More annoyingly good class pictures

Our Wednesday night group had the task of visualising a photograph, writing it down and then actually taking it. This is the opposite of happy snapping, or just seeing a thing and grabbing the camera.

A bit zen, but look what Tim, Jacqui Suz and Jon came up with! This was taken upstairs in a pub, or in the street outside. No wimpy studios for the Wednesday night gang!

Making it look interesting, again

Making a man in a suit giving a powerpoint
presentation look interesting is not especially easy.

Phil took these of Rod Nipper launching the new Destination Worcestershire brochure last week.

Not much light, so used an 85mm prime lens at f1.8 . No flash.

A nice letter

We received this the other day from Dennis Waterman, no less. Big fans of the Sweeney and Minder that we are, we were thrilled. Click on it to read it if it's a bit small.

Rachel is particularly chuffed because according to Dennis and Pam have been photographed by Hello and OK! magazines, and feel Rachel's work is better. That's Rachel, on her own with no lighting and no entourage. Some of these pictures are in an earlier blog post.

Dennis and Pam actually bought some of these pictures to hang in their house, and they don't have many pictures up. High praise indeed.

Thanks Dennis, owe you a pint!

Catching up

Not much to report over Christmas - historically the slow time of year for photography work. We are re-vamping our website (watch this space) and pulling together new products for weddings and new coursework.

We've been learning new software both for album production and picture editing, and can definitely say we've upped our game for the new season. We're looking forward to 2009 with new kit and a positive outlook.

As part of the new website we will be listing all the venues where we've photographed weddings - currently this stands at a creditable 62 or so - not bad considering the many times we've photographed at Malvern Registry Office or the lovely Abbey Hotel in Malvern.

We'd like to wish all our customers and visitors a great 2009 - it will be far better than advertised!