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Worcestershire Wedding Photography - Special offer

February 27, 2010 Posted in Birmingham, Solihull, Weddings, West Midlands, Worcestershire

Hello there, David (dp) here from www.davidpurslow.com - I am a wedding photographer based in Worcestershire in the West Midlands.

The following two photos were taken while I lived in Pembrokeshire and are of fantastic couple who’s wedding is coming up pretty soon.  The photos were taking during an engagement shoot - which I include in some of my packages.

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The following image has had a bit of an ‘art’ touch added to it - for web sized images it does not look its best but as a big wall art sized photo it looks amazing :-)

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So what does this have to do with special offers ?

Well check this out.

Worcestershire Wedding Photography Offer

Since I am have only just moved to Worcestershire and many of the couples up this way may not know much about me, I am going to give away 2 FREE engagement shoots for the first 2 couples having Worcestershire Weddings, Gloucestershire Weddings, Birmingham Weddings, Codsall Weddings or Solihull Weddings.

If you found this post via a search engine and have not visited my website yet, your can visit my Worcestershire Wedding Photographers website by clicking here.

On my website you will find.

Full wedding photography prices

Photos of wedding albums and other great wedding photography special offers

Reasons to book a professional wedding photographer

Customers testimonials

An availability checker to see if I am available for your wedding.

So dont forget - for the next 2 weddings booked in the West Midlands I am going to include a free engagement shoot.

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Worcestershire & West Midlands Wedding Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
david@davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114
0759 007 6666

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A couple of Black and White wedding photos

February 23, 2010 Posted in Birmingham, Solihull, Wales, Weddings, West Midlands, Worcestershire

Hello there, dp here from www.davidpurslow.com - we provide upscale wedding photography for Worcestershire & West Midlands.

Today as well as other things I was putting the finishing touches to the story book wedding album for Lorraine and Mark whos wedding I shot last year.  The day of their wedding was a challenging one weather wise with high winds and rain throughout the day - but its that kind of challenge I think separates the men from the boys.

So while choosing images today there were 3 that stood out to me as great candidates for conversion to black and white photos, 1 is one of my favorite wedding photos from last year and is up on my website and was one I featured in the Gallery at Courtneys Bridal.

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I just love these 3 photos, and they bring back good memories for me, ones where I was getting wet while lying on the floor in puddles of water to get the shot of the couple by the castle - but thats just all part of the job - its also why there is always a complete change of clothes in my camera bag :-)

I cover weddings mainly in Worcestershire and the West Midlands however I am happy to travel pretty much anywhere in the UK for nice weddings that will create visually stunning photos :-) - you can find out more about my wedding photography here.

Also if you look at the post below (if your on the main page) or click this link if your not - Currently I am offering a MASSIVE DISCOUNT for couples looking for a wedding photographer in Worcestershire, Birmingham and a whole lot of other places around the Midlands, Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds. - The reason is that I have just moved to Worcestershire so am pretty much unknown here at the moment.

Right off to bed, hope you like these 3 photos, I think they made cracking black and white conversions.

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding Photographer
www.davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114 / 0759 007 6666
david@davidpurslow.com

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Worcestershire and West Midlands Wedding Photography - special offer

February 22, 2010 Posted in Birmingham, Solihull, Weddings, West Midlands, Worcestershire

Hello there, dp here from www.davidpurslow - and I am a Worcestershire and West Midlands Wedding Photographer

Unless you found this link via a search engine, I hope by now you know that I am a wedding photographer based out of Hartlebury, just outside of Worcester in Worcestershire in the West Midlands.  I am fairly new to the area having previously been based in Pembrokesshire in West Wales.  I moved to The Midlands at the start of February which came right in the middle of the booking season for 2010 / 2011 weddings.  We moved following health issues with my mum and decided we needed to be closer to the family so we made the hard decision to leave our beloved Haverfordwest but family comes first.  I still shoot weddings in West Wales with over 20 there this year and 1/2 a dozen so far there for 2011.

So being the newest Wedding photographer in Worcestershire I needed to come up with something really special to help me stand out.  Yesterday I visited the Worcestershire Wedding Fair at 6-ways at the Worcester Rugby Club and saw that there are some really good photographers up this way and was actually surprised that the cost of high quality wedding photography was actually higher up in the midlands that in wales.  I dont know why I was surprised really having spent the past week looking at wedding venues in Worcester, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Codsall nr Wolverhampton and Gloucestershire its obvious to me that first, there are LOTS AND LOTS more brides and grooms getting married up this way (lets face it, Birmingham and the Midlands come second only to London in terms of population) The second thing I noticed was there are some amazing Stately Homes, Country Houses and Boutique wedding venues in this area - these are my kind of venues and the perfect place for my flamboyant and creative style of wedding photography.

What I did notice at the wedding fair is that pretty much every single photographers were offing albums that limited the number of photos or pages in the wedding albums and some started off with really small wedding albums which in my humble opinion should really be parents albums not wedding albums.

So whats the special offer I decided to come up with  - here is is

Wedding Photography Special Offer

I have designed a special collection for the first 3 couples who book me for wedding up this way.  (again if you found this post via a search engine then I suggest you visit my wedding photography website and the Why book David page on my website)  So for the first 3 couples who book me for wedding taking place in either 2010 or 2011 this is what you will get.

  • Wedding photography coverage from Bridal Preparations till your first dance
  • 50 thank you cards featuring your favorite wedding photo and information for your guests how to view your online gallery
  • An online gallery of all your wedding photos split into catagories and with slideshows for each one
  • A CD of all the images at web sized for facebook etc
  • A DVD of all the digital files from you wedding - the digital negatives so to speak
  • A DVD of your wedding album set to your first dance song that you can play on your TV and show off your wedding on the big screen
  • An UNBELIEVABLE wedding album - A huge story book wedding album with up to 80 pages and up to 250 photos included

All this would normally cost £3100.00 via my normal prices however for the first 3 couples who book me now I have moved I am making this available for only £1600.00 thats a saving of £1500.00 - The album is an 8×12 inch story book wedding album - you can see exactly what it looks like by visiting my Albums page on my website and you can also view a slide show of an 80 page album by clicking here.

If you would like to splash out just a little bit extra then for an additional £399.00 for (£1999.99 in total)  I will upgrade the wedding album to the totally awesome and monstrously big 10.5 x 14 inch album - its lush, big, heavy, super duper impressive and guaranteed to make your friend and family’s jaw drop to the floor !

This offer is applicable to weddings taking place in…….

  • Weddings in Worcestershire
  • Wedding in Birmingham
  • Weddings in Solihull
  • Weddings in Codsall
  • Wedding in Sutton Coldfield
  • Wedding in Gloucestershire
  • Weddings in the Cotswolds
  • Weddings in Herefordshire
  • Weddings in Shropshire
  • Wedding in Staffordshire

For select weddings taking place in other parts of the country I may well consider extending the offer to you,  so if your wedding is not taking place at any of the venues listed above call me or drop me an emial - my number is 01299 250 114 / 0759 007 6666  and my email is David@davidpurslow.com

If you have any questions please feel free to get intouch,

talk to you soon,

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114
0759 007 6666
david@davidpurslow.com

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New Blog Sections - For Brides & For Photographers

February 20, 2010 Posted in For Brides, For Photographers, Marketing Tips, Nikon CLS, Photography Tips, Uncategorized

Hello there guys,

As though I don’t have enough to do, over the next few weeks I am going to be totally making over my blog - I will be cutting a lot of the sections out and adding a couple of new ones.

The two new sections are going to be For Brides and For Photographers

For Brides

This section will be were I post interesting stuff for couples planning their weddings. Its going to be a wedding photography free section with no plugging of my services but will be a way to give back to the people who let me live the life I live and who have allowed me to follow my dreams - YOU - my clients.

To give you an idea of the kind of stuff I will be digging out for you to take a peek at, this is the kind of stuff I will find for you.

Personalized Coat Hangers - wait its not as boring as it sounds, How about something really special to hang your wedding dress on or even some really funky gifts for the best man, the father of the bride or just about anyone you can think of ……. take a peek

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Pretty cool yeah ? - You can find out more about these hangers by CLICKING HERE - this link will take you to their website.

For Photographers

This section of the blog will be information for both people who just want to take better photos and want to learn how to use their cameras better as well as newer wedding photographers.  It will be a general information and technique section with detailed photoshop tips, advanced lighting tips using off camera lighting and using the Nikon CLS system.  I will also take you thru what its like to shoot a wedding, the process of the day and how I go about creating the slide show on the night kind of stuff.   I will also use this section to inform photographers about my off camera lighting courses that I run.

Stay tuned and over the next few weeks these sections will start to appear.

Take care,

Ciao

David

David Purslow
Worcestershire Wedding Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
Phone 01299 250114 / 0759 007 6666
david@davidpurslow.com

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Worcestershire Wedding Photographers :-)

February 17, 2010 Posted in Birmingham, Uncategorized, Weddings, West Midlands, Worcestershire

Hello there,

David here from www.davidpurslow.com

If your new to me, welcome I will fill you in all about me in a moment- if your a regular visitor and I know there are dozens of you, welcome back.

Its official We have moved from Pembrokeshire to Hartlebury in Worcestershire.  We moved due to health issues with my mum, over Christmas Nikki and I made the heartbreaking (but easy to make) decision to leave Pembrokeshire and move up this way to be closer to the family.

I have over 20 weddings in Pembrokeshire in 2010 and will be traveling up and down to cover each one, I have talked to my brides and made them all aware of the situation.   I am also still accepting wedding in Pembrokeshire for 2010 and 2011 as I have plenty of places to stay and its only 3 hours away.

But that now means I am a……..

Worcestershire Wedding Photographer

Since we are located in Hartlebury in Worcestershire, between Kidderminster and Worcester to be exact, it means we are well placed to cover the whole of not only Worcestershire but Herefordshire, Birmingham, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Malvern, Worcester, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and The Cotswolds.

When people first view my work they describe it as  a mixture between contemporary and reportage wedding photography.  What I aim to do is tell the story of your wedding day as it unfolds.  My typical coverage provides you with photography coverage from  Bridal Preparations all the way through to your first dance as man and wife.

I produce beautiful story book wedding albums  - To mark our move from Pembrokeshire to Worcestershire we totally re-did our website so we have an all new Worcestershire Wedding Photography website located at www.davidpurslow.com On our website one of the new pages is the Wedding Albums Page - this page gives you a really good view of our Fine Art Story Book Wedding Albums, Photo Story Book Wedding Albums, Our Guest Signing Books, Traditional Matted Albums and a range of Modern Wedding Albums.

To give you an idea of what you will see there, here is a photo of some of the albums produce.

Another great new page on our website is the Why Book David page - this page has been in development for a while and really explains my shooting style and give you a great idea of what to expect.

The funny thing is I am originally a Worcestershire wedding photographer having grown up in Kidderminster.  Nikki and I moved 6 years ago as a result of being booked for a wedding down that way.  After a couple of weeks back in the Midlands its starting to feel like home again.  I remember lots of great wedding venues around Worcestershire and the West Midlands, places such as Grafton Manor, Hagley Hall, The Lygon Arms, The Abbey Hotel, The Curradine Barns, The Elms and the place Nikki and myself got married - The Lenchford Inn.

We offer an all inclusive wedding photography package which includes everything you could want and we DONT charge extra for traveling within Worcestershire, Herefordshire, The West Midlands, Birmingham, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Avon and Bristol, The Cotswolds, Warwickshire or pretty much anywhere in the UK.

Talking about wedding photography in Warwickshire, one of our favorite venues for to take photos at  is the Arrow Mill Hotel the grounds here are beautiful.

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Over the next couple of Months we are going to offer ridiculous special offers on Wedding Photography so if your looking for a wedding photographers in Worcestershire, The Midlands, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, Birmingham etc then give us a call.

Be sure to check out our wedding photography website to see all our prices and check often as our specials will change on a regular basis.

We are proud to be the newest wedding photographers in Worcestershire we think this makes us work harder for you as each new wedding is a way of us building up our reputation up this way.  Make no mistake, we are not new to wedding photography and we are not a part time wedding photography business - this is what we do full time, this is all we do.

Being heavily inspired by some of the best wedding photographers in the world means I dont stand still with my photography.  When I am not shooting wedding or engagement shoots, I am constantly taking courses and challenging myself to grow as a photographer.  I have been lucky enough to study with not 1 but 2 of the Top 10 Wedding photographers in the WORLD !!!!!

We also shoot Bridal Boudoir and we pride ourselves in the sensual quality of our Boudoir photography - Being masters of lighting makes our boudoir photos stand apart from the rest. - We dont often publish our boudoir photography photos  due to client confidentially however from time to time are are lucky enough to work with clients who allow us to show the kind of quality we produce.

We also LOVE shooting engagement sessions - this is a photo shoot for you and your fiance and one that produces some amazing results.

This photo was shot in Pembrokeshire and is of Sami and Matt whose wedding I am shooting later this year.  I am very eager to start shooting engagement sessions in Worcestershire and we will be including FREE engagement sessions for Worcestershire Weddings and giving away a few free prints also !!!!!!

A lot of my clients use their engagement session to produce a beautiful guest signing - story book wedding album that guests actually write messages in on their wedding day.

Here is a shot of what they look like

You can learn more about photo signing books on my story book wedding album page on my website at www.davidpurslow.com

Also on our new website we have put up 8 - that’s right 8 amazing wedding slide shows for you to watch.

The first two are ‘Best of’ slide shows - they show some of our favorite wedding photos from 2008 and 2009 - then there are 6 slide shows that show complete client wedding albums - there are a few story book wedding albums, one of our contemporary wedding albums and one from one of our traditional matted wedding albums. This gives you a great insight as to the kinds of albums we design and produce.

Our new Gallery page with all of these slide shows on for you to enjoy can be found at www.davidpurslow.com/gallery.html

So if your looking for a wedding photographer in Worcestershire, The Midlands or pretty much anywhere why not check us out by visiting my

Worcestershire Wedding Photography website - www.davidpurslow.com

To give you a good idea of the quality of our wedding photography and the kind of of slide shows we produce, below is the show we produced of our favorite wedding photos of 2009

Take care, talk to you soon - Remember you can always call us,  our phone number are Office 01299 250 114 or Mobile 0759 007 6666

You can also email us at david@davidpurslow.com

bye for now

David.

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Singers Portfolio - David looking cool - Strobist Lighing with Nikon CLS

January 26, 2010 Posted in Nikon CLS, Singers and Bands, Uncategorized

Hello there, this one is for the ladies out there as I often get accused of focusing on the girls a little too much (with my camera)

Over the weekend I shot a few photos for my good friend Wayne from Explosive Productions - He is helping to organize a show at the Torch Theater in Milford Haven later next month.

One of Waynes good friends and a friend on mine also (sounds like the mafia - He’s a friend of ours………..)  Thats a guys joke girls……..

so back to David - David is an incredible professional singer and performer who sings songs from the likes of Frank Sinatra etc has been after getting a few photos done, well on Sunday after we finished over in Milford David and I popped over to the waterfront and shot a few pix - it was freezing cold but David managed to pull off the looking cool in the sun look !

We shot using the Nikon CLS lighting system and I used speedlights on stands triggered by the Nikon SU800 IR sender or a master SB900 flash if the SU800 struggled due to light and the distance.

Here are a few of the results, hope you like them

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Bridal photo shoot at Hurst House

January 26, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

Hello there peep’s   dp here from www.davidpurslow.com - Phone 0845 269 8912

Yesterday saw me taking a break from album processing an marketing to shoot three stunning young ladies in amazing wedding dresses at the phenomenal Hurst House in Laugharne Carmarthenshire. Hurst house is in my humble opinion one of the very best secret wedding venues in West Wales - The decor is amazing and the whole place is a photographers dream - you can visit the Hurst House Website and find out about wedding at Hurst House here.

I was asked to do this shoot by Natalie from Courtneys Bridal in St Clears - Natalie a very good friend of ours runs this boutquie wedding dress shop and lots of my brides have visited her and have fallen in love with her dresses but more importantly with her attention to detail and going the extra mile for her brides - I know of one bride that has brought two wedding dresses from there for same wedding !

The theme of the shoot was something just a little bit different, not your normal run of the mill brides in dresses - so armed with only that information and a whole car full of Nikon Speedlights as I wanted to light this using the Nikon CLS (Creative Lighting System) & Video light (Lowell I-Light) off I went.

The staff at Hurst house were very welcoming which if your planning your wedding bears very well indeed - if they treat me (the hired help) that way just imagine what they would be like with you - We were met and provided with Coffee - A mug the size of a bucket and boy was it good coffee - I was bouncing off the walls shortly after.

I was introduced to Kate, Rachel and Katie - if that gets confusing then I shouldnt tell you we were being looked after by Katie from Hurst House (I think) as well and off we went to the aptly named Green Room - its a room and its green - we used it as our staging area and I left the girls to it - Rachel at this point (well when she arrived really still had her curlers in - that girls got style)

So I am only going to post a few pictures since They are for Natalie really but I just had to share a few with you.

First shots of the Day - Kate in the Penthouse

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and another

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Katie in the penthouse

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Rachel in the big red chair

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Kate again on the spiral stairs

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Katie on the spiral stairs

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Rachel in a hall way as we walked along, just spotted this out of the corner of my eye

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The Pink Room !

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I hope this gives you an idea of what a fab venue Hurst House is.

My thanks go to Kate, Katie, Katie, Rachel & Natalie from Courtneys for supplying the dresses and organizing the day  and special thanks to Hurst House itslef

a couple to leave you with :-)

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ciao

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Bridal Boudoir or something special for Valentines Day - Boudoir Photography

January 26, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

Hello there, David here from www.davidpurslow.com - I always start my blog entries like this because so many of you (I get about 3000 people a month view my blog) come here from the search engines and dont know where my website is - if you want to visit my website then simply CLICK HERE

Okay, today I had the great pleasure of working for Courtneys wedding dress shop in Saint Clears in Carmarthenshire - I was shooting a new collection of dresses with 3 delightful models and Natalie from the shop - you can find Courtneys at http://www.courtneysbridal.co.uk/

I had mentioned to Natalie that I wanted to start offering my brides the option of a Boudoir photography session prior to the wedding so the girls could present hubby to be with a box of special sexy but tasteful photos the night before the wedding just to remind him what a lucky fella he is for marring such a gorgeous gal.

I also offer the same shoot on the run up to Valentines day, Xmas or really any time you want to give hubby something special.

Well the girls today came armed with a selection of lingerie and after we had shot all the dress photos, we proceeded to shoot some ‘Boudoir Photos’ - The venue for todays shoot was Hurst House in Laugharne - you can visit the Hurst House website at http://www.hurst-house.co.uk

Here is the result of our Boudoir shoot…….. I hope you like them

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and last but not least just something a little different……………..

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Well I hope this gives you an idea of what to give that special person in your life for his birthday, valentines day, xmas or the night before you marry him and make all his dreams come true……………….

Thanks for checking out my blog, see you soon

ciao

dp

01437 779412 / 0759 007-6666 / 0845 2698912

Website - www.davidpurslow.com

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A Recent Wedding Album

January 8, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

Hi there,

A busy day for me today, I have just had the go ahead to get my latest album printed.  I am really excited by this album as its a MONSTER 80 page / 40 Double page spread album.

This was the amazing wedding of Louise and Gareth that took place at Buckland Hall in the Brecon Beacons - you can view my blog story this Buckland Hall Weddings Here

I think the size and the number of images used in this album design really help to tell the story of the day - and what a fantastic day it was.

There is a thank you at the end of the slideshow for Gareth and Louise but I would like to pop one here

Thanks for choosing me, I know choosing a wedding photographer is a very hard decision and I am very honored that you decided upon me.

Thanks guys.

So here is it



I hope you enjoy - sorry about the white stuff around it, I just pinched the files from the DVD version I created for the guys - it made it quicker for me to get it up on the web for you !

Bye for now

dp

David Purslow
Reportage Wedding Photographer
Covering England and Wales
Website: www.davidpurslow.com
Phone: 0845 269 8912 / 01437 779412 / 0759 007 6666
Email david@davidpurslow.com

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Lovley Comments from upcoming bride and groom - reportage wedding photography

January 8, 2010 Posted in Testimonials

Hello there,

One of the things I like most about the job I do is that I tend to make lots of friends - these are not the kind of jump infront of a bullet for you friends but these are great people who whenver you meet up say hi and have a good chitchat or who add you as facebook friends and keep in touch.  This is really nice because when your not well you get lots of hope your feeling better comments etc and it really does make you feel better - when I post a photo of Joshua, Soukie or Nikki or talk about my latest wedding etc - all my friends comment on them.

Well one such friend actually two friends are Imogen and Stephen - These guys are a couple whos wedding I am shooting in 2010.  Like many of the couples getting married these days they have embraced modern technology and have put up their own website and Imogen sent me a link to it and pointed me at a certain portion of the site - the portion that talked about their wedding photographer - that would be me………..

Here is an extract :-)    I love reading this it gives me goosebumps all over.

Ever get that feeling, when someone tells you how much something is going to cost, that someone just switched off the gravity? That’s roughly the sense that I (Stephen) had when we found out what a decent wedding photographer was going to cost us.

Actually, to be fair, that is how I felt when I discovered what an indifferent wedding photographer was going to cost; when I found out what the cost of a really good one - one like David Purslow, for example - was going to be, I think I passed through the storm of panic and into the still waters beyond.

But then you only have to look at the work to realise one thing for sure: you don’t want an indifferent photographer. To our jaded tastes, as we went round wedding fair after wedding fair, it became easier and easier to spot the indifferent ones: the same tacky camera angles, the same - frankly - hackneyed poses, and so on, to the point where just a glance was enough to tell you most of what you needed to know. Which means that when you look at something that’s just that bit different, it’s hard to miss, as it just jumps out at you.

And David’s photographs do just that.

There’s no doubt about it, as well as being very good indeed, he’s also a relentless self-publicist! His customer relationship stuff is second to none - he has a Facebook presence, as well as an excellently designed website, with his own blog, and gallery of wedding photos. Sure, lots of photographers do that, but the impression you get of David’s work is that this is a man with a following. Prospective and past customers alike respond to his updates as they give us a hint of the life of the professional wedding photographer, and what’s even nicer is that he responds back. This is clearly someone who cares about his customers long after the cheque’s cleared in the bank and the last mother-in-law’s family group print has been posted off.

Thanks guys, Glad you feel that way.

dp

David Purslow
Reportage Wedding Photographer
Covering The Midlands & West Wales
01437 779412 / 0846 2698912
www.davidpurslow.com

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