Susan and Godfrey have been to Photo Training Overseas

This time of year, with the start of a busy wedding season only weeks away now, it's very refreshing to take a week out and visit Photo Training Overseas. This year it was held on the Mediterranean coast in Antalya, Turkey.

The training we get updates our skills in many aspects of photography, particularly advanced lighting, composition and image manipulation skills. Top professionals from around the world share their knowledge with participants and time is set aside for special hands on workshop sessions to allow us to try out new techniques and ideas before returning to our studio in Ealing.

In the photo you see Lyn and Jeff Ellis who displayed a fabulous collection of Albums Australia. These beautiful albums are world class with beautiful covers and dynamic pages. Mike Roper set up this shot for the delegates to take in a useful exercise on how to take an excellent PR photo for the press.

So though our chosen expertise is wedding photography, we benefit from watching other photographers at work. And the couples who choose us as their wedding photographers are guaranteed to look their very best in their wedding pictures.

We only have 10 more dates available for wedding bookings this year. Please visit our website to read more about our wedding service. You'll find an availability checker to see if we are still free on your date.

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A Barbeque summer? Hardly

Well it wasn't. Umbrellas were the order of the day. Some are very fetching - we always carry a good supply of white ones which let the light through. Here's Julie at the Danesfield Hotel, keeping calm and carrying on.

A comforting feature - at no wedding last summer did we find we were unable to shoot all the photographs the bride and groom had requested. It never rained the whole day long and by everyone being flexible, we beat the weather.

New wedding album - Syon Park weddings

We're just blown away by the quality of the newest album, the Bellissimo, which has arrived in our studio. We feature Katie and Patrick's wedding at Syon Park last September and these photographs are of them practising their first dance, away from their guests, who are partying in the Inner Courtyard.

They made the most of the Great Hall, without chairs and loved just getting away from it all for a few moments rest.

We're offering a special rate to Syon Park wedding couples who book early, before St Valentine's Day

Happy New Year to all our couples - and future newlyweds

We're back from our far away travels and preparing for a busy and happy 2010. Last year was one of our busiest ever, with weddings at our favourite venues and some new to us. Maybe the highlight was Theresa and Ryan's wedding in Albany, Western Australia.

Here they are just married, about to go to their wedding breakfast and then on to their honeymoon in Cairns.

It was their spring, our autumn and the setting just out of this world. We couldn't believe the size of these enormous gum trees. The specimens in Kew Gardens, just across the river from us, are minute in comparison.

It was a 23 hour flight from London to Perth with a short stop over in Bruneii. And after all that travelling, it seemed a good idea to make a proper break and get to know Western Australia really well.

And now, after a couple of months away, we're back after the long holiday and ready for the new wedding season which begins for us in April.