About Reel Life Photos
We love people and are passionate about wedding pictures! My background is in fine art having worked for 20 years as an artist, exhibiting and painting in oils and graphic media. My granddad was a wedding photographer too, and my great granddad also a photographer, printing his pictures on glass. My sister is a landscape photographer and my son an acclaimed music, travel, and magazine photographer, so it must be in our blood!
Jorge is a talented videographer and editor, whose background is in Cuban national TV working on dramas and films, doing sound design for large stage productions, concerts, news, and conferences. He is also our IT techie and is brilliant with electronics too! He is also a passionate Salsa dancer!
Below are two very short - unedited clips from a wedding on 24 July 2010 that formed part of a global archive of Life in a Day from which a feature film will be made. We are one of thousands who submitted footage, but at least you can see what your potential wedding photographer looks and sounds like!
Jorge speaks fluent English, Spanish and Italian. I speak fluent Greek, and reasonable Spanish, German & French, and understand a bit of Italian.
We started covering weddings in 2000 and set up our original website around that time, rebuilding it in 2004. We decided to add this one late 2009 as I don't have time to learn how to do complex web-design and this one by websites for photographers is so easy to build and update!
So on your wedding day, it’s truly your emotions we most strive to catch - your off-guard expressions rather than in-the-mirror-smiles. Savour the visual feast online of whole weddings and also selected picture sections and then get in touch. No charge for travel anywhere in UK or world wide wedding destinations overseas. We’ve done weddings in the Ice hotel in Sweden, a quaint church in Tenerife, Kilkea Castle Southern Ireland, Jacob's Creek in Australia, a chateau in France, an Orthodox wedding in Egypt, a Bedouin wedding in Jordan and an African wedding in The Gambia. We also are happy to travel for weddings in Cyprus, India, Italy, Switzerland or Greece - to name a few. Our next overseas wedding is on a boat in Australia in October, then we have another one in the Ice Hotel in Sweden for a very lively couple, followed next year by one for another lovely couple in the Seychelles! But wherever your wedding is, you are the star, and the whole family is part of your day too, so enjoy your wedding video DVD or photography by inviting us to join you.
More on the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers' site...
xx Elaine and Jorge Borges-Ibanez - and the rest of the team!