About Wessex Wedding Photography - Dorset and Somerset Photographers
Paul Quayle
Paul was born in Liverpool, and attended the same schools as John Lennon. After graduating from University of Reading in 1985 with a degree in Human Geography Paul wanted to actually experience first-hand the world he had studied. He has always had a love for travelling and a passion for photography and he combined these with a sense of adventure. After 18 months in Australia, where he printed film in a pro photo-lab, Hiroshima, Japan became his home and photo base for ten years. He has travelled to over fifty countries as a photographer and has photographed Muhammad Ali and the Dalai Lama amongst others. He is a “people” photographer, capturing the decisive moments in photo story features that have been published throughout the world. Most people reading this page have unknowingly seen his photography. In December 2007 alone, his photography was published in The Times, Sunday Times, and Daily Mail.
His photography has regularly been featured in Japan Airlines in-flight magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Asiaweek, Marie Claire, Geographical, Rough Guides and The Guardian.
He returned to the UK in 1998 and he is now based in Somerset. He has over twenty years professional experience as a working photographer. His photo reportage style has been brought to wedding photography and is ideal for candid shots and creating “storybook” and reportage photography of the complete wedding day.
More of Paul's photography can be seen at www.paulquayle.co.uk where there are extensive "tearsheets" of some of his published photography.
John Burton
Photographer John Burton was born in Shropshire, England about 50 years ago - John was variously a farmer, game warden, dog warden and Environmental Health Officer. After 20+ years in local government he set up and ran his own trekking company in Nepal. He still treks widely and travels extensively.
Along the way he developed an interest in photography that has developed into a passion. He started entering competitions and in his first year won a number of competitions as well as going on to become runner up in the final of Digital Camera Magazine's Photographer of the Year 2006 - from an original entry of over 22,000. Since then he has had work published widely in magazines like Digital Camera Magazine, The Dorset Magazine, Muse Magazine, Scarlet Magazine, Real Travel Magazine, The Independent Magazine and The Daily Express. His work has also been recognised as an 'Image of the Day' in the Times newspaper. In January 2008 John's work was praised by Eamonn McCabe, Mary McCartney and KT Tunstall who awarded him first prize in the Renaissance photography competition.
More of his other photography work can be seen at www.imat.co.uk.
Dorset Wedding Photography - Two Photographers, two Perspectives!