So what’s Milkbottle Photography all about then…
If you hadn’t guessed already, we are brothers!
Ben and Tim
We combine our super powers to create beautiful wedding photos. We have a competition for “shot of the day” at each wedding which we both desperately want to win but are always proud of the other person when they win. We have 95 mutual Facebook friends, we both have ginger hair. We both believe the same thing is going to happen to us when we pop our clogs. We used to fight like…well…brothers until the summer of 1999, we have not fought once since that date, ask us what happened?! We both love climbing. We both think our parents rock. We both tap along to music when we are editing weddings and are always tempted to play on the full drum kit that is set up in the corner of our office.
Tim
One of my favourite things in the world is to have a house full of people who all need feeding. Our family motto when it comes to cooking is “nothing works like excess”, so nobody ever goes hungry at the May household. I am OCD about batteries, I have been known to take 10 camera batteries on a shoot where two would have done just fine (you just never know). I grew up surrounded by arty, creative people feeling like I was the non-arty one, until I took a picture one day that I actually thought was beautiful. From that point onwards when I hear people say they are not creative or arty I tell them that is rubbish, and that they just haven’t found their medium yet. I’m not proud of it but my first CD was Ace of Base – “All that she wants” (is another baby). What on earth was that song all about?! I am addicted to salt and vinegar crisps and cheap icing covered donuts (with extra sprinkles). I was that kid who brought a briefcase to school when nobody else had one. (don’t tell anyone but I loved that briefcase)
Ben
My favorite thing in the world (apart from my wife and kids) is Cadburys chocolate with a glass of cold milk. I like people who make me laugh out loud, and I never say or write “LOL!” I tell myself I’m not addicted to Twitter and Facebook when I might just be. I’m a Taurus but that mean diddlie-squat to me it’s all a load of tosh, I was just born in April, the same day as the Queen in fact…not the same year! I love good design and I’m not too much of a snob to say that IKEA rocks. I have to use proper punctuation in my texts messages, it bugs just me, not that I always get it right but I try. I’m a geek not a nerd, that makes me a little bit more “down with the kids”. I have an uncanny ability to retain useless facts about cars. It’s safe to say I’m a pretty big fan of everything Apple, much to the annoyance of my bank balance.