Hampshire Wedding Photographer - Martin Lewis Photographer

This is the blog of Martin Lewis Photographer - an experienced full time wedding and commercial photographer, based in Hampshire. Whether you are looking for high quality, yet realistically priced wedding photography in Hampshire, or a commercial or event photographer throughout much of Southern England, please contact me to obtain a high quality photography service.

If you are looking for a photographer for a future wedding, event or project, please feel free to get in touch ideally via email. I have a wide range of very affordable options for your wedding photography and can accept a future booking with a booking fee of just £100. I aim to offer new clients affordable options so as to reflect best value. This is approach is also particularly aimed at smaller and shorter weddings, for example. 

I am contactable via phone or email. I keep my mobile at hand most of the time, but email or text is the easiest for me unless you need to call if it is urgent. Whilst I use it a little and mainly for my business, I would ask that you don’t message me via Social Media as I may not see your message. I typically always reply to emails quickly so that you know. Clients can pay booking fees or balances via a cheque, or on line via debit or credit card or ideally via on line banking.

From my base in Emsworth, near Portsmouth and Chichester, I am happy to travel throughout the South of England. I hold full professional liability and indemnity insurances, PAT Tested and security checked too, for your added protection and peace of mind.

I aim to be as professional and also unobtrusive as I can throughout all aspects of my work. By meeting each client I can tailor what I can offer to adapt my approach to ensure that your collection of images portrays your memories in a way that is unique to you and exactly how you would want it. Please feel free to contact me to check out my availability and to find out more and to tell me about your own ideas for your photography.

I also aim to provide the most affordable mid week local wedding photography options. Please contact me if this interests you. You can call or email me.

I also cover commercial photography and some portraiture - such as business portraits or head shots and also on location. High quality event or commercial photography can make a real difference to the image of your business or brand, but can still represent great value. For a relatively modest investment, I can provide you with a range of bespoke images of your staff, products or premises, that you can use for advertising, PR, web design and email, annual reports, internal and external newsletters, press or editorial, or even interior styling. I am presently offering great rates for property photography for estate agents and individual vendors or landlords. Please do get in touch to see what I can offer you.

You can always see samples of these areas on my Facebook page, this blog, or my website portfolios.
Please see my Wedding Photography Portfolio for more information on the options for your wedding photos. To check my availability, please contact me via My website

I am also an experienced event photographer, covering special or equestrian events - such as birthdays, funerals and christenings, show jumping, showing and dressage, black tie events, graduations, ribbon cutting and all manner of opening ceremonies, product shots or open days or special events.

Happy New Year to all my previous and future wedding photography clients and friends.

 

Happy New Year to everyone. Having been a little slow to post blog updates over recent years I have decided to refresh my Blog, Instagram and Facebook business pages on a more frequent basis in 2024. The effects of the pandemic are clearly still being felt and the cost of living crisis isnt far from everyones minds either at the moment. 

Like lots of people, I have been recovering from a chest infection since Christmas, resting and shooting a couple of corporate / large parties and say around 5-8 houses per week over the Festive period for local estate agents. A number of recent New Year wedding photography enquiries have helped remind me that now is the season for proposals and planning for weddings. So I thought I might post a few 'portfolio' type photos here from recent weddings to help generate some interest in my work.

Especially if you are holding a short (half day or maybe a few hours) wedding ceremony or special event - please do get in touch and check my availability and see what I may be able to offer YOU. There are still some key Summer dates free for 2024 at the time of writing this text. Please do get in touch if you think I can help you. 2025 and 2026 dates are relatively free at the moment. So if you are planning longer term, please feel free to give me a call and together we can help you cross one item off your 'to do' list. 

 

As always these images are © Martin Lewis Photographer and are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and may not be used for any purpose without written permission from myself.

 

Wedding Photographer at the Old Thorns Hotel, Golf and Country Club, near Liphook in Hampshire.

Today I was at the Old Thorns Manor Hotel, Golf and Country Club, near Liphook in Hampshire. I was doing the wedding photography for Hannah and Luke.

Hannah and Luke were great fun to work with and clearly had an enjoyable time. After a short ceremony, we all headed out of The Hampshire Suite, for an afternoon and evening of photos, a wedding breakfast and celebrations into the night. You can see the website of the fab Old Thorns Hotel here: www.oldthorns.com

 
I hadn’t attended the venue for a year or so owing to lockdowns and Covid19. We were in the 'Hampshire Suite' and not the ‘Grand Ballroom’ location on this occasion at this fantastic venue. The highlights for me included photos on the golf course in some fabulous locations, with stunning views over Hampshire. 

We were driven around in a large golf buggy by the wedding coordinator who was very helpful and knew all the best places to visit. I have attached a few of those images to give you a flavor of the day and can’t wait until the next time I return to this fantastic (from a photography perspective) location for a wedding in Hampshire. 

I thoroughly enjoyed working at Old Thorns again and got on well with the wedding coordinator and colleagues who were all very helpful to me. 

The images will be available for viewing for Hannah and Luke and their families very soon.
As always these images are © Martin Lewis Photographer and are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and may not be used for any purpose without written permission from myself.

 

Wedding Photographer at the Marriott Meon Valley hotel, Shedfield near Southampton in Hampshire.

Today I was doing the wedding photography for Chloe and Elliot. I was at the Marriott Meon Valley Hotel, Sandy :Lane, Shedfield, near Southampton in Hampshire.

I use this blog to showcase a small sample of my on-going and full time photographic work. So you’ll see a lot more photos and work than words and thoughts on my blog. Hopefully, you’ll like what you see. Over the summer months I focus on getting a small selection of photos from each event live, rather than writing lots of text!

Attached to my blog are a few of my favourite photos from this day. I captured a good selection of images over the course of this day and usually present say 250 - 400+ 'High Res' images to each couple. The images were available for viewing very soon after the day.

For any remaining 2017 dates, I can offer some truly affordable options, with preferential rates on my wedding photography and particularly for small or shorter wedding bookings. So if that interests YOU at all - please do feel free to get in touch and check out my availability and see what options I may be able to offer you too.

As always these images are © Martin Lewis Photographer and are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and may not be used for any purpose without written permission from myself.

Wedding photographer at Froyle Park, Upper Froyle, near Alton in Hampshire

Today I was doing the photography for Sophia and Scott who married at Froyle Park, Upper froyle in Hampshire. I have uploaded some images here from their day and continue to showcase just a few images from each wedding I photograph on my blog. This wedding was reversed so that there was arrivals for an hour or two, then a wedding breakfast for a couple of hours, followed by a 5.30pm ceremony and then a party. So the meal was before the wedding itself - very unusual!

I have shown just a couple of images here and will typically do likewise for each of my weddings in 2017.
I am currently offering some very good rates and have some remaining availability for some 'late availability' key 2017 dates, subject to my availability. Please do get in touch - I look forward to possibly working for YOU too.

I will be completing my 'round' of local wedding fayres throughout the first quater of 2017 and so remaining 2017 dates (and 2018 naturally) will fill soon.

As always these images are © Martin Lewis Photographer and are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and may not be used for any purpose without written permission from myself.