About Me, My Family & How I Got Started

Hey; I’m Adam.

I live in the heart of the Potteries with Cera my wife and our miniature dachshund, Juno.

I love people and the stories which make them.

When I realised I could be any kind of wedding photographer I wanted to be I simply chose to be the person I would want at my wedding. Someone who deeply cared about every person he met.

Following a huge moment in my life, time is now something I really care about and spending it wisely is very important to me. So if I can help it I don’t really want you to miss a thing on your wedding day and would love you to remember as much as possible.

My family means the world to me and I spend most of my non-wedding related time with them.

Other than that I’m a huge cinema fan and watch as much of it as possible whilst also building my forever-changing top FIFTY movie list. I also love music and attend as many live shows as possible.

In a nutshell, that’s me.

A Love Story

As a teenager, I spent many hours watching romantic cinema including Garden State, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Cinema Paradiso to name a few. Although my mind has been heavily corrupted by the amount of Zach Braff I have endured, I have always been a hopeless romantic at heart.

In a somewhat impromptu moment, I decided to drive almost 2 hours to meet a girl I hardly knew. Several incredible and testing years later we now share a miniature dachshund (sausage dog) and a home together.

As well as having our own interests, we share a common love for Disney/Pixar and theatre.

She said “yes” in early 2019 and after a battle with Covid postponements we were able to finally marry in 2021.

Life As A Wedding Photographer

The Journey So Far

People are often curious about how I ended up doing such an incredible job. To tell the truth, unbeknownst to me at the time, I can now see the blind choices I was making in my life to led me to a point where I became the perfect fit for this dream job. I guess you could say my life was always leading here and maybe one day will lead someplace else but I’m eternally grateful for where I am right now.

On my 9th birthday, I received my first point-and-shoot camera. Then years later as I was coming of age I spent a lot of time embedded in the skateboard and music scene. I was slowly learning through each new experience which built the foundational blocks of my art. Some tropes from these times can still be seen in my work now. An obsession with wide angles for extreme points of view in my portraits and the atmosphere in my dance floor photographs all have features which I developed during my formative years.

In 2009 I had the amazing opportunity to go to America and work for the whole summer as a sports photographer at a Jewish camp. I learnt more about myself and photography in 10 weeks than I had in the previous 10 years.

The following year my first wedding enquiry came in. My sister and brother-in-law to be asked me to take the photos at their wedding. The photographs were a success and the fast-paced action of wedding photography had certainly twigged my interest.

Fast forward to the present day and I’m now a full-time wedding photographer working all over the UK.

To say I’m happy with how my life has panned out is an understatement. I live a dream life and it’s all thanks to the amazing couples who book me every year.

I LOVE STOKE

Educating the Next Generation

I really struggled to find my place in education. My over-the-top excitable personality was often squashed and forced to fit into academic cookie-cutters. After a long road, I finally found my direction to where I am now.

Knowing how much I struggled I wanted to inspire the next generation of neuro-divergent youth who also struggle with the same academic cookie-cutter being forced on them. Over the last few years, I’ve been to many schools to deliver alternative career talks and photography workshops. I work with any school and any budget to ensure students have positive role models in the arts.

1% For The City

Back in 2020, I came up with an initiative to donate 1% of my profits every year to worthwhile environment/social good causes within the city of Stoke-on-Trent and I’ve been doing so every year since and have so far donated £1,800.

20/21 – £300 – Number 11

This donation went towards funding meals for the homeless. Budgeted at £1 per person my £300 donation could cover 300 meals.

21/22 – £500 – Alice

This donation went towards providing beds for disadvantaged families so their children no longer had to sleep on the floor.

22/23 – £500 – Affordable Food Stoke

This donation went towards funding 35 emergency food parcels, or 143 Friday dining meals.

23/24 – £500 – Pebbles Legacy

This donation will go towards helping to pay for Vet Bills and Food Costs.