A well thought out firework display can be incredible to watch, always generating a few oohs and ahhs along the way. But fireworks don’t just have to be reserved for 5th November or New Years Eve. Fireworks at a wedding can be a great way to end the days celebrations. I actually had a firework display at my own wedding, a surprise one I might add. My usher, Dan, disappeared on the morning of my wedding and returned a bit suspiciously a couple of hours later to help put the finishing touches to the venue. Little did I know that he and my brother were planning a surprise firework display on Tankerton beach, looking out to sea.

But anyway, back to this image taken across the lake at Birtsmorton Court near Malvern, a beautiful moated Medieval Country Manor House. This entire Septembers day was a stunning as the venue itself with a beautiful church ceremony at the Anglican church of St. Thomas of Canterbury with St. Peter and St. Paul next door. At around 10pm all the guests were ushered outside where the organisers had arranged for a firework display to take place across the lake. There were oohs. There were ahhs. There were cheers. Lights. Explosions. Bangs. Crackles. Pops. And every colour you can think of. The perfect end to a perfect day. And it wasn’t just the kids who enjoyed it.

Fireworks at a wedding can be challenging to photograph though, with the ever changing light levels playing havoc with the cameras metering system. I shoot in full manual mode almost exclusively these days and I’m no stranger to working with available light. So I set my exposure accordingly and then manually compensated a stop or so either way during the various sections of the display. This was my favourite shot that evening.