Meeting with the client

Today I delivered the disc of images to Mary.  I like actually meeting up with my clients after the wedding day, I love seeing the looks on their faces as they look through the pictures and Mary didnt let me down.  She was absolutely delighted, and with her family around her looking through I was over the moon with their reactions.

I'm delighted with the images and I really enjoyed the time I spent with Mary and Ciaran, and Marys family really are a lovely bunch of people and I look forward to hopefully meeting up with them again.

Cheers guys!

Mary & Ciaran

Well what can I say about Mary & Ciarans big day.  Despite weather forecasts the day was lovely.  I arrived at Marys house early on the day, as I tend to do and I was completely overwhelmed by her family, never mind just the size but the kindness and friendliness of everyone,t hey were all a pleasure to work with.

Mary looked absolutely stunning in her gorgeous white gown and I was delighted to see she had chosen my favourite style of shoe, a simple court heel.  With such a tall strapping hubbie the heels were about 5 inches high but Mary floated around in her dress like the shoes were made for her. 

There wer eno nerves when I arrived at the church and although there were moments when Ciaran looked at me like I was mad he was very co-operative and relaxed to allow me to get the job done with ease.  We had a laugh but we weren't waiting long for the bride to arrive, she couldnt wait to walk down that aisle.

The reception venue was amazing, Westgrove Hotel in Clane and all the staff were a pleasure to deal with.  What a lovely location, the hotel is huge and even though they do not have extensive grounds they have made great use of the area they do have, very easy to photograph in. 

It was a pleasure to photograph this wedding and Mary & Ciaran I wish you both the best in the future together.  Looking forward to meeting up and showing you all the pictures.

Darren & Michelle

Last week I had the rare opportunity of photographing a friends wedding.  The nerves got to me a little bit more than usual, thinking constantly of how all eyes would be on me, more than usual and how I couldnt make too much of a fool of myself.  I tend to get very into photography sometimes and act a little silly. 

Well as soon as I arrived at the house all my nerves were gone, Michelle was a vision.  Having first met Michelle a good 7 years ago I was delighted to be such a big part of the day and looking at how amazing she looked, the fact that it brought me close to tears, I couldn't even imagine how Darren would feel when he set eyes on her.  At one stage I looked at the camera reviewing an image of Michelle by the mirror, and thought to myself, wow today she really is the most beautiful woman in the world.

On to the church it was fun and laughter with the boys as always, dressed in traditional kilts, the socks slipped from time to time and they refrained from using false tan, but lads, you looked mighty fine.  Darren scrubbed up quite well, as did the rest of the lads and stood proudly waiting for his bride.

The whole day was an enjoyable experience but Darren and Michelle put a lot of thought into the evening.  Hiring the best band in town, yes it was my husband so I have to say that, the crowd got into a setlist of pop and rock and Darren even took to the stage to play along for a couple of songs.  What topped an amazing day out altogether was a nice acoustic session in the residents bar with Distraction. 

Congrats Dar & Michelle.  Hope to see you guys very soon.

Wedding Photography Slideshow

Here is the first installment of my slideshows.  Enjoy pictures from the wedding of Erin & Mark in July 2010.

Introducing Me!

Well folks, the time is here, Iain has done a fantastic job.  The new website is up and running after less than a week and I extremely grateful for all the work that has been put in so if anyone out there is looking for a new site I would highly recommend Iain Nash.

Let me know what you guys think, I like it but more importantly, do you like it?

Some more recent images in there also and it should be updated regularily.

Enjoy.

http://www.rachelfoxphotography.com/

Sunday relaxation

I just sat down to watch Jasmine Stars last session on creative live as they were taking their break so this is a good time to take a moment to write.

I am completely over the moon that a new friend has put so much work in over the last few days building a new site for me.  I didn't even ask so I am astounded that the lovely Iain Nash just decided to give it a go, fair play, the world is full of good people, unfortunately we don't hear too much about them.  So here's to you Iain, you rock!

Last night I had a child swap with Ruth, a good friend of ours.  Ruth came around today to swap back and sure ended up staying most of the day, my rock wife, aka Kev, made dinner for the 5 kids that were here, myself and Ruth.  We had hours of kids coming and going but it was a nice relaxing Sunday. 

I didn't even take the laptop out until about an hour ago, which is when I decided to show Ruth the preperations of my new site, again, thanks Iain.  Whilst going through the site I kept going back to this one picture.

This is Fidelma and Dave.  I shot their wedding last August (2009) and really enjoyed it.  I love Fidelma, we chat all the time and really hit it off.  This is one of the great things about my job, yes I go out and do some work that I enjoy but from time to time I also make good friends through it.  Dave recently went through an operation on his knee and suffered some complications.  Last I heard he was hoping to get out off hospital tomorrow so fingers crossed that goes well.  Best wishes to you Dave for a speedy recovery.

Jasmine Star

I am loving the Jasmine Star course streaming.  I love how relaxed she is with her clients, I dont think wedding photography is an area where you can be overly professional.  I feel my clients relax more when I behave like me, there is no point in pretending to be something you are not, others will pick up on that and often dislike you for it.

I am me and I hope this plays a part in why my clients book me and not only because of the style and images.

Has anyone else watched?  I'd love to hire her as a husband trainer, seriously that JD rocks, he follows her around like a puppy.  Jasmine, train my hubbie!  Haha, no Kev you rock too, thanks for doing the rock cleaning and making me dinner when I came home from work today!

Go Jasmine!

My 3 words

Romantic, Fun & Relaxed.

Sinead & Liam

Sinead & Liam, yes it was in April but this couple have really left an imprint on my memory.  

So I'll start with Liam and the boys, wow what fun I had, I love meeting a nice group of lads and these lads were great.  These 3 brothers were complete jokers, I like to have fun so we got along just perfectly and well you know what, they scrubbed up well, didn't you boys!

When I reached Sinead, well what a laid back girl, there was no rush whatsoever in preperations, this gorgeous bride was in no rush at all, sorry Liam.  In this stunning gown Sinead really shone as the perfect bride to be. 

The girls travelled to the church in Sineads fathers old limo, with the large windows it was oerfect for getting a shot of the girls as they pulled up outside the church.

Pink tulips hung fromt he pew ends in the church where the altar was decorated by flowers.  Liam stood anxiously waiting his bride who walked up the altar on the arm of her father. 

With many guests bring part of the deaf community Sinead and Liam had a sign language interpretor on the altar.  I loved when one guest came do to a reading and the interpretor read the words as the guest signed.  The fact that when this couple look back on the pictures of their vows they know the exact words coming out of their mouths at that moment because of the sign, this is so romantic.

After the ceremony guests gathered outside the church to congratulate the happy couple.  I loved the confetti, in this day and age it is more unusual especially with some officiants regretfully disallowing the use of confetti.  I love the results from confetti, from time to time I come across images with digital confetti scattered across the picture and there is absolutely no comparison. 

Sinead and Liam were both completely at ease in front of the camera, I enjoyed every moment photographing them as I did with the rest of the bridal party.  We had great fun and even though at a time the lads were worried about their knees, I still can't understand that lads, embrace your youth, we still got the shoes off and got on with a bit of fun.  So all in I enjoyed the whole experience of dealing with this lovely couple, from our first meeting to delivery of the finished album I would do it all over again.

Lots of love to both of you guys and enjoy the rest of your life together. xx

 

 

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Weddings

I'm not the best blogger in the world am I? Sure that is going to have to change, I have been spending sooo much time on facebook I have completely forgotten about my blog.

So I have titled this entry weddings, why you ask, well because I love weddings and that is all I have been focussing on this year, well apart from the odd rock star or two but wedding photography is where my heart lies.....

I love my name, it's cool but I sometimes think should I have used my maiden name for photography, Harte Weddings would be so cool, photography from the heart, excuse the pun, haha, well with Rachel Fox you still get photography from the heart (or Harte) so it's still cool and I dont want my hubbie to divorce me so Fox it is!

December 09

Its been a while since I updated here.  Firstly I need to mention the loss of my Nanny Harte who is sadly missed by all.  My Nanny passed away after a long and happy life with a lovely family who all adored her.  We are grateful that she was taken in the night just as she would have wanted. 

 

 

Lately I have been working hard at model portfolio sessions.  I have been lucky enough to work with some lovely girls to achieve some shots I am more than happy with.  I have been spending so much time on weddings now we are into the off season I have time to focus on other areas also.  Its so much fun getting stuck in and I have had a great time working with various girls.  Antoinette has now dug her heels in far enough to obtain a lovely title, she is my 'creative director' for fashion shoots.  Antoinette has a great eye for clothes and accessories

 

Both myself and Anti are now really looking forward to our next step which will be couple shoots.  We have set up a few inexperienced models to get together with us and do a steamy shoot.  Its a really exciting concept and although I know in my head exactly what I am looking to achieve I am going to keep that to myself for now.

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