Lucy J Toms Photography | storybrandcreative

I had a mini photoshoot with Lucy and not only are the photos amazing, she has a lovely way with clients - genuinely encouraging, friendly, and passionate about colour and photography! She understood exactly what I wanted from the shoot and that's what she delivered.

Lucy is more than a fantastic photographer who takes great photos, she also got to know me and my business so that she could propose photos and backdrops that matched. I have used her twice now and each time had a fabulous day out, being put at ease while having a camera pointed at me... She has great inter-personal skills and I have a really top notch catalogue of photos for my business now. Highly recommended.

I could not recommend Lucy highly enough. As someone who does not really like having my photo taken and is not very photogenic, I knew I wanted a photographer for my wedding who would make me feel at ease and forget the nerves of having a camera around the whole day. Lucy did exactly that - she was kind, fun and so enthusiastic the whole day. Her energy and positive spirit put everyone in a good mood and her photos are just beautiful, as we all look so relaxed and happy. My new husband and I have only seen a sneak peak of the whole wedding album, but what we have seen so far is magical. Lucy was always present and able to capture each special moment wherever it happened - she has helped create memories that we will treasure forever and we are so grateful!Bella & Romain

Wow! We have just received our photos back from Lucy and they are everything we had hoped for and more. Lucy is the most wonderful lady and made sure she properly understood our brief weeks before she arrived so there was a plan in place. She is a great personality and on the day put us all at ease making us laugh non-stop. The photos all have so much joy and life behind them which is exactly what we wanted. I’m already planning for when we can have her back again! We had Lucy come to take photos of our business but I would not hesitate now to book her for weddings and family photos. Honestly I can’t recommend her enough - thank you so much Lucy!

Lucy was our wedding photographer and what can I say - she was an absolute dream. Lucy just totally got ‘us’ and spent the time to work out exactly what we wanted. The result was the most perfect day with the most beautiful photos, a very quick turnaround for the first batch which we so appreciated. Couldn’t recommend Lucy highly enough - amazing person, amazing photos and every guest loved her. Thank you so much xxx

Initially we booked Lucy as our photographer for our wedding, however what we got was 'episquillions' more. Lucy was fantastic in every sense of our wedding, helping me into my dress, getting the flowers right, making our families relaxed, and laugh..and so much more. This beautiful lady is a Godmother to make all those last minute parts of your wedding totally SPARKLE! Lucy you are beautiful, you are bags of fun and give couples beautiful photographs that make sure they always remember their day, sprinkled with your magic. God bless you Lucy, and thank you so much. You have given us irreplaceable memories. Thank you, from us both xxx

I’m not a natural in front of the camera at all, but Lucy made me feel at complete ease. She directed me to get the most out of me, while still being ME, nothing was forced.We started the shoot with Lucy getting to know me and the characteristics I wanted to portray through the images.We had a casual walk around the location, snapping as we went, this got in a massive variety of backdrops in a very short space of time. Lucy is a force of nature and not shy, approaching shop / café owners as we went if places looked photogenic, she takes all of the effort out it for the ‘model’.At the end of the shoot we looked through some of the images on the back of the camera and I went from “I might take the bare minimum” to “OMG I NEED all of these photos!”. I regularly work with photographers in my day job, but the quality of the photos surpasses anything I’ve seen before! Just look at her portfolio!How she does what she does with natural light is pure magic.This mini-branding shoot has changed the way our business is portrayed. It will provide us with social media posts long into the future, and has represented exceptional value. I would 100% recommend and am already looking into an excuse for the next shoot.

Choosing a wedding photographer is really daunting - there are so many to choose from, it's such a key role in your wedding and there are many stories of disappointment and long delays in receiving photographs, which I particularly dreaded - you don't actually get to SEE the main events of your wedding day in the way everyone else does and my husband and I were really keen to enjoy 'seeing' it after through the photos, plus we had many friends we couldn't invite and overseas family who couldn't come, but who we wanted to share the day with as soon as possible.Lucy was very easy to deal with prior, scouted the venue ahead of the day, worked with me to develop an extensive but achievable shot list - she was honest about how a wedding runs and what to expect and how not to get too bogged down in the details when things run over etc - and gave us amazing coverage including loads of detail shots I never would have thought of. She was so much fun to work with and worked damn hard, she appeared everywhere throughout a very busy wedding.I was enormously surprised - and delighted - to get 50 preview photos at 2AM that night and the entire set photos followed through in batches over just a couple of weeks.She caught the key moments, many relaxed moments and also gave us portraiture quality photos of almost all of our guests, caught candidly throughout the day and night, which was amazing for all of them as well. Many people who were not at the wedding said they felt like they were almost there through the photos and we have had huge praise for the photography from our family and guests.I cannot recommend her enough to capture that precious day - it flies by so fast, but you can revisit it any time through high quality photographs. The memories are priceless.

Lucy was our wedding photographer in July and we could not recommend her more highly!From our very first facetime discussion to the day itself Lucy completely understood what we were hoping for. Neither of us enjoy having our photo taken so the opportunity to do a pre-wedding shoot was so valuable to make us both feel more at ease. Lucy is an incredible photographer but is also such a lovely person and really took the time to get to know us, which we massively appreciated. It was so much fun to have her there as we were getting ready in the morning - she captured the process effortlessly without any of us even really being aware that she was taking our photograph!We wanted mainly documentary style photography with just a few more formal shots and Lucy got this balance exactly right. We are both so happy with the quality of the final images and it has been amazing to look through and see parts of the day that we had missed.Thank you so much Lucy!

Lucy is such a talented human all round - not only is she an amazing photographer but she's also kind, warm & funny and has a very special ability to put even the most camera-shy person (like me) at complete ease when taking their photos. I found Lucy when I was looking for some branding photography for my new business and couldn't be happier that I chose her to do it. After several (very fun!) shoots together at different locations (Lucy has a real eye for finding perfect locations too), I was given an amazing set of photos that I can use for my website, social media, presentations and more. I'm so happy with them...and that's from someone who doesn't usually like themselves in photos! I actually want to say thank you Lucy for all that you've done in helping build my confidence. The whole experience, as well as the actual photos, have done just that and I'm hugely grateful.Oh and I also bought a photography class from Lucy as a gift for my Dad as I know he'll learn loads but also have a lot of fun with it too!I couldn't recommend Lucy highly enough and can't wait to find more reasons to work with her again soon. Thanks Lucy xx