Tag: photographers

  • Vinopolis, Southwark – photographers’ meetup

    Cam and Pen McKinley-Rodgers and Marianne Taylor - Southwark Vinopolis Meetup

    At the end of August, talented London-based photographer Kirsten Mavric (www.kirstenmavric.co.uk) organised a get together of photographer friends. Thirty-four super talented photographers from around the UK descended upon the Cantina Vinopolis for a fab evening of great food, wine and the very best of company! Nearing the close of a busy summer season, going to London to catch up with friends old and new was more than worth the trip from Bristol. I’m soooo behind with the rest of my blogging but here’s a few snaps from our night out.

    Big thanks due to Kirsten for organising the get together. A great job well done!

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    FEATURED IMAGE ABOVE: Cam and Pen McKinley Rodgers have a giggle with Marianne Taylor

    BELOW: Christina Brosnan of Brosnan Photographic travelled all the way from Ireland! Christina shoots romantic wedding photography www.brosnanphotographic.com

    Christina Brosnan - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Marianne Taylor in conversation with Anushe Low. Marianne’s weddings have great creative flair www.mariannetaylorphotography.co.uk

    Marianne Taylor - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Vicki Knights of Knights Photography in Surbiton specialises in natural light portraiture www.vickiknights.co.uk

    Vicki Knights - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Eddie Judd striking a pose. Based in Surrey, Eddie’s portraits and weddings are full of colour and nature www.eddiejuddphotography.com

    Eddie Judd - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Chloé Brown of Caught the Light (natural, feminine wedding images www.caughtthelight.com) talks to Dasha Caffrey of Exhibit Emotions (emotive contemporary wedding photography www.exhibitemotions.com) and Christina Brosnan.

    Dasha Caffrey, Chloe Brown, Christina Brosnan, Tarah Coonan - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    David McNeil (relaxed contemporary weddings www.davidmcneil.co.uk) catches up with Shella Gozali of Shell de Mar Photography (fun and quirky weddings www.shelldemar.com)

    David McNeil talking to Marshella Gozali - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Wish I could have earwigged on whatever Lisa Devlin (Brighton vintage-style wedding photography and much more! www.devlinphotos.co.uk) and Pen McKinley-Rodgers (romantic portrayals of love out of Oxfordshire www.mckinley-rodgers.com) were talking about 🙂

    Pen McKinley-Rodgers - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Zoe Collyer with Vicky Knights. Zoe is based in Surrey and captures weddings in a documentary style www.zoecollyer.co.uk

    Zoe Collyer - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    The lovely Tarah Coonan. Tarah’s work is romantic and feminine http://tarahcoonanphotography.blogspot.com

    Tarah Coonan - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Eliza Claire (creative quirky weddings www.elizaclaire.com) chats to David McNeil

    Eliza Claire and David McNeil - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Dasha Caffrey does what she does best. In the frame…Christina Brosnan and Tarah Coonan

    Dasha Caffrey, Christina Brosnan, Tarah Coonan - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    My roomie, Juliet McKee. Juliet shoots wedding and portraits with wonderfully punchy colours www.julietmckeephotography.co.uk

    Juliet McKee - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Anushe Low. Anushe shoots stylish weddings with artistic flair www.anushe.com

    Anushe Low - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Lisa Jane Brown (wedding and portrait photography on both digital and film www.lisajane-photography.com) and Debs Ivelja (natural and stylish weddings www.debsivelja.blogspot.com)

    Lisa Jane Brown, Debs Ivelja - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Vicki Knights and Kirsten Mavric. Kirsten shoots fresh, contemporary weddings and portraits www.kirstenmavric.co.uk

    Vicki Knights, Kirsten Mavric - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    The creative talent that is Fanni Williams of Fubu Media/Fanni Williams Photography www.fanniwilliams.com in conversation with Chloé Brown and Anushe Low

    Fanni Williams - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Kirsten Mavric catches up with Eliza Claire

    Kirsten Mavric talks to Eliza Claire - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Eliza Claire takes a break from a busy season!

    Eliza Claire - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Lisa Jane and Marianne, Ed Peers (www.edpeers.com) and Fanni Williams

    Marianne Taylor, Ed Peers, Fanni Williams - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Dominique Bader in the limelight. In her own words, Dominique’s work is “Pretty not gritty” www.domiquebader.com

    Dominique Bader - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    David McNeil and Joanna Brown of Browns Photography (alternative intimate wedding photography www.browns-photography.co.uk)

    David McNeil, Joanna Brown - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Kirsten Mavric gets the worst part of the evening over and done with…settling the bill. Ouch! Supervised by Eddie Judd and Chanelle Segerius who specialises in high-end and destination wedding photography www.segeriusbruce.com

    Kirsten Mavric, Eddie Judd, Chanelle Segerius - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    David McNeil and Debs Ivelja

    David McNeil, Debs Ivelja - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Juliet McKee with her D60 and pop-up flash :-O

    Debs Ivelja, Juliet McKee, Cam McKinley-Rodgers - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Fiona Kelly (documentary wedding photographer www.fionasweddingphotography.co.uk), Yolande de Vries of Rings n Veils (weddings and fashion reportage www.yolandedevries.com), Lisa Devlin and Anneli Marinovich (contemporary photography www.annelimarinovich.com)

    Fiona Kelly, Yolande de Vries, Lisa Devlin, Anneli Marinovich, Marianne Taylor, Juliet Mckee - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Eddie Judd and Vicki Knights hit the pub

    Eddie Judd, Vicki Knights - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Our host Kirsten Mavric was one of the last (wo)men standing!

    Kirsten Mavric - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

    Yolande de Vries was sporting a fab new ‘do’. She will be missed when she departs for Oz. Both 🙂 and 🙁 Safe travels Yolande!

    Yolande de Vries - Southwark Vinopolis Photographers Meetup

  • Lighting Workshop with Alex Beckett, Goldbrick House

    A portrait of Jane

    Last year, Cambridge-based photographer Alex Beckett (www.alexbeckett.co.uk) asked the Twitterverse for tips for his impending trip to Mongolia. Of course I obliged. Fast forward 6 months later and he is living in Bristol, down the road from me!

    In March, his trip to Saudi was cancelled and decided to run his very first off-camera flash workshop. It was a multi-level workshop with photographers who were totally new to lighting alongside experienced professionals. I decided to go along to wrap a formal approach around my existing knowledge and to see some photographer friends!

    Alex took us through the basics of flash photography, his kit, a demonstration (posing Martin Pemberton as The Godfather!)and we all got pitched in. I’d been involved recruiting the pilot group of attendees and models so knew most people attending the day, but there were a few new faces too. We all had fun and even the attendees with more advanced knowledge learnt a few tricks. A great day all in all and in a great venue. Alex will be running future workshops so keep an eye out for more workshop goodness.

    With thanks to our models Jane (http://purestorm.com/profile.aspx?id=lady_galaxy92), Danielle (http://www.modelmayhem.com/676727) and Juliet.

    Here are my pics of the model that my group worked with, Jane and my fellow photographers.

    Lighting practice:

    Jane

    Jane portrait

    These ones are natural light:

    Jane in the Big Blue

    Jane in thought

    Jane in light

    Jane en vogue

    Britain’s next top model, James Bailey

    Britain's next top model

    Reluctant model Lizi

    Alex Beckett in action

    Ian Francis & Lizi Cosslett

    Ian Francis and Lizi Cosslett

    Martin Pemberton striking a pose as The Godfather

    The Godfather pose

    Matthew Roach strikes his own pose!

    Matthew Roach

    Neil (RattyBoots on Flickr)

    Neil

    Martin Drake

    Martin Drake

    Caroline Alexander

    Caroline Alexander

    Martin Gillman

    Martin Gillman

    James Bailey

    James Bailey

    Benjamin Edwards

    Benjamin Edwards

    Kristy Field

    Kristy Field

    Lizi & Ian

    Lizi Cosslett and Ian Francis

    Nicola Ferguson

    Nicola Ferguson

    Jane striking a pose

    Lights camera action

    Behind the scenes

    Matt and Jane

    Martin having a break

    Martin at work

    Happy hour

    Caroline Alexander and Alex Beckett

  • Getting back on the blog bike

    Claudia Carter

    Some of you will know that I recently had an operation. I’m now recovering well, and getting back to blogging!  It’s been a fabulous few days, spending some time with brilliant documentary wedding photographer Caroline Alexander (www.caroline-alexander.co.uk), roving wedding reporter Emma Woodhouse (www.theweddingreporter.co.uk) and Jasmine Star (online via Creative Live!)  More on those later…

    On Saturday afternoon I made a last minute trip to London to join Claudia Carter of Photo Events UK (www.photographyeventsuk.co.uk/) and some photographers for dinner and drinks in Covent Garden.

    Here are some (not all!) of the lovely folk I met/got to catch up with:

    The lady herself, Claudia Carter, passionate about her new venture Photo Events UK (www.photographyeventsuk.co.uk) which aims to be THE central place for photography meetups/tweetups/networking events/anything that is happening of note. So dedicated to the cause, she has been travelling down from her home in Edinburgh to London on a regular basis. She has plenty of exciting plans that will be unveiled soon!

    Claudia

    JayClaudia

    Fashion genius Jay McLaughlin www.jaymclaughlin.co.uk who explained to us, the subtleties between glamour and boudoir 😉

    Jay

    The two faces of Mark Osborne www.markosbornephotography.com

    Mark

    Mark2

    Lucy Williams from My Heart Skipped www.myheartskipped.wordpress.com

     Chatting

    Lucy

    That last shot of Jo was captured on my camera by future-Bristolian Will Ablett of  www.willablett.com

      Will

    Yolande de Vries and her partner Richie, of Rings’n’Veils photography www.ringsnveils.blogspot.com Sorry about Richie’s expression on the first photo, I just love the way Yolande’s looking at him!

    RichieYolande 

    Richie

    Yolande

     How many photographers does it take to sort out a (fixed price) bill?

    Belgos

     Bill

     Thanks to Claudia for organising the dinner. Let’s do it again soon!

  • Photography Parlour G2G: Togs

    Some of the incredible talent behind the photographs. 

    After a full day of shooting, shooting, shooting at the first Photography Parlour get together, some of us still had energy to get a bit to eat, all sat around one table (well several actually) for a great feast hosted at the ever brilliant One Stop Thali. I took a few snaps of people around the table.

    JOSEPH YARROW [www.josephyarrow.com]
    Bristol documentary wedding photographer – capturing moments with style

    Joseph Yarrow

    CHARIS & OWEN WARRELL [www.oacphotography.com]
    Pembrokeshire wedding and portrait photography – creative, warm and romantic stories

    Charis Warrell

    Owen Warrell

    KIRSTEN MAVRIC [www.kirstenmavric.co.uk]
    London lifestyle portrait photographer – contemporary, fresh work

    Kirsten Mavric

     MARYANNE HAWES [http://www.lightanddayphoto.com]
    Chepstow family portrait photographer – relaxed, fun portraits

     Maryanne Hawes

    DOMINIQUE BADER [http://www.dominiquebaderblog.com]
    London wedding and portrait photographer – beautiful, classic images

    Dominique Bader

    CHANELLE SEGERIUS & CRAIG BRUCE [http://www.segeriusbruceblog.com]
    London husband & wife wedding photography team – high end photojournalism with flair

    Chanelle Segerius

     Craig Bruce

    Craig Bruce & Chanelle Segerius

    Last but not least, the amazing ROSIE PARSONS [www.rosieparsons.com]
    Devon wedding photographer – funky, fun, contemporary weddings

    Rosie Parsons

    Thanks for running the Photography Parlour [http://www.thephotographyparlour.com] and arranging this amazing G2G Rosie!

    An exhausting day, but I can’t wait to do it again! Thanks Rosie, Vicky and everyone else to made this day such a success.