Category archives: Luke Richards Photography
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- Why it pays to pick a professional.
Browse this blog and you’ll find barely a word said about other wedding photographers because a) your reviews are the ones that count, not mine; b) I’d rather focus on what I do well, and c) I know lots of professional photographers and the vast majority are re[...]
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- In the latest of an occasional series looking at what I love about the Preston wedding venues I shoot most often, it’s time to head west.
Wrea Green is the sort of village you might imagine doesn’t exist anymore. It’s got a green. And a duck pond. And a (rather good) village pub and restaurant. A[...]
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- A change of plans inadvertently invents a new type of Lancashire wedding photography…
Sometimes plans change. Take Gemma. She’s marrying Jamie next month (I’ll be at The Villa, Wrea Green to capture the celebrations) and we had a pre-wedding family portrait planned as part of the wedding photogra[...]
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- With a Winter Wonderland portrait, your Christmas portrait photography doesn’t have to be Christmassy.
This post is about Christmas portraits, but I figure I’d best explain what I mean by that. You see, mention ‘Christmas portrait’ to some people and thoughts automatically turn to the sort of thi[...]
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- Civil partnership and same sex wedding photography – the changing face of Britain, as seen through a lens.
We’ve come a long way. When I started out as a Preston wedding photographer (and it’s really not that long ago) the weddings were exclusively bride/groom affairs, most of the ceremonies [...]
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- How can a prop help your wedding photography lift off?
Last week I was in London shooting the wedding of the extremely lovely Katie and Alex. After the ceremony at Islington Town Hall, the wedding party boarded a London bus (what else?) - and from there things took a turn for the impressively[...]
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- Discover the power of fancy dress and silly glasses…
Stiff. Formal. Reserved. Choose grand surroundings for your wedding and it’s easy to feel that you somehow have to be on your best behaviour. But this is your wedding. And if you can’t let your hair down then, when can you?
Sometimes tho[...]
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- Why choosing a Preston wedding photographer who’s just round the corner from your venue can make all the difference.
A few years ago, I was booked for an overseas wedding shoot. The happy couple and (most of) their families were already strolling the beaches and enjoying the sunshine. The rest of[...]
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- Batman, Hulk and Captain America are at the Village Hotel in Cheadle for a wedding. No, it’s not the set up for a joke; it’s a superhero inspired wedding reception.
Just when you think you’ve seen it all. I’ve photographed weddings with pipers, drummers, llamas (or were they alpacas?) and cows. I[...]
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- Like airline seats, rail journeys and tickets to see Peter Kay, if you want to guarantee your spot, book early.
Arranging a wedding is like one of those circus acts where the performer has a dozen plates on poles and needs to keep them all spinning so they don’t crash to the ground. Wedding v[...]
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- A Preston wedding venue that’s perfectly placed on the fringes of city and countryside. Is Preston Marriott your ideal Lancashire wedding venue?
Take a look at the Preston Marriott website and you’d be forgiven for thinking weddings were only a tiny part of what they do. Even the brochure is[...]
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- Google ‘Preston wedding photographers’ and you’ll get a bewildering number of choices – and each one will have a slightly different pricing structure. By the time you’ve finished searching your head will probably be spinning. So, let’s make things easy. Here’s my single most popular wedding photogra[...]
