Small world

I was at a wedding yesterday and as I moved towards the back of the church I saw a couple waving at me.
I had photographed their wedding a couple of years ago.
There was another couple who had wanted me to photograph their wedding last year but sadly I was already booked for their date.
I had worked with the video man on a wedding at some point and the florist gave me a card and I knew that we had worked together before.
One of the ushers had been a bestman at another wedding.
The wedding was about quite a distance from home they were in Berkshire and I am in Surrey.
During the speeches there was a telegram from a couple who couldn't make it from Australia because they are expecting their first child any day now. I had photographed their wedding too.
As a wedding photographer it is great when couples like what I do enough to reccomend me to their friends and I do love to see them again.

There is a bomb near the church. But don't worry I have a plan.

I arrived at the bride's house nice and early so I decided to do a final run to the church just to make sure that the road was clear.
Well as I arrived at the end of Church lane I discovered that the road was not clear.
The policeman told me that they had discovered an unexploded bomb near the church.
What are the chances of that happening. It has been there for 60 years and they find it on a Saturday morning a wedding day.
I got my map out and quickly discovered that all the alternative routes to the church were also closed.
As I drove off I was thinking of a plan B.
Is it legal to skip the wedding but have the reception anyway? What will the bride say?
Anyway I called the bestman and it was the groom who answered so I told him exactly what the situation was.
I think that I sounded calm and matter of fact.
He laughed because he knew that was just the sort of joke the bride's dad would try to pull and there was no way he was going to fall for it.
So I put on my very serious newsreader voice and told him again that there was a problem and this is what we should do.
Get the bestman to call the church again and again until the Vicar answers the phone. When that happens we will know that the road is clear because the vicarage is at the bottom of the hill, outside the cordon.
When we speak to him we simply ask if his 12.00 wedding is going ahead as planned or will there be a delay. Then we will know if our 2pm wedding will be on time.
Anyway we got the call to say that the road was now open and it only caused a slight delay in the earlier wedding and ours went without a hitch.

Been working on a new slideshow to put onto the website.
This is a test

Website Relaunch

We have been busy with the website which is about to be revamped. We have been selecting pictures for a new slideshow and laying out some new wedding books. The books are simple, stylish and avoid any of those techniques that will very soon become dated.
Samples will be uploaded shortly.

KID’S PORTRAIT CLUB

Children grow up faster than we would like, they seem to go from toddlers to teenagers in no time.

When you look back on their childhood wouldn’t it be nice to have a series of photographs showing every stage of them growing up?

Alan Knox’s KIDS PORTRAIT CLUB ensures against gaps in your family album.

Member benefits

· Prime time appointments 4pm-6pm members only

· Weekend appointments at discounted rates

· Free album maintained by us kept by you

· Discounted print offers

· You may stop at any time with no obligation

· Events and family days

Membership costs less than the average sitting yet covers the whole year and includes the first sitting as well as the album.

To arrange your first sitting please visit www.alanknox.co.uk

The 60 Second PPP Thing

My name is Alan Knox,

I’m a photographer, I provide pictures, photographs.

Pictures of people, products and places.

Professional pictures for people to purchase.

Poignant poetic pictures produced purely to improve the appearance of some pitiful place.

And powerful persuasive pictures promoting a product, purely for profit.

Reproduced onto pamphlets and postcards, portfolios and posters even the product packaging.

A panoramic picture of your premises can prove pretty persuasive to a potential purchaser.

And pictures of a powerful personality, your president perhaps or partner partaking in acts of pomp and pageantry, can produce perfect PR when published and printed in the paper.

And finally those photographs taken as a set of two, one before the transformation and another after the transformation is complete.

Some people call these before and after.

Personally I prefer Prior and Post.

I am Alan Knox

The purveyor of practically perfect pictures.

www.alanknox.co.uk

A Standard Wedding?

I was once asked how much I would charge to shoot a standard wedding?

A standard wedding? Who on earth would want their wedding to be described as standard?

Every bride is unique and every wedding is a special day, a day of magic, of romance, a day of joy to be remembered forever. Your wedding day is the result of much planning and deliberation, every little detail has been considered. After the day those memories will be captured and re-lived through the pictures.

It is important that you get to enjoy your own wedding day, so we use an informal style of photojournalistic or reportage photography so that you can spend time with your family and friends. This is greatly appreciated by those who don't want a bossy photographer to take over their day and spend far too long with everyone standing in a line saying cheese.

When you book me for your wedding you get me all day, you get my passion for wedding photography, you get my sense of fun.

I hope you like my pictures and I hope to see you in them soon.

www.alanknox.co.uk