Marianne Taylor | Creative Portrait & Family Photographer in Cornwall & London
Creative, emotive portrait photography for couples, families, and individuals who want images that actually feel like them.
Italy in September feels like such a long time ago! Apart from a lovely engagement session with Lyn & Marc in Florence, there were also good times with good people. Here are some snapshots from my two weeks in Tuscany, I hope they’ll help you feel warm on these cold days!
Thank you to Villa Fontelunga for being the perfect place for our adventures and for hatching plans with some of my favourite people.
Charlotte & Fai are just the sweetest couple. Florence, despite the rain, is one of my favourite places on earth. What that adds up to is a couple of pretty magical hours at the crack of dawn on a wet summer’s morning. So we might not have gotten that epic sunrise, but we got plenty of Italian magic that always speaks straight to my heart. I hope you’ll love these as much as I do.
For Gael & Paul’s wedding we got to return to Italy and to the stunning Castello di Vincigliata on a beautiful hill top in Fiesole, overlooking Florence. It really is one of the most beautiful wedding venues ever to get married in.
Having said that, Il Salviatino, where Gael got ready in, was pretty breathtaking itself! There, her stylish hair do was created by Harrisons Hair Team, before she slipped into her gorgeous Enzoani gown and Benjamin Roberts shoes.
At the Castello, Tuscany Flowers had created beautiful flower arrangements to compliment the turquoise and white colour theme. There were many individual touches, such as tables named after songs, and old movies projected to the wall of of castle when the night fell. Also, Alma Project, who were in charge of music were just brilliant.
It was such a pleasure to get to work with the amazing Rossana from Weddings in Italy again, she is one in a million!
Thank you Gael & Paul, and your families, for allowing us to be a part of such a beautiful day! I wish you all the happiness in your future. x
So, this is what went down in Italy, among other things. I have a whole heap of other things to process before I get to these two lovely couples, but I thought I’d give you a little taste of Tuscan colours to brighten up this very wet summer… (mind you, we did get rain over there as well!)
I know this is cutting it quite close to Christmas, but I finally got all my images from Venice in order so I thought I’d share. At the end of November the husband and I spent a long weekend in one of our favourite cities in the world. The weather was chilly, which was actually pretty perfect, as there’s nothing more magical as foggy winter evenings on the canals.
On the rare occasion that I travel for pure pleasure I tend to leave my digital equipment at home and bring with me something more low key and/or fun. This time around I had my beloved Holga, an Ikoflex TLR (operations of which the eBay seller described as ‘esoteric’, and he wasn’t far off!), and of course my iPhone. I mention these cameras for those who take an interest in these things, for me it’s mostly the image that matters. Hence I’m not going to point out which camera took which picture, I think those who take an interest will spot the usual suspects in any case.
Enjoy!
Edited 27 Dec: Oops, just realised I forgot to scan the polaroids I took so have added them in there.
