Monthly Archives: October 2008

The Black Bear Saloon

Had the pleasure of lining up these guys to be shot this week, really chuffed with the shots so thought I’d stick a few up here for your viewing pleasure – we had originally intended to shoot at funderland (mainly coz I wanted an excuse to eat candyfloss and try to win a goldfish!!) but thanks to good ol’ Norn Irish weather it rained so much that we had to rethink – so a last minute change of plan saw us making the most of the rather swanky looking Victoria Sq shopping centre in belfast – so here are a few of my favourites…

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

The Black Bear Saloon

keeping you in suspense…

So today I didn’t have my workee camera out with me coz let’s be honest on a night out at a gig when I’m not working for a change its a bit hard to sneak in up your jumper so I brought my ickle compact – its not very ickle either it’s great – but in my haste to get my photo up here for today have discovered that I did not install the canon software on my laptop so it won’t let me take my photos off the memory card. Normally you just plug them in and away ya go but computers hate me (and the feeling is often mutual) and I appear to be losing this battle so I PROMISE I will get the photie I took for today up for you soon as it would be no use at all if I wussed out on my snap a day challenge at such an early heat – fear not there is much more to come!!  

On another note though I went to see Fighting With Wire in Belfast tonight and they were great!!  It was one of those last minute ooh they’re playing impromptu nights out which always end up being the most fun and it was great :)

belfast – bollox?

Spotted this today on the way to meet a client about some design work and it made me wonder why they didn’t use this for the original Belfast rebranding design (I kid) !!

 

bollox

bollox

location scouting…

I spent most of today hunting for a good location for a photo shoot next week.  After a few hours in the rain I had a few good ideas and very soggy feet (I seem to spend a lot of time in the rain lately!!)  this was a little detail I spotted in one of the locations which I just thought was a great wee shot on its own.

 

Chimney Stack

Chimney Stack

Gloomy Bear.

Well today was another one that ended up wet and cold so I decided to look for ideas in my house so I’m going for cutesie today (hey a girl’s allowed to sometimes)

Gloomy Bear

Gloomy Bear

day of rest???

 

Today was crazy busy but fun – started this morning shooting football again, then onto a Housing Rally in Carrickhill and then on to do a commercial shoot for a restaurant in Belfast so all in all a bit of a mixture but an enjoyable day none the less.

Couldn’t decide which pic I liked best for today’s post so you’re getting spoiled with two!!  The football shot is from one fo the matches I covered this morning- i just love the look on the guy’s face.  The other just made me laugh (yup I’m a big kid I know!)

 

Pimp Street

Pimp Street

They think its all over...

They think it's all over...

The glamourous life I lead…

9.30am : I arrive at the football pitches to start shooting

9.40am : It starts lashing down!

1.30pm : I arrive at my second football pitch to start shooting another match

2.30pm : I leave very VERY wet after several hours in the pouring rain feeling kinda sorry for the players who are drowned and wishing we lived somewhere sunny (but very thankful for my snazzy welllies!!)

 

Life savers!!

Life savers!!

TFI friday!!

well I didn’t finish work till nearly 2am lat night so needless to say I was a bit on the groggy side this morning!  That said though the job went well and I got a well deserved lie in this morning.  So for today’s pic we have my dog huffing cos I didn’t take him for a walk (in my defense it was raining and he HATES the rain!!)

 

Woofy dog!

Woofy dog!

Autumn’s here…

well more like midwinter with the weather here lately but we were blessed with ten whole minutes of sunshine today so I managed to grab the camera and get out for a few snaps on the way back from a shoot with a chef.

 

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

Chained to a desk!!

Spent the entire of today chained to a computer so not much chance to take photographs so here’s what I found in my office to inspire my design work and to keep me snapping…

 

Magazines

Magazines