Dance Show

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Ely Driving

As well as Photography we are also starting to take on some website development. These are for a website we are currently working on. It is more just customisation of Blogger to provide simple, cost effective, easy to update pages for small businesses.

Studio Test

We spent some time in the studio today basically playing with lighting. Our model was the long suffering Marley who has pretty much grown up with cameras.

Brockhill Park Fashion Show

   




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Rings

Links of London ring - Picture taken standing the ring on my phone screen.

And a few more rings using the iPhone as a mini softbox.

Crowned in Crystal - Kent Wedding Photographers

If you are looking for something really special to complete your wedding outfit I suggest contacting Maureen Speed at Crowned in Crystal. She creates amazing bespoke jewellery with Swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls, enhanced with diamante and tiny seed beads. I was lucky enough to photograph a couple of her recent creations.

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Derek and Lydia's Wedding

We had a great time at Derek and Lydia's Wedding - this was my favourite picture of the day. You can see a few more on my other site. Dover Design Photography - Kent Wedding Photography

Sandwich Boxing Club

Last night we visited Sandwich Boxing Club to take some pictures. I had a few goals for the evening - as always making things difficult!

• I wanted to make sure we had a couple on 'nice' pictures of everyone. By nice I mean a reasonable portrait that your Mum or your girlfriend would like.
• Light the portraits so it didn't look like the gym
• Get some training shots - again including everyone
• Do all of the above in less than one hour

We did fairly well and I am delighted with the results. As always there are a number of learning points, the Studio lights once again played up, they only want to fire every other time when triggered by the Elinchrom Skyports. We ended up setting them to slave mode which seemed to work ok. I really need to investigate to find out what is going wrong. The Nikon Speedlights on the other hand performed perfectly.

We also took too long to set up, we had a boom arm with counterweight which does its job well but is a real pain to set up. It is also a nuisance when you wan't to adjust the power output of the flash on the end of the boom. I think I will have to get a nice set of Quadra Rangers.

As always there are a few more images on DoverDesign - at the moment these are pretty unprocessed.

Summertime

Out for a bracing walk, the early morning sun lighting the beautiful contryside, mind wandering, planning the day ahead . Two obedient, well behaved dogs by my side - makes you feel good to be alive.

NOT THIS MORNING!

Torrential rain finding every seam in my not so waterproof - mud, huge expanses of mud that will be transferred via the dogs to the house! Dog number one gets himself into a field where he should not be. A David Attenborough expedition, grappling through the wet undergrowth to recover the hound. Now having had enough we need to get back quickly, we head across the playing field and on approaching the footpath I reach for the leads - they are not around my neck. Must have dropped the bloody things so we set off retracing our steps. We bump - not literally into another dog owner who tells me he found my leads in the corner of the field so we head off to pick them up.

Dog number two - who shall remain nameless - gets into the 'no access' field and then seemingly disappears. Another undergrowth expedition ensues but I still can't locate the wayward hound. I soon realise that he has managed to get into a garden that backs onto the field. Through the hedge and fence I see him in the middle of the lawn looking really pleased with himself examining his find - a black rubbish sack. The 'gundog' approved whistle has no effect nor to my calls of 'what's this' - I now know I am going to late for my dentist appointment.

I get on my hands and knees - peering under the fence, this small gap is what he must have got through. A gust of wind blows some of the rubbish from the now torn black bag in my direction, He chases the soiled serviette - I grab and latch on to his collar. The other owners little dogs are now assisting with the rescue mission barking furiously - the little Jack Russell is trying to get thought the gap currently accommodated by my arm. How can I get a Labrador sized lump through such a small gap. I figure he must have managed to get through so should be a able to return. I pull with all my strength unceremoniously dragging the muddy mutt through the gap and the stinging nettles, yep, loads of them. How do they manage to sting through jeans!

Anyway - off home for a coffee? No such luck, dentist appointment for me.....

Update - stings over my hands, arms and left leg. Mouth numb from a filling - still no coffee!

The Thatched Barn - Birthday Party

Regular followers will have probably realised that I have stopped doing a picture a day. In retrospect I should have stopped at a year but hindsight is a wonderful thing!

Instead of posting a picture a day I will post when I have something interesting rather than trying to make something of nothing.

Today I have a few pictures from a Birthday party we covered at Dover's fabulous Thatched Barn. The party was Hollywood themed complete with a red carpet entrance. below is a small selection from the many pictures we took.

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I took Thomas to London today for an interview at the University of East London. What a fantastic campus!

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