Wedding Photographer Surrey, London http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com Creative Wedding Photographers in Surrey, London and Destination Weddings Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:02:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Valentines Party http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/q92hxNawmnY/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/valentines-party/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:50:53 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=13004 ›]]> Last week Craig and I made our way up to London to attend the Valentines party of Mark Niemierko held at Spencer Hart which is conveniently situated a hop skip and a jump across the street from the glorious Claridges Hotel. Claridges provided the catering, champagne and cocktails which where of the luxury variety of course. I enjoyed catching up with Peta Hunt {fashion stylist and editor-at-large} who I have been working with at You & Your Wedding magazine. Peta interviewed a key group of industry professionals and the video can be seen at the end of this post.

PHOTO CREDIT: JEREMY ENNESS
EVENT BY: MARK NIEMIERKO

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Me with Lotte {high end DJ’s} and Alecia from OMG I’m Getting Married blog
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The fabulous designer Johanna Heiher & her team. Had a good few laughs with these ladies!
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Mark Niemierko {wedding planner} being interviewed by Peta Hunt from You & Your Wedding
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Dress designer Phillipa Lepley and Jenny from London Scribes
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Peta Hunt {editor-at-large} and Sally Dixon {fashion stylist} from You & Your Wedding
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Mark with Rock My Wedding
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Kat & Gareth from Rock n Roll Bride blog
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Sally Dixon from Y&YW and Polly Alexandre {one of my favourite film photographers}
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VIDEO BY: FX MEDIA

Click here to view the embedded video.

In addition to this video, to celebrate Niemierko and Claridge’s fabulous marriage and the fact they were responsible for our Valentine’s party cocktails and canapés they have made a video of 3 Niemierko events at Claridge’s.

CLARIDGES WEDDINGS BY ALLORA VISUALS

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/valentines-party/feed/ 0 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/valentines-party/ A.S. Magazine http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/WA86cYWkN6k/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/published/culture-weddings-jewish/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:52:41 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12996 ›]]> One of my Jewish Wedding images has been featured in A.S.Magazine in Belgium – circulation 150.000. The issue features world wide wedding traditions in an article entitled “Culture Club”.

The image was found on Flickr by an art director and I was paid for the usage. It is a great way to share your images and is not the first time we have had images found and used in this way.

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/published/culture-weddings-jewish/feed/ 0 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/published/culture-weddings-jewish/ Wedding Magazine http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/2h_wN4esLgc/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/published/wedding-magazine/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:19:39 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12988 ›]]> Robyn & Robin’s homespun, super DIY wedding was featured in Wedding Magazine this month. They ran an article on how couples can save and Robyn was interviewed. By having their wedding on their family farm in Surrey they managed to save £7000!

Wedding Magazine features Robyn & Robin's DIY wedding

Robyn & Robin’s wedding is on the left hand page. Their wedding was featured on Rock My Wedding as Robyn was one of their Real Bride Bloggers for a year.

]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/published/wedding-magazine/feed/ 0 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/published/wedding-magazine/ Northbrook Park http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/WIkh0GEvgvM/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/wedding_photography/northbrook-park/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:55:17 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12948 ›]]> Last year I shot a Jewish wedding at NORTHBROOK PARK in Surrey. What I love about this venue is the ability to have an outdoor wedding ceremony with the Huppah positioned in the middle of the guests. The flowers and details where super gorgeous for this wedding. Thanks to Chris Mann who shot this wedding with me. Due to the the occupation of the groom we are unable to share any images of people, however the details and venue are too good not to show off!

The bride wore JENNY PACKHAM

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/wedding_photography/northbrook-park/feed/ 4 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/wedding_photography/northbrook-park/ Behind The Scenes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/PwaJvtpjzDk/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/bridal-fashion-shoot/behind-the-scenes/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:54:23 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12935 ›]]> Take a look at this Behind The Scenes video of my recent commissioned shoot for You & Your Wedding. The issue is on sale now and is the March / April 2012 magazine.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Fashion Styling by Peta Hunt Editor-At-Large at You & Your Wedding
Details and Production of the shoot Helen Carter Weddings
Video by The Dreamcatchers
Props by Out of Love

full credits to follow

]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/bridal-fashion-shoot/behind-the-scenes/feed/ 10 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/bridal-fashion-shoot/behind-the-scenes/ “Tea” at The Dorchester http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/x4EwXm4V5b0/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/tea-at-the-dorchester/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:26:05 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12892 ›]]> When top UK wedding planner MARK NIEMIERKO invites you for tea at THE DORCHESTER in aid of Darcy Miller, editor of MARTHA STEWART WEDDINGS Magazine, being in town you know it’s time to glam up! Coral pink ruffled dress, check. Carrie Bradshaw heels, check. Arriving in traditional black cab which was opened by a smartly dressed doorman adorning top hat and coat, check.

Upon arrival at The Dorchester I made my way up to the Penthouse Pavilion event space and was greeting with a glass of bubbly by some very well turned out “soldiers”. It was so lovely to see the room dressed for an event. Only a few short days before this I was assisting on an out of this world pre-wedding shoot produced and planned by MARK NIEMIERKO and photographed by one of my favourite wedding photograpers in the world, NIKOLE RAMSAY, who was flown in from Australia especially for the shoot!

All the following party photos by JEREMY ENNESS

The highlight of the evening was chatting one on one with a number of the UK’s top wedding dress designers. Here I am with STEPHANIE ALLIN who’s dresses I photographed for a styled shoot which was published over 8 pages in You & Your Wedding magazine.
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Flowers adorning the room all by ROB VAN HELDEN 

Darcy Miller and Mark Niemierko

Cakes by PEGGY PORSCHEN

Wedding dress designer BRUCE OLDFIELD in the middle, who’s campaign I retouched around two years ago. Was nice to meet him in person!

DAVID FIELDEN who I regret not chatting to! Keata who is one of my most published brides to date wore one of his dresses and so did Jen who’s wedding we shot out in Mauritius. David made the dress especially for her even though it had been discontinued! She was in love.
On the right is IAN CARMICHAEL who is the Queen’s hair dresser!

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/tea-at-the-dorchester/feed/ 2 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/tea-at-the-dorchester/ Cape on Film {part 2} http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/GR8f9dj-rAE/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/cape-on-film-part-2/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:00:27 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12845 ›]]> And so the love affair with my Contax 645 and film continues. More images from my trip to the Cape in December with my mom. I really and truly love shooting with this camera. There is something exciting about sending off my film to California and a couple of weeks later receiving an email to say that my scans are ready to download.

I love the soft, pastel colours and the beautiful bokeh that only the f2.0 planar lens on a Contax medium format camera can give. It is just not possible to replicate with digital. Believe me, I’ve tried!

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/cape-on-film-part-2/feed/ 4 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/cape-on-film-part-2/ Cape Town shot on Film http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/4w2j-fPEmpA/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/cape-town-shot-on-film/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:50 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12815 ›]]> In December I visited South Africa and for one of the three weeks my mom and I flew down to the Cape, hired a car and proceeded to do as much touring around as we possibly could. It was only our second time visiting the Cape area and once again we where blown away. It is “big country” with so much to do and so much beauty. Spending this quality time with my mom was so special. We had so many laughs, chats and explorations. Very special indeed.

Today is 3 years ago that my Dad passed away from a sudden heart attack whilst running on the beach. Always in my thoughts, never forgotten.

Now, go and plan a trip with your mom / dad / brother / sister / husband / children!

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/cape-town-shot-on-film/feed/ 2 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/cape-town-shot-on-film/ Great Fosters {Part 2} http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/QL-JQusdBz8/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/wedding_photography/great-fosters-part-2/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:21:04 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12722 ›]]> And now for Part 2 of Catherine & Richard’s winter wedding at Great Fosters in Surrey. I am just a tad bit jealous that they logged into our blog from the beach in order to comment on Part 1 earlier today. I also want to be basking in the sunshine on some far flung beach thank-you very much!

Enjoy part 2 which covers the creative portraits and the fun of the evening wedding reception.

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]]> http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/wedding_photography/great-fosters-part-2/feed/ 3 http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/wedding_photography/great-fosters-part-2/ 2011 A Cracker of a Year! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SegeriusBruceBlog/~3/gzu0O5Xn_C0/ http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/personal/2011-retropective/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:13:31 +0000 Chanelle http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com/?p=12606 ›]]> 2011 was cracker of a year for Craig and I. Yes we have had a run of loosing family members and this has added a huge personal challenge to us in our first three years of business. It has been hard. We have shed many tears, however ultimately I believe it has brought us closer together and certainly made us appreciate our family and our time more. In the Past three years we have lost my Dad, my step Mom, Craig’s Dad and Craig’s step father. It is still hard to comprehend sometimes but they are never forgotten and always in our hearts.

In 2011 we had some incredible clients who have enabled us to see beautiful, quintessentially English venues around the country from the historic Great Fosters to the iconic Savoy and The Berkeley in London, through to the ultra modern RIBA Gallery and The Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street. Not forgetting Botleys Mansion, Goodwood House, Exeter College in Cambridge, Notley Abbey (to die for!), Gatestreet Barn , Northbrook Park, Nonsuch Mansion, Oakley Hall and more.

In 2011 our clients invited us to travel to Morocco and shoot a wedding in a villa just outside the Medina in Marrakech, they flew us 18 hours across the globe to Indonesia to photograph their wedding in Bali, a year ago we photographed a couple’s wedding at The Oyster Box in South Africa where the Prince of Monaco tied the knot in an intimate ceremony with his new wife.

Our couples put so much time and effort into their big days that all of our weddings from the past year where picked up by either a blog or a magazine. We have been featured on Rock My Wedding, Style Me Pretty, The Wedding Chicks, Bridal Guide, Want That Wedding, Love My Dress blogs… and had weddings printed in You & Your Wedding, Wedding, Wedding Flowers, Perfect Wedding, Your Surrey Wedding and Cosmopolitan Bride UK & China.

At the start of 2011 we where interviewed in Turning Pro magazine as well as being featured in one of the largest circulated photography magazines – Rangefinder Magazine!

We attended workshops in order to improve our craft as well as our business skills. Namely the Adam Alex workshop, Julia Boggio’s Photographic Entrepreneur four day course and Mike Larson’s Tuscany workshop which fell over my 30th birthday.

Yes I turned 30 in 2011.

Turning 30 itself wasn’t a big deal but it’s the thoughts and decisions that you have to ponder in your mind once you are in your thirties and no longer in your twenties that changes the most. It feels as though the decisions we make now are so much more life altering and permanent. We are growing older, our family members are growing older, our friends are growing older. Something shifts – well it did inside my head anyway.

From mid 2011 and towards the end of 2011 I realised a goal of mine which was to shoot bridal fashion editorial. I am very excited to be taking commissions and working closely with magazines with regards to this sort of work in the future. One of the images has been used on the front cover of the You & Your Wedding December 2011 venue guide and there will be an 8 page feature coming out in the March 2012 issue. I truly love shooting bridal fashion and spent many an hour during my retouching days wishing that I was the one doing the shooting and not just the post production.

At the end of 2010 I felt a little burned out. I was working crazy hours and all I could think about was work, work, work, the business and photography. I visit South Africa for 6 weeks that year and I remember my mother commenting to me how tired I looked and it just wasn’t right. In 2011 the decision was made to OUTSOURCE. Oh the relief! If you can get your business to a point where you are able to let certain things go, then do it. We selected a number of things that could be easily outsourced and then chose to outsource some parts that are harder to let go of. I work very closely with the people who are now an integral part of the operation and I am pleased as punch. It meant that this year when I went home to visit I was totally at ease, able to relax and went on a road trip around the Cape with my mom!

That is how it is meant to be.

In 2011 Craig and I celebrated four years of marriage and 12 years of being together in total. Wow! Where does the time go? Here’s to many more memories and what we got up to in pictures…

A mixture of images taken on Canon 5D m2, Nikon D700, Panasonic Lumix, Contax 645 film camera…

In 2011 We watched the sunset over the dessert in Morocco
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We drank a ton of mint tea in Marrakech
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We flew 18 hours, drove 2 hours, took a boat for half an hour and then hired a motorbike to get around Lembongan Island in Indonesia
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We found a place called Secret Beach
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We shared a drink and a chat
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… and jumped off the rock into the ocean
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We crossed a wooden suspension bridge only wide enough for a single motorbike
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We got a bit lost
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We came across a place called Dream Beach
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We drank freshly made smoothies on a daily basis
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We ate at Katut’s Warrung near Shipwrecks
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Craig had the best surf of his life
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We learned to be patient
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We arrived at Uluwatu to see this perfect surf
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We spent many a day at Belangan beach
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Craig surfed until the sun disappeared
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I fell in love with the decor at Cafe Bali in Seminyak
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We had cocktails on beanbags on Seminyak beach
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Craig visited Cordoba in Spain to spend some time with his brother
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We attended a workshop in Tuscany hosted by Mike Larson in May over my 30th birthday
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We learned that is is completely normal to go around calling people Bitch in Miami. Hence the song we gather.
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We started shooting film again and love it
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The love affair with film and the Contax 645 begins…
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We did the tourist thing and signed up for a 48 hour open top bus tour and boat ride
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We discovered that 36oz Mojitos equate to 1L and take 45 mins to drink
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We saw many a jaw dropping site in Miami and things get “Miami Weird” LOL
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We jetted off to the Turks & Caicos Islands in the Caribbean
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We kayaked on the sea
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More film
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We ate fresh Conch at the Conch Shack
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I went up Table Mountain for the first time
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I road tripped around the Cape with my mom and visited many places, including Hermanus
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Had sundowners at The Oyster Box’s luxury Lighthouse Bar with old friends in Durbs
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I stood at the Southern Most Tip of Africa for the first time
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I worked on my tan
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We walked around Pringle Bay
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We laughed, we cried, we had fun, we traveled, we learned, we photographed a lot – wow what a year!

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