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Hi, I know that I haven't posted anything here for a while. I have been tremendously busy, working weddings - though not as many as 2012 - training and gaining qualifications. 2013 has seen quite a change. I have now qualified as a Master Photographer with the Master Photographers Association (MPA). I have spent a lot of time working on technique with models and making creative images, and  I now have an office manager/assistant/researcher as my husband Tony has come to work with me full time in the business.

This also has means that I now have a Twitter account @photos_by_SK and a new blog to support Sandra Keddie Photography. You can find that here. 

Thanks for following

Sandy

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Kim & Graeme, St Mirin's Cathedral, Paisley, and the Glynhill Hotel

Kim and Graeme were married at the St Mirin Cathedral in Paisley, after renovations last year, this cathedral is as beautiful as ever, a perfect place to get married and a lovely place for photographs, rain or shine.

As the car turned the corner and came to a stop, we caught a glimpse of Kim through the side window, she was just gorgeous and the Imperial from MET Wedding cars, was the perfect chariot for this princess!

After the ceremony, we stopped at Robertson park for some special photos with the bride and groom. It is always nice to get time with the bride and groom alone, no matter how short, they just seem to relax when not under the pressure of the whole family watching them! After the speeches and the meal, we also had the opportunity to take this beautiful evening photo Kim and Graeme when they were even more relaxed - don't you think its beautiful?

There are photographers who have left the wedding business, claiming it to be too stressful, too much work for not enough reward. This was certainly not the case today, what a joy, such lovely people, a beautiful venue for a ceremony and an absolutely stunning smiling happy bride! It is such a pleasure to be involved in wedding days like these!

Kim, Graeme, you were a pleasure to work with, enjoy the honeymoon and I hope you like these sample images.

Thank you also to MET Wedding cars, and especially to Neil who is ever helpful and always the perfect gentleman! 

Sandy

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Linsay and Carlos at the Culag, Loch Lomond

What do you get if you take a girl from Inchinnan and a boy from Venezuela and make them meet in a whisky bar in Madrid? You get a fabulous wedding on the shores of Loch Lomond, filled with  family, friends and happiness, followed by an evening mix of salsa and ceilidh dancing!!

Family and friends from near and very far gathered at the Culag on a gloriously hot summers' day. Linsay's colours were vibrant and the views across Loch Lomond were stunning. The Culag is a fantastic venue for smaller weddings, especially when you have the weather that Linsay and Carlos did.

There are now visitors from Venezuela convinced that Scotland is a sub-tropical paradise (with midges of course!). Carlos and Linsay had a wonderful day, and a surprise was also in store for Carlos; Linsay's mum had bought him a small piece of Scottish land, and she presented the certificate and honorary title that accompanied it at the end of the speeches.

Arise, Lord Carlos!! It truly was a day filled with love and laughter, a joyful coming together of families and cultures.

Linsay and Carlos, it was an absolute pleasure to be part of your special day. Thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy these sample images. More soon.

Sandy

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Colette and Sandy, St. Andrews Cathedral and the Old Fruitmarket

I was very excited to photograph Colette and Sandy's wedding, not only was Colette the winner of our Royal Concert Hall competition last year, but she and Sandy were getting married at St Andrews Cathedral and then on to the Old Fruitmarket, stopping at Glasgow Green for photographs! Nothing could be a more iconic, historic Glasgow wedding!

And the day did not disappoint. The sun split the sky, warmest day of the year by far, a lovely summer's day. St Andrews Cathedral is simply stunning, so beautiful since the renovations, and the memorial garden adds that wonderful mixture that you find in Glasgow; the modern architecture nestling sympathetically within the grounds of  ancient historical buildings. The Old Fruitmarket is also lovingly restored and now adds a very different function space to the Merchant City.  A great venue for a wedding reception.

Glasgow Green was Colette and Sandy's local park and so was a special place for the couple. On this fine summer's day, it was full of local colour, as they say!  It also provided us with some more stunning backgrounds and lovely much needed shade, allowing some more fun and personal images.

It was great to see Sandy put on his shades, take his jacket off, and relax. Colette was beautiful, bubbly and full of fun, just as she always seems
to be.

Colette and Sandy, thank you both so much for allowing me to share your special day.

Sandy

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Byron & Gillians wedding at The Bend, Nottingham Road, South Africa

As Gillian says in her speech "it takes a village to plan a wedding". And even if you have a wonderful village, which Gillian and Byron did, you still can't plan the weather, you just have to take it as it comes. The date was mid April, the area was the Midlands of South Africa in the province of KwaZulu Natal, the venue was a beautiful country house hotel called The Bend, near Nottingham Road. The planning had been some of the best planning ever done and everything was perfect, but the weather was unforgiving; it rained, and rained, and rained, and then it rained some more. It rained so much that  bridges overflowed, regular walkways turned to mud and even the pastor got stuck on the dirt road and had to catch a lift with a wedding guest in a 4x4. It really rained, Scottish style, I felt very much at home!!

Gillian & Byrons Short Wedding Film from Sandra Keddie on Vimeo.

The most difficult thing to show in capturing images, moving or still, is the genuine emotion of the day. It is easy to make things kitsch, ham them up for the camera, but really quite difficult to show the real people, as they are. Gillian and Byron made this very simple, because even though the weather was completely unexpected and some of those very well laid out plans had to be changed last minute, some even abandoned completely, the one thing that shone through (pun intended) was their tremendous love for each other and faith in their special day. They were calm, laid back, and just accepted whatever their day gave to them, and they were rewarded with the most beautiful wedding day, full of warmth and love and genuine emotion.

Gillian, Byron, please enjoy, and thank you so much for enabling us the opportunity and the flexibility to extend our skills and creativity and most of all to be part of your most special day.

Sandy

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KerryAnne & Cameron, St Ninian's and Sherbrooke Castle

If I ever leave Scotland and permanently return to South Africa the one thing I will truly miss is the long, lovely light summer evenings. There is a glorious, golden quality to the light, and those few evenings a year when it just stays light forever. It almost makes up for the 6 months of total darkness!! KerryAnne and Cameron were married on the hottest day of the year (so far?) and just had such a lovely time, laughing together and smiling and so obviously enjoying their day. It shows in the images, it really does. Thank you, and please enjoy these few sample images.

Sandy

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Amanda & Jason, Piersland House Hotel, Troon



As I have mentioned previously, I am not doing many weddings this year. But I was really looking forward to being part of Amanda and Jason's special day. It is always lovely to work with an adventurous couple who really want photographs. I know we need to get pictures of family groups and the bridal party. We also need to get traditional "couple" shots. Anything else is really what the couple wants. And they wanted photographs!

We had a wonderful day at the Piersland House Hotel in Troon. The weather was a bit erratic - Scotland, seaside, what do you expect - with bright sunshine, heavy showers and blowing gales, at one point all at the same time!. So what did Amanda and Jason decide to do? Play it safe and go indoors? No ... we got out the umbrellas for the showers and then after the meal we went down to the beach and joined the kite surfers! Fantastic, and they were rewarded with some great images. Amanda, Jason, congratulations again, please enjoy this sample, I hope it reminds of your wonderful, wild day.

Sandra

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