2017 / Amazing Human Beings / Mostly Getting Married

2017! It feels like this is the first year we’ve been able to catch our breath in a long time. Kids a little older, house built, grass growing, books being read...

Weddings have become part of the cycle of our life. They define our seasons. New beginnings in spring, hard graft in summer and autumn, hibernation in winter, until the anticipation builds again... 

There are only so many sweetie tables a man can raid. And as ever, the heart of this work for us is never the stuff (although you guys have some really amazing stuff). But it’s you human beings getting married. Watching your amazing families and friends hold you up. Being a small part of the cycle of your lives. It never stops being a privilege.

So here are some moments from 2017. About 100 of them anyway. Thanks for taking time out to have a look. Hope you enjoy :)

Ps. A note for any fellow camera nerds - 2017 was a year of trying to simplify camera gear as well as life. Apart from the few film snaps, I ended up shooting most of the year on two lenses - a Nikon 28mm and 58mm.

TWENTYSIXTEEN

TWENTYSIXTEEN!

From Meath to Marrakech, New York to Newry, Bordeaux to Ballybofey... you get the idea :) 2016 was quite the year.

So many excellent adventures. But mostly, it was all of you truly incredible people that made it so great. A huge thanks to each and every one of you who trusted us with your weddings. We've been privileged to keep your company.

There seems to be a proliferation of bums and feet in our favourites this year. Sometimes that's just how it rolls... :)

Photo Adventures 2015

2015. Wow! We've had babies, we've started businesses, but building a house - as well as keeping the aforementioned babies and business happy and healthy - turned out to be quite a roller-coaster...

But now we're here, at home, and we've have had some much needed time out to reflect on the year that was.

And it was actually pretty wonderful! 37 amazing weddings, some fashion, some portraits - adventures the length of breadth of Ireland, exploring remote corners of France, shooting in Ibizan salt flats, keeping airbnb in the black ;) 

But as much as we loved the travel, it was the people we worked with in 2015 that made it so great. You are a kind-hearted, creative lot - and you really know how to put on a good wedding! It's felt at times like an extended road-trip with friends. A crazy, mud tramping, light chasing, pint drinking photographic adventure...

A few accolades also came our way this year, which made us pause and be thankful. Being named as one of Rangefinder Magazine's 30 Rising Stars of Wedding Photography 2015 was a staggering highlight. And having a photo selected for Junebug's Best of the Best Wedding Photography 2015 provided another holy grail type moment. But really we can only take part of the credit. Our couples and the places we found did a lot of the heavy lifting here...

As always, our wedding industry friends have infused our year with their life-saving and fun-making powers. Photographer comrades, we don't tell you often enough how much we love you.

These are some of our favourite images from the year - a lot of weddings, some fashion and some personal stuff... It couldn't begin to be representative of our year. But these are the images we find ourselves drawn to...