Magpie-Eye Photography

Jenny photographed our wedding in September and was absolutely phenomenal!!! From our first consultation call, Jenny was warm, friendly, knowledgeable - and immediately put us both at ease. She was super communicative and easy to make arrangements with throughout the process, and offered great wedding planning tips (we found our band based on her suggestion!).We booked her 8 hour wedding day package, which came with a complimentary engagement shoot. The engagement shoot was such a great experience - highly recommend it to get into the groove! Jenny helped us pick a fun and meaningful location (our former local city farm!) and then we just had a fun day of wandering together, with Jenny chatting, guiding us into natural poses, and capturing us laughing.On the wedding day, Jenny was a ninja at artfully floating throughout the prep, the celebrations and the party to snap us and all our friends and family. Her photos were absolutely beautiful, and so perfectly captured the ‘feel’ of the day. They were exactly what we had envisioned, plus more!We cannot thank her enough for all of her help and support throughout, and for being such an amazing, integral part of our day!!

I cannot state powerfully and eloquently enough quite how exceptional Jenny is.She captured absolutely every single moment of our wedding with utter perfection and, along with it, diligent professionalism and friendly grace.She has furnished us with physical reminders that our perfect day was not a vivid dream.So much can get lost in the midst of the whirlwind of joy and emotion, but Jenny not only caught each element that occurred around us, but also helped guide us and keep us in line with the brief that we had requested from her and agreed upon.I know I speak on behalf of both us when I say that we cannot recommend Magpie-Eye Photography highly enough!Book her! I implore you.You will thank yourself. And if this review helps you come to the right decision, well I graciously accept your thanks too.Thank you Jenny!

Jenny was absolutely brilliant for our summer wedding. We were eager to find a LGBT friendly photographer and after a few google searches came across Jenny and we immediately fell in love with her photography and style. Jenny was a pleasure to work with throughout the whole process. She was always happy to answer our many questions throughout the process.On the day itself she was friendly, professional and organised. When we got our photos a few weeks later we could not have been happier. Jenny very much captured the feel of the day perfectly. I have no hesitation in recommending her. Thank you Jenny!

Most people are only planning on having the one wedding, so choosing a photographer that can wear many hats and document the best day of your life is quite a decision, especially if you've never had any interaction with professional photographers before, like we hadn't.We chose Jenny because we liked photographs we had seen her produce on her website/socials, her style/general vibe and background.So we reached out and scheduled a consultation phone call which was very easy to book in and was conducted on time.We became fast friends over the phone call as we got to know a bit more about her and vice versa, she explained lots of things on this call, took some prelimenary information and ideas we had about the day and our general itenerary, must haves, things we arent that interested in etc and she gave general advice at this stage, as well as sharing that as it wasn't her first rodeo she has tons of links to other wedding based suppliers - dressmakers, venues, flowers etc etc.All in all a really friendly and helpful consultation with her, so we booked her for our day.We went with her day package - approx 8 hours continuous (but she has different options how to take these hours).That also came with a 2 hour engagement shoot included (which we used to get photos of us and our cat because we are awesome).The engagement shoot was a brilliant opportunity to spend a couple of hours together, get comfortable around each other, share some more information about what sort of photographs you wanted and how the day will go. Again Jenny was on time, friendly and made us feel comfortable, and we received lots of brilliant shots from her.In the ensuing months and then nearer to the build up to the day itself, she was responsive in the back and forth finalising details, itineraries etc whilst also making clear her response times, admin days fell on which days and when to expect responses.On the day itself, she was again, on time! And she bloody nailed it exactly how we had planned!When she needed to take charge for the more staged photographs she did in a calm and professional manner, when we had some last minute ideas of shots she explained what would/wouldn’t work, what would be better for the lighting conditions etc.But mostly she was flitting around unseen in the background grabbing amazing candid shots of how the day was unfolding, and then she was on the dancefloor come the evening navigating around everyone's flailing limbs capturing the good (people looking stunning, having a great time dancing), the bad (people looking worse for wear, very important to have the odd funny/bad photograph of your nearest and dearest), and the ugly (my dancing).Post event, Jenny was again very responsive, friendly and clear about when we should expect to receive our photographs and she got them back much earlier than originally expected. She even got us a little wedding gift, which was a very thoughtful and nice, albeit unexpected surprise.If you need a friendly, professional and experienced photographer for your wedding, especially if you are more interested in the less posey version of the day then we can’t recommend Jenny enough.From start to finish we felt like we were in very capable hands!The Kirbys

It was such a pleasure having Jenny photograph our wedding ceremony this summer.She was super responsive in the lead-up to the event which is always welcomed reassurance.On the day itself Jenny was very friendly and smiley- a pleasure to be around. During the ceremony she was like a ninja :) - blending into the background, allowing the ceremony to go uninterrupted whilst capturing the moment.After this, we went across to the nearby park for some group pictures- Jenny was directing people into the 'shot-pose' in a very friendly, yet firm way- to ensure we get all the pictures we wanted in the short time we allowed. The whole group had a great time working with Jenny, even our reluctant dog was playing along!Not long after the day the pictures arrived and we were over the moon! They captured the event as it unfolded. The style of the pictures complimented the subjects and we are so pleased with the result! If we were to get married again- we would get Jenny to do it all over!

Jenny absolutely nailed our wedding photos and smashed the brief of 'capture the fun!' She was excited about our wedding plans from our first consultation and we couldn't be happier with the result! The photos were absolutely amazing, every single one makes us smile and cry. We love you Jenny!!

Jenny photographed the children at my nursery Playhood and I couldn't recommend her more highly. She somehow captured each child's personality and the magic of them playing and working together (not an easy task). She was a joy to have around and the children felt super comfortable with her. Most importantly, the photos are simply stunning. I wish I'd known about her for my wedding and would definitely work with her in the future.

Magpie-Eye spent a whole day with us taking images of children at play. The children were treated with incredible respect, asking them as well as their parent if pictures were ok. The images that were produced were sensitive to the content of the play and guided and informed by that content. Jenny bounded about with such enthusiasm and excitement yet some how managed not to dominate the environment and the photographs are surprisingly tender and mellow. Our photographer of choice from now on!

We would recommend Magpie-Eye to everyone. Jenny was meant to photograph our wedding in June 2020, but due to Covid19 and the national lockdown, we were forced to postpone our special day for a year. Jenny was very understanding with rescheduling and the communication throughout the year towards the new date helped us feel less stressed about the planning.For the big day Jenny was very professional and organised. She arrived for the timeframe we required. She is very creative and this is seen within the wonderful pictures we have received. Jenny explained lighting and positioning for each location making it easy to understand why we should be stood in areas we were directed to; we had been blessed with glorious sunshine for the day, what we learnt is a photographers nightmare. Yet despite this and as previously said the photos are amazing and we are eternally grateful to Jenny for the images she captured.

I can not recommend Jenny highly enough. She came to our adventure playground for a natural photo shoot aiming to catch children in their natural state of play. The results are beautiful, Jenny clearly understands play, children and how to be invisible. All aspects of the photo shoot were professional and helpful. Don't hesitate to book her!