I am looking forward to Laura and Jamie's wedding at Kinkell Byre. After the ceremony the plan is to take some photographs on Cambo Sands.
Unfortunately Jamie was working so we had to use a model - Primmie for some pre wedding photographs on a hot and sultry Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday I met Primmie. A beautiful dog her ears reminded me of our Labradoodle.
More images of our puppy soon as Marley's coat is super curly like Primmie's ears.
On Saturday I met Laura to finalise details for her wedding at Kinkell Byre On the way to Kinkell Byre I saw the most amazing church in the middle of fields at Boarhills.
The Church is unusual being on the outskirts of a village and the wide expanse of space and the unseasonal temperatures (Touching 80 degrees) reminded me of Tuscany.
In 3 weeks time I am photographing Laura and Jamie's wedding at Kinkell Byre On Saturday I met Laura but unfortunately Jamie was working so we got a stand in model Primmie for the pre wedding shoot.
After Laura and Jamie's wedding at Kingbarns Church the plan is to take some wedding photographs on Cambo Sands a beautiful stretch of beach with sweeping views across to St Andrews and Dundee.
The newest addition to our family is getting very big and needs lots of exercise.
More from Marley and her friends, Flora, Toby, Dillon and Charlie soon.
Recently I met Joanne and Paul for a Pre Wedding Shoot at Murthly Castle. Although it poured with rain we had great fun and captured some lovely portraits.
I am really looking forward to photographing this wedding as the chapel, castle and gardens are absolutely stunning. Here's hoping for a glorious June.
Garvock House is my favourite wedding venue in Dunfermline. Privately owned the service is impeccable and it offers superb dining. Recently I photographed Jen and Pete's wedding and a few bridal photographs follow.
I will be back at Garvock House for a wedding this September. The hotel has beautiful grounds for photographs along with a red carpet on the hotel steps for those important family formals.
My first wedding in June is at Murthly Castle. This has to have one of the most beautiful private chapels in Scotland.
The rooms inside the castle are also incredible and modelled on the Palace of Versailles in France. While the ballroom has a ceiling covered in bees!
April see's a huge increase in farming activity here.
Blue skies, fluffy clouds, summers coming soon!
Last week was the wedding of Jen & Peter at the City Chambers, Dunfermline. Some black & white favourites follow:
More images to follow shortly from the wedding reception at Garvock House, one of my favourite local venues.
Another image from Limekilns as the sunsets over Longannet Power Station.
Some lovely weather and light this April, with the sun now setting north of west.
My daughter is six going on sixteen today - here is a photograph in the old play shed.
Thinking of getting a large canvas of this one, as I love the way the colours of the shed go with her eyes.
I am getting a lot of e-mails from Brides wanting to see more of our Labradoodle, Marley.
She's now 12 weeks old and able to go for walks to the park, so more soon!
A wee catch up on the blog as I have been taking some time off with the Easter Holidays. Limekilns is a picturesque wee village on the Firth of Forth
I have a wedding here in September, I hope the light is as beautiful and striking as that during this visit. Wellies are needed for the mudflats though!
An amazing cloud burst just before sunset this evening taken from my back door.
Now the clocks have gone forward I look forward to some late sunsets.
A few more from Rebecca and Andrews wedding at Dunkeld Cathedral and Murrayshall Hotel in Perthshire.
Rebecca and Andrew are on honeymoon in Turk and Caicos before returning to their home in Canada.
A cold windy spring day in Perhshire but my daughter wanted to go to the local park.
Great fun was had trying to hide from the camera. The wind made for a bad hair day!
Today I met up with Claire and Karl for a pre wedding meeting and shoot at the fabulous Ballathie House Hotel in Perthshire. This hotel is ranked amongst the best in the UK.
Ballathie House Hotel has the River Tay in it's back garden as does the Dunkeld Hilton and Dunkeld Cathedral - other great Perthshire wedding venues I have photographed weddings at.
Rebecca and Andrew flew in from Canada to have their wedding at the amazing Dunkeld Cathedral in Perthshire. They are both big fans of black and white photography.
More from this wedding later this week. All the images are now on-line within my photo store - Please contact the couple for the password.
Our new puppy is growing up fast. She also likes eating most of the garden.
Keep following the blog to see more photographs of the wee cute Labradoodle.
Last week I had the first of several visits this year to Dunkeld Cathedral.
I arrived a little early so I could capture some of the dramatic architecture as well as some of the little details inside the church.
The cathedral also has a fascinating wee museum called the Chapter House which was built in 1457. The cathedral itself is over 1400 years old.
For more information on this historic structure in Dunkeld, Perthshire I recommend the chuch web site.
This image is typical of the East Neuk of Fife for me.
Taken at one of my favourite harbours Pittenweem.
A few more favourites from Gilly and Martin's wedding reception at Prestonfield House.
Please feel free to leave a comment on the photographs by clicking on COMMENTS below.
No landscapes this weekend due to a trip to see the new puppy and wedding meetings for 2010. I almost fully booked now for 2009 and I'm now planning a series of four landscape photography workshops in November and December 2009. My favourite image from last weekend's landscape workshop from Elie Ness is shown below.
If you are interesting in details of my series of landscape photography workshops for November and December 2009 please contact me for details at info@martinpettinger.com These workshops will be limited to a maximum of 2 delegates and will cover how to plan for great images, fieldcraft and post processing of images.
Today we went to Kinnesswood to meet our new addition to our family, Marley. As you can see Marley was fast asleep. The images that follow are Marley's Mum, Freda and one of her nine brothers and sisters, Bruce.
Marley will be coming home next Saturday so expect more photographs of Marley when she is wide awake. I have already discovered that she likes chewing my black boots and my Canon camera straps!
On Sunday Lucy and William from Warrington visited Scotland to attend one of my half day landscape photography workshops. I had pledged this workshop as part of an auction last year to raise money for Wateraid
We met at the Norton House Hotel where I gave an outline of the afternoon. I proposed a trip to one of my favourite locations which is Elie in Fife as it has a lot of interest for the landscape photographer with a harbour, a lighthouse, an old ruin, interesting geology and sweeping views.
Before we left I warned them that we could get wet as there was an interesting weather front due to pass through Fife mid to late afternoon. I also advised that it would be rather bracing with a strong breeze coming off the sea but this would make for a strong chance of dramatic cloud formations and the possibility of something special.
Well I can confirm we did get very wet as a mini storm swept across the headland but it did make for a phenomena of mammatus clouds which are associated with thunderclouds and unstable weather formations. The cloud formation left behind the storm system was also impressive with beautiful cirrus clouds.
Unfortunately we lucked out with the sunset due to a dense bank of static cloud over Edinburgh though William did get to learn my special landscape photography technique which involves wellington boots. I look forward to seeing Lucy and William's photographs later this week.
The dramatic storm image will go on-line later this week. Interestingly my father in law observed the amazing contrast of black skies and shafts of light from West Lomond Hill, the highest summit in Fife.
Last Saturday I was at Prestonfield House and the Fettes College for the wedding of Gilly and Martin. Here is part one of the blog - more images to follow soon from the reception at Prestonfield House.
Please feel free to leave a comment for myself or the happy couple by clicking on COMMENTS below. I would love to know if anyone caught the flying fish and would also love a photograph of me - several guests took my photograph!
Last Saturday I was at Dunfermline Abbey and the Glen Pavilion for the wedding of Kate and Colin. This was the coldest weddng I have photographed with a wind chill of minus 7.
Despite the weather Kate was brilliant fun and everyone young and old had a fantastic time. Dunfermline Abbey is one of my favourite churches as the architecture is simply stunning.
Other wedding suppliers at the wedding which I highly recommend were Roddy the Piper, Bancraig Cars and Floral Gems. Kate used to be a wedding planner so all her suppliers were top notch.
The piper Roddy in particular is now a celebrity being the piper for Homecoming Scotland 2009 It was also great seeing couples from Katie and Richard's wedding and Lindsay and Jame's weddings from 2008.
