The Memories Thru a Lens Blog

As those of you who know me or read my blog will know I certainly don’t profess to being a landscape photographer, wedding photography and portrait photography is a little more my forte.

However there are some places in the world that as a photographer, you simply can’t visit without having a camera stuck to your eye the entire time.  One such place for me was Venice, I do believe I actually saw it through my 5Ds view finder!  The architecture is amazing I think its one of the places in the world where you just walk around thinking wow what a view, what a sight!

So here below are not wedding or portrait photos, but some landscape photographs, or cityscape photographs I should say.  Enjoy a wedding and portrait photographers view of Venice!

OK so I think its safe to say that we have all had enough of the snow.  Whilst it makes a fantastic backdrop for wedding photographs and portrait photographs worrying that your guests won’t make it to your wedding is not a head ache any bride needs.

Two weekends ago I took some time off and my husband and I headed off to Venice.  Wow what a place!!

We had not been to Venice before so found it all quite amazing, the architecture is superb and the fact its all on water takes some getting sued to.  The weather was amazing hotter than I thought it would be which was lovely after being in cold wet England, still when it got all a bit hot there where plenty of bars and restaurants to park ourselves in.

We did the obligator gondola ride which was really relaxing and romantic, a little more expensive than we would have liked but hey you can’t go to Venice and not go on a gondola can you!!

There was so much to take pictures of to it would have been easy to only see it through my camera lens!

Well I don’t want to tempt fate announcing my joy at summer being on the way, but isn’t it glorious out there!!!

I don’t get much time to photograph for fun but when the weather is like this I love to get out and take some shots of stuff I wouldn’t normally do, i.e. not people!

So I’m jumped on a train to London for a bit of R & R or should I say shoe shopping and snapping, as there are two things in life I don’t think you can have too many of the first is photos and the second is shoes!!

One thing I love about my job is the chance I get to be creative every day and one thing that is very important to me is to try something different, to get a shot that I haven’t before and a shot that is different to the norm.

With this in mind I spent Monday this weekend in Harrogate in the company of an outstanding fashion photographer Steve Howdle, Steve really is one of the experts in his field and luckily for me is happy to run a workshop giving out some of his secrets to fellow photographers.

There are a lot of workshops out there for wedding photographers so why did I pick to do a fashion workshop, well I revert back to my former statement I am always looking for a new angle, I am always looking to add more strings to my bow to enable me to get something different for my clients.  So for me the workshop was fantastic I have come away buzzing with ideas how I can transpose what I have learnt into my work, I can’t wait to put it all in to practice.

Here are some shots of the day of the beautiful model Lucy.