Photography Blog • 25th Nov, 17 • 0 Comments
Lesley Thomas Photography thought that we would post a link to a short video that we made featuring Graphi Studio's beautiful Design Box.
https://youtu.be/NFA5aMpTlcA
The pure and simple lines of the Design Box allow access to endless opportunities of customisation of your choice. Composed of three different elements, each of them fully customisable with different materials and colours, the Design Box is distinguished by a marked and modern style, whose main feature is the…
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Events and Updates • 3rd Nov, 17 • 0 Comments
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Really chuffed! Lesley Thomas Photography has been shortlisted into the finals under the Photographer of The Year category (North West Region)
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Events and Updates • 3rd Nov, 17 • 0 Comments
Really chuffed! For the third year running Lesley Thomas Photography has been shortlisted into the finals under the Photographer of The Year category (North West Region)
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Events and Updates • 16th Jul, 17 • 0 Comments
Our road was closed today but all in a good cause... to host IRONMAN! If you haven't heard of this gruelling event and missed out this time then don't worry there's always next year! The race starts at Pennington flash, Leigh with a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112 mile cycle ride, yup that's no typo, 112 miles around our very steep countryside, Rivington and Belmont. Next up is a marathon 26.2 miles... right passed our…
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Photography Blog • 14th Feb, 17 • 0 Comments
It's thanks to the Victorians that started the tradition to send a card anonymously and Venus' favourite flower...but what were the real origins?
Valentine's Day is thought to have originated from a Roman Festival known as Lupercalia, according to History.com.
The St Valentine that inspired the holiday may have been more than one man.
The saint officially recognised by the Roman Catholic Church was a real person who died around AD 270.
An account from 1400s describes Valentine as…
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Photography Blog • 24th Dec, 16 • 0 Comments
A Very Merry Christmas to all our lovely couples both past, present and future!
We hope you get the chance to put your feet up.
Cheers from Lesley & Mike xx
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Photography Blog • 20th Nov, 16 • 0 Comments
The roots of the modern practice of taking photographs at weddings goes right back to the birth of photography in its current form by the French pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
Due to the nature of the heavy and large equipment and the difficulty of lighting, photography was largely a studio practice for most of the late 19th century and this…
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Photography Blog • 23rd Oct, 16 • 0 Comments
We are delighted to have been voted one of five finalists in the category of Best Wedding Photographer in the North West by The English Wedding Awards 2016 #WeddingAwards. We…
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Photography Blog • 11th Oct, 16 • 0 Comments
As many of our customers will already appreciate we at Lesley Thomas Photography have had a partnership for many years with GraphiStudio in Venice, Italy, and we place our complete trust in them to print and bind all of our Wedding Books to a world class standard once Lesley has finalised the designs with our couples.
The Original Wedding Book™
This is the cornerstone of the GraphiStudio wedding book offering and remains the favourite choice with the…
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Events and Updates • 14th Sep, 16 • 0 Comments
It was such a pleasure to meet so many of you last Sunday 11th September 2016 at the amazing Northwest Wedding Show in the Macron Stadium in Bolton, where Lesley Thomas Photography and over 100 other exhibitors were met with an overwhelming response from future Brides & Grooms to-be, not to mention future Mothers-In-Law!!
Our brand…
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Photography Blog • 6th Sep, 16 • 0 Comments
At a pre-wedding consultation with one of our couples this week, they asked Lesley "what happens when it rains?". . . well, we told them, we always come prepared with a high stepladder and our fabulous fish-eye lens! This way even in the most confined of spaces we can easily capture every single smiling face, even within the full Group Shot.
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Photography Blog • 26th Aug, 16 • 0 Comments
At Lesley Thomas Photography we are massive fans of Canon cameras and lenses and have never ever considered venturing over to ‘the dark side’ (Nikon). Michael bought his first professional specification Canon camera way back in 1980, the now legendary Canon A-1 (pictured on the right above), which was a historically significant camera as it was the first SLR to offer an electronically controlled programmed auto-exposure mode.
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Photography Blog • 19th Aug, 16 • 0 Comments
According to Advanced Etiquette, the ‘bible’ of etiquette, "a personal, handwritten, thank-you note is the finest form of expressing gratitude". Last week you may remember that we reported that many of our couples are now asking that we take photographs specifically intended for use in a ‘Thank You’ card and a couple of further examples can be seen above.
You may also be interested to know that thank you notes and cards have been around since…
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Photography Blog • 11th Aug, 16 • 0 Comments
Many of our couples, especially here in trend setting Bolton, are now asking that we take some photographs specifically intended for use in a ‘Thank You’ card that will be sent to all of the guests that have come to celebrate their big day.
Most recently Phil and Ange asked us to take some shots of the lovely Bob, their miniature German…
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Events and Updates • 7th Aug, 16 • 0 Comments
We are really chuffed to report that we have once again been voted one of the Three Best Rated Photographers in Bolton.
And you may not know that with a population of 260,000 Bolton is the UK’s largest town and also the largest town in Europe!
In their own words Three Best Rated are “Focussed on…
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Photography Blog • 25th Jul, 16 • 0 Comments
At Lesley Thomas Photography we are often asked to describe the difference between ‘Candid’ and ‘Traditional’ photography.
‘Candid’ photography is also often described as ‘Photo Journalism’ or ‘Contemporary’ and ‘Traditional’ photography is also frequently described to be ‘Formal’ or ‘Classic’.
In ‘Candid’ photography the subjects are typically unaware that their photograph is being taken. This approach…
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Events and Updates • 18th Jul, 16 • 0 Comments
We at Lesley Thomas Photography are often asked by our newly wedded couples to document their subsequent “bump to baby” life changing experiences.
On this occasion we were very happy to be asked by Rachel & Chris Steadman if they could bring their very handsome newborn, Frankie, to our photo studio in Bolton, Greater Manchester, to document his progress at just ten days’ old.
As…
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Events and Updates • 12th Jul, 16 • 0 Comments
The Lesley Thomas Photography team were delighted to be invited by the very lovely Angie & Phil Gilmore to cover their most special day at Rivington Hall Barn, situated 8 miles north west of Bolton, capturing every moment from Bridal Prep to Ceremony to First Dance and then to Boogie Wonderland and beyond along with Manchester’s favourite function band ‘The Midnight Cats’, who had all ages funking the…
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Photography Blog • 4th Jul, 16 • 0 Comments
After an emotional wedding service at the stunningly picturesque Rivington Parish Church, our lovely couple, Abbie and Ford invited their 60 guests to celebrate in unique style by chilling at The Cowshed in Horwich, Bolton, and Lesley Thomas Photography were most honoured to be chosen to cover this very special day, all the way from morning Bridal Prep to the First Dance and far beyond.
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Events and Updates • 28th Jun, 16 • 0 Comments
The above photo was taken by Lesley Thomas Photography at Catherine & Martin’s wedding held at the fabulous Mitton Hall, near Whalley in Lancashire and it features our friends from Flossy & Leigh attending Catherine the bride.
We are very excited to announce that Flossy & Leigh have just won the Great Northern Wedding Awards for 2 categories! – ‘Best Hair’ and ‘Best Make-up’!
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Photography Blog • 17th Jun, 16 • 0 Comments
Heartfelt thanks to the generous and ever fun-loving “A-Team” Lisa & Shaun Cooper, (Shaun is also known by his ‘close’ friends as “Mr T”!!) not to mention all of their very special family and guests, for sharing their Wedding Day Celebrations in Bolton with Lesley Thomas Photography on Saturday 28th May 2016.
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Events and Updates • 10th Jun, 16 • 0 Comments
Last night we popped over to the massively impressive Etihad Stadium in Manchester, not to watch City play but to see the mighty AC-DC rock the night away.
Or should that read "AXel-DC"?
Michael had been looking forward to seeing AC-DC perform with Brian Johnson, as the last time he saw the band over 30 years ago (Mikei was still in nappies by the way) Bon Scott was their frontman. But sadly "Jonno" has now gone deaf and…
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Events and Updates • 31st Dec, 15 • 0 Comments
Counting down to the New Year with 12 hours to go...Wishing all our past, present and future brides and grooms a peaceful & prosperous 2016. Love Lesley X
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Events and Updates • 23rd Nov, 15 • 0 Comments
Delighted to have been nominated in the category of Best Female Photographer in the 2016 Great Northern Wedding Awards.
Past, present and future brides and grooms are eligible, please use the link below - it only takes a tick to vote!
http://www.littlewhitebooks.co.uk/nominatenow
Voting closes 7th December
Many thanks, Lesley X
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Photography Blog • 7th Nov, 15 • 0 Comments
Gorgeous personalised hangers!
If you're arty, read on...
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Uncategorised • 7th Nov, 15 • 0 Comments
...all you need to get started is a padded hanger...
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Photography Blog • 7th Nov, 15 • 0 Comments
or if you're tardy my personal favourite is the white rubberised hanger, nothing is slipping away from this little beauty - It's been created for knitwear, but suits everything. Are you listening Retailers!! I bought mine from the The White Company.
...oh and this one's not just for brides-to-be!
Lesley xx
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Photography Blog • 30th Jul, 15 • 0 Comments
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I am constantly amazed by the style, imagination and individuality of the brides I've photographed and that's my inspiration for starting this blog...
For over two decades fashion was my life. As a former fashion designer and bride I want to share that knowledge from the dress and veil to the cake and flowers and all wrapped up in a love of style. Photographing weddings has given me a newfound appreciation which I hope…
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