We set off early in the pouring rain to arrive at what can only be described as an Idyllic location for a beautiful wedding. Guthrie Castle is located within its own amazing grounds with the most impressive walled garden and beautiful lake complete with swans. Claire and Ian were very lucky as the weather improved and managed to have an outdoor ceremony and allowed us to create some amazing photographs for the couple to enjoy.

Scottish MPA Photographer of the Year 2011

What can I say we are still on cloud nine after another very successful Scottish MPA Awards! I walked away with Overall Scottish Photographer of the Year along with Contemporary Wedding Photographer and Cherubs Photographer of the Year as well as another 12 Awards of Excellences and Merits in various categories including Portrait, Wedding and Fashion. Even though Carol has been on Maternity leave for the majority of last year she still managed to scoop a Certificate of Merit in the Classical Wedding category. A big thank you to all our clients and I cant wait to create more award winning images!

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STOP PRESS! The Spring/Summer Grampian Wedding Directory is now on sale. We had the pleasure of photographing the cover shoot at Blairs College, Aberdeenshire.  A big thanks to all the models and to Ian the Curator at the Blairs Musuem who let us run riot for a day! I hope you like the images below and pplease visit www.gwd.uk.com to orer your copy of the directory.

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Finally, the sun was shining for Arwen and Nathan's wedding at Meldrum House Hotel, Aberdeenshire last weekend. A very colourful wedding with the three bridesmaids in different spring colours to match the floral colours really added to what was a beautiful wedding day to be part of.

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Winter returned for last weeks wedding at Thainstone House, Aberdeenshire. It didnt stop Lynne and Chris having a fantastic day and even braved the snow at night, after a few glasses of Champagne!

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On a very wet and windy Aberdeen day our first wedding of 2011 saw Victoria and Kris married at Mid Stocket Church and then Norwood Hall Hotel. What a fantastic couple, wish you both all the best and cant wait to design your album!

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How would you like the chance to win £1000?

We are looking to photograph children with a 'distinctive look' aged between 1 and 12 for a major national photographic competition – the MPA Wedding & Portrait Awards.

The MPA Wedding & Portrait Awards are a prestigious national professional photography competition sponsored this year by FUJI. The finalist consumer(s) each receive £50 shopping vouchers with the overall winner receiving a cheque for £1000!

£1 from every session will be donated to the PACE center which is a UK charity helping children with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, and this year I will also donate £5 from every MPA Wedding & Portrait Awards portrait session fee to the Neo-Natal Unit in Aberdeen. Last year I was nominated as one of the MPA Wedding & Portrait Awards finalists and indeed to the delight of 10 year old Clara she received a Kodak digital camera!

Sessions during February and March are half price at £30.

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SPACES STILL AVAILABLE! - How to get the most from your Digital SLR - This beginner training course will help you gain confidence in using your camera and taking it out of auto mode! The aim of this course is to allow you to use your camera more confidently and understand how to take great photographs!

The course is to be run as four evening classes on the dates below:

Dates - February 24th/ March 3rd / March 10th / March 17th

Time: 6:30pm - 9pm

Course fee: £125 (10% will be donated to our 2011 charity)

Spaces are limited so please contact us on 01224 712003 to book your place.

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This year we have decided to donate to the Neo-Natal Unit in Aberdeen. The Neo-natal unit is close to our hearts as Eilidh and several of our friends and clients babies have had to spend time in the unit and with another child due in April we thought it appropriate to give something back.

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FANTASTIC FEBRUARY! - During February all portrait sessions will be half price! We will also select one image from every session and enter it into the National Kodak Portrait Awards free of charge. The Kodak Awards are a prestigious national professional photography competition. The finalist consumer(s) receive a Kodak digital camera with the overall winner receiving a cheque for £1000! Every £1 entrance fee is donated to the PACE center which is a UK charity helping children with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, and this year I will donate £5 from every portrait session fee (in February) to a local charity yet to be decided. Last year I was nominated as one of the Kodak award finalists and indeed to the delight of 10 year old Clara she received her digital camera!

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Happy New Year to all our clients present and past, we hope 2011 is a good year for all!

2010 was a very exciting year for us with our award success at Scottish and National level in both the Wedding and Portrait categories. We are very excited about 2011 and are looking forward to photographing every single wedding and portrait session!

We will be exhibiting at Your Wedding Exhibition on the 15th/16th January in Aberdeen, come and say hello, we are on stand J5.

Our wedding photography experience for 2011 is about to change! With a new year comes a new look and three exciting new wedding photography experiences! We would like to introduce to you the AMAZING 'Queensberry MUSEE' wedding album, in fact it is more than an album it is a story about you, a story about love, presented and finished to the absolute highest artisanship available!

A whole new range of products are to be launched this year including a bespoke acrylic range which can be designed specific for your own wall space.

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We are getting very excited about the forthcoming launch of our New Wedding Photography package which will be launched at the AECC 'Your Wedding Show' in January 2011. I say wedding photography package very loosely as it is more of an experience, a creation of a story about you past and present, presented to the very highest levels of presentation using only the finest materials, without compromise. If you are serious about creating the perfect heirloom and would like to preview the new package before January please give us a call to arrange a studio appointment. 

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Our latest sample album has just arrived back from Queensberry. Beautiful! The Ivory Contemporary leather combined with the classic Ivory mats looks absolutely stunning alongside the panoramic 18 x 10 horizontal format which is a first for us, we just loved the freedom it offered when designing the album. Why not come and see the album at our studio or at the AECC in January 15th/16th 2011.

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I cant believe it is Christmas Promotion time for Portrait Sessions already, where has the year gone? This year for the month of November we are offering 25 free bespoke Christmas Cards utilising an image from a portrait session for all clients that spend over £200 on frames or prints. Give us a call and get your portrait session booked in now quoting 'christmas promotion'! Terms and Conditions apply.

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Its not everyday your best friend gets married, and we were delighted to be guests and photographers at Alison and Graeme Wedding yesterday. Yes - hold the Grampian TV news - Graeme Thom HAS got married and his stunning bride Alison never stopped smiling the whole day. Enjoy your honeymoon and see you both soon x

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We have just had confirmation that I have been awarded six awards of merit and Carol two awards of merit in the British Professional Photography Awards in Wedding and Portraiture. All Merits go through to the finals in October and have the chance to win the overal category or be awarded an Award of Excellence . This is a massive acheivement for me and Carol after do so well in the Scottish Awards!

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Due to popular demand we have re-introduced the 'All Dressed Up' sessions!

Why only wear your wedding dress once, lets get dressed up again, relive the emotions of your big day and let us do the rest by creating some amazing images for you to cherish forever! We don't want to 'Trash the Dress' we want to create beautiful images of couples in love in amazing environments and present these beautifully in an album or as wall art. A perfect compromise if you couldn't get the photographs you really wanted on your big day!

The 'All Dressed Up' sessions can also be used for couples who just want to get dressed up and have some fun and record a special time in their lives.

Included in the sessions is an initial consultation to discuss your personal requirements and decide on a theme for the session. Sessions last up to 3 hours on the day with optional hair and make up. You can choose to present your photographs in a bespoke 10 page album or alternatively as a special peice of wall art.

The perfect anniversary gift or just as special gift to say 'I love You'!

Sessions start at £395.  

Please contact us for further information at info@nicholasfrostphotography.co.uk

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We are always amazed when an album comes back from Queensberry of New Zealand. From the packaging through to the pristine finish of each hand made page and the beautiful leather covers the quality is just breath taking. Every album is designed in our Aberdeen Studio by Nicholas or Carol utilising the amazing selection of options available from the Queensberry range. Every single album is different, we dont use templates we create every bespoke design to compliment your photographs! Once the design is complete, Queensberry take over and hand build each album. This whole process from start to finish usually takes around 8 weeks.

Audrey and Lee's album came back this week and we thought we'd share it with you.

Two fantastic weddings from last weekend. Krista and Daniel were married at Mannofield Church with the reception at Ardoe House Hotel, both made the journey over from Canada for their big day. Emily and Adrian both of Aberdeen were married at Mansion House Hotel in Elgin, a lovely venue for a lovely couple who were alot of fun to photograph. Congratulations to both couples and look forward to designing the album with you.

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Wedding season is slowly winding down and we are delighted with how our year has gone, we have had the privelage of photographying many amazing couples! If you havent booked in to come back in to select your wedding album then please book in as soon as possible to ensure your album is back for Christmas!

As the weddings wind down we are fast approaching the Christmas portrait season. To avoid the last minute rush and dissapointment make sure you book in your sessions as soon as possible, the cut off for orders to ensure delivery for Christmas will be the 1st December, sessions need to be completed by mid/late November.

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We had a lot of fun photographying the wedding of Lynn & David at Thainstone House Hotel in Aberdeenshire on Saturday. I hope you enjoy this sneak preview of your photographs before you head off on honeymoon!

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It was a rainy day, for Helen and Jay, at Pittodrie House Hotel today! It was smiles not frowns, a stunning Ian Stuart gown, and dancing till the sun went down. :D A little corny poetry to reflect on what was indeed a beautiful day. Congratulations Helen and Jay (and for being such good fun)!

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Well it's been 2 and a half years and finally Jamie-lee and Nathan's big day arrived. 220 guests and a full pipeband to photograph was a little daunting but all had a wonderful day and we wish Jamie-lee and Nathan all the best for the future.

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What an amazing day we had with Suzanne and Robbie on Sunday who were married at St Machars Cathedral, Aberdeen. Dodging the rain showers we had fantastic fun and even managed to get on the other side of the camera, scary! Congratulations to you both and look forward to seeing you both soon!

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After what looked like it was going to be a complete washout with the heavy wind and rain, we had the most amazing day today with Avril and Danny at Fyvie Castle and Meldrum House Hotel. Who said you couldn't strike a pose Avril - you looked gorgeous! Sorry about the cat....

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I'm afraid our satnav didn't work for this weeks wedding that took place on a North East estate with the most amazing marquee constructed in the middle of a field! No green wellies or bunnets though - instead Jimmy Choo's and top hats for Phillipa and Johnny's big day. You were a pleasure to photograph, congratulations to you both.

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This week just keeps getting better and better! I have just found out that I am a finalist in the prestigious Kodak Wedding and Portrait Awards 2010!

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18 Reasons to go with Nicholas Frost Photography! We are still a little shell shocked after returning from the 2010 Scottish Master Photography Awards held at Dunblane Hydro on Monday evening. We were awarded 18 different awards in total!

Nicholas was awarded the Scottish MPA Under 5's Photographer of the Year and also gained 7 other Awards of Excellence and Certificates of Merit in both classic and contemporary portraiture and wedding photography categories!

Carol had a fantastic evening and was awarded the Scottish MPA Overall Most Promising Photographer of the Year, along with Most Promising Classical Wedding and Most Promising Contemporary Wedding Photographer of the Year along with 7 other Awards of Excellence and Cerificates of Merits in Portraiture and Wedding categories.

Thank you to our clients for a fantastic year and we hope to keep creating fantastic images over the next 12 months.

Below are the winning images!

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The Importance of using a Qualified MPA Photographer.

Below is a link to a newspaper article which has been in the press this week. The moral of the story is you get what you pay for from your wedding photography, you only have one chance no matter what the weather or circumstances that are thrown at you! Do your research, if we aren't available on your wedding day or you would like some advice we are more than happy to assist you to find the right photographer for you!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6263595/Couple-sue-wedding-photographer.html

Comment from the Chief Executive of the Master Photographers Association:

I was appalled to read about the West Yorkshire newlyweds, Marc and Sylvia Day, who had to sue their wedding photographer for producing shoddy wedding photographs and video.

The photographer in question was not charging cheap prices either, so how can couples be assured that the photographer they choose is not going to make a mess of things?

The answer is simply to entrust this most important event to a Master Photographer. The Master Photographers Association is the only trade body in the UK to insist its members are full-time professionals and are qualified to a high minimum standard. They also follow a strict code of conduct and carry the appropriate insurance.

The bungling photographer, Gareth Bowers, was not an MPA member, but appears to have been a former member of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers - a privately run society which does not enforce the strict entry criteria of the Master Photographers Association.

I'll be discussing the benefits of using a Master Photographer in a radio interview booked for next week.

Colin Buck
Chief Executive, MPA

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We are delighted have been NOMINATED for a VOWS Award for the second year running in the photography category. The VOWS Awards are for outstanding service in the wedding industry in Scotland. The absolutely amazing thing about the VOWS Awards is that it's our clients who have helped us to reach the finals! We are thrilled to be one of the final eight in the photography category who are invited to attend the glittering awards ceremony in Glasgow in November. This nomination is very important to us as not only does it tell us that you like our photography, but our service is great too! A big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to vote for us.

NICHOLAS & CAROL FROST - QUALIFED MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS

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