The Wedding of Gemma & Steven | St Margarets Church & Three Rivers Golf & Country Club | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

Last Saturday was the wedding of Gemma and Steven - they held the ceremony at St Margarets Church in Stanford-le-Hope followed by the reception at Three Rivers Golf and Country Club in Purleigh, Essex.

Looking back at the weather for this past week they were so lucky as Saturday was glorious, Three Rivers in the sunshine is a beautiful venue with stunning views over looking the golf course.  

I would recommend this venue to everyone because the staff made you feel so welcome and was always on hand to help.  You'll see by some of the shots too that the interior has lots of mirrors and hopefully by now you'll know I love shooting reflections - I was totally in my element.

I was joking with Gemma the night before the wedding and she was trying to tell me how she wasn't looking forward to the posing and in her words "isn't very photogenic" I remember laughing at the time because I knew she would be great - I'm sure you'll agree with me that she looks beautiful in these images.  Steven on the other hand I'm sure had been practising because he was straight into the pose needing very little direction, he even had the head tilt perfect.  I had so much fun with both of them it just makes you want to be able to spend more time shooting together, it's a shame things like the wedding breakfast and speeches get in the way.... 

Gemma, Steven I hope you both absolutely love these images and I can't wait to show you more.  

Your slideshow is now live and can be viewed at the bottom of this post - I hope you love it....

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Thank you again for giving me the honour of photographing your wedding.

Take care,

- Gavin

London Fashion Photography | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding and Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

a few months ago i had the pleasure shooting with Charley again, it seems so long ago that we enjoyed some sunshine in London so in celebration of today's weather I've decided to post a selection of images from this shoot.  We ended up shooting on the Millennium Bridge and the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral at night is even more beautiful and using the spotlights which light up the front of the building I was able to achieve these shots...

I hope you enjoy the images, have a great day!! - Gavin

Baby Jack | New Born Photography | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding and Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com | www.facebook.com/gavinconlanphotography

I recently had the pleasure of photographing this gorgeous little boy Jack aged 10 days, he was absolutely fantastic and already had the posing technique of a seasoned professional model.

The key for me with this shoot was his little personality I really wanted to focus on this in every shot I took and to make the captures more flexible everything was shot using a mixture of available light and video light.  I don't like shooting using flash on someone so young as I think it could become uncomfortable on the babies eyes.  

The shoot was so much fun we captured some great expressions inbetween the occasional power nap (baby Jack not me), you can view a selection of my favourites from the shoot below and I really hope you love them as much as I do.  

If you are interested in booking a session with me you can get in touch via my website or on here.

Fashion vs. Glamour | London photo shoot | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding & Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com | www.londonspeedlitescene.co.uk

Photography can be a lonely career at times, shooting alone, editing alone, working all hours of the day making sure your business runs smoothly while posting new imagery to your website, blog and social media sites.  At times you just need to stop everything and surround yourself with fellow professionals, it's the perfect way to talk through any issues you may have or worries and to recharge those creative juices.  

The London Speedlite Scene is just that for me it's a fantastic group of Photographers/Make Up Artists/Models all networking and working together I feel seriously blessed to have found this group and be apart of it - it's full of fantastic and extremely talented people who work the arses off to achieve fantastic imagery.

Glamour vs. Fashion was my 4th meet up with the LSS crew and it was another awesome shoot - this time we had free run of a Mansion House in Hampstead.  Seriously the efforts of the Make Up Artists can't be stressed enough on these shoots, the works of art they produce are mind blowing and really do make our jobs as photographers a hell of a lot easier.

All the models were provided by Elect Model Management and MUA's by Intense Make-up Artists both agencies were formed out of London Speedlite Scene - you should check out the links below.

http://www.intensemua.com/

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

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

Also check out the fantastic video from the meet up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7E9YE6OOk0 this will give you a teaser into the world of a LSS meet up.

I use these shoots as personal challenges, to limit my lens choice and to try and produce images that are different - to work with the environment and showcase it in a different way while still shooting images that fit in with my current style.

As with my previous LSS meet ups I shoot every image with a mixture of natural available light and my daylight balanced video lights.

I hope you enjoy these images, you can view more by visiting my facebook photography page http://www.facebook.com/gavinconlanphotography - if you like the work I produce then please click on that like button to make my day.

Take care and speak soon.