Twenty Eighteen | Sam's Favourites
For me, 2018 was a year of numbers… some of the biggest I’ve seen since starting this incredible career and journey as a wedding photographer. Looking back, I couldn’t be prouder of the leap I’ve made since 2017.
21 weddings – 17 venues – 48,637 photos taken – 20,689 images delivered – 576 prints sold – 3 albums made – 4 rainbows – 1 DOUBLE rainbow – 7 chocolate brownies (my favourite) – 37 coffees – 1,000 failed flossers – 1,000,000 pick’n’mix
(Some of these numbers are estimates… I’m not quite anal enough to count coffees or dance moves.)
I’m sure there are hundreds of careers out there that bring joy and offer life-affirming rewards. But it’s hard to imagine a better feeling than delivering happy memories to couples in love and preserving moments that will last a lifetime.
This year I’ve witnessed some truly epic love stories, and I’ve been completely spoilt for choice when putting together this shortlist of favourite wedding photography moments.
If you strip a wedding back to its basics, there are a handful of key elements and structured moments that need to happen. But the more people I meet, the more variety I see. Everyone’s idea of a great party is different—and no matter how much planning goes into a wedding day, you can’t beat those moments when everything just falls into place and people’s true selves shine through. That’s what weddings do for me.
I hope these images show what makes my job as a wedding photographer so fun, creative, and endlessly inspiring. Moments come and go, which is exactly why photography means so much to people. Brides and grooms can’t be everywhere at once, and they inevitably miss so many of the little interactions that make their day special. Being able to capture and share those moments never gets old.
“You captured so many moments we never even knew happened” isn’t just the most common response I receive—it will always be the best one.
So here they are… my 200 favourite images of 2018. Some chosen for their eye-pleasing juiciness, some for the memories they hold, and some for the random and absurd.
