Candid camera

One of my favourite parts of the day at a wedding is just after the ceremony. It's like everyone breathes a huge sigh of relief - she didn't trip over, no-one said 'take thee Rachel' by accident, no-one burst into tears - and the fun really starts...!

This is the best time for candid shots of the wedding guests - here are some of my favourites from Pandora and Oli's wedding last month:

A collection of incredibly photogenic guests, no?!

Poetry in motion

This week's theme is poetry. I used an old favourite from my bookshelf and took a few photographs creating bokeh from the words, highlighting my favourite lines and manipulating lights in the background of the shot to create a festive glow. I used my nifty fifty lens, set the aperture to f/1.8 to achieve a short depth of field, took the ISO up to 800 and set exposure compensation to -1.