November 11, 2009 at 1:12am Posted in News
My 10 year old daughter, Jessica, came to work with me over her Halloween Half Term break. While I was photographing clients she was working away at my desk, colouring, cutting, sticking, and folding, pieces of paper. With a final “TA DAAAAA” she presented me with a paper ‘book’ featuring cartoons, a front and back cover and even a thick spine with her name as author. All from a couple of pieces of A4 paper!
It was too good an idea not to make use of as family Christmas presents so I encouraged her to re-draw the cartoons on squares of paper, and suggested that if she could think of a few more stories, we could perhaps put together a book.
She ended up with 7 stories, some were long, a couple extremely short. Most show her sense of humour, attention to detail, and an artistic flair she didn’t get from me!
After scanning them all into the computer we sat together this evening putting the pages in the correct order and uploading for the book to be printed. We are ordering enough copies to cover grandparents and sundry other interested parties and I can’t wait to see her face when she sees her work in print for the first time.
In the meantime, if you fancy a laugh, you can see all the stories over at Jessica’s Flickr set. Any comments will be passed on to her.
P.S. The pets are real, the annoying boy is real, she doesn’t have a sister, Papa is real but I can’t vouch for the names of his fish, and as far as I am aware she has never tried to squish a ghost in her life!
October 30, 2009 at 6:22pm Posted in News
Every now and then I receive phone calls from youngsters seeking a work experience placement from school or college. Some are very far in the future and some are for immediate starts after some other employer has let them down at the last minute. I feel very strongly that employers ought to do their bit for the community by offering places, but it can be very draining taking someone on, and sometimes in our studio it can be very boring for the student if we don’t have a lot of work happening to let them actually experience.
This week poor Claire was with us and boy, did she have a baptism by fire! We had loads happening the days she was here, with shoots of different sizes and loads of processing to be done on the computer. Some of the students who turn up here don’t reallllly have too much of a passion for either learning, or photography, but Claire had both. She even had a questionnaire for me AFTER picking my brain all week. I think had I had her here for a month she still would have been happily sitting asking questions and helping out.
The highlight of her visit, for me, was when I was totally stressing over the weather for tomorrow’s wedding and she calmly told me she had looked up the weather forecast on her iPhone and it is going to be fine in Belfast all day.
Now, there’s a girl who will go far. And a girl who I would have total confidence in if she were to assist me some day. Big thumbs up to Claire ;)
That’s what I had for today’s Sneak Peek. Three helpings of handsomeness. I don’t normally serve up three storyboards for one family, but I simply couldn’t choose which one photo of each boy to use. So I did three photos of each! Sounds like a perfectly sensible compromise to me!
Mum – thank you very much for letting me post these here. Your photos will be posted online before lunch time tomorrow. I hope you like them as much as I do!
October 6, 2009 at 1:03pm Posted in News
We have a rule in our house that we don’t even think about Christmas until after David’s birthday, which is at the end of November, and I hate seeing Christmas decorations in shops before we have even thought about Halloween. However, in the world of photography studios you DO have to think ahead a little. It takes time to process photos after a sitting and then organise prints when the orders arrive in.
So, if you are thinking about booking a sitting and handing over photos as Christmas boxes please start planning now!
Deadlines for Christmas this year are as follows:
Sessions should be before November 13th and orders with us by November 27th if you want to make sure you have the prints back in time for Christmas. This is especially important if you are ordering one of our framed products or photo books.
Book now!
A few favourite photos from last week for today’s Sneak Peek.
Thanks Mum, for letting me post these – hope you love them as much as I do!
by Susan
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