About James...

Hi, I’m James, 

I never did fulfil my childhood ambition to become a train driver. Instead I ended up in a boring office job, then I joined the Police (the emergency service, not the band), but there was always a creative itch that I needed to scratch.

So 14 years ago I quit the police, got ‘The Fear’ and started my own business taking photos at weddings. I was always a bit of an arty kid and that led to me studying graphic design at college. On that course I did three photography modules and I absolutely did NOT fall in love with photography. Actually, I really disliked using film. I hated messing about with the developing and even if I wanted to, I couldn’t get into photography because of how insanely expensive it all was (I know it’s cool to say how much you love shooting on film now, but honestly, I really, really don’t like using film).

However, I did enjoy the creative part, taking the photos. Fast forward a few years, digital cameras appeared and editing could be done on a computer…

“Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.”

And that was it, I bought a DSLR and that changed everything. What started out as a hobby, quickly became a career. My wedding photography business took off pretty much straight away and soon I was shooting 50 weddings a year all over the U.K. However the creative itch was still there, I needed to create moving images. After 6 years shooting stills, I stepped into the world of wedding film maker. 

I’ve now shot over 500 weddings all over the U.K. at some amazing venues, I’ve been taken around the world (including France, Tuscany, Ibiza, Las Vegas and New York), I’ve hosted workshops to help other wedding photographers and videographers and have won a few awards along the way, including the 2023 Wedding Industry Awards North West Wedding Videographer of the Year. I absolutely love making wedding films and it never, ever, feels like a job.

I’m borderline addicted to Yorkshire Tea (Gold, only the top tier stuff), possibly the world’s biggest fan of The Sopranos and I’m a geeky Formula 1 nerd. I’m always planning a holiday (with New York being my favourite city in the world, it’s where I proposed), I’m an 80’s movie geek, chief bin putter-outer, pizza lover, husband to my beautiful wife Laura and dad to my two cute, funny girls Ana and Jaime. My other part-time job is dad-taxi taking them to netball training and matches and I’m now a new fan of netball and love watching Ana and Jaime play every week.

We live in the hills of Saddleworth, right on the border of Lancashire and Yorkshire. I’m happy to travel anywhere to shoot a wedding and my absolute favourite thing in the world is when I walk back into my house to see my wife and girls. Nothing beats that, especially when there’s a Yorkshire Gold waiting.