Stories

Everything here is written from running these sessions: what the assistant does, what the wind does, what a colour does against limestone, and what you are actually standing on when you photograph the pyramids from a roof. Nothing here is a guide to Egypt. There are plenty of those.

The sessionInside a forty-five minute session, minute by minutePeople book this having seen the results and not the process. Here is the process, in order, including the parts that are less glamorous than the photographs suggest.The dressHow a flying dress actually fliesThe photograph people arrive wanting is a dress mid-air with five metres of fabric behind it. That picture is made by a second person standing just outside the frame, and almost everything about how the session runs follows from that.The dressChoosing a dress colour, when the background is limestone and sandChoosing a colour does not change what you pay, which means the only thing to optimise is the photograph. Against pale stone and paler sand, that question has a fairly short answer.The dressAdjustable, and what that means when you put it onThis is the question people are most reluctant to ask and most relieved to have answered, so here is the answer before you have to ask it.The placeA rooftop with a view of the pyramids is not the pyramid complexThis is the distinction most listings blur and the one most worth being clear about, because it decides what your morning looks like. It is also, on balance, in your favour.The occasionPhotographing a proposal the other person does not know aboutThe photographs are the easy part. The hard part is the forty minutes before them, during which one of the two people present must not work out what is happening.

Something not answered here?

6 articles will not cover everything. The questions page is longer and blunter, and a message gets you a person.

Enquire All the questions