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Holidays

Wow well its been a great few weeks and theres no letting up either.

I had a fantastic week in London with the Society of Weddings and Portrait Photographers, where i manage to achive  the societies “Associate” level of qualification. Only 10% of the countries photographers have attained this award so its great to be up there with the best.

Fo the last two weeks I ve been in Florida with my long term partner Andrea Barrett and her lovely mum Shelia. We had a couple of friends staying with us called, Justin and Claire. Justin Slee is another photographer whom I been friends with for a long time now and is a great photographer. If you would like to view some of his work, I ve posted a link below.

Its Justin and Claire first time out to Disneyland Florida and as they were only here for a week we crammed in as much as we could. On their first full day over here we set of to Universal Studios which is two very large parks and along with the city walks complex really needs two or three days to go round but we were off like the clappers. The “guys” went off to ride the “Duelling Dragons” rollercoaster              and Justin’s nerve just about held and he manage to get on the ride but failed to open his eyes, so he cant have seen much:-)

We had so many highlights of the week that it would be too boring for the you the reader to endure but if youve not been to “Mickeys Home” then start thinking about it because its a great place to come and its okay for Kids too lol.

As soon as our Guests left the weather broke and it been great weather for ducks as you can see. So for the next three days its feet up and relax because we have weddings Saturday and Sunday when we get back!!! No rest for the wicked!

Click below for website links

My Web Site

Andrea Barrett Photography

Justin Slee Photography

Help we’re Snowed in!

The front of our home and Studio

Like a lot of people over the past few days the weather has been terrible. The snow looks good for pictures and postcards but when you want to get around it can be a little bit tricky. The house looks great in the snow but my car refuses to move at the moment so we are stuck in, with only a warm fire to sit around and loads of warm drinks to warm up on. I am getting a bit worried about our supplies as we seem to be running low on chocolate at the moment! So I might have to send out a search party for more provisions.Anyhow because we are stuck in it will give me chance to catch up on my work which isnt a bad thing.

The back of our Studios

Most people seem to think that wedding photographers only work fours hours every Saturday and only then in the Summer, if only it was that easy! December for us is just as busy as August is. I have worked on a hundred and twenty weddings this year. Each wedding I attend is usually an all day booking which is an average of 10 hours in the day, then its back to the studio to load all the images on to the computer and “back them all up”. This takes another 2 hours. Then the next day we sort out the pictures and adjust colours, exposure and pull out the duplicates and the blinks and load them up to the website for peaple to view. This takes another day to do. Then once our Bride and Groom pick their pictures to go in the wedding album we design the album, this also takes a lot of time. So I ve calculated how many days I had “off” last year and it comes to five. I’ll let you into a secret, I love my job so much that I’m planning to have three days this year, well I’ll only be twiddling my thumbs if I had any more!