Photographer Wisbech

Wisbech is the largest town in the north Cambridgeshire Fens and one of England's most architecturally distinguished provincial towns. The Georgian North Brink — an unaltered terrace of 18th-century merchants' houses along the north bank of the Nene, including Peckover House — is one of the finest Georgian streetscapes in England and provides portrait settings of genuine architectural distinction. I photograph weddings, families, and portrait commissions across Wisbech and the surrounding Fenland area, working with the town's exceptional built character and the wide, flat landscape of the fens beyond.

Peckover House — a National Trust property dating from the 1720s, with one of the finest small formal gardens in the east of England behind its plain red-brick facade — provides Wisbech's most intimate and refined portrait setting. The walled garden, with its croquet lawn, herbaceous double borders, and Victorian orangery and fernery, photographs beautifully throughout the year: rose season in June and July is particularly fine; the winter garden in frost and silence has a quality of its own.

Beyond the town, the Fenland orchard landscape to the south and west — vast commercial apple, pear and plum orchards in the Ouse and Nene catchment — is spectacular in late April during blossom season. I offer dedicated orchard blossom family sessions during this short window each year, booked in advance — the combination of the big Fen sky, the white and pink blossom, and the flat, light-filled Fenland landscape gives family photographs a genuinely unusual and beautiful quality.