Times Gone By
Christmas is about spending time with family, this year (having brought my Nan & Grandad a Slide Scanner – more on this in another post coming soon) we spent alot of time looking through old photos from the last 100 years.
Drawing inspiration from Dear Photograph I’ve been wanting to try this for a long time. My grandparents house is the last place we still own where we have photos of our family growing. Spending Boxing day their this year I thought it was a great opportunity to give it a shot, so here’s a glimpse into mixing new and old!
Me playing with what looks like a box of hair rollers
Me again in a very fetching outfit
Me again
Cool hat
My Grandad
My Nan & Grandads garden
Me practicing my stunts
My Nan
My Grandad
My cousin Joe
My Nan & Grandad at Christmas
My Uncle, Brother, Mum, Me, Nan & Grandad
My Brother practicing his salute
Me, Uncle, Brother and 5 balloons.
My Cousin (Georgie)
My Great Grandmother (Florence) who sadly passed away in the 90′s
Me again sporting my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-Shirt
My Mum (And Step Father)
I’d like to go back much further, but ran out of time. I have a mission to get all of their images digitalised, so expect a few more attempts on my next visit!
Jack Bailey
On the way back down to London from Birmingham after Christmas I took a detour via Northampton to see Matt, Becky & Baby Jack. Jack was born just 4.5 weeks ago. Luckily I had my camera and a couple of lenses in the car, so with very little equipment I snapped a few images of little Jack.
Check out the full gallery here
Meet little Jack ……
If you don’t stop taking my picture, I’m going to sucker punch you!
Check out the full gallery here
GoPro Hero2
My GoPro Hero2 finally made it through the Christmas post today. I went for the Outdoor kit as it came with a more useful variety of mounts. I also added an optional LCD screen to the package.
I’ll be putting the Hero2 through its paces in a couple of weeks when I visit Val Thorens, and will try and post some footage and a quick review when I’m back. So far I’m impressed with its low light capabilities (its dark here now, so can’t properly try it in the light until tomorrow 
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Canon Powershot S100
I have a new toy! It arrived express delivery from Hong Kong!
So for the past few years my choice of compact camera has been the Canon Powershot G10, an amazing camera that takes beautiful photos, has manual control, shoots RAW and is build like a brick. Unfortunately its a little large to carry around in a pocket, so I found myself using my iPhone camera much more than the G10. I admit I sacrificed quality for convenience, which is great, but I found myself wanting more in some circumstances.
Being Christmas and all, I thought I deserved a present, so please welcome the Canon Powershot S100! (The S100 joins my very large camera family)
The S100 is a beautifully crafted camera, shooting 12MP of RAW image (essential to me!), with the added manual control that the G10 offers, but around half the depth of the G10 and a little smaller all over. The selling point for me is the added GPS, which tags each image with my location information (such a lifesaver when it comes to cataloging my images). The build quality and feel are outstanding for such a small light compact camera bursting with technology (better not forget to add that it shoots full 1080p HD video), Canon have done an amazing job on this camera.
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(shot on the iPhone 4S)
The S100 is packed with technology and the new DIGIC 5 chip, I’m loving the lens control ring, and the massive 3″ LCD. There are so many new features in this camera, and some clever AF magic, I’ll be playing with these over the next few weeks and will report back on anything that I’m impressed by.
Initially I am extremely impressed with this camera, I’ll give it a full work out over the next few weeks as I visit family and friends over Christmas.
P.S I’ve had a gadget filled week, I also upgraded my iPhone to the 4S 64GB, as with all the apple products I own I am extremely impressed with the phone! The winner for me here is the upgraded camera and ability to shoot HD video.
P.P.S I also have a GoPro Hero2 on the way (come on DPD (ordered the same time as the S100 from the UK, The S100 travelled from Hong Kong to London so far a day quicker than the GoPro from Birmingham to London), should be here today!), I’ll post a review of this when I get a moment, but it will be getting a through test in my forthcoming Ski trip in January!
Clare & Marcus :: Wedding Video
Its been a few months since we photographed Clare & Marcus’s big day back in August. Check out their Wedding Highlights here.
I thought it was time to share with you some excerpts from their Wedding Video produced by Spacebar Productions. We work closely with Spacebar Productions to provide a complete Wedding package, Photography, Video & Entertainment.
Wedding Highlights
Chapters – Getting Ready
Chapters – Guests
Calmeta & Dave :: Wedding Highlights Video
Spacebar Productions have just shared Calmeta & Dave’s Wedding Highlights, so I thought I’d pass it on. We work closely with Spacebar Productions to provide seamless Photography, Video & Entertainment services.
Lucy & Shev :: Pre Wedding
I had the pleasure of meeting Lucy, Shev and little Noah today out in Guildford. Dodging the rain we spent some time capturing some pre wedding photos.
I’m looking forward to kicking off my 2012 Wedding Season photographing their wedding in March.
Check out the rest of their photo shoot here
Merry Christmas 2011
I’d like to say a huge MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of the Bride & Grooms who I’ve had the pleasure of photographing this year, and those I will be fortunate enough to photograph in 2012.
Its been an incredibly busy year, 15 Weddings is about my limit, I have thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them (only 2 rained!), and have had fun this evening look back through this year to put together this post. I’m looking forward to a few months off (read as catching up with admin, album designs and sending out final wedding packs!) now before next year’s pre-wedding shoots start in February.
Anyway, here’s my 2011 Wedding season in 15 photos.
