From Essex & Maldon wedding photographer. A black and white landscape photograph of a view over Bradwell Road and Maldon Road looking towards Southminster. From Highfields wedding venue in Bradwell-on-Sea.

Essex Photography

Rainham in the ’50s

My mum and a friend sat on the
doorstep of one of the homes on Philip Road that she grew up in.

A cat on a lead down Wennington Road Rainham.

Rainham late ’70s

A cat on a lead down Wennington Road.

A silver jubilee street party in Rainham.

Rainham 1977

A street party for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Southend-on-Sea in the 1950s

My mum is here on the far left with her siblings.
Just behind the deck chairs you can see a Rossi ice cream parlour.

Children sitting down by the beach in Southend. A Rossi ice cream shop behind them. It's the 1950s.

Portraits of Work Colleagues

These photographs my grandad took on Ilford FP3 film (I think in the 1950s) appear to have been taken at the Amar Tool and Gauge Company Ltd, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex.
I thought I’d post them here just in case anyone recognises a relative.

In researching the company I learnt that Grove Road used to be called Cat Lane, they should’ve kept the old name!

Essex – More Than a Stereotype

I’ve experienced it all my life; I was born in Chelmsford, I’m blonde, and I’m called Tracy.

It doesn’t take long to look beyond the labels.
Essex has a lot more to offer than just fake tans and a terrible voting record.

Matt Taylor Space Plasma Physicist at Bluedot festival

Matt Taylor, space plasma physicist, at the Bluedot festival.The project scientist for the Rosetta mission.We have a couple of things in common – physics, and we both have Metal Hammer Golden God awards!

Chelmsford even plays a role in the history of digital photography. The first digital colour photograph in the world was taken by Dr Michael Francis Tompsett.

He was a physicist, engineer, and inventor at the English Electric Valve Company (now Teledyne E2V). The technology developed there went on to help create the CCD at Bell Labs in New Jersey where he later worked.

The charge-coupled device is used as the image sensor in a camera, it converts light into electrical signals. In 1971 Tompsett filed the patent for the CCD and in 1972 he took the first digital colour photograph, a picture of his wife.
These days most cameras now use a CMOS sensor invented by Prof. Eric Fossum, it’s very similar but uses less power.

And E2V do amazing things like make the CCD sensors that take pictures in space, including those used in the Rosetta mission.
I love that something made in Chelmsford is in space capturing images.

A man who needs no introduction.
Rik Mayall was born in Harlow, Essex.

This photograph is from my very first ever professional photography job, and I spent a whole day photographing Rik Mayall. What an experience.

Rik Mayall on a shoot for his world cup single. By Tracy Morter Photography.
A groom and bride leaving the church of St Helen and St Giles in Rainham in 1975

My parents on their wedding day in 1975.
At the church of St Helen and St Giles in Rainham, Essex.

A bride in a car on her wedding in July 1075 in Rainham. She is wearing a veil.
A bride wearing a wedding dress from Miss Bush walks through a shower of confetti with her husband. At Parish Church of St John Baptist in Danbury Essex.

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