Ancestral Manoeuvres Ltd. - Event & Wedding Photographers
Ancestral Manoeuvres Ltd. are Event & Wedding Photographers from West Midlands offering Contemporary wedding photography & Traditional wedding photography.

Its your wedding, your day, your life.

You have chosen the venue, the cars, your dress and suits, flowers, colour scheme and the date. Now you need to choose a style of wedding photography and style of album.

These days wedding photography is either traditional, contemporary or more commonly a blend of both.

Traditional wedding photography uses one print on each side of a page to capture a moment of time each one a time capsule, such as: bride at family home, bride helped into car, bride and father in car. In three photographs we have shown the story of the bride leaving home to attend her wedding.

Contemporary wedding photography uses multiple images on each side or even one picture made with several images: in the same scenario, a picture of the bride at home would form the background, with inset images of, the brides shoes, the cat or dog with a ribbon around neck, the tray of flowers from florist and glasses of champagne from pre wedding toast.The next picture would show the wedding car outside the family home with insets of, the bride and father at front door, the radiator and emblem of the car (rolls royce).The third picture would show bride and father in car as main image with smaller pictures of father helping bride into car and bride looking out of back window as they are leaving.Both examples have told the same story with the contemporary version having far more information and detail leaving the viewer knowing more about the day.

The Traditional Wedding Photography, and Contemporary Wedding Photography sub pages show more examples of both styles.

With a total package from £495.00 we can marry your dreams to your budget. Contact us to discuss your wedding plans.

Why Ancestral Manoeuvres?

A photograph is a moment of time captured and is able to be kept to look back on, by ourselves, and later by our decendants. Time is not friendly to photographs and standard photographic paper will fade and develop a brown tint (check your old family photos).

Our prefered paper is archival fine art paper, it is naturaly white whithout being bleached and is made from 100% cotton rag not wood pulp (it is the lignum in paper made from wood pulp that causes it to turn brown). It has a smooth non gloss surface that will not reflect overhead lights or window light. There is also a slight textured surface and a canvas effect availiable. When people see these prints they often say that they seem to have a greater appearance of depth than ordinary prints.

I believe that photographs like our memories should last forever, sadly nothing does but this paper in conjunction with the ultrachrome inkset used in printing will ensure that your prints will last for several generations.

Of course if you realy do want gloss or lustre ordinary prints, we can provide those as well.

Ian Bateman, the photographer behind Ancestral Manoeuvres.

Among other cities, Ancestral Manoeuvres Ltd. may serve the following areas: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry, Telford, Walsall, Worcester, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Hereford, Kidderminster, Dudley, Leamington Spa, Redditch, Rugby, Stourbridge, Tamworth, Bridgnorth, Bromsgrove, Cannock, Burton-on-Trent, Halesowen, Alcester, Lichfield, Malvern, Nuneaton, Oldbury, Smethwick

Listed under Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-On-Trent, Telford & Wrekin, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire Counties.