I had an email from Sarah off Only Gorgeous Weddings blog site with regards to featuring one of my engagement shots that I had done from back in 2009. To me this is pretty awesome as I enjoy sharing my work with the world, and even more so with a feature alongside others. Check it out here.

The original image featured can be seen on this post with Marc & Siobhan’s engagement shoot.

One thing I love about Asian Weddings is how busy it gets, the amount of people, colours, and food that involves around a tight schedule. So much so, that most of the couples shots are tend to done in the evening of the actual wedding day. With so many people attending, the only place in Peterborough that can hold such vast amount of people was at the Gladstone Park Community Centre.

Shah and Yasmeen understood the intensity involved and based around the way I shoot, I still try to capture as much photojournalism as I can in order for them to enjoy the day amongst family.

With Muslim Weddings, the amount of formal shots required is quite similar to that of an Oriental Wedding. However, after the ceremony, when it comes to the father giving the bride away, this is a very sad time for the immediate family, it’s quite of an emotional setting. Here I’ve managed to capture the tender moment between father and the bride (more to come).

It’s been awhile since I’ve last updated my blog, and rather than keep back dating my posts, I’ll put the images up when I get round to uploading them. I’ve been so busy, but since a lot of you have requested for me to put more images on to the blog, here’s another.

I shot this whilst assisting Dale from off Affinity Studios, the wedding of Andrew & Amy was held at Horwood House in Milton Keynes. Here’s my take on a an artistic created Bridal portraiture. Hope you like it.

This month is probably my busiest I’ve had with weddings in a long time, not only because of August, but the fact I have 3 in a row with 2 days spaced between each, spanned over 3 different locations. Makes the travelling more fun :)

Today’s shoot involves being up at Ringwood Hall Hotel in Chesterfield for Andrew and Kelly’s wedding, as per usual I’m assisting Matt Sanderson. I’ve decided not to put up a lot of images from this wedding, more rather a small selection… I’ve picked a few of my faves from the day.

I have booked in to TDi North for over a month after hearing of extensive rave reviews on Paul’s mapping skills with the kpro ecu module for Honda’s alike. So with this said, I turned up at 9am, and 4 hours later, a full remap from scratch.

The car managed to make 246.7bhp, which is up 37bhp from standard from when I had it on the rollers back in 2009 at Thorney Motorsports which achieved a measly 209.7bhp at standard.

Paul was happy with the map, detailing with my existing engine bay mods, of how smooth the map is, and true to his words, this was. I took it for a quick spin and my oh my, the acceleration is linear and smooth to the extent you don’t even feel the vtec kick in at 4500rpm, but you certainly hear it :D. He explained that despite not reaching the 250bhp that I wanted, this will probably be the case on an open road as the rollers big fans can’t imitate the way the air flow needs to be with where the AEM CAI (cold air induction) filter is located.

With all this done, all that’s left is the oil mods before taking it on the track to test the car’s limits, RAR!! :D

I finally got round to getting some oil gauges in to monitor oil temperature and oil pressure. Other metering seems to be on standard on the Integra Type R anyways so spent the money on some place that’s required. I’ll be uprating my oil baffled sump at some point as well as getting a race oil cooler to regulate the temperature.

I was originally going to go for Defi gauges but they are just so expensive for what they are; in the end I settled for Prosport from America, even on import for two gauges, adapter plates plus gauge visors, the cost including shipping to the UK and import duty/vat, the cost was still less than one Defi gauge! How about that?

They arrived today, so hopefully will get these fitted end of the month at TDi North :D

I’ve had another wedding shoot up at Ringwood Hall Hotel in Chesterfield, this feels almost like my 2nd home as I’m assisting Matt Sanderson again, love this place!

Richard and Claudia themselves were so fun to work with, never stopped smiling, and certainly never stopped laughing, I can’t ask for more really on a wedding day… oh and maybe nice overcast weather :D. Here’s a selection of when I got some free time to shoot. If this was my own album design, I felt black and white told the story best.

Oh and one more thing (another reason I didn’t put any more up haha), in the last photo, no that isn’t Nicola from Girls Aloud; and yes she does look a bit like her, but no it ain’t her :P

Some say I’m a car geek; that be an understatement but at the same time… yes I love my cars! Jap cars, motorsport, engines, whatever, I love it!! :D.

Anyway, it’s that time of the year again for another round of Jap Show held at Santa Pod, and with it being down the road from me, it be wrong for me not to attend. As per usual, Jap cars galore, track beasts, drag monsters, and those that are purely on for show and shine.

As the hot day commenced, there was the smell of burnt rubber from the 1/4 mile drag strip competition. The smell of the drift cars, not to mention the stunt drivers throughout the show. Like with all cars and of similar attraction, there were some of the show girls parading their sponsors/companies around the place all day.

I’ve managed to capture a bit of everything including a crash that involved the 1000bhp Honda Civic Type R by TDi North. The monster is crazy, but unfortunately one of the drive shafts snapped just shortly after the start which sent the car crashing into the other lane but luckily rear ended; else this might of been an even more expensive fix.

I’ve always loved urban/derelict shoots when I first started doing photography years ago, but never really found any places, but now I’ve found a few, I’m starting to get a taste for it. If you not got chance to have a look at my previous post, take a look here. This place was a weird one, had to walk round a golf course and down what seems like a private drive but it leads up to this derelict house that seems of been left by its occupants but not people who seem to hang out there.