A few days after Christmas (and still recovering from festive indulgence..) I jumped in the car and headed over the nightmare roads of the Lake District towards Blackpool for Amy and David’s wedding. They live in Australia and had come home for Christmas and to get married amongst family and friends. I’d seen a few pictures of the venue.. Amy told me she’d designed her own dress.. As a couple they were so cool and so laid back.. I knew it was going to be a wicked day.. it was.
S x
..the first of many to come. I’ll do a full post about being mentored by Joanna Brown in the next week or so but I still need to digest a lot of what I learnt.. My head is spinning and running away with itself but in a really good way. I adore my couples and their weddings, and this year I’m going to be doing more personal work just for me than before. And challenging myself. I’m not good at having my photograph taken, and I find it very difficult to look at and like photographs of myself, I usually like to hide behind someone for a bit of security – self portraiture is something I’ve wanted to tackle in a project for a little while now.. (ok there’s still one hiding behind a camera..)
..I do love albums. There’s nothing like holding photos in your hands in a book that you can one day pass down through the generations. I’ve recently started making personal albums myself and can’t stop flicking through.
There’s the option of two albums, a 10″x8″ parent book and a Folio 10″x10″ vintage leather covered album. The postman just brought me some new samples so I’ve decided to show them off a little bit..
Get in touch for more details or to add an album or two to your wedding photography coverage.
S x
OK so it’s not quite spring, but I’ve been overhauling some things in the past few weeks with the aim of streamlining my admin, refreshing my packaging and generally sorting things out at this end. I’ve put all the blogs I love into googlereader (why didn’t I do it sooner?!), transferred my pile of diaries onto an online calendar, filed everything in my inbox and in the next few weeks I’m going to sort out my finances (headache). You may have noticed that my main site had a facelift at the end of last year and this blog has been perked up a little too.
I’m currently loving having excited enquiries popping into my inbox and hearing about people’s plans, and this year I’m going to make sure the processing (and working at home) side of things is smoother and hopefully less stressful than last year. Are you all hitting 2013 with a vengence? It took me a while to blow out the January blues and perk up but now I’m ready for the challenges of a new year. I’m also seeing Joanna Brown of Browns Photography next week for a mentoring session.. I. can’t. wait.
S x
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