Ivy Hill wedding fayre, Essex wedding photographer

MPA wedding photographer of the year for Essex Gavin Woollard will be exhibiting at the Ivy Hill wedding exhibition on Sunday 18th April. As it currently stands this is our last exhibition of the year.
Please call down to see a beautiful new album and discuss your special day with us.
As a sneak preview of what you can see here is a picture from a wedding last week taken at the Reid Rooms
. We look forward to meeting many new brides there this weekend.

Essex wedding photographer Gavin Woollard updates his website

Well I finally changed the picture on the home page of my Essex wedding photographers website.

It is easy to get attached to a picture but I think this new one from a lovely summertime wedding for Peter and Rachel last year at Hedingham Castle says everything about natural images at a wedding.
It may look easy to capture great reportage style images but it takes years of training and practive to get the timing right as well as being totally comfortable with your cameras to get the very best out of your day.
My website will always be a work in progress but as I love the design of this site I think the next few years will be more of an evolution rather than a big transformation of what I have already.
If you are looking for a photographer for your forthcoming wedding or function please contact Gavin Woollard by clicking on the link highlighted.
Many thanks and best wishes with yoru plans
Gavin

2 more wedding fairs - the Reid Rooms and Mulberry House

We have just enjoyed another very busy weekend of work and promotion. First of all Louise and Andrew's lovely wedding at one of my favourite venues Spain's Hall, in Finchingfield Essex.

Then it was great to meet dozens of lovely couples at the Reid Rooms wedding fair in Margaret Roding.

It is always great to meet with other wedding suppliers who have become friends as well as colleagues over the years. Marion from Poppies Flowers, Gail from Blushing Brides and Charles from Aristocars and of course Dwayne ( 'G'DAY' )and Jennet from The Aussie Barbeque company to name but a few.
The Reid Rooms event was run by the Main Even Company who did a fantastic job of marketing the event and making everything run smoothly.
My studio manager Kelly was at Mulberry House in Ongar where we have supplied images for brochures banners and other promotional purposes over the years. This weekend we are looking forward to meeting many of the couples to discuss their special days in more detail and confirm their bookings.
The picture above is from Louise and Kelly's beautiful snowy wedding at the Reid Rooms in December.
For anyone getting married please have a look at our website for some of out beautiful images from the leading wedding venues in Essex.

Heart Fm wedding fayre

Gavin Woollard is not exhibiting at this years Heart FM Essex Wedding fayre but would like all brides attending to know that he would love to meet you at his lovely Victorian studio in the picturesque village of Writtle to discuss you wedding photography needs personally.
Gavin is the current wedding photographer of the year for London and Essex in the Master Photographers Association.
To make an appointment please go to our contact form (link below ) or call free phone 08000156573
Contact Gavin
Many thanks

Essex Wedding Photography exhibition

Gavin is looking forward to showing some new work and meeting some potential clients at the Spains Hall wedding fair on Saturday 30thJanuary. Spains Hall is one of the finest venues in Essex and is a wonderful location for wedding photography.
These are 2 images we will be showing this weekend from a fabulous new album that we will be leaving at Spains Hall for them to show future bride and grooms.
I have several weddings booked at Spains Hall this year and always look forward to using the fabulous grounds as can be seen in the images here.

Wedding fayres at Spain's Hall, Reid Rooms, Ivy Hill and Mulberry House

Well it is that time of year again when venues and suppliers start to show their wares at the many wedding fayres and exhibitions that take place up and down the country.
We will be joining in this year but only at venues where we have some affiliation already.
Our first one will be at Spain's Hall on Saturday 30th January. We were at their last fayre two years ago and it was very well attended and met many lovely couples who we went on to work with at their weddings. One couple that we met was Nick and Jenny. Their pictures went on to be featured in one of You and Your wedding magazine's real life weddings last year.
We will also be at Mulberry House on 7th March. We have supplied pictures for their website, banners and other literature over the years and are based only a few miles from High Ongar where they are.
The third one we will be visiting will be Ivy Hill at Margaretting. Having photographed a wedding for the manager at Ivy Hill it is always lovely to meet up with people who have become good friends as well as colleagues in the profession.
A venue which I am very closely linked is The Reid Rooms. It is very close to my studio and again I have done portraiture for members of the staff there over the years. My winning picture (shown above) in the MPA photographer of they year for this region was taken in the Farm House at the Reid Rooms
We are in touch with another local venue and will update when we have a booking secured.
Please visit my website if you would like to make an enquiry about our availability for your wedding in 2010, 2011 or 2012 (Yes we are getting enquiries that far in advance!)

New website listing

Gavin is pleased to now be listed at the Local photographer site

www.photographerlocally.co.uk - Welcome to Photographer Locally

Latest An Essex Wedding magazine cover picture!

Well done to Laura Miller (nee Stratton) whose picture was chosen from many others to grace this months cover of www.anessexwedding.co.uk magazine.
Laura was married in sunny July to Ben at Lambourne End Church in Essex and their reception was held at Woolston Manor , Essex.




See many others venues Gavin Woollard has worked at at his website www.reportagephotography.com
Gavin's most recent work can be found at his facebook page

Lovely engagement portrait session from Woolacombe Devon.

I have just got back from a short break in Devon.While we were there a friend who I play football with got engaged to his girlfriend Hanna.

All teribly romantic with 100 tea lights, chocolates....
Oh, and a bunch of his giggling mates hiding in the next room!

Anway, it was a great opportunity to do some pictures in a fabulous location.

Here is a lovely new style of slideshow from Jon and Hannas engagement portraits from Croyde and Woolacombe in Devon.





Now back to work!

www.reportagephotography.com

WEDDING SEASON IS HERE!

Well another busy wedding season is well and truly upon us.
I was delighted to be approached by An Essex Wedding Magazine to supply this months cover picture. It was a lovely wedding at Boreham Church followed by a rousing reception at Three Rivers Country Club.
The picture is of Erica who married Craig Hubble. Personally it was great to catch up with 4 other couples whose weddings I had previously photographed over the years.
I am also talking to An Essex Wedding Magazine about possibly supplying next months cover image too!
After 8 weeks of complete computer HELL (is it a coincidence that Dell rhymes with hell?) and a new £2,000.00 investment we are fully geared up for this years work. We have ended up with 3 almost brand new machines after almost everything that could be replaced was replaced.
We have new albums in the studio, new software, new lenses and as my staff keep reminding me, still the same old photographer!



I was delighted last week to receive the title of MPA travel and landscape photographer of the year for the Essex region.
Its particularly nice when that is not my regular work and was a labour of love rather than a comissioned job. The winning image is that of an ancient olive grove taken on the outskirts of Lagans in Zakynthos, Greece. No I did not stay at the lager lout infested resort but merely drove past on a trip around the gorgeous pine clad island. The image came second over all out of 132 images to a portrait taken by a friend of mine which was a cracking image. So he got the £100 cash prize and I got a bottle of wine! Many thanks to Len Dance for his kind words and encouragement.



I love this image. It was hardly worked on at all, which somehow makes it even more pleasing as most images nowadays are 'photoshopped to death' before use. There is something lovely about pure photography that the digital age seems to have destroyed. Everyone who owns a mobile phone thinks they are a photographer. Confetti throwing at weddings nowadays is 90% photographers capturing the 10% of confetti throwers. Sky Sports and the 'non-active' armchair sportsman generation has a lot to answer for hey?

This month is 20 years since I photographed my very first wedding. It has been a great ride so far and I am wondering what the next 20 years of photography will bring? One things is for sure ,life is never dull being a photographer! Luv gav x