Emily was taking a peek out of a window when I spotted this image,
all that had to be done was to tidy the dress a bit
and ask her to bend her arms.

The amazing lighting effects were provided by Kerry,
my assistant, using flash in a way that only she can use it.

(Kerry is also currently being trained
in the art of dropping expensive equipment
just to see if it bounces off the ground).

We whizz off to the church (in Haydon Bridge) where a really friendly priest explains that I can take pictures from the rear of the church during the service.

Hah - I am armed with a lens as long as a telegraph pole, and am able to get some rather neat images
from my distant perch.

a guy who was standing in one of the rear pews & trying
to rock a baby to sleep - did set up quite a rhythm.
he swayed from side to side,
as he swayed left - I clicked -
he swayed right and blotted out my view -
then he swayed left again and I clicked again . . . . and so on.

 

Not spending lots of time on family pictures (Emily's request) we zoomed back to Langley Castle.

we took a couple of quick pictures outside
(just to show that we had a castle to play with for the day).

They even looked just as good as they wandered back !

Emily mentioned that she had cunningly placed some fireworks on the tables.

I couldn't find the bangers,
(I suppose a jumping jack under a table would have livened things up a bit !),
but the guests located the sparklers.

It was magic to watch -
no one had been told about them -
so it was a while before someone thought. . . what's this ??

they put the sparkler to the candle
and it lit up . . .

before long,
the whole room noticed and copied,
it was pure magic.

As is customary on our planet - evening followed day.

Emily and Chris had laid on a Band who travelled a great distance in order to set up.

And also a pretty brilliant disco.

Here we see the pair in action on the dance floor,
pure enjoyment on both faces.

As is my custom - a this point, I slid off into the night.

(actually - I slid off into my car - but sliding off into the night sounds a bit more dramatic).

Obviously totally unposed images . . .
Emily had asked for a picture at the castle gates.
this is something of a standard picture at Langley
(it shows the whole castle in the image)
but since absolutely everyone takes this picture,
I won't show it here.

however - in my hurry to get into a sensible position
(like - standing nonchalantly behind a tripod,
with camera pointing in the right direction)
I ran to the castle gates.

Emily and Chris saw us running and ran after us
(perhaps they thought we were fleeing
they came after us to make sure that we stayed to finish the job !)

Anyway - as they started to run,
I realised that they looked pretty good
so . . . not to put too fine a point on it,
I took a picture or two.