Re: First Post

Welcome all to my blog and thanks for reading my first post and visiting here.  Any information you need to know about me and my work will most likely be covered in the about me section.  So for my first post I think I will just aim to start as I go on and review the past week or so.

 

So in the last 11 days I have had a fair amount of work on.  I covered 2 weddings, Siobhan & Mark and Fidelma & Dave.  As always I thoroughly enjoyed each day and could not compare the two.  Every wedding hits me differently, I have shot friends and family wed, complete strangers who I will never meet again and sometimes, such as in the case of Fidelma, I am lucky enough to say that I have met people I know I will keep contact with.  Both weddings were completely different in every way and I can't wait to show the results to both brides.

 

Also this week I delivered an album to Emma & Peter, I always enjoy the look on the bride & grooms faces as they look over their album for the first time, the little gigles and the memories coming back. 

 

On the other side of my work I was thrilled to work with Glyder twice in this period.  Glyder is a band who I am glad to say I am good friends with.  I first met the lads when they went by the name Hollywood, before they even released their first album and even then I liked them.  It's amazing to see the journey they have gone on since first meeting them and in actual fact even the difference in myself, when I first met them I never imagined I would be photographing them since I hadn't even began photography then. 

 

Last week Glyder supported Metallica and I was delighted to be given a pass to photograph them on the big stage.  I enjoyed it so much and even found myself stand back and clap along with the crowd.  In those moments I was very proud of the lads and what they had achieved, and being so close to them on the stage I could see how much they were enjoying it.  I have to say it was probably the most I have enjoyed photographing any band, I even put it above Nuno Bettencourt now! 

So the lads asked me previously would I photograh them for their album.  A million and one ideas were going through my head and there are so may variations you can cover but I wasnted to be sure that I photographer them in a way that would reflect their style and their music.  We took a trip to the Guinness storehous early on Saturday morning.  It was an amazing location with such a variety of shots.  We went straight to the top for a pic in the skybar before it got too busy and made our way down from there.  We took some shots outside and then we went on to St. Peregrine's clubhouse for some more shots.  The last set of shots taken were ones that I had planned specifically beforehand and were harder to take than those at Guinness.  The lads didnt understand exactly what I was going for with these shots but gave me the chance to shoot anyway and do my thing.  Attached is an example of this, meet Davy from Glyder. 

 

Anyone interested in checking them out can do so at www.myspace.com/glyder

 

....and thats a wrap!

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