoors with a tripod and shoot stuff for fun!


I find it stops any staleness creeping in - other photographers will know the strange compulsion which sets in when let loose in wonderful scenery with a camera. Everything starts to look like an image waiting to happen - any time spent eating, drinking or sleeping feels like time wasted.....

No? Just me?! Can't believe it! Anyway, here's a few from the last few days. Click on any of the pictures to see them at a decent size.


The road from Portree coming down into Struan, sunset yesterday.




Sunset over Loch Beag




Panoramic shot near Storr



Panoramic shot taken from Mum's front garden this morning - the size of the image doesn't do the scenery justice... you can view this one large here:

http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/1086933/large

Ah well, it's been a grand week or so - New Year headaches beckon - looking forward to it!

Katy and alan

Hot on the heels of Lynne and Brian's traditional English wedding, comes Alan and Katy's Scottish wedding, held at Pollockshields Burgh Hall, Glasgow.

Alan is an old friend of mine and it was one of those weddings where it's hard to decide if you're a guest or a wedding photographer! This confusion was made worse by the fact that many of the guests were also old friends - it was a fantastic day in a great venue, surrounded by the best folk you could ever want to be wedding guests.

At the start of the day, best man Sean proves he knows what he's doing.

Katy got herself ready at the rather spectacular Mal Maison, helped by her bridesmaids.

Match day traffic didn't stop Katy from getting to the venue on time (but it nearly gave the photographer a heart attack when his sat-nav guided him into the world's biggest traffic jam!)

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Yes, she is on her way.....

You might not be able to tell, but the chap on the right hand side has on a tartan tie, so he was allowed into the 'kilt shot'.

Katy looked absolutely radiant, and the bridesmaids and flower girl seemed to have scrubbed up quite nicely too!

Straight after the best man's speech. The speeches were done in a refreshingly laid back way, and all were excellent. The emotion shown on Alan's face says it all.

Right, time to relax.

Alan and Katy had found a cracking celidgh band - they were so good that someone managed to dance their shoes to pieces - nobody claimed the shoe-heel found on the dance floor.....

The joys of rear synch / slow flash again.

Frosty grass and a midnight run!

These last two were taken towards the end of the night - the DJ was really going for it, and so were the guests! I kind of felt I'd done my job at this point, so was having fun with some 'experimental' stuff. Both of these were shot using a Sigma 10-20mm lens (super wide angle) and 'narrow flash'. This involves manually zooming the flash head into the body of the flash to achieve a 'spotlight' effect.

All in all, a great day was had - huge thanks to Alan and Katy for trusting me to shoot their wedding. It's always an honour when a couple ask you to capture their day, and especially so when the request comes from good friends.