Anyway, a little while after this meeting we organised an engagement shoot, which I decided should be in the heavenly resort of Blackpool. Now, Blackpool has many downsides, like the fact that it exists, but as a photographer I kind of love it. Preston, where I'm from, is a bit like Blackpool's more sensible, but slightly more boring (photographically at least) twin, and so I was sure that if we headed west we would surely find some interesting locations.
Arriving in Blackpool, and feeling more than a bit fearful for our lives/sense of superiority, we set about finding some cool backgrounds. Very quickly we found a great yellow wall, which I think was the side of a ropey looking amusement arcade. So, here are a couple of photos from there:
I also really liked the contrast between the red door and the yellow wall.
Anyway, next we headed towards the sea front to take a few more, and as it was windy we ducked in behind a wall. Like this:
After this was a quick outfit change in the pier's loos, going for a more edgy, rock n roll look. I think this was the point where we started attracting a few stares. So we stayed on the pier and found these deck chairs:
Next, I suggest to A&J that they could go down onto the beach while I stayed on the pier. This is when we got this shot:
After leaving the pier I spotted these black and white chequered lights, and got the idea for these shots:
And last, just as it was starting to rain, we had a quick shoot in front of a ghost train wall that I'd seen when we were doing the yellow wall shots:
So, that's the story of our shoot. Comments welcome!
