The Wedding of Christine & Paul | High Rocks, Kent | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

What an amazing weekend...

Combining the marriage of one of my best friends to his beautiful new wife Christine, all of us hanging out for a couple of nights and then the little post wedding shoot with my awesome team of helpers ( you know who you are!!).  

There were so many classic moments, belly aching laughs and the occasional slightest of little hangovers on my part which only seemed to come on every time I crouched down to get a shot.

Christine and Paul got married at the beautiful venue in Royal Tunbridge Wells called High Rocks, if you've never been there then you should because the rocks make for a great day out.

I wanted to post a small selection of teaser images of their amazing day.  

Their STUNNING online slideshow is NOW LIVE please scroll to the bottom of this post to view it.  

I am also going to include some classic behind the scenes shots from Sunday's session so you can see what actually goes into making a great image.......

Paul, Christine - thank you for giving me the honour of capturing your wedding day and I hope you love your photographs - have an amazing honeymoon and I'll see you soon.

- Gavin

The Wedding of Lorraine & Ricky | Ashwells, Brentwood | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

Last Friday was a momentous day, one of my best friends got married to his soul mate the beautiful Lorraine.

For those that know me I have a real issue about get old and leading up to their wedding I had a bit of a wobble, in my mind we are all still 16 messing about without a care in the world but in reality we are adults doing adult things (well sort of !!)

It was an absolute honour to photograph their wedding day at the gorgeous Ashwells Sports and Country Club in Brentwood, I could not have relaxed watching someone else shoot their day.  Working surrounded by all my mates was a bit weird (in a good way) at first but it just made for a wicked day.

I really hope you love looking at these images, their online slideshow is NOW LIVE - you can view this underneath their images.  I hope you all love it as much as I do.

Rick, Lorraine I Love You both to bits..... I wish you nothing but a lifetime of happiness together !!!!

- Gavin

Fashion & Portrait Photography at Arbat Restaurant, London | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding & Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com | www.londonspeedlitescene.co.uk

My third meet up with the awesome LSS (London Speedlite Scene) group this time at the Russian bar and restaurant called Arbat in Acton, London - originally this shoot was to be at the DollHouse but due to unforeseen circumstances had to be changed to Arbat at the last minute.   

I absolutely loved this location, it had some fantastic natural light and loads of great areas to shoot in.  I wanted to challenge myself for this shoot so i heavily restricted my camera bag and decided to shoot solely with the 14-24mm wide angle and the 50mm f1.4 prime lens.  The wide angle lens is now my favourite I can't believe that I never really used it before now since this meet up I have used it loads, again all the images you see are shoot purely with a mixture of available light and my video lights.

All the models were again provided by Elect Model Management and MUA's by Intense Make-up Artists both agencies were formed out of London Speedlite Scene

http://www.intensemua.com/

http://www.elect-models.com/

http://www.londonspeedlitescene.co.uk/

Wardrobe - Dolly Dare Collection

Location - Arbat Restaurant - Acton London.

I want to personally thank everyone involved who made this such a success - here's to many more great times ahead.

If you missed my images from the first two LSS meet ups you can view them here and here, otherwise please enjoy my Arbat Restaurant selection....

More Personal Family Portraits | Gavin Conlan UK Wedding & Portrait Photographer based in Essex | www.gavinconlan.com

Last Sunday I photographed my niece and nephew, I wanted the images to ooze their personalities and the close bond they share together.  All the shots were taken using my portable studio it's amazing the results you can achieve with little space.

I even managed to apply some of my trademark toning techniques to some of the shots, I hope you enjoy this selection and feel free to leave a comment if you do....

Have a great weekend!!!!! 

Personal Family Portraits | Gavin Conlan UK Wedding & Portrait Photographer based in Essex | www.gavinconlan.com

I thought I'd post some personal photographs today, I took these over Christmas when we were all together - nothing beats having the whole family together.

Modelling for us today is my sister, my nephew and two of my little cousins (oh and the rest of the avengers crew :)... All photographs were taken during the half time of the football who says men can't multi-task - not only was I listening to the half time banter I also managed to capture these stunning photographs of my relatives. 

All photographs were taken using one nikon speedlight shot through a lastolite Ezybox softbox.

I hope you enjoy and have a great day.

Ps.. incase you were wondering yes we did win the football match....