Sooo chuffed … entered the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers monthly competition last month and was awarded Gold for the category of Wedding Photojournalism and Silver for Traditional Portraits. Really pleased.

Just had to get out today as the scenery was absolutely fantastic with the bright sunshine and haw frost. Went to Wollaton Park to photograph the deer and stags as well as the scenery. Here a a few of my favourites.

A week away in lovely, beautiful, Pembrokeshire. ‘Billy’ the bus, a Volkswagen Devon  camper, was loaned to us by friends. Absolutely fantastic. We spent most of the week in the outdoors as the weather was superb. Pembrokeshire is a photographer’s dream. The landscape and seascapes are out of this world. As usual myself and Brian were photographing almost non stop and enjoying every minute of it. Here is a snippet of the images taken.

Heading back from a weekend away in the Cotswolds we came across these kite surfers on a ridge overlooking the Severn Estuary. They were fabulous doing acrobatics in the air. Couldn’t resist taking photographs. Brilliant sky in the background which was crying out for silhouettes.

In between shooting weddings and portraits I like to experiment photographing different subjects. Today was a beautiful day, for once, in England which I wanted to take full advantage of so myself and a friend took ourselves down to Whipsnade Zoo. I just fancied photographing some animals. We had a fun day. Here are some of my favourite pics.

A Happy New 2010 Year to you. We had a fabulous time over Christmas at our friend’s house in the Gascony region of France. For the majority of the time the weather was lovely, blue skies and sunshine but pretty cold. We had a couple days of snow so I thought I would share with you the French version of snowy, wintery landscapes. And, yes, the sky was that colour.  Enjoy.

Spent this weekend camping in Lincolnshire with Brian and his brother and wife. As always the weather is the most important thing. We had a scorcher. Fantastic sunshine on Saturday enabled us to spend a very enjoyable and fun day at the Heckington Show. Everything seemed to be happening. Dog shows, animal trophy awards, people showing off their machines, races of different sorts, a fly past by a Lancaster bomber (not official) and eventually a concert with spectacular fireworks. As usual I took it upon myself to practise my photography skills so here are some of my favourites of the day.

Spent the weekend in Morecambe with friends with the aim of walking Morecambe Bay - a 10 miler, open to the elements, wind, rain, sunshine and quicksand! Luckily we were guided by Cedric Robinson MBE who knows the Bay very well. We were a small party compared to the 200 others who decided to join us! Actually, it is a usual occurrence as the walk is free with the guide and open to anyone willing to negotiate the wide expanse. It was very enjoyable with a lot of photo opportunities. Afterwards we relaxed by doing some kite flying in very gusty winds!