Hi & Welcome to the official Fazackarley blog - The F Word.

My name is Simon Fazackarley and I'm a wedding photographer based in Brighton, East Sussex & covering the whole South Coast of England. I specialize in a relaxed form of wedding photography; capturing spontaneous portraits, amazing details & the whole emotion of your day. To see more examples of my work be sure to check out the portfolio or drop me an email for more information.

This blog is a little more informal than my main site & will follow both my professional & personal lives, feature images from my latest weddings, as well as photos & stories from my 'between weddings' time - hopefully giving you an insight into the personality of the guy behind the camera.

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Laura & Kev - Sampler Wedding Photo

Super quick post, as I’m processing tons of (super sweet) images from fridays wedding - The wedding of Laura & Kevin…  Congratulations to the new Mr & Mrs Brook!

So many gorgeous details, amazing people & insanely lucky weather… I knew it was going to be good, but I was blown away at how good it was - Someone could totally be a wedding coordinator!

Awesome. Only one photo today, one that I absolutely loved…More will definitely find there way up here when I’m done with them :)

Straight from the camera, Bridal wear…by Converse.Bridal wear, by converse.

Looking more like a wedding photographer.

This is a miscellaneous post, nothing specific to post about today, just felt I owed it to the blog, it was starting to look a bit desolate. I really want to share some photos from a project I’m currently working on, but I’m sworn to secrecy - so the blog will have to wait.

This week…

I Finally got around to hooking up a new self portrait - I think its an improvement… more ‘wedding photographer’ & a lot less sinister than the last one. The last one looked like it needed a row of numbers beneath it, if you get my meaning.

I’m probably getting a Labrador puppy soon! **dances** I’ve never had the puppy experience before, all my dogs have been 18 months or older when I’ve got them…So I’m pretty excited about that…Plus I’m aiming to get a rescued pup, So I guess I’m doing a good deed too :)

For those that haven’t seen her, heres my current dog, Emmy

photographers friend

I don’t think shes quite as excited about getting a puppy as I am…

I Changed a few bits and pieces with the website, nothing drastic (for a change) but a few things that should make me easier to find & make the whole site perform bit more reliably.

I Must get off my butt & do some personal work, I can’t remember the last time I took a photo for photos sake…

I saw the Rob Schneider film ‘Big Stan’ & loved it.

I Started watching CSI : New York - another CSI series to consume my free time.

I Found a load of new albums to listen too

I’m cursing the iTunes store for making it so easy to spend money on Albums I’ll probably only listen too once…

I have a load of custom Flash Modifiers to test…& will probably blog about them sometime…

I’m getting ready for Kevin & Laura’s Wedding, Its going to be great… cool people + intimate venue + set in a great town just 10 minutes from my house = awesome.

I’m sure I had something real to write about…but as always I sit down to blog & forget my original idea…

Laura & Kevin’s Engagement Session, part deux.

Last week I posted a sample from an engagement session; I spent a day in Lewes with Laura & Kevin looking for nice locations & possible spaces that might be fun to use for portraits (on their wedding day)  & whilst wandering around we had some e-shoot style fun.

Photography in LewesRelaxed wedding portraits

photographing moments

These frame’s were fun, as a lady invited us into her gorgeous garden (I was looking for vibrant colour) I can’t remember the last time someone in Brighton went out of their way for me - Lewes is such a nice place! So thank you for inviting us into your garden!

also…Laura & Kevin have promised to work on their face-pulling abilities. :)

Wedding Photography - Pulling Faces to relax.

So there we have it, Kevin & Laura! - I’m really excited about their wedding next month at The Shelleys Hotel, Lewes (East Sussex) - its shaping up to be an amazing day! So expect to see their faces alot over the next 8 weeks.

nb**still trying to sort out an issue with saving images for web, currently my image (colours) are a little off, like 5% or so, so If over the next few blog posts you notice a ‘difference’, to quote hitchhikers guide, ‘don’t panic!’

Laura & Kevin [Engagement]

Here’s a quick peek at an image from an engagement shoot from last week, The shoot was with Laura & Kevin, Whose wedding takes place next month, at  The Shelley’s Hotel, Lewes - They were great fun for the E-Shoot, So I’m really looking forward to their wedding :)

I aimed to have the whole shoot processed, finished & delivered by today, But I broke a tooth this morning so need emergency dental work done :( owwwwww. Which kind of puts a downer on processing images… But I couldn’t wait to put something from the set on my blog. So here it is.Preparing for their wedding

2 Weeks and No updates! Where does the time go?

For those that check this blog regularly (both of you!) I sincerely apologize, I’ve totally neglected my blog for two whole weeks! oops. There are reasons though! (excuses, excuses!)

the website of simon fazackarley

The new weddings site is here! - no more flash - which makes the site faster loading, more responsive & also allows you to bookmark specific pages - it also contains alot more (wedding photography) related information.

The images in the portfolio are smaller than the last incarnation of the site, but I figure I’m uploading big, high-quality images on the blog - the website can be smaller & more rapid.

It’s also easier to update **but given the regularity of blog updates…lets not hold our breath!**

It took a really long time (and even longer to fix some problem’s), but now its here (and has been more or less for over week)

The new site also compliments my new business cards (which I’ve had for about a month, but haven’t gotten round to sharing here - again…my bad! I designed them with the idea of: simple, clean & elegant, but not going to go out of date/fashion to quickly. The team at Creative Sauce did an awesome job with the printing.Simon Fazackarleys New Business Cards

So far I’ve also noticed an increase in web traffic & had positive comments (about the site design etc.) from my Brides… So I’m classing it as a win (for now!) but If anyone has any comments on the design or things that you do/don’t like, by all means leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

A few things still need to be tweaked with the new design, most notably I need to get some better self portraits - but I’m really not comfortable in front of the camera, so I’ll put that off for the foreseeable future!

So far this post has been a bit self-centered,  so lets move away from myself and branding.

Jasmine Star is an **Awesome** Wedding Photographer based in Orange County, California. In my opinion she’s up there with the top wedding photographer’s in the world - and definitely someone whose work I admire - Anyway, I was really shocked to find a comment from her on my blog :) Totally Made my day :)

Jasmine Star Wedding Photographers Comment

Not only does it make a change from all the blog spam, but I guess it means I must be doing something right (if I’m getting noticed by people I look up to?)

But yeah. Big thanks to Jasmine Star for making me feel important :)

Anyway, this non wedding blog post seems to have lasted long enough, Rest assured new Wedding Photos are coming soon (as well as some non-wedding work) & I’m doing some engagement shoots this week so they should find there way up here too.

Also I still intend to do some ‘before and after’ articles as well as a few other (community spirited) posts.

As always please feel free to leave a comment on anything.