Grantham Ramada Wedding Fayre

Hi,

It was  great pleasure to be at the Grantham Ramada wedding fayre today.

Ramada Grantham Wedding Fayre

It was a great pleasure to chat to all the couples who stopped by our stand.

The picture above shows our stand at the entrance to the hotel foyer and the cat walk area for the wedding fayre.

BIPP Midland Region Awards

Hi,

Last night was the annual Midland Region Print Competition. Photographers from across the East and West Midlands compete for the converted awards of best photographer in various categories. Then from all the winners the highly respected judges choose the overall Midland Region Photographer of the Year.

Buttercross Photography came away with the top award in Press & PR, and awards in Architecture and Pictorial.

These are my winning Pictures.

Winner - Press & PR

Award winner in the Architecture category, Nottingham University.

Award winner in the Pictorial category, Rome street.

Special February Valentines offer.

Jo & Nick

Special February Valentines offer.

During February we are offering a FREE outdoor portrait session for couples.

We meet at a local park or garden for this fantastic opportunity to have a loving lasting portrait surrounded by Snowdrops of Daffodils.

View your images later in the comfort of your home.

Sessions will last for at least an hour. Feel free to bring a variety of changes for the session.

FREE sessions are weekdays only

Weekends are charged at £45.00

To book;

Email; click@buttercrossphotography.co.uk

Phone; 01949 839 368

Text; Valentine and your name to 0774 0345 6923 - we'll call back.

A trip to London

Last Saturday Anne & I made a trip to London to visit the SWPP Trade Show. For the previous two years I've been a speaker at their National Convention and Trade Show. This year was a year of rest so we took the opportunity to visit the show without the pressure of making sure I arrived to give my seminar on time.

Dawn outside Nottingham Station

Our journey started before dawn with a bus trip into Nottingham to catch the East Midlands train into London. As we arrived as the station the cold, crisp dawn looked stunning , foretelling a great day ahead.

I've regularly travelled into London from Grantham with GNER so was looking forward to the comfort of a relaxing journey with a nice breakfast. In the event all the tea trolly could provide was a stale "Danish" pastry and instant coffee:-( 

St Pancras to Hammersmith via the Piccadilly line was OK. At Hammersmith we dived into McDonalds for a breakfast bagel and decent coffee before plunging into the Novotel and the Trade Show. 

The Trade Show was the expected collection of useful and useless exhibitors. We saw current and future suppliers and some great products we will be including into our range this year.

After the trade show we went to the National Portrait Gallery to see the Taylor Wessing exhibition.

Nelson's monument from the National Portrait Gallery

We stopped for a late "al fresco" lunch at Pret a Manger  opposite the National Portrait Gallery.

This gave us a great view of Nelson's column framed by nearby street lights.

The National Portrait Gallery has many interesting exhibitions and I particularly liked;

Private Eye: Photographs by Lewis Morley.

Queens in Waiting: Charlotte & Victoria.

Contemporary portraits.

We arrived back at St Pancras to find that many East Midland trains had been cancelled - due to signal failure in the Leicester area.  

Waiting for the train was extremely cold and frustrating. More and more people arrived expecting to catch a train. Even the Penguin theory (huddle, huddle, huddle) didn't improve the temperature. The situation was resolved and we gladly took our (pre-booked) seats for the stopping at all stations trip back to Nottingham. 

All in all a successful and eventful trip with a couple of nice pictures in the process:-)

Charlotte & Chris - a sneak preview

Hi, Yesterday it was our great pleasure to capture Charlotte & Chris's wedding at the magnificent Stoke Rochford Hal in Lincolnshire. Here is a sneak preview of their pictures.

Charlotte

 The day was very wet so we did all their photography inside the magnificent Stoke Rochford Hall.

Chris

Both Chris & Charlotte looked uncommonly calm for their special day.

Charlotte's dress.

Charlotte & Steph (her bridesmaid) getting ready.

Mum grabs a shot of Charlotte on her phone.

Charlotte looked stunning in her fantastic dress and stole.

Charlotte meets Chris for their wedding.

Married!

Enjoying a moment.

Smiling for their guests taking pictures

Stoke Rochford Hall

Pam & Sam, Their Pre-Wedding shoot

Hi, We are looking forward to capturing Pam & Sam's wedding next year at the charming Clockcliffe House in Nottinghamshire.

Pam & Sam

Their Pre-Wedding shoot can be seen by clicking on their picture on our web site at; http://www.buttercrossphotography.co.uk/pre-weddings.htm

Phone 01949 839 368 or email Malcolm at Buttercross Photography to see if we are available to capture your wedding.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Hi I published this post on my KiddyPix blog yesterday and thought I'd share it here as well. KiddyPix is my Baby & Children's photography site. 
Instead of a "Picture of the Week"  I reported on a photo session at the Leicester General Hospital Saturday evening.


Each month I get a number of names and addresses for new mums or mums 2 be. About once a quarter I receive an email announcing a "deceased baby". Feeling that there must be something I could do to help these families I volunteered to work for the charity Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.


Thursday morning I received an email from a mum 2 be who had just learned that her unborn baby would be still born at 25 weeks on Saturday, could I help. So I found myself at Leicester General 9.30pm Saturday evening and was ushered into the labour room just minutes after little J... had been stillborn. My task was to capture little J... to give the couple a lasting image of their lost child.


As a NILMDTS photographer I give my time, travel and images to the parents for NO CHARGE. The parents will receive a CD with my images retouched to clean up some of the defects, they can then use my images in whatever manor they like.


Rest assured that I'll not be placing any NILMDTS images on my BLOG.


If you know anybody who unfortunately may be in need of this service than do give me a call; 0774 034 6923.