At the weekend it was the  one year anniversary since us Brits in Spain were glued to the telebox watching the wild fascinators at the royal wedding of Kate and Will. As a wedding photographer myself, I remember laughing as I noticed that wedding photographers need their mums, just like everyone else in the world!

Building up to the Wedding of the Century (as it was called) last year, there was of course rivalry to get this prestigious wedding photography gig.  Mario Testino was the favourite – a fashion photographer who not only took the last pictures of Diana, he also shot Kate and Will’s engagement shoot. But he was snubbed in favour of Hugo Burnand, celebrity photographer, whose style is altogether different.  Whilst Testino was a bit naughty – he disobeyed the Westminster Abbey no camera rule – he snuk a camera in to take his own pictures (Oi vey!) Hugo Burnand was a star – he arrived at the palace on a bicycle, and he brought his mum! I just love that Hugo wanted his 71 year old mother, Ursy Burnand there as a vital member of his team. I mean, a wedding is a family affair, right?

When I did my first weddings I asked my own mum to come with me to shoot – at the time I thought maybe I was just being a big wuss, but after Kate and Will’s wedding I feel that I am in good company! In my case she is the best photographer I know. So in the spirit of a wedding, isn’t it a day for mothers and children and a time for Experience to hand her wisdom to Youth… Or to put it another way, when the pressure is on, who wants their mum?

This was a formal wedding in Marbella that was one of my first, and just like the royal wedding photographers, my mum came with me!

Hi, welcome to my Blog… Just hit play for an introduction to me and my work!

I am a wedding photographer and videographer in Marbella, Malaga, Spain. I live here on the Costa del Sol with my gorgeous son, and enjoy life as a mother, photographer, artist, and storyteller. I am lucky to be commissioned by clients from destinations all over the world when they come to Spain for their Marbella Wedding…

Hope you love the video and I look forward to seeing you soon!

x Becky

I had some portraits to shoot in London, and some loved ones to see, but I was shocked the night before to hear about the riots… There were burnt out buildings and closed shops everywhere, and you can see me here (With a label echoing my mum’s term of affection for me – “baggage” !) and then seeing the boarded up shops and cop patrols in Clapham Junction. In a time like this it felt right to visit the area I grew up in, and it seemed that people are sad as the death toll increases, but the sense of community is strengthening. One thing I noticed that was so positive was that people were talking to each other, and all you hear about are stories of heros. The woman who defended her Hairdressing Salon against teenage rioters, telling them “I am a single parent. Get out of here!” and food being sent out for hundreds of individuals joining the clean up brigades.

Still, makes you wonder what is going on for kids to be doing this? What does it take to make youngsters want to smash up their own future?

Every year spanish schools have a party for the summer vacation, and the children prepare some cool moves to impress their families. This year I asked what time Charlie was taking the stage with his class (of ten year olds) and he replied

“We go on at 11, Mum.”

I couldn’t help my still very English response,

“What?!!! At night?”

And indeed, he wasn’t even mistaken – I guess in Andalucia the idea is to turn them into party animals when they are young…

At midnight I felt my own Britishness coursing through my veins as thoughts like “these children should be in bed” swam through my mind… The kids all got to shake their bootie… and as the school asked me to capture the event, Charlie decided that in between his own gigs he would shoot his own video too… Oh no! Only ten, and already he is the film director…

When I decided to sign up for some business mentoring last year with Ron Dawson of Dare Dreamer Media, I was thinking, “This will be great, I’ll find out secrets that only accountants and film producers know… Aha!”

So I was surprised to find that instead of letting me in on a host of secrets, Ron’s entire philosophy of growing your business is based on being yourself as a photographer.

Our first project was to tackle the About Me page of my website. Just as a great portrait does more than represent the features of your face, it shows who you really are, we wanted to give that sense of who I am, not just in my work as a wedding photographer, but as a person.

I am sharing one of my favourite pictures from the selection.

Teenager Becky demonstrates that masking tape on glasses improves photographs as well as making dubious fashion statement.

My mother as a child, my grandmother and my great-grandmother. The designer who is working with me on the animations for the video, Paco Rodriguez, has created a fictitious old London for the background.


“To collect photographs is to collect the world. Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs the image is also an object…” (Susan Sontag On Photography). One of the pleasures in the creation of this Historical About Me is the collecting of old images, which I could not do without the help of my wonderful Mother, so Fanks, Mum. Below is a sneak preview of the video sketches for the About Me Video. If Playback stutters, press pause to allow download.
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