White Christmas

What do photographers do when they finish work for christmas.... its easy when you have a Nikon D3s you go out in the snow and see what the camera can do in the dark at 12800iso.

To be honest we just watched a great video and noticed it was snowing heavily out side. Its the first time I have ever seen snow at christmas and the view from our window was so stunning I just has to record it.

Anyway both Stephanie and myself would just like to wish everybody a very safe and happy christmas. Thanks for all you kind comments and support over the last year.

Happy Holiday !!!!!!!! I just hope Santa brings all you photographers a D3S on Xmas day!!!

Fine Art Photography

Just received an e-mail confirming the sale of a number of my fine art images have been purchased by a major retailer. Great news just before we finish for the christmas break. I will keep you informed when they appear in the shops.

Joe & Jess

Yesterday we had a great time photographing Joe & Jess in the snow. The light was fantastic. Its so rare we get to work in snow it was a real treat.

Here are a few images from the session. It was a real pleasure to spend some time with these guys they are such lovley people and great fun.

The rest of the images from the shoot can be found on our website here








We all turned into big kids just desperate for a snow ball fight... Think Joe came off the worst...

View From The Office

Here is the view from my office window today. Never seen so much snow in Lancashire, well at leat not in my part of Lancashire. It looks stunning and the light is fantastic.

Spending some time today doing post production on a great snowy portrait shoot we did yesterday. Glad I don't have to drive very far nice and cosy in the office and looking very festive.

We photographed our last wedding of 2009 on Sunday and with most appointments not able to get to us through the snow it looks like after the editing we should be able to put our feet up and have a good old rest..........

Wedding Fairs 2010

In January 2010 we will be attending a number of wedding fairs at some of our key local wedding venues in lancashire and Cheshire. Here are a few dates for you new diaries.

10th January Stanley House

16-17th January The Great Hall

30 -31st January Bartle Hall



We will also be attending our main wedding show of the year at Tatton Park on the weekend of January 30th and 31st so like this year this looks like it will be a busy weekend.

These wedding shows are a great way to meet not only Stephanie and myself but also some of the best wedding suppliers in the area. So if your free pop along and say hello

Happy Clients

Today we received a really nice thankyou card from Angela & Richard. They tied the knot in August this year at Peckforton Castle.Here what they wrote.

'' Steph & Steve We would just like to say thankyou very much for making the choice of pic's for our album impossible & so hard to do! Also we would just like to say thank you for all the help,time and hard work to make our memories perfect!

Thank you so much Mr & Mrs Webber xxxx ''

It was a pleasure guys and the champagne & Chocs will go down very well with the X Factor final tonight. You can view all Angela and Richards images in their client gallery here www.ashtonphotography.co.uk

Nikon D3s At work and a bit of play!!!

Here are some sample images from the new Nikon D3s. Collected the camera on Friday and use it at a wedding on Sunday. Simply the best camera I have ever used, I can't say more than that. Shot the entire wedding at ISO1000 or greater. The image of the little boy was at 12800iso and on screen is stunning.



Zoe & Mike got married on Sunday with a late ceremony so it was dark outside to say the least. I was so confident of the low light capability of this camera I just left the flash gun in the bag. I didn't use flash all day!!!!



As for the video facility, well I had to try it, a big learning curve lies ahead but boy is it going to be fun. This video is direct from the camera just converted to mono.

Early days but multi media for me is the way foreward.



We need to look into suitable editing software and work out just were moving images fit in to our wedding coverage. This was the very first time I have ever used video capture so please excuse the quality of filming and editing. The main thing is we know the camera can do the job, now we need to learn how to use and integrate this new equipment into our everyday image capture.