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  • Wedding & Portrait Photographers

    We are Barrie and Bev Downie, wedding and portrait photographers offering artistic wedding photography and contemporary lifestyle portraits.

    Barrie is listed as one of the top 10 winter wedding photographers in the UK by Professional Photographer magazine. We are both passionate about the work we produce and travel across the UK and Europe photographing beautiful weddings.

    Our studio near Chichester is perfect for contemporary portraits for individuals, families and even pets. We also offer beautiful boudoir photography for your special someone. If you prefer an outdoor lifestyle portrait, we have a variety of suitable locations nearby.

Wedding Photography at Horsted Place

It was the first wedding of the year for us yesterday when I had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of Sarah and Anthony. The ceremony took place at the magnificent Our Lady of Ransom Church in Eastbourne. Sarah and Anthony are both Professional singers in the Glyndebourne Opera Chorus so the music and singing at the church raised the hairs on the back of my neck! The wedding party then headed back to Horsted Place near Uckfield for the reception. Horsted Place is such a great venue, warm and welcoming on what turned out to be a very mild January day! A wonderful meal, funny and moving speeches and a hilarious first dance finished the day off for me and I left the party in full swing! Thank you for letting me be a part of your day.
Bev

Photography training at the SWPP convention 2012

We have just returned home from a very fun and hectic week at the SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) Convention held at the Novotel in Hammersmith, London. We spent the first two days judging the print competition and Qualification panels and then on the final three days we gave three talks, one on lighting, one on posing and one on DSLR filming. We were also able to see a few talks by other photographers and catch up with old friends and meet lots of new people.

The images below are from the Lighting Winter Weddings Superclass on Sunday.

We are really looking forward to next year already!

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