Archive for November, 2011

Joe & Angela’s Pre Wedding Photography at Linthwaite Hotel Windermere Cumbria

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Joe and Angela are getting married next February in Windermere (not long to go now guys) and so we opted to go across to the Linthwaite Hotel Windermere for the pre wedding photography.  We just managed to catch the last of the Autumn colours and dodge the rain clouds.  The Linthwaite Hotel is a fabulous place to go for your wedding with both the building and the grounds being a photographers dream.  Some of you may recognise Joe as he is very involved in the photography business, working at Wilkinson Cameras in the Westmorland Shopping Centre Kendal Cumbria.

 

Ed & Sarah Cumbria Pre Wedding Photography in Staveley

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Ed & Sarah’s Wedding is on New Years Eve and I shall be there with them in Kirby Lonsdale to record the event.  Really looking forward to it.  Sarah is a music teacher and plays in a Kendal based band called New Tricks.  Check them out!  The pre wedding shoot started out with the usual ‘we are very shy in front of the camera’ but ten minutes in we couldn’t keep Ed’s hands off Sarah.  Inviting them to get ‘loved up’ only needed one prompting and then they were away!  We were going to shoot a bit of urban and some nice landscape shots but the weather was so ‘grey’ we concentrated on the Urban and found ourselves using some of the great backdrops around Staveley Mill Yard.

Wedding Photographers Cumbria Album or DVD?

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I said I would write a Schtuff Blog about the choice of buying a Wedding Album or alternatively a Hi-Res DVD, or maybe in some circumstances both.  There is no doubt that there is a trend, especially with younger people, to choose a DVD instead of a Wedding Album.  I can understand why this is happening as the younger generation of today are not using books to anything like the degree that I did when I was in my teens.  So should a Cumbria Wedding Photographer such as myself say nothing and just get on with it?  Todays generation are so used to everything on a screen, whether that be a smart phone, iPad or Kindle type device and I have to confess to loving all this technology myself!  I would suggest however that wedding photographs fall into a slightly different situation as they carry so memories and can be considered heirlooms for the family as well as something of great sentimental value.  I have often heard the argument about what you would run back into a burning house for.  It probably will not be the iPad (although I would pick it up if it was there!).  It almost certainly will be those things you cannot replace with money.  So my advice would be to consider an Album, but choose one that can be left out on display rather than tucked away in a cupboard somewhere.  Schtuff Photography can offer you a wide range of styles and types and I know from experience when potential Clients visit us they are always knocked out by the quality of what they see.  We have beautiful Wedding Albums from GraphiStudio and Queensberry, generally regarded as the best in the world.

Just heard from Joe and Angela whose Pre Wedding Photography we did earlier this week.  ’Angela and I love the photos and they way they have turned out, I have a feeling we may have a lot of thinking to do when choosing an image for a mount.  We had a fantastic day and felt so at ease and really appreciate the lengths that you and Ruth went to’.  Many thanks to you both!  The Pre Wedding photos were all located at The Linthwaite Hotel near Windermere.   Regards Steve.