wedding photography - blurb photobook

I have already mentioned that we were guests at a wedding this summer what I haven't done is post a link to some of the photos - one is posted here below and others can be seen by clicking on the title of this post which is a link.

I was asked by the bride to take photos as the groom and his friends dressed the venue with flowers and her family and friends helped her get ready at her home just outside the centre of Cambridge. This was a big responsibility and slightly more stressful than I had anticipated. In the end, I found myself riding to the wedding in the car ahead of the bride sandwhiched between the bridesmaids. In the end, the whole day went off very well and I was even pleased with the result when I sent away for my first ever photobook from blurb in which I tried to tell the story of the bits of the wedding preparations and the background to the formal portraits which I witnessed.

working title

I don't yet have a proper title for the painting that I am working on. The building - part of the Spinningfields development which faces onto Deansgate - houses a bank, offices and a restaurant. I took the photo which I am working for as the light changed at Dusk on an early winter evening. I am taking artistic liberties with the colours but trying to retain something of the feel.



At the time I took the photo, the news was full of talk of nationalising banks and the death of consumerism and consequently, the High Street. The image of this modernist building looming above anonymous female figures appealed to me in this context. (I decided to remove the third figure because she wasn't on the path and thus wouldn't suggest the lostness that I wanted to capture).

At the moment, I am worrying about how to get the colours right in the ceiling of the building around the lights and how to capture the trees on the bottom right of the picture.

travelling at lunchtimes

Although I sometimes visit other buildings to drink coffee with friends elsewhere on campus and occasionally, go outside to sit in the sun when we have good weather, most luchtimes I rely upon my computer to transport me out of the office.
The web allows me to catch up with news from both sides of the Atlantic and to virtually visit festivals and reunions I have been unable to attend. However, official websites and newspapers do not compare to the e-mailed holiday snaps or the wedding photos of old friends whom I no longer get to see as often as I would like.
Last weekend, I had the happy experience of attending a wedding in a place I once called home and catching up with many friends some connected to the wedding and others not.
These are just a couple of the places to which I often find myself imaging I would like to travel at lunchtime. It is a bittersweet thought that they are now so far from home.