<h2>Above the harbour</h2><p>St Ives Harbour Hotel and Spa looks straight out over Porthminster, which means the whole day is governed by the light coming off the water. Ceremony inside, drinks on the terrace, and then the long gold hour that Cornwall does better than anywhere else in the country.</p><p>My job on a day like this is to stay out of it. I work like a friendly guest with a professional eye, close enough to catch the quiet hand squeeze and the belly laugh, far enough back that nobody remembers there is a camera in the room.</p><blockquote>Not just photos, but the feeling of saying I do.</blockquote><p>Full day coverage, an online gallery, and high resolution digital files. Couples come back to this set years later and it still smells like salt air.</p>

A coastal ceremony above Porthminster, photographed as the harbour light softened into the evening.

St Ives Harbour

<h2>Twelve minutes each</h2><p>Nobody enjoys having their headshot taken. That is the actual brief. The lighting and the background are the easy part; the work is getting a room full of people who would rather be at their desks to relax enough to look like themselves.</p><p>People want to look capable and professional. Your team portraits help everyone feel like the best version of themselves, the one that gets business done.</p><p>A pop up studio goes in wherever there is space, and each person gets a short, unhurried turn. Sessions start at one hour for up to three team members, with five finished images per person.</p>

Team headshots made in a meeting room, lit to look like the best version of the person.

Boardroom

<h2>Inspection from the air</h2><p>Inspect roofs, chimneys and hard to reach structures without ladders or scaffolding. Reduce physical risk and save time with high resolution aerial imagery.</p><p>A solar array is a good example. Checking a few hundred panels from the ground means access equipment, a closed site and most of a day. From the air it is a single flight and a set of images an engineer can zoom into afterwards.</p><p>All drone work is flown by a CAA licensed and fully insured operator, with high resolution digital delivery inside seven days.</p>

A commercial solar roof surveyed from the air, panel by panel, with nobody on a ladder.

Solar Array

<h2>Room to breathe</h2><p>Tredudwell Manor sits in its own grounds above Fowey, and it rewards couples who give the day room to breathe. No running order to fight, no hard turnaround between rooms, just a house filling up slowly with people who are pleased to be there.</p><p>That suits how I shoot. There is no awkward posing and no interruption. I wait for the thing that was going to happen anyway and I am ready when it does.</p><p>Covered here as a full day, from the getting ready rooms through to the last of the evening. Every frame delivered as a high resolution digital file in a private online gallery.</p>

A slow Cornish manor wedding, kept to the glances and the gathering rather than the arrangement.

Tredudwell Manor

<h2>Retail, open as usual</h2><p>Marks and Spencer at Kingsley Village, Fraddon. Commercial work at this scale is a logistics job as much as a photographic one: the store stays open, customers keep shopping, and the brand still needs frames that look composed rather than snatched.</p><p>Great photography tells your business story before you even speak. It shows customers you are professional, established and worth their attention.</p><p>Alongside Marks and Spencer, commercial commissions have included River Island, HM Land Registry, the University of St Mark and St John, and Childrens Hospice South West.</p>

A national retail commission in mid Cornwall, shot across a trading floor without closing it.

Kingsley Village

<h2>Eye to eye with the stone</h2><p>There is no scaffolding tower tall enough to make this a cheap job from the ground. A drone puts a surveyor at eye level with the parapet, the clock face and the leadwork in about fifteen minutes of flying.</p><p>Roofers, property managers and insurance assessors use these sets to assess and document condition without ever leaving ground level.</p><p>Roof inspection work starts at ninety pounds and is priced by the scale of the structure and the detail required.</p>

A close aerial survey of a tower roof, flown to put a surveyor eye to eye with the stonework.

Clock Tower

<h2>Small and close</h2><p>Hotel Endsleigh near Tavistock is a Regency lodge with gardens dropping away to the Tamar, and it is one of the finest small wedding venues in Devon. An intimate day here has a different rhythm to a two hundred seat reception. Fewer people, more conversation, and every moment landing in a room you can actually hear.</p><p>With a guest list this size the coverage has to be light. I move slowly, I use available light wherever the house allows it, and I let the day set its own pace.</p><p>These are the photographs that become part of a family history. The album you show your grandchildren, telling the story of where it all began.</p>

An intimate Devon wedding in the Tamar valley, shot small, close and almost entirely unposed.

Hotel Endsleigh

<h2>At the pass</h2><p>A plate has a working life of about ninety seconds. After that the herbs wilt, the sauce skins over and the whole thing stops photographing like food. Everything has to be set and metered before the dish leaves the kitchen.</p><p>Food and drink work sits alongside the wider commercial offer across Devon, Plymouth and Cornwall, shot for menus, websites, delivery listings and press.</p><p>Chefs get the frames back the same week, cut to the shapes their site and their social channels actually need.</p>

Food photographed at the pass in the few seconds it still looks the way the kitchen intended.

The Pass

<h2>Progress, monitored</h2><p>See the full picture before work begins. Aerial views provide context, scale and detail that help with planning, monitoring and decision making.</p><p>On a live construction site the value is repetition. The same altitude, the same heading, the same frame flown once a month, so the sequence reads as a single continuous record rather than a scatter of one off photographs.</p><p>Site planning, progress monitoring and land surveys, delivered as geo tagged aerial imagery for surveyors, architects and construction firms.</p>

Construction progress logged from above, the same frame flown back month after month.

Groundworks

<h2>On the border</h2><p>The Horn of Plenty stands above the Tamar valley with Cornwall on the far bank, which gives a wedding here the best of both counties in a single afternoon. Gardens for the drinks, a long dining room for the speeches, and a view that does half the work for you.</p><p>This was a full day commission covering the preparations, the ceremony, the meal and the evening. Documentary throughout, with a short window pulled aside for family groups because those are the ones parents ask for.</p><p>Delivered with a full set of digital negatives and a private gallery to share with everyone who was there.</p>

A country house celebration on the Devon and Cornwall border, from first look to last dance.

Horn of Plenty

<h2>The business, working</h2><p>A brand story shoot is three hours across a business as it actually runs. Not a staged handshake, not a stock photo of a laptop. The premises, the people, the thing you make and the way you make it.</p><p>Professional images work harder for you. They make your website better, your marketing stronger and help you stand out from competitors who use phone photos.</p><p>Multiple locations inside the working day, delivered as a set of edited images licensed for web, print and social use.</p>

Workplace and lifestyle frames made across a working day, for a business that had outgrown phone photos.

Brand Story

<h2>Context and scale</h2><p>Photograph a country house from the drive and you get a house. Lift forty metres and you get the grounds, the approach, the boundary and the position, which is what a buyer or a guest is really trying to understand.</p><p>Aerial photographs draw the eye and add drama to property listings, marketing materials and project reports.</p><p>Elevation shots and wide angle views for estate agents, architects and holiday lets across Devon and Cornwall.</p>

A Devon property shown in its own landscape, which is the part a ground level photograph always loses.

Country House

<h2>Under the moor</h2><p>Trevenna sits in a valley below Bodmin Moor at St Neot, all stone barns and open lawn. The light in that valley changes fast, which is the whole appeal. You get four different days inside one day and none of them need any help.</p><p>I shot this one almost entirely on a 35mm prime, close in and moving with the party rather than directing it. The frames that survive are the ones nobody noticed being taken.</p><p>Full day coverage across Devon and Cornwall, delivered as high resolution files in an online gallery.</p>

Bodmin Moor light through a barn conversion, and a day that never once stopped to pose.

Trevenna Barns

<h2>The room, not the lectern</h2><p>Every event gets photographed the same way by default: the speaker at the podium, forty times. The frames a marketing team can actually use are the other ones. The queue at registration, the demo that drew a crowd, the two people who found each other in the break.</p><p>Conference, launch party or team event photography that captures the energy.</p><p>Standard event coverage runs to four hours with a set of edited images delivered the next day, which is while the event is still worth posting about.</p>

Conference coverage in Plymouth, shot for the energy in the room rather than the lectern.

Conference Floor

<h2>Venue from above</h2><p>The Green at Liskeard, flown between the ceremony and the wedding breakfast. Venues use these frames on their own marketing, and couples get a picture of the day that no amount of standing in a field can give them.</p><p>Working across both disciplines helps here. I already know when the drone can go up without pulling attention away from the couple, because I am photographing the wedding as well.</p><p>Flown under a CAA licence with full insurance in place, planned around the running order rather than dropped into the middle of it.</p>

A Cornish wedding venue photographed from the air, grounds and setting in one frame.

The Green

<h2>The ceremony</h2><p>A church ceremony is the hardest twenty minutes of a wedding to photograph well. The light is low, the vicar sets the rules, and the moments that matter most cannot be repeated. You get one pass at the vows.</p><p>So I work long, quiet and from the edges. No flash during the service, no moving about at the front, nothing that pulls a single guest out of the moment they came for.</p><p>Plymstock is five minutes from the studio in Crownhill, and church weddings across Plymouth and the South Hams make up a good share of the year.</p>

A parish ceremony in Plymstock, held to the vows, the faces and the walk back down the aisle.

Plymstock Church

<h2>Out of the door</h2><p>St Marys Church in Plympton empties onto a path that was built for exactly this: two people coming out of a door married, and everyone they know waiting on either side with a handful of confetti.</p><p>It lasts about forty seconds. There is no second take. I am already outside and in position before the last hymn finishes, because that is the frame the whole morning has been pointing at.</p><p>Devon wedding photography, covered as a full day with a pre wedding consultation to plan the timings properly.</p>

Confetti on the path at St Marys, the first minute of being married and nothing staged about it.