A year in corporate/lifestyle photography
Corporate Photography With A Heart If you’ve spent any time here, you’ll know I photograph a lot of weddings. At the heart of that work is trust, timing, and storytelling - understanding people, reading moments, and capturing them naturally as they unfold. Those same...
A year in Wedding Photographs
Our 2022 wedding photography highlights Well, this has to be the easiest and the hardest blog post for me to put together. 2022 was in many ways a tough year. We always knew it would be busy, a bunch of re-scheduled Covid-delayed weddings, plus lots of engagements...
What are lifestyle business portraits?
Lifestyle business portraits are images of business professionals in a candid, relaxed setting. By including elements of their lifestyle and personal interests in the photo, it is meant to add a more personal touch to the image. This allows potential clients to get an...
Our Most Popular Luxury Album – The Storybook
A heartfelt "thank you" for everything you have done to create the most beautiful, precious and lasting record of our wedding. It was a joy to have you share the day with us, and the album is perfect. We always knew that you are a genius with light and composition,...
Hopetoun House Wedding: Ailsa and Josh
Ahhh. The summer wedding dreams are made of... Super excited to share the glorious wedding of Ailsa and Josh at Hopetoun House. Like every wedding in the last couple of years, their planning was fraught with stressful Covid can-we-can't-we moments, compromises and...
Winner – Picture of the Year
I’m thrilled to have won Picture of the Year with one of my images- what a fantastic way to start the new year! This image of Anniek at Winton Castle has won Picture of the Year on The Wedding Community! The picture shows my bride Anniek on the morning of her...
Aikwood Tower Autumn Wedding- Nicole and Ryan
We are always so happy to head to the Scottish Borders to capture an Aikwood Tower wedding, and Nicole and Ryan's was no exception. Their early autumn wedding shared with close family was the most delightful, intimate and happy day.Nicole and Ryan were originally...
A sunny winter wedding at Cromlix Hotel
On a beautiful, golden lit November day we had the pleasure of capturing an intimate wedding at Comlix Hotel. M&T wed at Cromlix Hotel, owned by tennis ace Andy Murray, near his hometown of Dunblane. The venue is situated in beautiful countryside, with 34 acres of...
How will my wedding album cover look?
We are OBSESSED with our wedding album - it’s absolute perfection and we show everyone and look at it ourselves all the time 💕💕💕 our friends and family all agree that it has completely overshot our wildest dreams of what it would look like. 💫 Very few couples come to...
Greywalls Hotel Wedding – Eliza and Hugo
Eliza and Hugo's wedding was a wonderful celebration in the heart of East Lothian, combining a traditional church ceremony with an elegant reception at Greywalls Hotel. The day began at Aberlady Parish Church, where family and friends gathered to witness their...
Parents’ Albums
We love creating beautiful albums for our clients. Over the years we have done extensive research on album suppliers, album styles, materials, papers, printing etc. We have learned design and lay-out skills to tell the best stories; retouching, colour correction and...
Winner: Portrait Photographer of the Year 2020
In the uncertainty of lockdown, watching all the jobs I had lined up for 2020 being cancelled/ postponed one by one, there were a few nuggets of joy and positivity in the First Light office. Having entered the Scottish MPA awards, I had been looking forward to...
“Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue….”
Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, And a Silver Sixpence in your Shoe. If you're in the middle of planning your wedding day and finding yourself with a little more planning time on your hands than usual (and a slightly longer wait till...
How I created this image, using lights and layering.
Lovely to see this picture from Clare and Ewan's wedding at The Cruin nominated for Picture of the Month on the Wedding Community Blog 😊I'd be ever so grateful if you would head over and give it a vote (it's image 10). Wondering how I managed to light the couple in...
Commercial Photography – our 2019 highlights
2019 provided a huge boost for my commercial photography, when I won Up & Coming Commercial Photographer of the Year in the national MPA (Master Photographer Association) Awards. Having done my first commercial photography job 21 years ago, in 1999, it was rather...