Focus Visit

Last week we went to Focus at the NEC Birmingham. This was our third annual visit and a good time to catch up with latest photography products and seminars. We drooled over the top end full frame Nikon cameras and took advantage of a seminar giving top tips for travel photography - useful for our upcoming trips to Sicily and Turkey.

We saw a lovely bespoke digital album supplied by albummaker.co.uk that will be a good addition to our clients range, we shall be making a sample one up with the special offer that was on offer.
Not as many bargains to be had this year - must be the current economic climate.

Best of all it was chance to meet up with friends from thelittlephotoshop forum. Lovely to sit down with a cup of coffee and have a friendly chat and to get some good advice. We look forward to meeting our friends again soon in the real world.

On the way out of Focus we fortuitously met a couple from North Wales who organise a photo agency - Welshotimaging Imaging. We shall be attending their open day at the beginning of April to get a taster of the courses that they run and to hopefully do some networking.

Next year Focus will be held in March - hopefully better deals and and hopefully more from the forum to hook up with.

Domain Name

Well we are just re-launching our new photography website and have been through the process of re-branding with new domain name. Its taken a few days deciding on a name - an important decision. Had to be something snappy and memorable - not easy with a popular name like Smith!

After much searching and being disappointed with many favourite options already taken we next decided on picsmiths but then soon changed to the more modern spelling of PIXSMITHS. Its a sort of play on words pixels being the tool of our trade in digital photography and also we hope you will pick us for your wedding or travel photography requirements. So our new upcoming site is pixsmiths.co.uk