The Nervous Look - Why I Love this Wedding Picture

I sit here typing this as the snow falls gently outside my studio window.

It seems like a long time since we saw a warm summers day. I'm reminded by thinking of summer of this lovely photo I took towards the end of the warm season last year.I've never been a bridesmaid, and I've never been a little girl - funnily enough.

But I imagine when you are five years old, and you are asked to be a bridesmaid it's an awe-inspiring moment. I guess one would spend the next eighteen months excited; trying on dresses, headwear and generally getting caught up in the wedding. And then, of course, comes the wedding day. 

When things get real, I see it so many times at weddings I photograph. 

And being a Documentary Style Wedding Photographer, it's always something I am looking out for when the nerves hit.  The uncertainty.  The knowledge that 80-100 people are going to be watching you in your moment of glory. It's the little look over the shoulder back to mummy that I love in this picture.

I've got down at the same level as the children to give a more natural viewpoint, and I adore this picture because of the look on the little girls face. Of course, she was beautiful, and she loved her moment of glory and the fantastic day that followed.

I share a lot more of my images, daily, over on my Instagram Channel – so please do connect with me there if you so wish. So, this is why I love this wedding picture, and I hope you do too.