About Your Wedding Photographer

Oh, so you want to know a little more about me?
I live in Pershore, Worcestershire with my beautiful wife and my two boys. I describe myself as being decent, kind, trustworthy, 
friendly, funny (occasionally funny if you ask my wife), devoted, determined, helpful, open-minded, empathetic, conscientious, silly, creative, optimistic, and genuine…to list a few.
I used to get told I looked a bit like Jim Carrey, but now I am older, I don’t hear that anymore (not that I liked it anyway). However, I have heard it mentioned I look more like Phil Mitchell these days and this is deeply upsetting!
If you want to label me, I suppose I am a tiny bit geeky. I love my gadgets and gizmos. We can’t all be perfect right?

I thought I would list a few of my likes and dislikes…

I love:

• my wife! She is gorgeous, kind, and thoughtful. She makes me laugh and is a wonderful mother to our two boys. We always have something to talk about, and she is my best friend. She inspires me to be better every day—not through nagging, but just by being herself. I couldn’t love her any more!
• being silly with my boys, making them laugh, playing games with them. Basically by being a big kid because they/I love it.
• photography! Funny that…I love street photography. It is easy to lose sight of your passions, especially when you do it as a job. I enjoy finding new ways to keep that fire burning and street photography does that for me.
• Jim Beam…. sometimes a Gin with Fever Tree Tonic! …with ice, a slice of lemon and a slice of lime! …or if I am feeling a little wild I might use grapefruit!
• getting wrapped up warm with a scarf and woolly hat and heading out, for a winter walk on the beach, when it’s blowing a gale.
• tea & coffee! My company is run on caffeine! I also love breaking the seal on a fresh jar of coffee. Who doesn’t?
• cuddles with my dog!
• sitting by a campfire, drinking G&T, and chatting with good friends….and maybe a cheeky toasted marshmallow or two!
• a big family Christmas!

 

I don’t love…

• peas, mushrooms & Sultanas! Yuck!
• my kids saying things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
• cheesy photography. Sorry, but I am afraid I broke my camera that does heart-shaped group photos…we will just have to use my normal camera instead!
• not seeing proper snow anymore. This makes me sad!
• people being hateful. Why can’t they just be nice to each other?! They should just sit down, breathe, and have a cup of tea and a biscuit. Aaaah…that’s better!

Since I left university in 2002, I have been lucky enough to work in Photography ever since. Although, when I left uni, being a wedding photographer was the LAST thing I wanted to do. Back then, wedding photography was going through a bit of a transition, from the staged, more static uninteresting formal style, to a more fluid, creative and natural look. People started taking wedding photography more seriously and the industry as a whole gained much more artistic credibility and respectability. I believe that was around the time I started with weddings, but I cannot be sure if the two are linked.

 

In my career, I:

• spent year after year in a dark commercial studio, photographing wine. Wine, wine and more wine!
• photographed products for a gadgets catalogue. The studio I worked in was the size of a cloakroom!
• moved to Cyprus and began shooting weddings full-time. Lots of sun, sea & sambuca.
• photographed the wedding of a Russian politician’s son. I have never seen anything quite like it in terms of opulence.
• had two gorgeous boys named Ashton & Joshua.
• moved back to the UK again where I have since travelled high and low around the British Isles. I love our little island!!

Now you know a little about me, how about letting me know a little about you and your wedding by organising a meeting with me? I would love to hear from you! Drop me an email at hello@duncancoxphotography.com