Hi, hallo, bonjour, gruss scott, salut etc etc

Welcome to our new blogg. Catherine and myself, Philippe, run a small, family, photographic business, concentrating on weddings, portraits and commercial photography..and a bit more!
We've not done this before, so bare with us and hopefully enjoy!!!

What I intend to do is keep a log of our photographic business and our newly opened studio in Monmouth, south Wales, aswell as offering tips, techniques and links to other admired photographers in order to promote and advance our skills in photography.

2009, despite the problems with the recession, in my view looks to be a promising year. Those of us in the photographic industry need to up our game and exell beyond the realms of the average enthusiast. It's already happening, with wedding photography moving to the artistic, worlds away from the traditional image of the 70's/80's. Now is an exciting time to be involved in the industry.

What are we doing to progress in this new order?
Next week sees us attending the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers annual conference in London. The society aims to promote, train and offer advice to the professional photographic industry. Philippe (me) is a qualified member of the society.

It's going to be an exciting, exhausting week of intense lectures and seminars that can only improve our business and love of photography....bring it on!

As I have said, I will keep up the posts and hope that this blogg works both ways,

cheers philippe