New Website 2019

Squire & Squire Photography was established in December 2009 which makes the business Ten years old which is amazing. In the last ten years I have spent vast amounts of time trying to understand Joomla the software that runs the website.

Joomla was recommended to me as friend and it has been brilliant but after many upgrades from Joomla 1.5 to 3.9, many many plugin updates and countless incidents of me breaking the website. I finally think it is time the have a fresh start with a new website and a new content management system. So here is the new site after a lot of work swapping the old data from the old website.

My hope that this site will last another ten years and work a lot better than the old one did, as I say I enjoyed using Joomla but ultimately my coding skills weren’t that great.

Mallory Court Wedding Photography | Sally and Steve

Congratulations Sally & Steve who got married at the Mallory Court Hotel in June. I was booked to capture the wedding photography all day from the getting ready preparations through to the first dance in the evening. I have provided wedding photography at the Mallory Court a number of times, it really is a lovely venue.  For Sally and Steves wedding though it was a day filled with laughter, love and probably the most detailed father of the bride speech that has ever been told. 

Sally and Steve are a lovely couple we did engagement portraits in October with Sally's horse Honey. The weather could not have been worse it was windy and rainy but we still got some good shots!  Fast forward to their wedding day and the weather was perfect - nice and sunny with some cloud diffusion. 

For me, the day started splitting my time between the bridal prep and the arrival of the guests,  at the Mallory Court it is easy to do as the venue isn't too big. The morning ran like clockwork Sally and her father are keen organisers.  The ceremony was held in the drawing room which was very calm although the most emotional person was the father of the bride. 

After the ceremony, everyone spilled out into the gardens at the back of the venue for a few hours whilst we did the formal photos and everybody had some time to relax with canapes. The drawing room was transformed for the wedding breakfast and then came the speeches, where the father of the bride had recorded Sally's life story including a hilarious begging letter that he'd kept from her childhood. 

At this point, there was a break and then everybody returned to for the evening festivities, during this break I also did some wedding portraits of Sally and Steve around the venue.  It was a fun day and it was good to see these two tie knot after getting to know them so well over the last year. 

If you are looking for a Mallory Court Wedding Photographer please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Here is a small sample of the 800 plus finished images provided. 

Photographing Portraits of Trustee's The King Henry VIII Endowed Trust in Warwick

The King Henry VIII Endowed Trust founded in 1545 is an ancient trust that shares the income from the Old Town of Warwick to help the community. For hundreds of years it has been contributing to the upkeep of our churches and enabled our best and brightest to attend Warwicks public schools. In September I was asked to Business Portraits of the Trustees to be used for a new website that is still under development.  I was honoured to be asked to do this work, as usual with all portraits I have done for all types of organisations I had very little time allowed with each person to get the job done. 

I decided to go with a low key style lighting set up that created portraits that are a bit more interesting than standard white background portraits.