This is a picture I'm very proud of, and that I'd never have been able to make without digital equipment.

Here you see Joanne and Nischal Joshi on their wedding day in 2004 at Manchester Town Hall. It's an exquisite setting, but the vast spaces and dark stone walls are impossible to light.

Fair enough, I did a lot of work to produce this image, but I think you'll agree it was worth it.

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My approach to wedding photography is perhaps a bit unusual.

Just about everyone these days has a digital camera. So you know your friends and family will take loads of photographs on your wedding day. Some of them will be great. A very personal record of a the day that person had, and not a bit like ordinary wedding photography. But nobody can see it through your eyes, and you can't carry a camera at your own wedding!

So I'm there to do it for you. And I've had tons of experience in getting it right first time under tough conditions. I know what to look for, and when. Because I'm in among your guests, they'll be nice to me and let me get the shots you want. You can nudge me if you have an idea, and I'll keep my wits about me and my camera in my hand. And I won't run out of film.

I can't predict what photographs I'll take. Of course, there are certain key moments that I wouldn't want to miss, but the combined chemistry of each couple, their guests and their surroundings is unique. Sometimes the weather has been rotten, but it's never mattered.

Friends congregate in little groups, relatives who haven't met in years come face to face, kids act the clown. Aunties turn up in full ceremonial regalia, dads who last wore a suit on their own wedding day scrub up a treat, lads dress to impress the bridesmaids, mums glow with pride. You could miss a lot of that, in the thick of it as you are, so I'll wander off at times, infiltrate the crowd and bring it back to you.      Read on...