Pink is NOT your favourite colour.

You want to do things your own way - you aren't a slave to tradition. You appreciate the light, airy pastel colours of modern wedding photography but you prefer things to be more raw, real and authentic. You value people and places over stuff. You don't mind getting your dress dirty and your shoes muddy to get an epic photograph you'll remember forever. You don't like cheesy, staged, fake-smile formal photographs. You'd rather spend more time laughing with your friends and family than dealing with your photographer.

Choosing a wedding photographer is not about ticking a box off on your to do list.

 You know that you will be spending your whole wedding day alongside your photographer and you need to be able to get along with them. You also want to trust them to document your crazy day and reflect who you really are as a couple, not just work their way through a shotlist.

You aren't planning an 'off the shelf' wedding and you don't want a wedding photographer who treats you as an identikit couple.

Hey, I'm Barry.

When I'm not hiking up the fells on a pre-wedding engagement shoot, or photographing a teary groom seeing his bride for the first time on their wedding day, you can find me editing photos in the office of my bungalow in Newcastle.

I’m married to Alicia. We both love music and have been to Leeds music festival countless times over the years.

We have two children, Audrey and George. They are growing up far too fast. Since I got married, had children and started my photography business, it feels like someone has pressed the fast forward button on my life.

When I met Alicia I realised that my life could be extraordinary and that I could pursue my dreams. I became a husband, a father and quit my job to become a full time wedding photographer.

Wedding photography allows me to scratch my creative itch like nothing else. There's the emotional ups and downs of the day, there's the adrenaline buzz of capturing fleeting moments that can never be repeated, there's the travel and meeting new people.

I love mixing adventurous, climb-over-a-fence-and-risk-the-wrath-of-the-farmer-to-get-that-epic-sunset-shot with 100% pure documentary photographs of the father giving his daughter away.

YOU COULD SAY THAT I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHING MOMENTS AND MOUNTAINS.

DREAM WEDDINGS

Photography is a vocation for me, not a job. I became a photographer so that I could embrace new experiences and do fun, interesting stuff. 

So I came up with a list of dream weddings. If your wedding fits a wedding on my list, or you're doing something truly extraordinary, make sure you tell me about it because I'll apply a generous discount on my normal fee. Once that particular wedding idea is booked, I'll take it off the list!

• Lindisfarne Castle in Northumberland

• A forest wedding ceremony

• A wedding in a lighthouse

• Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle (The best independent cinema in the country - I used to work there!)

• A ruined or abandoned building wedding

• A destination wedding (outside the UK)

• An elopement in the Lake District or Scotland

• Hotel du Vin in Newcastle (that's where I got married!) // UPDATE // Photographed Charlotte & Peter’s wedding in July 2021

• A same sex marriage or civil partnership // UPDATE // Photographed Rachel & Lucy's wedding in July 2017

• A wedding by the sea // UPDATE // Photographed Ellie & James' wedding on the Northumberland coast in June 2016

• An outdoor humanist ceremony // UPDATE // Photographed Yoko & Stuart's wedding in County Durham September 2015

• A tattooed bride // UPDATE // I photographed Zoe & Liam’s Wedding in 2017

• A farm wedding // UPDATE // Photographed Katy & Tom's wedding at Dale Farm, Yorkshire in September 2016

• A New Year's Eve party // UPDATE // Photographed Alex & Sam's wedding at le Petit Chateau New Years Eve 2016