Worcestershire Life Spread

We have three pages of pics in Worcestershire Life this month - various shots of the Autumn Show at the Three Counties Showground. The layout does us proud!

We have some more commissions for November which will be in the December issue - watch this space!

All Yours picture in today's Sunday Telegraph

we don't normally buy this paper, but we had to today to see Rachel's picture of Susan Kelsey. This was taken as a publicity picture for Susan-Russell publishing, who produce a range of diaries so that women can chart their various cycles. Available at a Waterstones near you!!

http://www.susan-russell.com/

Making it look interesting

Sometimes it's hard to introduce some movement and drama into an office-based commercial shoot. This is early days, but we're trying to get something interesting in the new website for Russell and Co., local solicitors and all-round good eggs:

www.russellandcosolicitors.co.uk

The problem with teaching

Is that some pupils are better than the teachers!

Witness these efforts from this term's Even Less Basic class in Worcester - my night time shot in Malvern totally eclipsed by student Roger King's picture of Worcester Bridge. Drat and double drat!!

Roger uses a Nikon D70, which makes it even worse since I'm on a D2X. Must try harder!

Shoe fetish

October has been a busy month at All Yours Towers, with lots of weddings, magazine shoots, schools work, teaching and product shoots. Our office is currently overflowing with shoes and handbags as we are photographing the new collection from Zinnia. Very nice products, nice people to deal with and fair trade as well:

www.zinnia-gifts.co.uk

It's nice to be appreciated, again

We happened to be up in Bromsgrove yesterday so we dropped in Sandy and Aimi's wedding photos personally. We'd also put together a little album for them as a present, which is something we often try to do for our customers if we can.

When we got home, they had sent us an email:

Hi Phil and Rachel,

Was great to see you both. A massive thank you for dropping the photos and cd’s off. Also for the present you gave us, its fantastic!, I like how you have got my dress detail in the background, gotta show off me dress J

It was a fab day, and you have captured it all on your amazing pictures.

Really enjoyed having you with us on our special day, and will recommend you to EVERYONE!

Well, hope to see you,

Cant say ‘thank you’ enough

Aimi & Sandy

(there were also some smiley faces which the blog software can't do)!

Here are a few pics from their day.

Massive cabbages and medieval divorces

First of all, apologies for the lack of blog postings over the past few weeks - we've been snowed under with weddings of all shapes and sizes, and we are working on a new wedding-related project that I can't mention at the moment but is close to fruition. We've also been doing some schools photography which is great fun but can't be shown here.

Meanwhile, we've started photographing for Worcestershire Life magazine. We covered the Three Counties show this weekend. We are deighted to be working with such a prestigious publication. Here are a few of the pictures, but there are many more in the magazine and you really should buy your own copy!

Sir David and Lady de Jarpanville (Philip and Louise Monteith), of the Freemen of Gwent discuss their medieval divorce.

Bob Edwards with Sky.

Winning gundog from the Mid-Western Gundog Society.

Ian Scott with his unfeasibly large first prize cabbage - 23kg!!!

Detail from Rosemary Stammer and Sheila Madigan's Gold Prize winning flower arrangement.


We love this kind of shoot, but there is lots to do - is it portraiture? is it journalism? who cares??