• Quality commercial photography
• Creative photography for all, including price packages especially for small businesses 
• Contemporary images for website advantage  
• Commercial photography for any marketing or advertising purpose
• Packshot images for catalogues and brochures
• Advertising photographs, high quality and high resolution

When it comes to commercial photography, businesses from Cumbria and around the UK come to Photography by Ward to deliver high quality commercial images of their products and services so they can promote their business better and increase their sales. Commercial photography of high quality is what Photography by Ward is all about - any business, any product or service.

Working locally with businesses in the creative area of art and craft design, we are very experienced in photography for the artist or studio-maker (something which may be of particular interest to the many art and craft business who make Cumbria their base). Remember that good quality photographs can make the difference and we have photography packages ideal for your requirements. E-mail or phone for a no obligation chat.

Quality photography promotes your business better

Our aim at Photography by Ward is to help UK businesses to obtain better photographs for improved marketing, advertising and sales. The photography studio is based in Cumbria and from this location we deliver our service to businesses throughout the county and around the UK. Using web-based tools to involve clients in remote art direction any location gap between studio and client is easily bridged.

By concentrating only on contemporary creative business photography (and turning away wedding or social jobs) we have established an expertise in creating the best in commercial photography. Working closely with businesses whatever their size and delivering to budget and brief we ensure that the images created are available for a variety of uses, advertising print or web and provide high quality, high resolution image flexibility.

Our clients enjoy both the experience of working with Photography by Ward’s Dave Ward and the results …

"THE PHOTO SESSION WAS JUST WHAT MY BUSINESS NEEDED AND DAVE IS A BRILLIANT MAN TO WORK WITH. HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED AND HOW HE WOULD ACHIEVE IT, BUT WAS OPEN TO MY SUGGESTIONS AS WELL".
Sue Dunne, Sue Dunne Ceramics

"THE SERVICE LEVEL FROM PHOTOGRAPHY BY WARD IS EXCELLENT AND THIS IS COMBINED WITH PROFESSIONAL AND CREATIVE RESULTS. ONCE AGAIN WE WERE IMPRESSED WITH THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND THE COMMITMENT TO ACHIEVE THE HIGH QUALITY PRODUCT SHOTS WE WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE TIMESCALE WE REQUIRED AND WITHIN BUDGET."
Hilary Park
Director, Sunrise System

To read more about other clients' experiences, click here for our case studies page.

How to use this website

We want our website to give a strong idea of the quality of the photography on offer as well as to be informative about us, our business credentials, and our services.

Throughout the website the photographs used are those taken for clients. Browsing the website pages will let you see a range of our photographic work, including product, creative and advertising images, used for a variety of purposes including the web; and will provide further information about our photographic services.

Click here to find out about prices.

Want to find out what's new with Photography by Ward? Then Click here for our Blog / News page and read about our autumn activities, including some landscape photographs taken just for fun.

However, if you would like to see a portfolio of photographic work without viewing other pages then we have made this easy for you, just click here on our link to photographic portfolio and it will open up in a new window.

Searching for specific photography

Both the website and the portfolio can only depict a sample range of the photography we produce. If you are interested in commissioning a specific type of work and have not seen it here then please contact us and we will search our photo database for relevant images to show you. Alternatively we are pleased to have our photography represented in Alamy photo library.

To search the Alamy photo library for images by Photography by Ward, click here on our go to Image Library page link where you can navigate to the Photography by Ward home page on Alamy.

Facilities

We generally carry out photographic work in our custom-built studio, or at the client's premises, however, with a full range of mobile equipment the quality is able to be maintained whatever the venue. Continual investment in camera and computer equipment ensures that the photographic service from Photography by Ward is always of the highest quality. Whilst most of the clients in other geographical locations use postal and courier services to benefit from our services, there is also the option, in bigger jobs, to set-up a mobile studio either at the client's site or in another suitable location.

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Images featured in The "Photographer"

Photography by Ward prides itself on its professionalism Following an award-winning porttfolio submission to the British Institute of Professional Photography, our work was featured in an edition of the Institute's magazine, "The Photographer", including the front page image. Just click here to see a pdf of that feature (opens in a new window file size 840kb).