Behind The Name

CRYSTAL PRISM PHOTOGRAPHY

Since an early age, i had always had an interest in photography, regularly burning through Kodak disposable cameras as a child capturing moments throughout life, and later upgrading to a Polaroid camera to continue collecting happy snaps.

My interest in photography got serious in 2003 when i studied black and white photography at college, and i was lucky enough to have a Pentax ME Super SLR passed down to me from my Grandad, which he had owned since new in 1987.

in 2006 i went on to university, but decided to nurture my passion outside of the academic arena and focus on other talents which would later complement each other. I continued to experiment with my SLR well into the early 2010s, but with the reduced availability and ever increasing prices of film, i decided to take the plunge and upgrade to a DSLR, and the Canon 550D was my camera of choice in 2012.

The DSLR was a real work horse, despite the crop sensor, it was used regular for a variety of subjects including; product, event, pet, automotive, architectural, landscape and night time photography. Having been a Canon user for many years, i was well invested into the brand, and when it came to upgrading in 2018, the Canon 6D Mk ii was my choice.

From 2019 onwards, i was attending 5–6 weddings a year, and this dramatically increased post global pandemic. Now i’ve attended dozens of weddings in various capacities and gained a wealth of experience in wedding photography.

Fast forward to the present day and i’m now running full mirrorless cameras in the form of Canon R5 Mk ii. i didn’t want to forget my roots or the mechanical past, so the brand name Crystal Prism Photography was created as a nod traditional film crystals, SLR prisms, and the early days of when i first started photography back in 2003