Yana Skakun
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Photography Blog
Tips, guides, venue spotlights and behind-the-scenes stories from my photography sessions across England.
Photography Tips
8 April 2026·7 min read
Wicken Fen Engagement Photography: Ancient Fen Landscape & Windmill
Wicken Fen is Britain's oldest nature reserve — an extraordinary surviving fragment of the original fenland, with the iconic windpump, reed beds, open fen water, grazing Highland cattle, and some of the most dramatic light in Cambridgeshire. A guide to engagement photography at this unique location.
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Photography Tips
8 April 2026·7 min read
Ely Riverside Engagement Photography: Wide Skies & Cathedral Silhouettes
The River Great Ouse below Ely creates some of Cambridgeshire's most dramatic engagement photography — the Cathedral rising from its hill behind the flat river meadows, extraordinary cloudscapes, and the pink-gold light of sunsets reflected in the slow fenland water.
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Venue Spotlights
8 April 2026·8 min read
Hinchingbrooke House Wedding Photography: Tudor Mansion Near Huntingdon
Hinchingbrooke House is one of Cambridgeshire's most extraordinary wedding venues — a 16th-century Tudor mansion converted from a medieval priory, with a Great Hall, Long Gallery, gothic archways, and grounds stretching down to the Brampton Valley. A complete photography guide.
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Venue Spotlights
8 April 2026·9 min read
Wedding Photography in Huntingdon: History, River & Cromwell's Town
Huntingdon is one of Cambridgeshire's most historically layered market towns — birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, medieval grammar school, Hinchingbrooke House on the edge of town, riverside meadows of Portholme, and the great sweep of the Ouse beyond. A complete guide to Huntingdon weddings.
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Venue Spotlights
8 April 2026·9 min read
Fenland Wedding Photography: Big Skies, Dramatic Light & a Landscape Like No Other
The Cambridgeshire Fens offer a wedding photography experience unlike anywhere else in England — a vast flat landscape of black peaty soil, dead-straight drains, and the most dramatic cloudscapes in the country. A photographer's guide to shooting one of England's most unique landscapes.
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Portrait Tips
7 April 2026·7 min read
Boudoir Photography: What to Expect at Your Session
If you have never had a boudoir session before, it is completely normal to feel nervous. Here is exactly what happens from booking to receiving your final images.
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Portrait Tips
7 April 2026·7 min read
Bridal Boudoir Photography: The Ultimate Pre-Wedding Gift
Bridal boudoir sessions are one of the most popular pre-wedding gifts — intimate, empowering, and completely private. Here is everything you need to know.
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Portrait Tips
7 April 2026·6 min read
Body Confidence Photography: Celebrating Every Shape and Size
Body confidence photography is not about transformation — it is about revealing the beauty that already exists. Every body is photogenic when the photographer's approach is right.
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Venue Spotlights
7 April 2026·8 min read
Wedding Photography in St Neots: Cambridgeshire's Largest Market Town
St Neots is Cambridgeshire's largest market town — an attractive Great Ouse riverside, a wide market square dominated by St Mary the Virgin's magnificent Perpendicular tower, Riverside Park, and a ring of wedding venues across the surrounding south Cambridgeshire countryside.
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Venue Spotlights
7 April 2026·7 min read
St Ives Old Bridge & Bridge Chapel: Cambridgeshire's Most Unique Wedding Location
The St Ives Old Bridge is unique in England — one of only four medieval bridge chapels surviving in the country, standing in the middle of the bridge over the Great Ouse, creating one of the most distinctive and romantic wedding ceremony settings imaginable.
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Photography Tips
7 April 2026·7 min read
Engagement Photography at Newmarket Racecourse: Horses, Heathland & Open Sky
Newmarket Heath and the Rowley Mile are one of England's great open landscapes — an immense expanse of chalk heathland where horses have galloped since the 17th century, under the widest sky in England and with a beauty entirely unlike anywhere else in the country.
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Venue Spotlights
7 April 2026·8 min read
Best Wedding Venues in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely has a small but exceptional selection of wedding venues — above all the magnificent Cathedral itself, but also Babylon Gallery by the river, The Maltings, and a range of country house venues in the surrounding fenland. A complete guide to getting married in and around Ely.
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Photography Blog — Tips, Guides & Inspiration
Welcome to the photography blog by Yana Skakun — a professional photographer based in Cambridge, England. This journal covers everything from practical wedding planning guides and engagement session advice to family photoshoot tips, newborn photography guides, portrait session prep, and venue spotlights across Cambridgeshire, London, and East England.
Whether you're a couple planning your wedding, a family getting ready for a seasonal portrait session, or a professional preparing for a headshot shoot — you'll find honest, experience-based advice here. Every article is written from real sessions and years of capturing life's most meaningful moments across England.