Well, what can I say about these two! Except that weather seemed to play a big part in our photographing experiences together!!
Ali and James both live in Portsmouth but Alison is originally from Donaghadee, which is where they chose to get married on the 29th December. They also returned to The Dee to spend Christmas with Alison's family and we decided on photographing their engagement session on the 20th December. When I woke up that morning, to my utter joy Donaghadee was covered in snow and past experiences tells me that snow doesn't usually stay too long here with us being so close to the sea, so we decided to bring their session forward from an afternoon to a mid morning to try to capture the snow in photos...
Their session ended with the car we were traveling in being hit by another on an icy country lane, our car being hit off the side of the road and having it rescued by a tractor! Thankfully nobody was hurt but stiff drinks were held more in favour than photographing after that experience and we decided to put it off until the day before Christmas Eve.
The cold/icy/snowy weather stuck around for much longer and that morning on my trip to Hillsborough to pick up wedding albums and reprint orders, I experienced another icy road trip that was absolutely horrendous to drive on and resulted in our car sliding backwards down hills 4 times (I still find it amazing we weren't hit by any cars ahead or behind us!). So there will be no last minute orders being made in 2010 to make me have to experience that again lol!
(taken on my ancient mobile camera phone - but that was pure slippy ice!)
Anyway, when I did get home, I packed up my gear to meet Ali and James once again, and to my delight we ended up with these...
The clock tower in the background is the church they got married in 6 days later =)
Thank you for scaling the Moat with me and its icy steps! Definitely worth it I think =)
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