Wedding Photographer in Sheffield, Bakewell and The Peak District.
The fourth generation of a family in professional photography and film making since 1870.
Professional, friendly, kind and caring, I have years of experience in capturing the true feeling and joy of your large or small wedding in Sheffield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Bakewell and beyond.
Thanks so much for visiting my wedding photography website. A very warm welcome and big congratulations on your engagement!
I hope you’re both loving putting together an amazing wedding that suits you both absolutely perfectly – a wedding day that you’ll genuinely never forget.
Gentle, beautiful photography of your wedding by a highly experienced photographer, who is natural and really friendly. A photographer who can sensitively bring out the very best in people, even if you’re very camera shy.
Coverage for half day or less available. Small weddings always very welcome.
The beauty, the joy and the emotion of your wedding in a natural, enjoyable and informal style.
Photography from Large and Small Weddings in The Peak District, Sheffield and Derbyshire.
Do please take a few minutes to have a look around these pages. Good places to start would be The Gallery and the Wedding Photography Blog. On the blog you can see the photographs and read the stories of some really lovely couples for whom I’ve been the wedding photographer in Sheffield, the Derbyshire Peak District, Bakewell and Chesterfield.
Professional Image Quality
Whilst the photography of these weddings was done sensitively and with warmth and friendship, I hope you’ll also notice the overall image quality and clarity. This has always been an important element of my photography, having been greatly influenced by my experience in the professional lab environment.
Click here for Blog Stories and Photographs of Real Weddings.
Being stories in words and photographs and most having been put together with kind help from the couples themselves, I hope you’ll find them informative and often helpful in imagining your own wedding. These include weddings at Losehill House, The Maynard, weddings at Thornbridge, Peak Edge Hotel and a wedding at Hargate Hall. There’s also photography of a marquee wedding as well as others.
Thank you so much for these, they are absolutely STUNNING...
Thank you so much for these, they are absolutely STUNNING photos of the day, you absolutely captured all of the guests to a tee and we’ve particularly enjoyed looking through some of the moments we didn’t see in person to see our friends and family having fun!
We wanted to thank you so much for your hard work on our day, it was such an incredible day and we felt really lucky to be in your hands with the photographs, you made the whole process absolutely joyous as it’s definitely not something that either of us are used to!
Thank you so much again,
Catherine & Piers
Losehill House.
If you’re worried about being camera shy with your photographer…
Honestly, don’t worry if you feel camera shy – you’re in good company. Camera shyness can be a real issue that quite a few couples have been genuinely concerned about before we’ve met.
The camera’s only a piece of equipment – it’s much more down to the kind of photographer that you choose. You need someone with empathy who you will feel at ease with on a personal level – someone who you will enjoy having around at your wedding. The engagement shoots that I offer as part of the full packages are really enjoyable and a particularly nice, informal way of putting you at ease about your photographs. Have a look at these comments from couples.
Click here for a bit more about me as a person and as a wedding photographer.
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So professional and easy to work with. He made us feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
“My husband and I were so happy with John as our wedding photographer. He was so professional and easy to work with, and he made us feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
We loved that he took a lot of candid pictures, so we were able to capture the real emotions of the day. The end results were absolutely stunning, and we will cherish these photos forever.”
From an interview with English-Wedding about their marquee wedding near Castleton in the Peak District
A NATURAL AND INFORMAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Telling Your Wedding Story
As a wedding photographer in The Peak District, who also covers Sheffield, throughout Derbyshire, Yorkshire and nationwide, I get invited to photograph a wide variety of weddings. From the gentle and easy-going, often small wedding, to the large and more formal, no two weddings are ever the same. The common thread though is that I’m lucky to genuinely have the most lovely couples, all of whom are looking for a wonderful and happy story of their beautiful day. An enjoyable, gentle and quite informal documentary of their day.
I meet people who are looking for someone with the photojournalism skills needed for unposed wedding photography – the “moments”. But also they want someone who has the experience and personality to do portraits and groups beautifully, naturally and enjoyably, with real rapport, no matter how large the group. Whilst being discreet, courteous and friendly, all taken with the smile of someone who loves their job!
So, a gentle mix of some posed portraits and groups – enjoyable for everyone – along with plenty of unposed natural moments.
Perhaps that sounds like you? If so I do hope you’ll enjoy having a look through these pages and let me know what you think.
SO DISCRETE AND PROFESSIONAL THROUGHOUT THE DAY...
“We just wanted to say a huge thank you for being at our wedding to capture all the special moments. You were so discrete and professional throughout the day but also helped to make us both feel at ease in front of the camera.
Everyone at the wedding commented on how nice, calm, organised and professional you were. We knew you were the right person for us but having you there was far more than what we had ever imagined.
We can’t thank you enough.”
A family in Professional Photography and Film Making since 1870.
A qualified member of The Guild of Photographers, I represent the fourth generation of my family to work as professional photographers – a family who have been in photographic processing, film-making as well as being commercial, portrait and wedding photographers in Sheffield since 1870.
With the huge pleasure and privilege of being the photographer at a few hundred weddings in The Peak District, Derbyshire, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Buxton and throughout the UK, I find that photographing weddings is a real joy. I treat small weddings with every bit as much care and enthusiasm as I do large weddings.
Having photographed weddings at some wonderful venues including Woodthorpe Hall, Losehill House, Hargate Hall, Peak Edge Hotel, Kenwood Hall Hotel, Thornbridge to name just a few of them, it really doesn’t matter if you’ve managed to find somewhere that I haven’t previously photographed. Wherever it may be in the country, I would always spend some time checking it out with fresh eyes.
Read more on the About The Photographer page.
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If you would like a friendly chat about your photography, then I would be absolutely delighted to hear from you.
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