About Us

 Based in the beautiful Rhondda Valley of South Wales, Jay and Mel are a husband and wife photography team.  With forty years of combined experience, their complementing styles of photography mean your photographs can be as traditional or as unconventional as you like.

 

 Following her early success as Runner-Up Young Photographer of the Year in 1990, Mel has honed her art with traditional darkroom and studio training, together with on-the-job experience of weddings, birthday and christening celebrations.  She has also accumulated many tricks of the trade from time spent in professional studios when her young son was a photographic model for several major household names.  Mel uses state of the art digital equipment together with the know-how gained from years of doing it the good old-fashioned way!

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Jay has had many of his photographs published alongside his writing in several motorcycling magazines, and specializes in candid, reportage style photography.  Capturing the one-off shots that nobody else would think of means he can immortalize the giggle of the child who thinks nobody is looking; the tender look between lovers or the contemplative face of your Grandad in a quiet moment at a family event.  Jay is also equally at home using film or digital technology - whatever is most appropriate for the occasion.

 


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