Wollaton Hall Engagement Photography with Katie & Alex – Nottingham Wedding Photographer Simon Dewey

Last week I got a phone call from Kathryn –  She and Alex are getting married next year and were looking for engagement photography. I managed to fit them in over the weekend and we decided on Wollaton Hall and Country Park as the venue.

Wollaton Hall and Country Park are beautiful, a wonderful retreat in the centre of nottingham. As I pulled in to the car park placid deer snoozed just feet away, and I was reminded of my previous visit, and my dad trying to get shots of deer from about a mile away through a 400mm lens (we’d obviously chosen the wrong day to visit)

In fact, Batman lives here, in the newer Batman films. It’s the Wayne Mansion. They’ve got a great big Batman beam out front

Anyway. Alex and Katie were so easy and fun to work with. Obviously there’s a bit of a height difference there, Alex being a strapping rower and Katie being a tiny rowing cox.

I was determined to get a good silhouette shot (I don’t know why, I just felt like it) so thought it was my lucky day when I saw the sun bouncing off the lake and dragged them both across the golf course, only to find a giant hidden ditch (which Alex informed me was called a ha-ha). We still made it round though and got a few shots against the lake, which are definitely my favourites of the day. A big thank you to Katie and Alex for being so up for it, especially as Alex had come straight from training.

We also stumbled across some other photographers out doing an engagement shoot. If you’re out there reading this (or if you’re the couple who were being photographed) it would be great to hear from you and maybe compare field notes.

Did I mention that it was also a cold, cold day and I discovered just how easy a detour to the cheesecake shop in Bramcote is?

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Simon Dewey

weddings@simondewey.co.uk

07749 127201

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