Steve Bates Photographer

From the moment we met Steve and Gordon, we knew they the perfect photographers for us. Their infectious personalities make them so easy to get along with, and they make you feel comfortable from the get go. By the end of the day, they felt like part of the family! They slot effortlessly into any situation, and had us laughing all day. The pictures were better than we ever could have hoped, and the extra special touches just blew us away. Could not recommend them highly enough!! Thank you again for everything! Abbie & Dave Peel, July 8th 2017
Nov 6th, 2017

Steve was our wedding photographer he is smart professional and the pictures are amazing he helped us work out the best shots to get and with the engagement shoot for practice our pictures on the day came out perfect. The shots he did of our daughter when she was born were very well done and the editing to remove the spots she had pop out all over her face the day before the shoot was very well done, no trace of spots and you cant tell they have been edited.
Mar 31st, 2017

Amazing experience, really good photographers, great quality and really good friends. Can't wait to see them again for another experience!
Mar 30th, 2017

We took our son for a photo shoot so we could update is portfolio for his agent, We found Steve to be very friendly and professional, he made our son (aged 8yrs) very relaxed and comfortable, throughout the shoot, & the results were amazing pictures.
Mar 7th, 2017

The flowers will die, the cake gets eaten - but the photos.. last forever! we highly highly recommend Steve professional, friendly, polite, great communication - and most importantly AN AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER! Steve Bates where do I begin? .. we first Steve at a wedding fayre oct 2018. first impressions of Steve were very friendly, professional & approachable. - we decided to book for our wedding May 2020 - we had our engagement shoot in July 2019, Steve agreed to meet at a place of our choosing for the shoot and this would then be transformed into our guest book for the wedding. Steve made us both feel very relaxed and comfortable - which resulted in some amazing natural looking shots. the day went so lovely and we had a really nice time. myself and my partner agreed that we just clicked with him. Steve met up with us at our home address to show us the edited images and put/create our guest book together! (we had ours telling a story of our relationship) fast forward and covid pandemic hit resulting in our wedding being postponed to may 2021 - Steve was very sympathetic to the situation and had no problem moving our wedding free of charge! may 2021 came and so covid pushed us back for the second time to July 2021 - again Steve had no problems in moving us to our new date with no charge! our wedding day came and we had Steve booked for a full day - we had so much trust in steve by this point that we decided to keep our guest book to be shown to us a surprise on our wedding day - AND WOW! EVERYONE COMMENTED ON HOW BEAUTFUL IT WAS! once again steve made us both feel very relaxed, he always asked me if it was ok to alter the bottom of my dress to which he felt looked nice for a shot - of course he got it spot on EVERYTIME! my bridal team all agreed he was lovely and made them feel very comfortable with shots being taken during bridal prep. He is amazing with the kids and got some cracking photos of them! we had comments from majourity of our guests saying how friendly, polite and good he was - not just with the children but with the adults too! again steve met with us after the wedding at our home address to show us the final edited photos - once again steve not only made us cry with simply stunning photos - but he had another surprise in store for us (i wont write it here to keep it a surprise for other couples) we had all our photos put onto USBs and upgraded our wedding book along with a canvas. steve delivered the items in quick timing - again words do not express the amazing quality! we will treasure our pictures forever and Steve himself will me part of our memory. everyone who has saw our book/usbs/cavas has commented on how beautiful they are. out of all our suppliers we had the most contact with Steve and so built a very very good relationship with him! our last contact with steve was mixed emotions of happy with our items but sad that this was now the end of our contact with Steve. this will definitely not be our last contact with Steve as we will definitely be having family shoots etc in the future and i would now only trust Steve with our memories. he is a fantastic photographer and is amazing at his creative work! THANK YOU AGAIN STEVE FOR EVERYTHING! MR & MRS HOUGHTON!
Feb 5th, 2022