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I got a call from our local BBC Three Counties Radio the next day the newspaper was released and they wanted to interview me live on air regarding the Trash the Dress story. As I was busy that morning, the journalist & presenter visited the place where I was shooting and interviewed me on-location.
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I had the pleasure of photographing Hari & Adam’s wedding in the gorgeous island of Kita Kinabalu, Malaysia. This island in the Borneo, Sabah region of E. Malaysia and is about 2.5 hours flight from Kuala Lumpur. The wedding consisted of a traditional Indian Ceremony at the temple followed by a [...]

I’ve just been back from a wedding I shot in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. This little island is in the Sabah, Borneo region of Malaysia and is about 2.5 hrs flight away from Kuala Lumpur. It pretty much is heaven on earth. The beaches are just fantastic and I was quite fortunate to be invited to [...]

To help you get started in Wedding Photography, here are the Top 10 Tips for photographers who wish to get started in Wedding Photography:
1. Enjoy & Have Fun
Please do not go into Wedding Photography if you don’t enjoy weddings. You’ll need to handle pressure and always remember that you only get one chance at weddings. [...]

This post is all about the kind of images you ought to be photographing at a wedding, the detail / accessory shots at the place where the bride is getting ready. The kind of detail shots you must have for the album. What you want to do is to keep things extremely simple as there [...]

What is Mehendi ?
Asian Weddings whether be it a Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Gujarati or Punjabi are considered to be very sacred and sanctified affairs.

Mehendi ceremony is one of the most important pre-wedding rituals specially for the bride and her family. It is fun filled ritual with lots of singing & dancing.This ceremony [...]

In continuation of my last post ‘Networking for Photographers’, this post is about how to get your photography business promoted by other companies. For this you will need to create some ‘Gift Vouchers’ which are personalised for the company promoting it. They will offer this ‘Gift Voucher’ to their customers as a thank you for [...]

My 5-page portfolio has just been printed in Digital Photogapher Magazine’s Issue 94.

Glistening beads of snow begin to fall as the frost bitten bride makes her entrance to the chapel, its 15 degrees below zero yet she walks defiantly in her off the shoulder angelic white dress, elegantly and effortlessly disguising [...]

Most new digital cameras can produce amazing quality images at extreme high ISO. Don’t be scared of pushing your camera body to its limits. Obviously shooting in low light requires you to have a fast lens, this does make a hell of a difference when you are struggling to get the shutter speed. Winter weddings [...]

Here is my double-page spread article printed in this month’s Photo Pro Magazine. Enjoy.
Oz Kharawala has just returned from a wedding shoot to remember which involved him making a trip to one of the world’s craziest locations, the famous Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland
The trend for finding unusual venues for weddings has accelerated in recent [...]

A very interesting article  I read on Wall Street Journal which will be of interest to wedding photographers.
© Brett Arends
How much should you spend on a wedding dress? For that matter, how much should you spend on the wedding?
Hundreds of young women plunged into the annual Running of the Brides wedding dress sale in Boston [...]

One of the most exciting & challenging shoot I’ve ever done was during my trip to the Lapland, Arctic (well about 250kms north) in Sweden. The trip came about when I was booked to photograph a wedding at the world famous Ice Hotel in Sweden. This was roughly the same time when the Nikon D3s [...]