Memories Thru a Lens

The new year has definitely been and gone, I can’t believe its already February. With the new year I have been designing a new website which will showcase more wedding images and portrait images, as well and having more information on the site.  It takes a long time for me to create my new websites as picking the images I will use for my galleries is no mean feat; firstly I have my photographer head on and go through many many photographs to check which ones are the best technically, then my next head goes on and I pick which ones are best creatively, but then I have to have a third head on which is the hardest one of all…… which images are best to potential clients!

I think every bride who plans their wedding around Christmas time, won’t say it but is secretly wishing for snow, a white wedding defiantly rates up there alongside a white Christmas.  So when Kara woke to find 4 inches of snow outside her window on her wedding day Im sure she was over the moon, well that was once the wedding photographer (me), hair and make up girls (her sisters) had arrived and she knew her guests where battling through to make her big and very special wedding day.

So just last week I attended a photography trade show so I could decide on my new album supplier…. more about that later. One thing that did concern me was the amount of companies there claiming that they could make you a wedding photographer in a weekend for a fee.  Now this intrigued me having studied the craft of photography and then spent even more time getting enough experience to actually be a wedding photographer; so I pitched up posing as a novice and asked a few questions, the thing that stuck me most was not one of said companies cared whether or not you could take a photo, just that you had the desire to make some money on the weekend.

OK so I think its safe to say that we have all had enough of the snow.  Whilst it makes a fantastic backdrop for wedding photographs and portrait photographs worrying that your guests won’t make it to your wedding is not a head ache any bride needs.

I love snow, really I do that is of course when I have the luxury of not having to drive in it.  It blankets the world and manages to give it a serene look and sound about it, much as I do love a laze on the beach, given the choice I would rather be hacking up the white stuff on the slopes.

So to wake to the beautiful blanket of snow this morning in Newbury was fantastic, of course snow will always make a fantastic back drop to wedding photographs or portrait photographs if anyone wants to venture out.  I was lucky enough to cover Ian & Karas wedding in December when the last big snow fall came over at Missenden Abbey, so we captured some fantastic wedding photographs in the snow there, which I will post up soon as soon as the bride and groom have had first peek.

In the meantime as it is my daughters first winter and first experience of snow we simply had to wrap up this morning and get out there to show her the beauty of the world bathed in snow, not to mention grab some portrait photos of her to add to the other 5500 images I have managed to take of her in 6 months, Im sure all photographers who are parents do the same thing!

Happy New Year!  I hope its a prosperous one for everyone.

December is always a busy time for wedding and portrait photographers as more and more people are getting married in the winter months and of course families would like lifestyle portraits so they can give their friends and family the pictures for Christmas.

Winter weddings are definitely getting more popular and to be honest I highly recommend them, I myself got married on 22nd December.  The low light or in fact darkness can make for some great photographs.

Stuck thinking of the prefect gift for Christmas… look no further a family portrait photoshoot by Memories Thru a Lens for your friends or family is the gift that keeps giving!

Memories Thru a Lens approaches photos a little differently, we never photograph in a studio but instead in your home or a location that suits you and your family. By allowing babies and children to be comfortable in their own environment means that I can capture natural portraits showing their true expressions and personality, plus being in their own environment keeps them far more settled than putting them in a stark white room with big flashing lights all around them.

For JUST £25.00 you can buy a VIP invitation gift voucher for your friends or family, which will include a location photo-shoot (so no hauling to a studio), a DVD slideshow of all the images from the shoot, plus a 12×8 print from the shoot. All this normally costs £69.99 but between now and 20th December its reduced to £25.00!

Simply contact info@memoriesthrualens.com and order your voucher now to take advantage of this great offer.

One thing I look for when taking wedding or portrait photos is something different, a background that is unusual but makes the picture.