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Wedding Photographers Shooting Street Stuff in London 2025 Edition
A day I had been expecting for so long. It was scheduled in my calendar for months and it finally happened yesterday. Me and 6 fellow photographers headed to the capital to spend a day practicing street photography. Street photography is probably the best practice there is for documentary wedding photography (aside from documentary wedding photography itself). It’s a great exercise to improve composition, usage of light and shadow, colour matching and so much more. I always feel inspired and invigurated after street photography days and I definitely need to do these more often.
We started at the Liverpool Street station, spent most of it in the Barbican area and ended the day at the Tate Modern. London is a great place for street photography. For the most part people don’t pay attention to photographers and the opportunities the city presents and virtually countless. Below are my favourite images from the day, enjoy.
2 Days in Prague - Street, Landscape and Wildlife Photography
2 Days in Prague - Street, Landscape and Wildlife Photography
2 days, 1 night, approximately 60,000 steps, 6 lovely meals and some great opportunities for photography sum up my recent trip to Prague perfectly. It was kind of a last-minute trip and I was torn between Amsterdam, Paris and Prague. I’m glad I went to Prague. The Czech capital turned out to be a gem for all genres of photography I’m interested in.
I visited some of the tourist hotspots but also wandered off to not so popular parts of Prague and got lost on purpose. On my second day I found a local attraction - the beaver looking like animals - nutria, that live on the banks of the The Vltava river. I spent quite some time trying to get close to them with my 35mm lens and my patience paid off in the end.
The old trams were another thing I loved about the historic capital.
At the end of my second day I went to Prague castle and climbed the 280+ steps to the top. It was so worth it - the views from the top were breathtaking.
I’d love to return in the future.
Wedding Photographers Shooting Street Stuff in London
A while ago when I was first looking into wedding photography somebody said that street photography is the closest genre to weddings.
Back then it didn't make so much sense. I thought surely portrait photography is the closest, but now it makes perfect sense.
I think there is so much in common between street and wedding photography, in particular documentary wedding photography. You are just there with your camera and you are waiting for something to happen. Waiting to capture a moment and or capturing something still which is part of the story.
Wedding photography is like street photography on steroids. There is so much going on during weddings. Laughter, tears, wild moves, quiet and peaceful moments.
Below are some photos from my second attempt of street photography - this time I was joined by a gang of photographers. Olly, Becci, Charlotte and James.
And the gang…
Olly Knight - my mentor and friend (mentor in 2024, hopefully friend forever)
Charlotte Bradley
James Richard
Charlotte Bradley & Becci Wiles
My first experience with street photography wasn’t particularly enjoyable. It was way out of my comfort zone. I was on my own and dived right in the deep.
I jumped on a train from Folkestone to Canterbury through Dover. It was my first time on a train in the UK and I was trying to end up where I wanted, and not somewhere completely different.
Because of this I couldn’t really enjoy photographing much at the train stations. Then I went to Canterbury without a particular location in mind, and there wasn’t much going on. I felt like I was doing the wrong thing pointing a camera at strangers and didn’t enjoy it much.
I’m so glad the bad first experience didn’t stop me from doing the second one in London with the gang of photographers.
Looking forward to the next one!