Personal profile

 

Martin Hambleton is a North-West based photographer who lives in Cheshire with his wife and two young children.

He specialises in wedding and lifestyle photography, and provides commercial and fine art photography to private and corporate clients.

Martin believes that a combination of good humour, detailed planning, listening carefully to his clients and absolute professionalism enable him to bring out the best in people and provide exceptional wedding photography.

The same qualities, combined with the life lessons learnt as the father of young children, enable him to create a sense of fun and laughter for lifestyle shoots. He is able to engage with people of all ages, from young babies to teenagers and their grandparents, so that family memories are distilled in photographs that will be treasured for years to come.

Martin has also developed a strong base in commercial photography, with corporate clients looking to bring a fresh and innovative eye to portraying their business, its staff or premises. He provides an effective, commercially aware and bespoke service.

 

Testimonials

 

Martin provided a professional service from start to finish and we have already recommended him to other people planning their wedding. He was fantastic at getting guests together for the group shots but was not overpowering. Guests commented on how good he was i.e. very personable with people. He put us at our ease and helped our day to run smoothly.

Jenny and Mark K.

 

We cannot recommend Martin enough. We have been given a wonderful reminder of our wedding day – you can see everyone’s personalities in the photographs together with the joy and happiness. Martin has a fabulous talent for capturing everything you want. He and Rachel are great people to work with and you totally forget they are there – which is a compliment! We can only hope they enjoyed the day as much as we enjoyed having them there. We now have the very difficult job of choosing our album from the most amazing photos!! Thank you so very much for everything.

Georgina and Shea N.

 

From the first day we met Martin he was approachable, professional and instantly put us at our ease. His eye, attention to detail and ability to ‘capture a moment’ has given us an album of magical memories. It has taken us over a year to choose the pictures for our wedding album as we loved them all. Martin’s endless time and effort has ensured we have the album of our dreams!
Thank you.

[And after the wedding album was delivered to Allysa and Andy...]

Martin,

Oh my goodness! Words cannot express how chuffed we are..... it is out of this world.  We are over the moon.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Allyssa and Andy M.

Hi Martin,

Just a quick note to thank you very much for the Christmas card and mini album you sent us, it was really kind of you.  I go off to the Far East on 2nd Jan so it will be lovely for me to take the little album with me.  Our Mums loved the parent albums we gave them for Christmas and everyone thinks our album is fantastic, including us!

I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas, and a very happy new year to you all.

Our thanks again,

Andrew and Charlotte.

 

We received a first class service from Martin. He was incredibly professional and very approachable. Many of our guests commented on the quality of Martin's service both on the day and when they saw our wedding album.

Kath and Paul S.

Dear Martin,

I just wanted to say how much we thought of your attendance at home and at the wedding. Having previously married 3 daughters, I have plenty of experience of wedding photographers, not one of whom I could recommend. However, with Jo and Ben’s, it was a delight to have you around us. You were courteous, unobtrusive and amusing. We had the most fantastic of days from beginning to end. Thank you so much for the part you played and I look forward to having many happy memories in the photos.

Sincerely, Beryl O’D.

 

The service I received from Martin was excellent. The shoot was very relaxed and considering he was photographing 3 children, Martin was very patient indeed! We are thrilled with the photos and will certainly have more taken in the future. The whole process was very easy and we loved being able to view and choose the photos at leisure from a DVD.

Lesley S.

Martin,

I am writing to say thank you for the lovely photos you took of our family. You made it seem very easy and had the children co-operating, so well done for that! Lots of our friends have commented on them and how different they are from the traditional photographer family photos. We really like the frames you suggested: we have hung them all and they look great. Thank you.

Kate O.

Hi Martin,

I only have positive things to say, so thank you!

We wanted to find someone who could have been a guest at the wedding – but happened to be the photographer! The photos really captured the sense of the day – but you were an extremely unobtrusive part of it. You listened to what we wanted before the wedding – and you always made yourself available on the mobile to do this (an important feature in wedding planning!).

We felt we really trusted you to deliver some beautiful and tasteful photos – and now we’ll really treasure them.

Sally O.

 

Martin did exactly what we wanted, telling the story of the day in pictures. A lot of guests did not even know he was there, which was what we wanted. The photographs were everything we expected and more. Martin is certainly a photographer we would highly recommend to anybody.

Sarah and Rob E.

Hi Martin,

We would like to thank you for all the time and effort you put into our special day and for months beforehand. It was a pleasure working with you, with your professionalism and personable nature. We’ve just had another look at the slideshow and just wanted to drop you a line to formally say thanks. I know this isn’t the final product but the photos are really great and we wanted to say thanks for your continued enthusiasm in helping to make our wedding day such a memorable event.

Matt and Emma F.

Dear Martin,

We would like to thank you for the lovely photographs you sent us. They are very much appreciated and are a lovely memento from Helen and John’s wedding day. We wish you every success for the future and won’t hesitate to recommend you.

Best wishes, Lisa and Mike B.

 

I have worked with Martin Hambleton Photography in a professional capacity, receiving commercial services for my business ranging from company conference photography through to preparation of business pictorials, whereby Martin initiated an innovative approach to describing our company in pictures. Whilst the quality of Martin’s photography is exceptional, I am equally impressed with the additional services and differentiated approach to providing photography services and initiatives.

Neil Smith, Managing Director, Kinetic plc

 

Hi Martin,

I’m sorry we’ve taken so long to choose the photos. We were so excited about all of the pictures that every time we sat down to decide on them we ended up chatting about the wedding and going off on a tangent!

[And later, when they had chosen their photographs!…..]

The album is the perfect way to look back on our most special day together and in years to come with our future generations! Thank you Martin!

Emily and Leigh W.

 

We found the service to be outstanding – a very personal service with thought, good planning and attention to detail. There wasn’t a bad picture amongst the proofs we received, which made choosing our album extremely difficult! You were recommended to us and we would have no hesitation in recommending you in turn. Thank you!

Donna and Richard C.

 

Great photos. Fantastic photographer. Lovely album. Many thanks. Will use Martin for my next wedding!!

Carlos K.