About Me
ALL ABOUT ME, WHICH FEELS A LITTLE SELF-INDULGENT

HELLO
Hello
So I’m Phil, in my early forties, well, (im not putting my exact age as I will have to update this page every year!). I’m from Treorchy in the Rhondda, South Wales, where I live with my family, my wife, two children and a hairy, barking postman hater called Barney. I married in 2014, so I know the stress of making everything perfect for the big day. I use a lot of this experience to craft how I do things as a wedding photographer.
As a child, I had an eye for detail and enjoyed anything related to design and creativity. I studied Product Design at Nottingham Trent University, graduating in 2004, before spending ten years as a product designer. I spent most of those years at Olympus (yes, the camera company), designing minimally invasive surgery products, which are a posh name for “keyhole surgery” products. This is where I got to travel and work at their headquarters in Japan.
After photographing my first wedding in 2011, I grew my photography business before becoming a full-time photographer in 2017.
I love sports and basketball in particular. I have skied and snowboarded from an early age and enjoy mountain biking, even if my then-wife-to-be threatened to cancel our wedding if I had a big accident before it, as I’d had a few bumps leading up to the big day. As a result of that threat, my cycling adventures are few and far between these days (cue the violin), although I don’t seem to have as much spare time since kids came onto the scene anyway. Funny that.

STUDIO
How I Started and The Loft Studio
I have been developing my photography skills for quite some time. I’ve been fortunate to make this my new career. I started taking photos of modified cars and track days in my younger years. This led me to my first wedding. A friend wanted some photos. I’m sure this is how all wedding photographers start!) of his wedding. A simple registry office ceremony with some photos in a local park. And the rest, as they say, is history. I still photograph cars and have a second company based in my studio where I shoot commercial work for many companies.
kind words
“If you’re deliberating about whether to have Phil as your photographer, stop deliberating and book him.”