Photographer for Weddings in Derbyshire, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Bakewell & The Peak District
Photography and Film Making in the Family since 1870.
There has been a wedding photographer in Sheffield in the Mottershaw family for many years, a family that has been in professional photography and film-making since 1870.
Being the fourth consecutive generation to follow a career in photography, I think you can safely say it’s in the genes.
About The Photographer – A bit about me as a person…
Wedding Photography is all about People.
In my photography, wonderful weddings are all about people and I hope your wedding day is looking really exciting for you both.
Hopefully your plans are coming together to create a wedding day that is absolutely perfect for you.
About the Photographer
Even though I do love to talk about weddings and wedding photography, this is the About page and I guess here’s where I should tell you a little bit about me.
I’m John Mottershaw, I’ve been a professional photographer for my entire career and I love photographing people. Based in the Derbyshire Peak District, in addition to my other photography I’ve been photographing weddings for many years across Derbyshire, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Bakewell and much further afield. With experience of around 500 weddings I specialise in more gentle informal wedding photography that captures the real joy and emotion of the day. With a happy smile on my face and great enthusiasm, bringing out the very best in people is what I do.
My Photographic Journey
With commissions ranging from houses in the hills of Tuscany to landscapes in Maine and Vermont, from English stately homes to industry in Sheffield, I’ve been in photography and photographic processing all my working life. Even at school during the school holidays I worked in the processing lab. Having spent my entire career in photography and being the fourth generation of the family to do so, I definitely have photography running through my veins, as did my dad, and his dad and, yes, his dad before him.
It all goes way back to 1870 with The Sheffield Photo Company. I started independently some years back, originally also doing commercial and travel photography, but very soon realised just how much I loved wedding photography and the people side of things.
I’ve also spent time in the professional laboratory environment with film processing and colour and black & white hand printing. That’s why I’m as passionate about the processing side as I am about the photography itself. Image quality is of great importance to me.
For your peace of mind I am a qualified member of The Guild of Professional Photographers.
John
Do get in touch – it would be great to hear from you.
But what about the person?
As a lover of the outdoors kind, I happily live here in Grindleford, just south of Sheffield in the Derbyshire Peak District, with my family and labradoodle Alfie.
Alfie and I always enjoy walking in the hills around us and as a people-person I get involved in the village: I’ve recently finished a twelve year stint on the parish council, ten years as vice chair of the youth club and I edited the village newsletter for a while. I also served a while as a school governor at the village school.
Away from photography my other interest involves playing Irish whistles – the usual “tin whistle” but mainly my much larger and less well known low Irish whistle, a more mellow and slightly flute-like instrument. A group of us play some evenings at The Bull’s Head in Foolow, The Crispin in Great Longstone and The Anglers’ Rest in Bamford.
Situated in the beautiful Hope Valley, just a few minutes south of Sheffield, I’m ideally placed as a photographer for weddings in Derbyshire, Sheffield and beyond. There are some wonderful wedding venues around, including gorgeous Losehill House, Thornbridge Hall, Woodthorpe Hall and so many others.
For Wedding Stories and for my other photography activities, please also see:
Wedding Galleries
Blog Posts – Real weddings
Photography Courses
Travel and Location Photography
Food Photography
Going Further Back…
There has been a wedding photographer in Sheffield in the Mottershaw family for many years. The Mottershaw family have been in professional photography and film-making for over 150 years. Being the fourth generation to follow a career in photography, I think you can safely say it’s in the genes.
For interest, here’s an example of the Sheffield Photo Company’s early film making from 1903. It’s an example of one of the very first chase movies. The original is held in the Yorkshire Film Archive along with a few others.
Anyway, I can’t take credit for history but I hope you’ll enjoy my passion for wedding photography.
But I’m sure that’s more than enough about me – let’s talk about you and your wonderful day! If you’d like to arrange to come over some time for an informal chat about your wedding, do please get in touch. I’d love to hear about what you have in mind and to show you some albums and a slideshow of recent work. It would be great to hear from you.
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH!
If you would like a friendly chat about your photography, then I would be absolutely delighted to hear from you.
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