And so I`m back, from outer space! You just walked in to find me here with a look of shame upon my face.

Yes, here I am, shuffling shamefaced back onto my blog page after 5 long months without a post. I`ve been away too long. Things have just been hectic here for the past 12 months in terms of business and Realife© "stuff". But this is the first post of the year and I hope to make it the first of many!

So lets play catchup and go back to October 2010 and visit my most favourite venue in the UK. St Audries Park in Somerset. This venue is without doubt one of the best places I have ever shot a wedding - this was my second trip to St Audries - having shot a wedding there back in 2008 - it's a beautiful country house tucked away in the Quantock Hills. To me its a blank canvas - most country houses have lots of gaudy decoration on the wall, but at St Audries they have kept it simple - its hard to take a bad photo there!

I was shooting the wedding of Ivy & Richard, a fun young couple from London. The weather was a real mixed bag - it started out gloomy and misty with a drizzling rain. Just before the ceremony it tipped down, but by the evening things had brightened up and we managed to get outside for the portraits.

All images are clickable for a larger version! As always, comments welcome!