Bristol Portrait & Wedding Photography - Liz & Simon's Pre-wedding Shoot

When you think of On The Waterfront, you're thinking Marlon Brando riding an uncomfortably large bike, in leathers, white vest and a, now-realised, camp leather cap.

Well, Liz & Simon's Pre-wedding Shoot on the Bristol Waterfront was no different. Apart from the bike, vest and leathers. Oh, and cap.

Quickly, after meeting Liz & Simon last December for a wedding consultation and hearing of their plans for the great day, I knew I had to shoot their wedding. No spoilers. You're all going to have to wait until after 9th July. There's no use tutting and sighing. Be patient. It will be worth it.

The Bristol Waterfront is a haven of fantastic backdrops for a portrait shoot and we used as many of them as we could.

We made a great start to the shoot at the waterside where I quickly realised that a) Liz & Simon were going to be a real joy to shoot and b) Simon may or may not have enjoyed a modelling career prior to the shoot and c) Liz has the fastest blink I've ever seen. I'll come to that last one in a moment.

Actually, I'll come to that now. There is a trick when photographing "blinkers" and that is to get them to close their eyes and open them just before you press the shutter. The idea being that they can't possibly close their eyes before you press the button. Sound reasonable? It's a trick that's worked for several years. Until today. Now everything I believe in is being questioned.

Using a number of bold coloured backdrops we put together a great collection of images as we made our way around the waterside and through to the @Bristol Square where we completed our shoot.

On the way round Liz treated us all to a joke and a punchline I still don't get. It was about Little Red Riding Hood. Any ideas?

Joking aside (understandable punchline or not), Liz & Simon did not stop laughing the whole time and, as you can see from the photo above, that have fantastic smiles to match. They were a genuine joy to photograph.

Special thanks to the Cafe for letting us use their tables (even though we didn't buy anything). And to, the now famously infamous, Kim for carrying everything, except me, around the shoot. A piggy-back wouldn't have gone amiss.