I’m two decades into my passion for photography and this is a question I continue to ask myself. In a world of beautiful colour why do I have the urge to convert the majority of my work to black and white?

One of the reasons black and white photography works so well is there are fewer distractions. This helps to draw the viewer’s eye to what I am trying to show them, be it a couple holding hands or maybe a kiss or tears of joy and not the bright red handbag in the foreground.

I also feel monochrome wedding photography works particularly well as it has a timeless quality about it. In a sequence of shots it also helps to tell a more coherent story, particularly when laid out in a book.

But (and it’s a big but) when there has been so much thought and preparation gone into a couple’s big day – colour coordinated flowers, bridesmaids, dress, shoes, hair – it is vitally important for me to capture all of these details. And to be honest sometimes colour is just better, right? Especially when the sun is getting low in the sky on a beautiful day, you have just got to nail those shots. I actually get quite excited moving around to capture as many images as I can before the sun disappears.

So black and white or colour? At the end of the day it comes down to personal preference doesn’t it?

When I first started out in photography I would take a photo of anything. Water droplets on a duck’s feathers, lamb’s wool caught on barbed wire or a bee in a flower… but I soon realised that these photos leave me cold and photographing people is definitely where my passion lies. And I guess I’m just a bit more passionate photographing them in black and white…