Yana Skakun
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Photography Blog
Tips, guides, venue spotlights and behind-the-scenes stories from my photography sessions across England.
Venue Spotlights
7 April 2026·7 min read
St Ives Old Bridge & Bridge Chapel: Cambridgeshire's Most Unique Wedding Location
The St Ives Old Bridge is unique in England — one of only four medieval bridge chapels surviving in the country, standing in the middle of the bridge over the Great Ouse, creating one of the most distinctive and romantic wedding ceremony settings imaginable.
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Photography Tips
7 April 2026·7 min read
Engagement Photography at Newmarket Racecourse: Horses, Heathland & Open Sky
Newmarket Heath and the Rowley Mile are one of England's great open landscapes — an immense expanse of chalk heathland where horses have galloped since the 17th century, under the widest sky in England and with a beauty entirely unlike anywhere else in the country.
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Venue Spotlights
7 April 2026·8 min read
Best Wedding Venues in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely has a small but exceptional selection of wedding venues — above all the magnificent Cathedral itself, but also Babylon Gallery by the river, The Maltings, and a range of country house venues in the surrounding fenland. A complete guide to getting married in and around Ely.
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Venue Spotlights
7 April 2026·8 min read
Wedding Photography in St Ives, Cambridgeshire: River, Bridge & Market Town Charm
St Ives on the Great Ouse is one of Cambridgeshire's most beautiful and photogenic market towns — a medieval river bridge with its extraordinary 15th-century chapel standing in the middle, a riverside quay, a fine bronze Cromwell, and the Ouse meadows stretching in every direction.
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Portrait Tips
7 April 2026·10 min read
What to Wear for a Couples Photoshoot: Complete Coordination Guide
How to coordinate as a couple without matching, build a palette for two people, and choose outfits that capture exactly who you are together — for portrait, pre-wedding, and anniversary sessions.
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Wedding Tips
7 April 2026·10 min read
Micro weddings in England: A complete photographer's guide
Micro weddings — intimate ceremonies with 10 to 30 guests — have transformed the wedding landscape in England. They're more personal, more flexible, and often more beautiful photographically. Here's everything you need to know.
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Venue Spotlights
6 April 2026·7 min read
Kew Gardens Wedding Photography: Botanical Beauty in London
Kew Gardens in London offers some of the most botanically spectacular wedding photography in the country — glasshouses, rose gardens, and 300 acres of living collection.
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Venue Spotlights
6 April 2026·7 min read
Hengrave Hall Wedding Photography: Tudor Grandeur in Suffolk
Hengrave Hall in Suffolk is one of England's finest Tudor country houses — an E-plan mansion of pale Bury St Edmunds limestone with extraordinary ceremony and reception spaces.
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Photography Tips
6 April 2026·7 min read
Snowdrop Season at Anglesey Abbey: Winter Romance Near Cambridge
There is no more ethereal setting for a winter engagement shoot near Cambridge than Anglesey Abbey in snowdrop season — millions of delicate white flowers carpeting the woodland floor beneath bare winter trees, with the Abbey's warm brick visible through the stems.
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Venue Spotlights
6 April 2026·8 min read
Wedding Photography in Newmarket: Horse Racing Capital & Hidden Gem
Newmarket is one of England's most surprising wedding destinations — horse racing's world capital, with an extraordinary concentration of historic racing architecture, the palatial Palace House, Newmarket Heath's vast open sky, and some of the most unusual wedding venue settings imaginable.
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Venue Spotlights
6 April 2026·8 min read
Audley End House Wedding Photography: Jacobean Splendour Near Saffron Walden
Audley End is one of England's most magnificent Jacobean country houses — 17th-century state rooms of extraordinary opulence, formal parterre gardens, a Capability Brown lake and landscape park, and a suite of rooms that make it one of the most imposing and photogenic wedding venues in the East of England.
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Venue Spotlights
6 April 2026·8 min read
Wedding Photography in Saffron Walden: Pargeted Houses & Rose Gardens
Saffron Walden is one of England's finest and least-visited medieval market towns — an extraordinary concentration of timber-framed pargeted houses, Bridge End Garden's Victorian topiary, a Norman castle, and the nearby grandeur of Audley End House.
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Photography Blog — Tips, Guides & Inspiration
Welcome to the photography blog by Yana Skakun — a professional photographer based in Cambridge, England. This journal covers everything from practical wedding planning guides and engagement session advice to family photoshoot tips, newborn photography guides, portrait session prep, and venue spotlights across Cambridgeshire, London, and East England.
Whether you're a couple planning your wedding, a family getting ready for a seasonal portrait session, or a professional preparing for a headshot shoot — you'll find honest, experience-based advice here. Every article is written from real sessions and years of capturing life's most meaningful moments across England.