A sunny evening in West Kirby, ideal for a stroll around our marina.
For many weeks the wall has been under repair, just mud on the floor, smelly mud at that too, and diggers going up and down, creating odd reflections in areas of shallow water. Now open for walkers again and a delight to see what a great job had been made. The wall is much higher now so tidal waters should not wash over so much or when the wind blows the wrong way won't have to jump to avoid getting one's feet wet. The fresh paint and stone cladding to re-enforce the wall are a great improvement and makes it a pleasure to be able to have a sunset stroll around and enjoy our fabulous sunsets again.
The official re-opening is on Saturday with a sail parade in the morning - should be a colourful sight so will be out with the camera again. For now a couple of stroller shots against the light which give a nice monochromatic tone to the pictures.

Daytripping to Dolwyddelan

Dolwyddelan is situated in the Lledr Valley, North Wales. No wedding last Saturday so took the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine with a walk in this beautiful part of the Snowdonia National Park. area. Originally planned a lowish valley walk but a wrong turning at the beginning meant we steadily climbed the hill here. Not that it mattered the views towards Moel Siabod and the Snowdon Horseshoe were worthwhile.

Before we got started on the walk there was a wedding going on in the village in tits tiny welsh chapel, St. Gwyddelan's Church which dates from about 1500AD, so couldn't resist chatting with the photographer - she definitely didn't need a long lens for the church, must have been all of 3 rows deep! The bride lived just down the road and worked in the local pub where a small reception was held afterward. We had a coffee there after our walk and were also given some tea loaf left over from the function, very tasty and very kind. I guess we will return sometime to do the other walk.

Lightroom Training

Interested in Lightroom training? Then Photographic Academy of Welshot Imaging are meeting at the Anglesey Arms Hotel in Menai Bridge Wednesday 29th July at 6.30pm.
John Arnold from Photwalkthrough.com with be there for the evening and he will be running the entire session. John will be going through the Adobe Lightroom programme. He will be explaining about keywording, metadata, using Lightroom as an organisational tool, as well as showing how Lightroom can help process your images. The keywording and metadata will be of particular importance to academy members who submit to Welshot Imaging stock library.

Numbers are required for the buffet supper - stop for at about 8.15pm. The evening will end about 10.00 – 10.30 so making this evening of learning extremely great value for money.
Cost for Academy Members is £10.00 Non Academy Members is £20.00

Please contact lee Iggulden:
Director and Photographic Coordinator
Welshot Imaging Limited
Phone: +44 (0)1248 670 693
Mobile: 07765461324
www.welshotimaging.co.uk

Memador Wedding Album

Yesterday we had a parcel delivered we had been eagerly awaiting - not that it was overdue, it was about the expected delivery time. It was our Memador 16 x12 deluxe wedding demo album we had lovingly designed with their innovative creative album software - although also used our own layouts designed with Stu Litle's Storybook Designer album software. It came parcel force delivery from Jerusalem.

The printing quality is excellent. Half the album is in Matt and half in Gloss so clients can make up their own mind about choice of finish. The pages have a unique Lifetime system developed by Memador, based on acid free printing and layers of high quality lamination. These measures protect photos from the damages of time, moisture, fingerprints, colour fading and even from natural ageing, according to their blurb. Well the pages and print are excellent and have a lovely feel to them - you really can handle them without fear of spoiling them. Our demo album contains 82 sides - the ideal maximum for these albums and has substantial transparent pages at the beginning and end (optional) also with watermarked images on A range of covers can be used with these albums - we chose the modern art version with a textured canvas print on the front - looks really good and. We first saw these albums at the NEC focus event, earlier this year and feel this album really compliments the range that Pixsmiths can offer.

Photshop Goodies

Via our flick account have recently discovered this great blog site, COFFEESHOP, which is loaded with free goodies for photoshop and lightroom, such as page templates, textures - ideal for scrap-booking and photoshop actions and tutorials. A real handy site, one to dip into on a frequent basis to discover the latest goodies.

Well done to Rita for sharing her passion with everyone and making them available.

Upcoming Events

Pixsmiths have a busy couple of weekends coming up:

This week its a big birthday celebration. We are primed to take pictures of the guests (who are each bringing a poem, verse or quote for the birthday girl) and to then produce a book with the words and pictures. Love doing these type of books.

The following weekend we have a meeting with a Bride a nd Groom to discuss their photography requiremnets in more detail for their upcoming wedding and hopefully take some shots of them as we walk around the various venues and make sure they are comfortable with us and the cameras focused on them.