Steve Gerrard Photography

Dave Matthews Band are probably the biggest band on the planet that most of the UK population have never heard of! Having sold close to 35 million albums they are listed in the Top 100 highest selling music acts of all time. Last night I was lucky enough to be one ...

A couple of months ago the lovely folk at Retail Birmingham came to visit me about a project highlighting the independent stores in Birmingham City Centre. They wanted to put together a collection of images based on the old classic shopkeeper photos where you would have a fishmonger outside his ...

Being a photographer means that occasionally you get to photograph your friends. It's more challenging in some ways but often more fun too. Next month I'll be shooting Luan & Paul's wedding at Walton Hall, a fantastic wedding venue near Stratford-Upon-Avon...

I always have a great time photographing weddings but occasionally I get to shoot a wedding which is so much fun it leaves me inspired and immensely grateful to be doing this for a career. James & Lorraine's wedding is already in the running for Wedding Of The Year as ...

For the past few years I've been lucky enough to be invited to photograph some of the UK's biggest music festivals and probably my favourite is the Download Festival at Donington Park which sees the best rock, metal, hardcore and punk bands play across four stages over three days. This year ...

Last weekend I had three engagement shoots in 2 days. Luckily it was the weekend with fantastic weather so I was happy to be out and about with some lovely clients rather than being inside in front of my minitors. Alex and Richard get married later this month at Delbury Hall ...

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook may have seen that I've been featured on The Daily Dust website after being the first UK photographer to be accepted to become part of the uber-cool Modern Photographers group. I want to thank Dave Musson for writing a great piece ...

You may remember a shoot I blogged back in March with West Bromwich Albion play, Paul Robinson. It was for a magazine called Players' Lounge which goes out to football pros in the UK. I didn't know until the finished mag landed on my doorstep that one of the images ...

Fay & Jason were married at Rowton Castle in February. Unfortunately I didn't get to shoot their wedding but I so wish I had! They booked the photographer recommended by the venue and were a little disappointed with the results. Fay emailed me asking about a "Trash The Dress" session, ...

We featured these guys on Bridal Soup this week but I love their videos so much I had to share them here too. This is wedding videography with a difference and makes me wanna get married all over again just so that I can book the guys who do them! Check ...

Earlier this year I announced a competition for one unsigned band to win a photoshoot and get themselves a variety of great band portraits to help them to stand out from the crowd. We had loads of entries from all kinds of bands and solo artists all over the Midlands. ...

As a music photographer I'm lucky enough to photograph some amazing artists, some legendary, some almost unknown. I get into most gigs free and often get to meet some of my favourite bands. Not a bad job really :) Recently I got to spend a couple of days with my favourite ...

It's always an honour and a privilege when a couple chooses us to photograph their wedding but it's even more flattering when we're booked to shoot the wedding of a fellow wedding photographer...

Laura & Mark were married a few weeks ago in a beautiful church in Four Oaks, Birmingham before heading over to one of our favourite venues in the area, Moxhull Hall, for the reception. For a spring wedding the weather could not have been better and everyone at the wedding ...

"Hi How are you? i am a Liverpool fan and i do enjoywatching you playing. Keep on giving us the bestperformance and i am wishing you all the best. Rodney Umali"

So I just got back from Birmingham Academy where the amazing Cancer Bats will be headlining later tonight. I was there to meet up with Liam and Mike from the band who were guest reviewers for Rock Sound's singles page. We listened to a bunch of new releases and the ...

I'm very proud and honoured to have been approved as the first UK photographer to join Modern Photographers...

I have a thing about asking people to smile for photos. I don't do it. The best way to get natural smiles is to photograph people who are already happy, fun people enjoying themselves while I photograph them. I'm lucky cos most people I get to photograph are seem relaxed ...

Thanks to fellow photographer Dave Piper who grabbed this shot of me shooting Rise Against at the Academy recently...

Faye & Warrick are all set to marry this weekend (May 2nd) and I can't wait to shoot their big day for them. Such an easy-going, fun couple, I know it's going to be a fantastic day. A couple of weeks ago I met them in Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon for ...

Herman is South African but now lives in the UK and is a very talented artist, painting and sculpting some incredibly original pieces. He also enjoys photography but admits that photos of himself are rare. He wanted to have some portraits done to give to his girlfriend and members of ...

I can hardly believe I'm actually getting to post this... Anyway, let's start with a little history... When I was 12 years old I used to go to school parties (usually at somebody's house) and some kids would bring a few records so that the host had a variety of music ...

Small intimate weddings are often even more fun than huge extravagant weddings. Theresa & Sam had a simple register office service and then headed to Bank restaurant in Birmingham to celebrate. The weather was glorious and their friends and family felt very much a part of the wedding...

This Easter may be Elliott's second but it's the first when he's been old enough to have an Easter egg and I think we can safely say he enjoyed the experience. Isaac isn't even 8 weeks old yet so no chocolate for him. Not sure he's too sure about hanging out ...

Say hi to Sophie. As you read this she will be somewhere on the other side of the world during an 18 month trip around the globe, taking in America, Australia and Asia along the way. She had planned this trip a long time ago. And then she met a ...

Gurdas Maan is a legendary Punjabi singer and many consider him to represent the heart of Punjab. He has recorded almost 30 albums! This weekend he will pack out the huge LG Arena in Birmingham but on Tuesday I met him in the Presidential Suite of the Radisson Hotel to ...

Chances are you've never heard of Jersey Budd. He's a relatively new artist from Leicester who still plays small bars when he's not playing the Royal Albert Hall opening for his mates Kasabian. If you like your music in the vein of Paul Weller, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles and Ryan Adams ...

The day after Isaac was born Evelyne's mom arrived from Montreal to spend 3 weeks with us, helping out where she could and generally making life a lot easier after the arrival of a new baby. While she was here we wanted to show her some true English history. Canada ...

Amy & Jonathon came to us via our good friend Emily Quinton who was already booked on the date they wanted (thanks Em) and it turns out Jonathon works at Wragge & Co in Birmingham which is where I briefly worked when I first moved to Birmingham from Chester. However, ...

As many of you may know, our studio is located at the Custard Factory in Birmingham and overlooks a manmade pool in the centre of the complex. Often this pool is drained to make way for big dance events on the weekend but usually it's full of water and has ...

Kate & Lee do not take things seriously. At all! They spend all the time laughing and joking and seem to make each other smile more than any couple I've met. So when we got together for their engagement session close to where they live in Birmingham city centre I ...

A couple of weeks ago Suki came to the studio for a portrait session. I hope she won't mind me telling you that she wanted the images to use on a dating website as, thanks to a successful but busy career, she wasn't meeting potential boyfriends. You wouldn't think that ...

It's been 39 days now since we met our new baby boy, Isaac. He's growing fast and is getting used to life in the Gerrard household. His big brother, Elliott, has been hugging and kissing him at every opportunity (and occasionally poking him in the eye!) and it's amazing to ...

If there's one thing nobody can plan about their wedding day it's the weather. Especially in the good old UK! Claire & Andy were unfortunate enough to choose one of the wettest days of the year for their wedding and made good use of umbrellas throughout the day. Some people might ...

With the amount of bands out there in the world of MySpace, it's more important than ever to have a great collection of images to help your band stand out from the crowd. I've been shooting bands for years now and thought it'd be fun to offer unsigned bands the ...

It's rarely the big gigs that I enjoy most. In fact, it's almost always the opposite. Small gigs have an intimacy that's missing from the larger venues, arenas and festivals. At small gigs you feel connected to the band on stage. And occasionally the band in question makes the audience ...