Mike Lister Photography · Plymouth

About

Mike Lister has photographed weddings, businesses and property across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall since 2013, working as a guest with a camera rather than a director.

Approach

I have been photographing across Devon and Cornwall since 2013, from a base in Plymouth, and I have now covered more than a hundred weddings. The best frames have almost never been the ones I asked for. They are the nervous laugh before the doors open, the look across a room, the aunt who cannot stay off the dance floor.

So I work like a guest who happens to have a camera. I turn up early, learn who everyone is, and then mostly stay out of the way. There is a point in every day where people stop noticing me, and everything worth keeping happens after it.

The rest of the week is commercial: headshots and brand days, food and interiors, events, and aerial work for roof surveys, construction progress and property. Same approach, fewer speeches. Fully insured, DBS checked, CAA licensed for the drone, and Trading Standards approved.

Bride in an ivory lace dress and veil and groom in a checked waistcoat stand forehead to forehead on rocks above a turquoise Cornish bay
St Ives Harbour · St Ives, Cornwall
Overhead aerial of a white country hotel with a slate roof and glazed conservatory, its circular gravel drive and parked cars, surrounded by mature trees and terraced lawns
Country House · Devon

Practice

  • Commercial08
  • Drone07
  • Weddings07
Frames
22
Locations
06
Shooting since
2013

Weddings, commercial shoots and drone work across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall.

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