Just returned from a lovely weekend oop north, celebrating at the wedding of our friends Sally & Michael. A fantastic time altogether - full of friends and laughter, just as these things ought to be.

Something I remember very clearly from my own wedding day, eleven months ago, was that the whole day felt like a happy blur, almost dreamlike, and saturated with intense colour, with everything seen through a filter of almost overwhelming happiness and emotion. Vivid. Alive. Fleeting. Intense.

I wanted to see if I could echo that in the pictures I took at the evening reception on Saturday. Since I was under no obligation to faithfully and accurately record the people and events of the night - there were plenty of people with cameras, and an official photographer, to boot - I decided to experiment with using long(er) exposures, in order to try and reflect the way the day felt, not just how it looked.

So nothing posed. No flash used. Minimal photoshop touching-up (a little gamma correction here and there, but nowt else). I’m pretty pleased with the results.