A few quick fun shots while out sourcing moss, leaves and trees for our Elements photoshoot.
Elements shoot now published!
A fantastic video put together about wedding photography in Ireland by the Irish Professional Photographers Association
Last night was the opening of my solo photography exhibition Earthy Creatures. First thing is first! I would like to give out a HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped me in the past few years. To family, friends, models, photographers, reviewers, make up artists, stylists, followers on and offline – I really and truly appreciate all your help. Your advice, comments, critique and honesty has helped me to take this small step in my photographic life.
Earthy Creatures is running till Sunday March 13th
**EDIT :: Filmbase has asked me to extend the exhibition one week, it will now be running till Sunday March 13th
Admission :: Free
Where :: Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 –
Filmbase is seconds walk from the IFI & the Gallery Of Photography
>> Google Maps <<
Opening Hours
Mon to Fri 9.30am-5.30pm
Sat 10.30am-5pm
Sun. 11am-5.30pm
All photographs from the night were taken by the brilliant Caroline Connaughton << Check her out.
Hopefully by now, you have all heard about my first solo photography exhibition ‘Earthy Creatures‘ which takes place in Filmbase, on Tuesday March 1st at 19:00.
On the lead up to the exhibition I have been documenting a few of the mini-projects I have been working on while getting ready for the photography exhibition. This gives you a glimpse into how much thought, work and detail I put into my work, not just my photography but minute details such as the colour and texture of the paper on my invites. It’s easy to do a job well but to excel & stand out, you have to do mix it up and do things differently. I paid visit to a number of stationary shops around Dublin to find the best material I could for the invites. I wanted quality paper that had texture and strength for when people received their invites.
Everything to do with the series/exhibition I wanted to include my earthy theme throughout. You can see this by having a look the competition I ran last week in Dublin too. Every invite had a leaf hand glued to the paper it was typed on. Gold ribbon was tied around each invite for a rich exclusive touch. A few weeks before the making of the VIP invites, I requested my very own wax stamper/sealer to be created in Canada with my photography logo engraved on it. I wanted these invites to feel very personalised, rich, to ooze luxury and above all, stand out from the crowd. I’m really happy with how they’ve come out.
Earthy Creatures is my first solo photography exhibition. It will be held in Filmbase which is in the heart of Dublin.
I have been shooting the Earthy Creatures series since 2009 and I am tremendously excited to showcase my work. The exhibition is a collection of portraits captured with the interpretation of living creatures, which we have yet to discover. It also showcases some of the amazing landscape, hidden features and true beauty we have in Ireland (specifically Wicklow & Dublin). I have kept all of this series offline so there would be more impact when visiting the exhibition. I would love to see each and every one of you on the night, the more the merrier!! If you are on Facebook I have created an event which will remind you closer to the time. Feel free to RSVP, tell friends and spread the word!
Details for the opening night:
When Tuesday, March 1st, 7pm – 9pm
Where Filmbase, Curve Street, Temple Bar, Dublin
Running Till :: Sunday, March 13th
**EDIT :: Filmbase has asked me to extend the exhibition one week, it will now be running till Sunday March 13th
Admission :: Free
Where :: Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 –
Filmbase is seconds walk from the IFI & the Gallery Of Photography
Google Maps
Opening Hours
Mon to Fri 9.30am-5.30pm
Sat 10.30am-5pm
Sun. 11am-5.30pm
Last night I took part in the Brainstorm event run by Connector . It was an extremely sociable, enjoyable and insightful evening! One that I’d love to take part in again. One of the topics discussed was ‘How to save Ireland‘ and there were many odd & interesting idea’s produced and formulated. Thinking outside the box at it’s best!
I was also one of the entrepreneurs pitching my Pet Photography Ireland business. Brainstorming provided quite a few interesting idea’s that I hope to implement over the coming weeks and months!
An article about the event over on Business and leadership.com
If so, feel free to leave a comment here or contact Connector for more information on upcoming events!
This morning we had an amazing photoshoot, yet another Earthy Creature shoot. Really going full steam ahead with this bad boy! The wonderful Mirela was just an amazing model. She jumped straight in and did a top notch job!!
If you read my photo-checklist from last weeks shoot, you will see I don’t usually bring all the normal things along. Today was no different! You can add a spade, hammer and three bags of coal to the list for today
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Here’s the video from today! (and yes that is us burying poor Mirela)
After the shoot yesterday I thought I’d pop up a quick video and two images that haven’t made the final cut. Just imagine how good the one’s that made the grade are!! They won’t be around online for a good few months as I plan to create an exhibition from them!
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I was fretting earlier this week when the rain started to threaten but thankfully it was even better than I had wished for. I shot another Earthy Creature (to read more about the series you can get a small insight here) today and it was WATER! The amazing Lynn was the model and she looks amazing I must say! All of the Earthy Creatures will be getting displayed at my exhibition in December/January (so stay tuned for more info on that!)
I thought it would be cool to pop up the checklist I went through before leaving the door this morning for the shoot. So here it is:
That’s the list for the shoot today. Interesting mix-up eh?
I’m posting the following to give you a bit more insight as to how I think, plan and organise shoots. At the moment I am working on a project with the lovely Lucy Nuzum.
We are using natures beautiful surroundings, along with models to create a variety of Earthy Creatures.
You can follow my progress with each shoot below and as always if you have any ideas, suggestions or questions about how I work, I’m always happy to hear from you! You can contact me directly here.
I will be posting some images online through twitter, flickr and facebook before my photography blog, so make sure to check them out!
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