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Cripps Barn winter wedding

davejenki — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:11:58 +0000

Marie and Duncan are two very lovely people. All the best for the future guys and thank you for letting me be part of your day!

“David

Thank you so so so much for the stunning pictures. We absolutely love them and Marie is still looking at them and now wont go to bed!!!

Thank you once again, they truly are beautiful and we could not be happier.”

Dress: Suzanne Neville

Make Up: Sophie Charmings

Hair: Heidi Vince

Hairpiece: Jenny Packham

Flowers: Rachel Jones

Suit: Cad & the Dandy

Proposal at Peggy Porschen cakes

davejenki — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:35:38 +0000

This was no ordinary shoot and I’ve never been asked to photograph a proposal before. Ten shots, in a shop, that was all I had to do and Anna the lovely lady being proposed to had no idea I would be there. But and here’s the thing, the potential for the whole thing to be totally awkward, was MASSIVE, at least in my mind. In a perverse way this is why I wanted to do this shoot. I really had no idea how it would map out and it was only after I saw the cake that I realised the proposal was in fact written on the cake itself. I thought I was going to have to stealthily listen in from another table for the magic words which I wouldn’t have understood anyway because they would have been German. Luckily for me Ralph is a/the dude and we got on brilliantly on the phone and to tell you the truth I don’t think he knew how it would work either, but in the end it was big fun. Ralph went to get the cake, I was having a cup of tea on another table (in a trench coat and plastic moustache) and back he came with it (I think the tears might have also given it away en route to the table while he was carrying the cake) and a couple of seconds after putting it down Anna also had tears, no listening in needed, these are the ten(ish) images that resulted.

Thanks to the cool Ralph and Anna. If you like classic art and live in Germany this is Ralphs gallery. And if you want to sample some incredible cakes Peggy Porschen is the lady!

Hope & Grace ~ Coming soon.

davejenki — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:07:43 +0000

Babington house wedding

davejenki — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:15:02 +0000

This was such a great wedding to photograph not only are Natalie and Matt very cool and stylish, they’re also the life and soul of the party. All taken at the elegantly chilled out Babington House.

Moments from the year

davejenki — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:30:36 +0000

It’s been a great year not least in enjoying watching my little girl Audrey getting to grips with walking, making noises, poking me in the eyes and all that fun stuff. I’m saving putting up some more personal work in a separate post however. These are some moments from weddings, engagement and portrait sessions. So thank you to all my clients for giving me the chance to experience your day and letting me into your lives, just a little bit. And thanks to all the people that have featured my work, everyone at Wedding magazine, You and Your Wedding and the super stylish Love My Dress and Rock My Wedding. In the interests of maybe everyone, I’ll leave my round up of my favourite music from the year to bottom of the post (let’s face it, it’s a geek thing!).

In a bid to rally my own movement I’m naming “keep folk away from weddings” (or the slightly less manageable but possibly more accurate ” keep folk away from wedding photographers posts or wedding videos” or KFAFWPPOWV for short) I’m only including a couple of folk albums in my list for favourite music of the year. I flipping love folk just like everyone, but ever since Jose Gonzalez’s beautifully sung Heartbeats (interestingly a cover of an electro track) over the amazing bouncing coloured balls in San Fran Sony ad happened, there seems to have been an unending movement in using folk in just about every possible corner of the media not just tv ads but short films and feature films. As I say I like it, I managed to not throw the tv out the window while watching Juno as each new scene was greeted with a lovely, twee melody and I’ve definitely felt fuzzy before while listening; if it wasn’t the wine. It’s cool, it’s now, it was now back then and it still seems to be now, now. Anyhow, these are my favourites, feel free to comment if you agree ; )

Peaking Lights, Jonathan Wilson, John Maus, Bon Iver, Zomby, Little Dragon, Yuck, Antlers, Lana Del Rey, PJ Harvey.

Hightlights of 2011

davejenki — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:05:33 +0000

More coming tomorrow but for the now…

The Stone Barn Gloucestershire

davejenki — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:29:26 +0000

Phillipa and Simons wedding at the Stone Barn, more to come soon.

Lisloughrey Lodge Wedding Galway

davejenki — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:46:41 +0000

This was a special day all about people and celebration, with two of the most genuine people at it’s centre, Victoria and Timmy.

Two very lovely emails from Victoria and Timmy after the day:

Hi David

I hope you are well and had a safe trip back to England. I just wanted to drop you a line to say a huge THANK YOU for travelling to Galway to be part of our wedding day. I hope you enjoyed your time here. Timmy and I had a truly fantastic day and couldn’t be happier with how it all went. We had so many comments from friends on family about how great you were on the day and how you were so unobtrusive and blended in well with the guests. Thanks for that. Also things ran a bit behind schedule and I appreciate you staying on.

Thanks again for being so fantastic on the day and I will speak with you soon.

Many thanks

Victoria & Timothy Mullins

Hi David

First ……. OMG they are so beautiful you have me in tears! I absolutely adore them. The light is beautiful and we look pretty good ourselves – you are a miracle worker! I cannot wait to see them all. I cannot thank you enough. The photos to me were one of the most important parts of they day – our lasting memory of the wedding and I know I will never get sick of these photographs…. thank you, thank you, thank you!

This journey will be a real memory for me also so thank you to everyone in Ireland, for making the stay so enjoyable, especially Victoria and Timmy and their families for making me so welcome.

Kids at weddings

davejenki — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:56:29 +0000

Nothing beats it!

Film Is Not Dead

davejenki — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:03:24 +0000

In the peak of the wedding season, in the midst of opening our studio and right in the middle of the London riots this summer I decided to take three days in London at the Film is Not Dead workshop. I wanted something different, something inspiring but also something practical and that’s exactly what the workshop offered. I had known about Jonathan Canlas for a while and got the feeling he was a cool guy I’d heard an interview with him on the Inside Analogue Photo podcast (which for is essential listening for anyone interested film as is the new FINDers podcast) and he was so open and clear minded I knew this would be something great to experience. And it really was. It’s difficult to express here in words what it meant but simply it gave me that reconnection to photography; photography as an analogue process producing images that have an amazing feel – no tricks, no quirky just the pure form. Thanks to all the FINDers on the course and thanks to Jonathan. There are more to come but here are a few of the images.

The main man in the zone.