Its the time of year for a little self indulgent retrospective. I just went back through all this years blog posts and picked twenty of my favourite pictures. I hope you enjoy seeing them again.
From Mandy and Dan's wedding, taken in the Henry Holland corridor at Woburn: This shot's been requested several times since by couples having a Woburn wedding, but this is my favourite version.
A poignant moment caught by Karen of the lovely bride Charlotte and her mum Sue at Rushton Hall a few minutes before her wedding.
Jamie determined to climb up a slide and of course not making it. The colours in this shot always make me smile.
A studio photograph of Ellie from a hair competition shoot for Toni Perryman. This shot won Toni the UK runners-up spot in the Goldwell Trend Zoom challenge and trip to the Las Vegas awards ceremony.
This image from Claire and Toby's pre-wedding set has grown on me and now ranks as one of my favourite couple pictures of the year.
An infra-red photograph of the Sculpture Gallery at Woburn taken during one of this summer's weddings.
From a shoot with Abby and Barney her super-tolerant horse. The dramatic lighting effect was achieved by using studio flash equipment of the sort more normally used on fashion shoots.
From Rosanna and James' pre-wedding shoot. I do most pre-wedding shoots at the same location so its always fun to find a new situation to make an image. Must have walked past this sign a dozen times before including it in a photo.
Taken at a school prom. Of course the lighting would have been more adventurous if we'd been in the studio but as one of 250 unique photographs taken in 60 mins in a hotel foyer this doesn't look too bad to me.
From Sue and Nathan's urban portrait style pre-wedding shoot. The first time this appeared a few people asked where it was taken: answer is The Hub in Milton Keynes by the fountains.
One of my favourite baby pictures of the year: Luke with his father Ed taken at their North London home.
I could have chosen any number of bridal portraits but this one of Lisa has to be my favourite. The eyes have it.
From a creative day (portfolio shoot): hair and makeup by Toni Perryman, Georgia was our model for the day.
Another shot of Claire and Toby this time at their wedding. This image is in danger of being overused 
It's been our main promo image for the last few months and from last week has been hanging as a 40" canvas in the venue's reception (Coltsfoot Country Retreat).
From a location family shoot
We only had one wedding with fireworks this year. This is from Sue and Nathan's wedding at Rushton Hall last September.
I love Kay's smile in this shot during her and Adam's wedding ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church in Coventry.
From Alice's 'Love the Dress' shoot. She had an album of pictures from this shoot as a surprise Christmas present. Can't wait to hear what she thinks of it.
A young Masai taken during a photographic safari to Tanzania that I co-led for Gustafson Photo Safari
Finally a shot from Liv and Nick's snowy wedding last week taken at Woburn.
