A Very Special Wedding

Following our blog yesterday here is the Salisbury Journal piece on the wedding of the year

Anna and Chris

Valentine's Day 2012! We had the pleasure of capturing the wonderful wedding of Anna and Chris (Mr and Mrs Wilson).

Anna and Chris entered the Win Your Wedding competition last year and in October were told they had won. The competition was put together by the Salisbury Journal, Ladies Who Love and Wiltshire Society Magazine, supported by GOLD sponsors The White Hart Hotel, Kate Sparks Wedding TV and John Rose Photography, and a variety of local businesses all offering their services free of charge to make Anna and Chris' dream come true.

We had an amazing time with Anna, Chris and their families. They are a fantastic group of people who were so much fun to spend time with; image 1, below, is one of many tongue poking images I collected through the day as Anna and I exchanged very entertaining verbal blows during the day. 

HIGHLY COMMENDED

I am very proud to announce that I have had 2 images scored as HIGHLY COMMENDED in the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP) monthly competition.

I don't enter the competition very often, mainly due to lack of time but I feel it is important now and again to ensure standards are kept up, or better still my skills are improving. I only ever enter images that have been captured during REAL commissioned shoots and not ones that have been set up using models specifically for competition entry. I feel this is important to ensure I can produce quality images under pressure.

The marking system has been changed since I last entered the competition from; Unclassified, Bronze, Silver and Gold, to; Disqualified, Not Awarded, Highly Commended and Gold; I have included a description of the new award system at the bottom of this post.

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Score:	Highly Commended
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File information
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Score:	Highly Commended
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Date added:	Jan 30, 2012
Dimensions:	2000 x 1260 pixels
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IPTC Copyright:	John Rose Photography
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DEFINITIONS
Gold: Awards will go forward to the annual judging and are deemed to be images of the highest standard and will be published in Professional Imagemaker 
Highly Commended: Above standard. These images will be reviewed every three months and have the potential of being reclassified as Gold.
Not Awarded: Unfortunately these images fall below the standard required to be given an award.
Disqualified: These images have not adhered to the competition rules or category definitions.

Spire Travel Shoot

On Saturday we were at the wonderful Norman Court near West Tytherley, SP5 1NH. We had been commissioned to shoot the Spire Travel fleet of cars for their new website and advertising material.

We were very happy to have Conleigh Bridalwear of Stockbridge and Lena Rose, our model, with us to add a little John Rose Photography extras to the shoot. Vanessa, owner of Conleigh Bridalwear, was kind enough to lend us one of her amazing wedding dresses for Lena to wear for the morning. Lena, a friend of Mandy's, was amazing as our beautiful bride.

While we were at this beautiful location we shot a few images for Norman Court and Conleigh Bridalwear to use in the marketing campaigns; I will post these later in a separate blog post.

Here are a selection of the images shot for Spire Travel.

Anna, Chris and the Kids - Win Your Wedding

Today John was with Anna, Chris and the kids for their free pre-wedding/family portrait shoot.

Anna and Chris are the winners of the Salisbury Journal, Ladies Who Love, Society Magazine, Win Your Wedding Competition. We were one of the Gold Sponsors donating over £1600 worth of photography as a prize.

The couple are getting married on Valentines Day and John took them to Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury today to capture some images of them all together, to get them used to being photographed and so they could see how John likes to work. This is a process that we like to go through with all our wedding clients to ensure we get relaxed and fun images on the wedding day.