Just got back from a very, very intense week at the annual SWPP convention at the Novotel hotel in Hammersmith, London.
14/01-20/01/2009, it was a packed week, beginning with 2 days of business seminars delivering experience and advice from a range of quality speakers...Catherine Connor, Doug Gordon, Jane Breakell, Mark Cleghorn, Rita Chandarana (daughter of the great Maz) and of course Howard Butterfield of 'the imagefile'.
What a fantastic line up, I still can't face up to the pages and pages of quality notes that I took!
This was followed by 4 more days of high quality lectures delivered by seasoned photographers, covering subjects from traditionnal lighting, posing, troubleshooting and so much more.
Many of the lectureres had travelled from afar..among them ex-pat David Simms, Doug Gordon, Julie Hughes, Jose Villa and many more....all full of overwhelming enthusiasm and knowledge.
Aswell as all the lectures, alot of education, networking and friendship was made in the bar at the end of each day (lectures ran from 8 am until 8 pm and so socialising was a necessity to bring you back to earth). As an active member of the swpp forum, it was great to meet up with so many 'virtual' friends who are now lifelong real friends.
WHAT A WEEK!
And the grand finale, the prize giving awards ceremony on the Sunday night. Everyone dressed up in black tie and cocktail dresses with Philippa Forrester presenting.....
And guess what...........I WON A PRIZE!!!!
UK Commercial Photographer of the Year...with my chilli pepper image...what an honour!
But what a great week. And many thanks go to the family 'Jones' that runs such a great society, one that is gaining more and more prestige in the photographic world, for all their ultra hard work and commitment over the week! fantastic.
A lot of hard work to come, now, by Catherine and myself to put everyting into practise.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Saturday, 10 January 2009
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
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
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