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Nic Cleave Photography joins Facebook!

Monday, June 7th, 2010

After years of resisting social networking sites (for fears of Nic spending even more time in front of the computer than he currently does,) we have been receiving such a high volume of ‘friend requests’ from past and present clients, that we have decided to create a Nic Cleave Photography Facebook page.

Click here if you’d like to visit us on Facebook and please leave a message or send us a friend request so we can stay in touch with you.

Although we’ll be posting recent news and a few images from recent weddings and location-based portrait sessions Nic has photographed, we will still be using this blog as the main area for previewing Nic’s most recent work, news, and for displaying the kind comments he receives from his couples and families.

We are looking forward to hearing from all of you soon and especially to catching up with a few former clients that we haven’t heard from for a year or two.

Diana.

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The New House Country Hotel wedding, Thornhill Cardiff

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

It was my pleasure to photograph the wedding of Philip and Claire last Saturday at the beautiful New House Country Hotel, Thornhill overlooking Cardiff and the bay.

After capturing the story of Claire’s preparations at her parent’s home in the morning, we moved on to the beautiful St. Catwgs church in the quiet picturesque village of Pentyrch. After the service we made the short trip to a private location for a stunning backdrop to Philip and Claire’s ’bride and groom’ photos.

This private school was the same location that featured last month in Philip and Claire’s location-based engagement session, and the forecast heavy rain showers stayed away leaving a moody sky that only added atmosphere to this fantastic location.

Photographer’s in Wales are spoilt for choice when it comes to locations for wedding day photography, but it’s always refreshing to be able to capture special images of a couple on their big day, somewhere ‘different’. This ensures that really unique images will be available to chose from when it comes time to select photos for the album!

After a stroll through the grounds of the school, mixing natural reportage opportunities with some more posed shots, we headed back to the cars for the short trip to The New House Country Hotel in Thornhill.

This stunning Cardiff wedding venue is set high up on a hillside with panoramic views over Cardiff city and Cardiff bay. With the rain holding off until all the outside photography was finished, the stormy sky once again added some drama to the small but important selection of group photos that we made in 20-30 mins, before heading inside for cover!

After a fantastic wedding breakfast, the cake was cut followed by the speeches to finish off a the formalities of a fantastic day for a great couple. I hope you have enjoyed the sneaky peak images above and would like to invite family and friends to leave Philip and Claire a personal message below.

All of the stunning images from this special day are now available to view as a slide-show accessed from this page of our website.

As always my thanks must go to Philip and Claire for inviting me to capture the story of their big day. It was my pleasure to photograph you both with your family and friends. Have a great honeymoon guys. Safe travelling and I hope there’s no volcano disruption to your journey home.

Nic

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King Arthur Hotel wedding, Gower near Swansea

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

It was my pleasure to photograph the wedding of Neil and Lesley last Friday at the beautiful King Arthur Hotel on Gower near Swansea.

After capturing some preparation photos of Lesley with her daughter and three other bridesmaids, it was over to the meet Neil and the guys in the cottage to see the finishing touches to the suits.

After a civil ceremony in the main room at the King Arthur, reception drinks were served and everyone enjoyed the warm spring sunshine. Once watered we spent 20-25 minutes capturing a few special group shots of family and friends, and then I walked with Neil and Lesley in the beautiful grounds for 30 minutes to capture a lovely set of bride and groom photos.

After more drinks in the sunshine it was time to head inside for the wedding breakfast, cake cutting and speeches, which brought my involvement in the day to a close.

If you were at this wedding I hope you have enjoyed the sneaky peak images above and would like to invite you to leave Neil and Lesley a personal message below. For those friends and family members who would like to see all of the images from this special day, please click here to access the slide-shows which are now ready to view!

Finally a big thank you to Neil and Lesley for inviting me to your day. I hope you enjoy the photos and have a great time in Barcelona on honeymoon. Safe travelling guys.

Nic

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‘Secret’ Cardiff location-based engagement portrait session

Monday, April 12th, 2010

It was my pleasure to photograph Claire and Philip’s location-based portrait engagement session on Sunday, at a secret location near Cardiff in South Wales.

The reason for the secrecy is that the beautiful house and gardens which feature as the stunning backdrop for this e-session are privately owned and used as a school. Claire and Philip of course had been granted special permission to use the location for both their location-based engagement session, and for their bride and groom wedding photos, when they get married next month.

The house, which has been used as a secret filming location by many tv and film companies provided a fantastic backdrop to the session, providing complete beauty and peace and quiet, which allowed Claire and Philip to relax together as they were photographed.

After a quick tour of the grounds together, it was back to the car to pick up the cameras and equipment, and then off for a photographic tour of the location.

Almost 50% of our couples now include a location-based engagement portrait session in their wedding photography package, as it allows them to have a ‘dry run’ of the photography part of their big day. It allows each couple to receive lots of useful helps and tips which really do ensure that they look their best in the photos, not only at their e-session but perhaps more importantly on their big day.

An engagement session also helps couples to relax while being photographed by a professional photographer, again something which will certainly show on the later wedding images, and of course provides an opportunity for a couple to plan with their photographer where and how the photos will be taken on the wedding day, all invaluable preparation to ensure everything runs smoothly on the big day itself. To find out more about our popular location-based engagement portrait session, please click here.

We hope you have enjoyed the photos above from Claire and Philip’s engagement session, and if you know them would like to invite you to leave them a personal message below. If you know them and would like to see the complete set of images from this session, please click here to access the slide-shows.

My thanks must go to Claire and Philip who were great to photograph. Guys, I hope you enjoy viewing the photos as much as I did making them with you. I’m looking forward to photographing you again with your families and friends next month, as you celebrate your wedding day at the beautiful New House Hotel in Cardiff. Good luck with the last minute planning!

Nic

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New studio ‘Intimate’ storybook album arrives!

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010


We have today received our new studio sample ‘Intimate’ storybook album set (A4 sized album measuring 12 x 8 inches.) Featuring the fantastic recent wedding of James and Lee from September 2009, this new sample album is now available to view by couples who come along to the studio to meet with us, and of course will be coming with us to the weddings fayres we’ll be attending in February.

If you’d like to see the kinds of images contained in this new storybook album, please click here to read James and Lee’s blog entry from last September. This album of course replaces one of our favourites in recent years, the wedding of Ellie and Jez from Cardiff. (click here to see their album or click here to see their wedding published as a ‘Real Wedding’ feature in a leading wedding magazine.) Thank you to both couples for allowing us to show your personal images to our prospective couples. We are looking forward to sharing this new story of James and Lee’s day with the many couples we’ll be meeting over the next 12 months.

If you’d like to see a gallery full of images of our full range of storybook albums, parent albums and mini albums etc, please click here.


Remember our storybook albums are NOT the same as you’ll find from other photographers. We are very proud of this fact and it’s one of the many reasons our couples choose us. The main ones are as follow:

1) We use probably the finest album producer in the world to print and bind our storybook albums. No paper thin pages like the coffee table books some photographers supply and claim to be ‘storybook albums.’ We supply only full-sized albums, so there are no ‘hidden costs’ in supplying cut-down versions of the albums initially with our packages, hoping that you’ll want a bigger and more expensive album later!

2) Each album is designed carefully by Nic using the unique images from your day, from scratch. Nic does not use album design software that relies on templates which make all albums look the same. Each album produced is a unique and highly personal reflection of the story of your day and is designed by him from scratch, every time.

3) Nic does not simply send off a disc of 100 images from your wedding to an album company that employs third-rate graphic designers and illustrators to design his albums for him. Nic was the photographer on the day who witnessed your story unfolding before his camera, so is the best person to re-tell the story of your day through the design of your unique storybook album.

4) Nic does not rely on date sensitive design trends to create a wow factor or high impact for low quality images. Instead he prefers to let the high quality of your wedding photographs do the wowing and impacting themselves. This ensures his albums are as ‘future proof’ as possible.

To read more on why Nic’s range of storybook albums is so popular please click here.

Nic.

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