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| Beautiful bride, overjoyed to be in the snowy Welsh Valleys |
In reality the bride above would have her hair soaking wet from the mist, the hem of her lovely dress black and sodden with mud and her beautiful arms like the carcass of a turkey with goose bumps and frozen flesh........ nice.
Even photographers have to take a holiday in the sun eventually…..! When they become desperate enough.
The desperation
this time was caused by the longest, coldest, winter most people up here in the Welsh Valleys can remember. With a summer of wall to wall welsh wet to look forward to, a trip to
Majorca at the end of April seemed to be a necessity for health and sanity
reasons and for the health and safety of the brides I shall be photographing.
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| Majorcan idyll, a great place for a wedding |
For most of
my working life since my children were large enough to fend for themselves I
have taken holidays covering colourful events in France, the Gipsy Pilgrimage
from Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, being one of my favourites and various pageants
in Spain and Italy coming in close runners up, because the pictures still sell
and the events are fun in themselves.
This April
trip had no monetary motive. Rest, relaxation and a little roasting in the
Mediterranean sun was the sum total of my aspirations. However although I
resisted taking my wedding cameras and my favourite lenses (that hurt) a camera is still a must.
Not a lager lout in sight, the plastic cups are there to preserve the safety of little feet, and the lovely
racing yachts below give Arenal a decidedly elegant air.
My battered FujiFinePix with its 28-300 mm lens is always the camera I choose for family snaps and beach outings and despite the lack of control in focusing and it’s inability to produce sharp images when the lens is covered in sand or greasy fingermarks, it does produce some surprisingly attractive images. Particularly some delightful sunsets, something I have never been lucky enough to encounter in Wales!
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| A classy venue, except for the plastic cups. |
racing yachts below give Arenal a decidedly elegant air.
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| Yacht racing in the charming seaside town of Arenal |
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| At the end of a hot day, a glorious display by the setting sun |
Any beautiful Welsh bride deciding to get married in the sunshine of Mallorca, I'm ready and available, my Spanish is excellent, my skills unquestioned and what's more, I know exactly where to find the best sunsets.
Which is not to say that I won't be only too happy to provide a large white umbrella and the identical skill set anywhere in the triangle between the Gower, Brecon and Cardiff.
To see more, slightly warmer brides visit my website
