Peace and Serenity is the new Black

Well it's nice to have a break, nothing but peace and serenity ( albeit with camera never far from reach; above images are from last weeks trip to the lakes).

Looking back over the last six months from a position of relaxation, without the pressures of work to deal with does give you the opportunity to review the business and see where your strengths and weaknesses lie.

Play to your strengths, strengthen your weaknesses.

This time around for me it's time to shake up the website a little and source new Marketing opportunities. It seems the further get down a particular path the more options there are to choose from and yet more work to be done, but it also gives you that feeling that anything is possible. So here's to the first step in the right direction, which direction is that you ask...

Onward and upward ! of cause !

The Last Wedding Pt II

Thought I'd share...

The Last Wedding.

OK, this weeks blog almost past me by. I've been so busy I'd forgotten what day it was. So today instead of my usual waffle about something and nothing, I shall just offer you this; a couple of images from this weeks wedding ( the last of the season for me ) and wish you all a great week. Next week is the start of a new chapter for my photography business and much change is afoot, watch this space...

Bosworth Wedding

One of the first images from last weeks wedding, Bosworth hall was a fabulous location I only wish we could have spent longer on the shot. I'll post some more of these images as they are finished.
The car is a 1961 E-Type Jag and what a great accessory to what was a fabulous day, Sue and Gary both looked great the album is gonna be a stunner.

Dante

" In the middle of our life's way
I found myself in a wood so dark
That I couldn't tell where the straight path lay."

The above quite is from the first couple of lines from Dante's inferno, it's nice to see that they had midlife crises even the the old days. I wonder how that manifested itself back then. I personally just bought lots of stuff that was orange, not sure why orange, but Val says at least it wasn't 20 year old girls and fast cars. I'm not sure though; orange may have been cheaper but probably not as much fun !
Only kindin' sweetheart !

Good artist copy, great artists steal.

Our house is full of books and magazines on photography. I take three mags a month and one bimonthly and I am currently working my way though two books on marketing and personal improvement .
Good artist copy, great artists steal.
With the mags I find myself reading everything, even the stuff I think I already know, quite often the way one photographer will approach a subject may spark an idea for something completely different, evoking a whole new approach to something I'm already working on .
Good artist copy, great artists steal.
In art as well as photography you can often see connections. The art of one, inspiring the other.
The work of bob Carlos Clarke for instance has surely inspired many over the years from other photographers to fantasy artists alike. Although his style may not be to every ones taste, his approach and lighting , his ability to see to shot still draws you in and offers plenty of food for the imagination.
Good artist copy, great artists steal.
And so yes since time in memorial artist, musicians, sculptors, politicians have taken inspiration from others, stealing one thing or another and making it their own. The key is to steal a small facet of something that lights your fire. Taking an idea and expanding it until it's your own.
I suppose you should just replace the word "steal" with the words "are inspired"
Inspiration is all around us, the more you look for it, the more you find it.
Be inspired this week.
Yes your right dear reader, once I start you can't shut me up ! So with that...

Detail, it's all in the detail.

Whilst working this weeks wedding it occurred to me how important detail is, (not that i didn't already now , you understand ).

I watched the staff at Birtsmorton Court Malvern Worcestershire, ever present but never intrusive, catering for the needs of there clients with military precision and yet without hardly being noticed, their attention to detail made the day a pleasure to all who attended even if the guests didn't realise it.Whether it be at a wedding or a romantic night in (or out for that matter) the elements that make it all work ;

Detail, it's all in the detail.