Fireworks

The Winters Barns, nr Canterbury

Excellent rural wedding venue

Couple: Deborah and Steve
Date: 5th November 2010
Wedding Location: Winters Barns, Kent

This was my last wedding of 2010 and very enjoyable it was too, held at the excellent Winters Barns just south of Canterbury.
I do love photographing weddings under one roof and this was a very efficiently run venue, everything went smoothly and I even finished my photography in time for their meal.

I arrived at 12 noon to find Deborah in hair curlers :-)
The wedding wasn't until 2:30 so I had plenty of time to mooch about and get the best places for photos.
It was drizzling with rain at this point and I was worried that it was going to spoil their day.
After photographing the arrival of the guests over at the reception area I went over to see Deborah who was ready at 2pm, in her Dress.
I decided to only use the one camera for most of the day and I never even used my 70-200 lens at all which was unique because I always have it ready to go. Instead I dusted off the 85mm 1.2 which has not seen much action all season.
This practice changed my photography on the day.
As it was November the 5th I was hoping there might be an opportunity to photograph something firework related and seeing as I was not invited into the bridal suite, I settled for sparklers on the patio instead.

Late Autumn is my favorite season and when the trees are at the right colour it always makes for interesting photographs.
Dark skies and moody light is my choice every time.

Steve got more and more lubricated as the day went on and it was amusing to see his antics on the dance floor in the evening.

Deborah and Steve were a great couple and they were certainly up for any foolish antics that I got them to do. The sparklers photo took a couple of takes and used up a few sparklers to get it right.

Deborah and Steve

I asked them to stand still and scratch their Initial in the air so that I could record it.
What I failed to explain was why I wanted them to do this and Deborah was getting more and more confused.
Also I forgot to tell them to write their Initial back to front so that it would appear correct for the camera.
Everyone was was amused by all of this but we got right in the end