About James...

Hi, I’m James, 

I never did fulfil my childhood ambition to become a train driver. Instead I went to design college and ended up in a boring office job for far too long before a huge career switch when I joined the Police. However there was always an 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. After 6 years shooting photos, 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. See my wedding films in my portfolio.

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. 

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.