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Notes on photographs, places and full celebrations.
Practical writing from the studio: how a day is timed, what a venue asks of a photographer, where the light sits, and what travel actually involves.
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Planning
How to build a timeline around the light you actually get.
Sunset time is the one fixed point in the day. Everything else moves. We work backwards from it: portraits, then the ceremony, then the hour of preparation before that.
August 2026
Nine minute read
The archive, written between celebrations.
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Photography / September 2026
Direct flash after midnight
Late in the night the room stops being pretty and starts being honest. Flash is how we keep up with it.
Planning / September 2026
Rain plans that are worth having
One indoor location, one covered walk, and a decision time agreed the week before. That is the whole plan.
Travel / September 2026
Flying with two bodies, four lenses and no checked bag
What we carry, what we leave, and why the kit list has not changed in three years of destination work.
Photography / September 2026
Why we photograph the room before anyone is in it
Twenty minutes alone with the tables, the candles and the doors closed. It is the only time the room looks the way it was planned.
Places / September 2026
Puglia in June: heat, long light and a nine o’clock dinner
The afternoon is unusable and nobody minds. Coverage starts late, runs long, and the best hour lands after the plates come out.
Planning / September 2026
What a welcome dinner does for the rest of the weekend
Guests who have already met each other behave differently the next day. It shows in every frame after the ceremony.
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Featured story
Three days by the water, start to last song.
Maren & Santi opened with a courtyard welcome dinner, married on the terrace the following afternoon, and finished beside the pool after midnight. The notes above came out of days like this one.
Lisbon, Portugal
June 2025
Three days
2026
Limited dates
2027
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