About David

I left Clare at 18.

A small rural village. Close friends I still hold dear. A teenage life already full of adventure, concerts, beaches, Munster rugby, the kind of friendships that form when you grow up somewhere small and quiet and make your own noise anyway.

I was at Slane in 1996 the day Oasis opened for REM. I was 18 years old and I had no idea yet how much of the world I was going to see.

Then I left for college in Wales. And what came next was everything.

A woman I fell completely in love with. A proposal in Paris. A decision to settle in Cork and build a life there. Four children. A camper van. A career photographing the most important days of people's lives.

Somewhere in the middle of all of that I also managed to skydive for charity, kayak the River Lee, ride rollercoasters on multiple continents, follow Munster rugby across Europe, party on beaches, travel to India, Finland, Amsterdam, Scotland, the United States, France, Spain and Italy.

I am 48 years old.

I genuinely feel like I am still 19.

 I never really grew up. I just got better at living.

The camper van still goes. The cold water swimming continues regardless of what month it is. The concerts, the travel, the sense that there is always somewhere worth going and something worth doing. None of that has left.

I think this matters for a wedding photographer more than most people realise.

Your wedding day is not a formal occasion to be managed from a respectful distance. It is the best party of your life, wrapped around the most meaningful moment of your life. The person beside you for all of it should understand both things equally.

I understand joy. I understand adventure. I understand what it feels like to be completely present in a moment and not want it to end.

I bring all of that to every wedding I photograph.

I fell in love with photography in a darkroom.

Before digital. Before Instagram. Before anyone used the word content to describe a photograph.

I spent two years doing night courses at St John's in Cork. Fully film based. I developed my own negatives. I made my own prints. I stood in the dark and watched images appear slowly on paper submerged in developer.

It is one of the most magical things I have ever witnessed. A moment, captured on film, becoming visible before your eyes. Something from nothing. Reality made permanent.

I still have Prints and Polaroids from when I was a teenager.

Not scanned. Not backed up to a cloud. Actually with me. Carried from place to place across thirty years of a life fully lived.

What I love most about those Polaroids is not how they look. It is what they were. They were present at the moment the joy happened. The camera came out, the shutter fired, and within minutes there was a physical object in someone's hand that had not existed sixty seconds earlier. A piece of that moment, made real, passed around the group.

Some of those Polaroids have scratches on them now. Bent corners from being handed to a friend who was not quite as careful with them as I was. It does not matter. I love them all the same. More, perhaps, because of those marks. Each scratch is evidence that the photograph was alive enough to be shared. Real enough to be handled. Human enough to survive thirty years in a pocket, a wallet, a box under a bed.

That is something a digital image will never be.

I watch people skim through photographs on a phone or an iPad. Hundreds of images scrolled past in minutes, each one seen for a fraction of a second before the next arrives. But when I hand a couple their wedding album something changes. They slow down. They look at every detail on every page. They turn each page slowly, reluctantly, as though they are not quite ready to leave the moment behind.

That reluctance is everything.

A photograph you hold in your hands asks to be looked at properly. It was present at the moment the joy happened. And thirty years from now, if it has a scratch or a bent corner from being passed to someone who loved it a little less carefully than you did, that will only make it more yours.

This is why I shoot on film. It is why I offer Super 8 and Polaroid and 35mm alongside everything else. It is why I care so much about the albums I design.

Because a photograph you hold is worth a thousand you scroll past.

I also bring 17 years of experience.

I am a qualified project manager. Before your wedding day I will build a detailed timeline with you. Not to manage the day like a coordinator with a clipboard, but so the preparation is so thorough that on the day itself everything just flows. You will never feel managed. You will just feel relaxed.

I use flow posing. I give you something natural to do and photograph you while you are doing it. No stiff poses. No counting to three. Just you, moving naturally, looking exactly like yourselves.

I offer every couple a free practice shoot before the wedding. Not to rehearse photographs, but so that when I walk through your door on the morning of your wedding, a friend arrives. Not a stranger with a camera.

I will fix the flowers on the groomsmen's jackets. Tie a tie or two. Carry the dress. Fix the veil. Handle anything quietly so you never know there was anything to handle.

I photograph a maximum of 15 weddings a year. Not because I have to. Because I choose to. Every couple gets everything I have.

This is who I am

FATHER

Four children. A wife I proposed to in Paris. A family built in Cork far from where I started.

They are my whole world and the reason I understand what it means to document the moments that matter.

PHOTOGRAPHER

I truly love weddings. Not just wedding photography. Weddings. The noise of them. The love in them. The moment someone's grandmother starts dancing and nobody expected it. I get to be there for all of it. I will never take that for granted.

ADVENTURER

Slane 1996, Oasis opening for REM. Rollercoasters on multiple continents. Munster rugby across Europe.

Travel: India. Finland. Amsterdam. USA. A camper van through France.

I am 48 years old. I genuinely feel like I am still 19.

I introduced video because of my children.

When my children were small I photographed everything. I loved those photographs. But flicking through them I would look at each one for a moment and move on.

The videos were different. I would stop. Every single time.

Because a photograph shows you what your child looked like. A video shows you who they were. The way they laughed. The way they moved. The person they were becoming right in front of you.

I started thinking about weddings differently after that.

Most couples eliminate video early in their planning. I think that's a mistake, I believe video is vital.

So I solved it.

When you book Still and Motion with Casey Photography you are not getting a production crew. You are getting David and a trusted second pair of hands, usually my daughter, working as one team. No strangers. No chaos. Just two people who know exactly what they are doing.

Couples never regret having the video.

They always regret not having it.

 The greatest gift.

I was lucky enough to raise four children while building a career as a wedding photographer. It meant I was there. Present. Watching them grow up in a way that many fathers simply cannot be.

It is the greatest gift my work has ever given me. That time. That presence. That knowledge of what the moments that matter actually become.

They become everything.

 What I want for you.

I want you to treat me like the best friend who happens to be photographing your wedding. Someone you can say anything to. Someone who will give you honest advice, tell you the truth about your timeline, and make sure the day flows so effortlessly that you forget there was ever a plan at all.

When you look back at your photographs, I do not just want you to see beautiful images.

I want you to feel the excitement of that day all over again.

That is what I am working towards from the moment we first speak.

Connection is not generational. It is human.

 Let's talk.

If you are getting married in Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Clare, or somewhere that deserves a photographer who will travel for the right couple, I would love to hear from you.

Not just an email. A conversation.