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Holiday in Madeira

CaptureIt — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:44:47 +0000

This year we and a couple of our friends went to Madeira for the first time. We can thoroughly recommend it. It is a stunningly beautiful island that has incredible views over mountains, the sea or both. It’s a landscape photographer’s paradise. Kind of like Wales without the cold.

We thought you’d like to see some of our favourite shots of sunsets, landscapes and the villa we stayed at.

Art Prints – Comic Book Art

CaptureIt — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:07:49 +0000

Continuing our art prints series, here is a photo that has undergone a transformation to be like art inspired by Roy Lichtenstein.

Original image:

Lichtenstein-a-like:

Art Prints – 50′s B Movie

CaptureIt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:31:07 +0000

We’re always trying to improve or add to the service we provide. So, we’ve been trying to expand our repertoire of Art Prints that we can offer. Some of you have seen our Warhol-a-likes and our Lichtenstein-a-likes, well here is a photo from last year in the style of a 1950′s B movie.

Wedding Photo of 2009

CaptureIt — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:44:59 +0000

As some of you know, every year we have a friendly little competition between just the two of us to see who got ‘wedding photo of the year’. The problem is that we may choose a particular shot because we know how difficult it was to get it at the time. (e.g. Some of our couples decided to practically run back down the aisle while we were trying to a) overtake them, b) carry all our gear and c) get that all-important aisle shot!)

So, we thought it would be good to get you involved as un-biased judges. Although you may not remain un-biased when we tell you that the winning couple will receive a stunning 10″x8″ table top acrylic photo worth £95.

We’ve narrowed our favourites down to 12. Please leave a comment at the end of the post telling us your favourite and, if you like, why you chose it. It may take a day or two before your comment appears as we have to approve every one in order to foil those pesky spammers. We will count up the votes and announce the winning shot. Naturally, we will count only 1 vote per person commenting or e-mail address (so you can’t say me and my 15 mates vote for numbers 3 and 6).

Voting will close in 4 weeks time or sooner if there’s a clear leader.

Enjoy!

1. Giles & Helen

2. Tom & Jana

3. Andrew & Emily

4. Joe & Ellie-May

5. Nick & Caroline

6. Priyan & Hester

7. Joshua & Allison

8. Alexey & Olga

9. Simon & Stephanie

10. Ben & Anne Marie

11. Daniel & Angharad

12. Michael & Samantha

Competition Now Closed!

Ben & Bryony

CaptureIt — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:17:45 +0000

We had the rare pleasure of being guests at a recent wedding. Richard’s niece Bryony got married to Ben and we had a great trip up to North Wales where we were also able to visit family and friends.
Of course we couldn’t not take any photographs! So here are some of our favourites:

Here is my favourite shot of the day: Richard and his mum.

We’ve got snow!

CaptureIt — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:41:33 +0000

The spectacle of decent snow in London meant that we just had to go out and take some photographs. The tube was working and so we took the opportunity to go to Osterley Park and capture the snowy scene.

Coming to America

CaptureIt — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:45:00 +0000

Very unusual for us, but we had a bit of a holiday! We went to New York with Sarah’s family and then on to Boston by ourselves.

Here are some of our holiday snaps. This is all of us in Times Square:

Manhattan skyline:

Grand Central Station:

The Chrysler Building at night.

Then on to Boston which is an incredible mix of the old and new. This is the Old State House which is where it all started for the USA.

We also had a chance to see our other ‘family’;. These guys are René & Melissa Tirado, the best wedding photographers in Boston.

www.tiradophotography.com

F8 Workshop with Huy Nguyen and Linda Wallace

CaptureIt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:18:00 +0000

We’ve just attended the 2 day F8 Workshop with Huy Nguyen and Linda Wallace. Our friends Dan & Ann Johnson invited them over from America to give about 20 of us British photographers their insights into documentary style wedding photography.

This was undoubtedly the best professional seminar / workshop that we’ve ever attended, including the many Richard attended in his former life as an IT manager. Huy and Linda’s images are full of impact, emotion and story. As Huy puts it, they are irresistable. It wasn’t that we learned a lot of new stuff but that we gained so much from interaction with so many creative, skilled and talented artists.

You won’t see a major change in the direction of our photography but hopefully you’ll see a few more documentary style and ‘edgy’ shots that may get across the feel of the day in addition to the beautiful images we provide.

So here we all are, Richard is front and centre and Sarah is directly behind him.

Warren House is not only a wonderful wedding venue but a first class conference centre.

Here’s Huy’s shot of us at Warren House’s little grotto.

Even world class professional photographers can go all stupid when they’re the other side of the camera.

Anil was probably telling Richard something very informative, important and life-changing but Richard was too busy trying to take a photo and walk backwards to pay attention. On the other hand, Anil may have just been saying “Watch out for that bench behind you.”

Thanks to Rob from Shooting Hip photography for this striking image of Huy.