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Vinopolis, Southwark – photographers’ 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

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

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

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

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.

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)

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 🙂

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Kirsten Mavric catches up with Eliza Claire

Eliza Claire takes a break from a busy season!

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

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

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

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

David McNeil and Debs Ivelja

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

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)

Eddie Judd and Vicki Knights hit the pub

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

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

19 Sep ’11
Lighting Workshop with Alex Beckett, Goldbrick House

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:

These ones are natural light:

Britain’s next top model, James Bailey

Reluctant model Lizi

Ian Francis & Lizi Cosslett

Martin Pemberton striking a pose as The Godfather

Matthew Roach strikes his own pose!

Neil (RattyBoots on Flickr)

Martin Drake

Caroline Alexander

Martin Gillman

James Bailey

Benjamin Edwards

Kristy Field

Lizi & Ian

Nicola Ferguson

7 May ’11
Getting back on the blog bike

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!

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

The two faces of Mark Osborne www.markosbornephotography.com

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

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

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!

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

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

11 Apr ’11
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

30 Jul ’10

Tag: photographers

Vinopolis, Southwark – photographers’ meetup

Lighting Workshop with Alex Beckett, Goldbrick House

Getting back on the blog bike

Photography Parlour G2G: Togs