Max and some BLUE SKY!!!

I think I've spotted a patch of blue sky maybe twice in the whole of January. I crave blue sky in winter so I thought I would blog this so we could all have a look. Also, a couple of shots of Max looking very handsome.







Lots coming up in February and March - how exciting!

Prith

I photographed Prith's son Ben a couple of months ago, and these are some shots Prith needed for her new business The Thinking Edge. Have a look if you are a business type - she offers some very interesting courses (actually I designed the website in my other life as a web designer, ahem). It is quite a creative business so we used a creative backdrop for these portraits:

Cymbient live session shoot

On Monday evening I photographed my friends Cymbient (a very cool Cardiff band) recording a live session at BBC for the radiowales evening show



The studio wasn't the most glamourous of places, so I did my best to make it look more rockstar. Here are the guys:





Ann on the keyboard (and singing):




Andy Taylor on guitar (I'm not getting any more technical than recognising the instruments from the photos here...)



Andy Fung doing vocals and drums:



...and guitar!



John on guitar:



And James looking very rockstar with my new 580EX II speedlite flash!



I will be doing some very cool and funky 'band photos' with these guys soon so stay tuned... x

Happy new year!

I'm not a big one for new years resolutions so I haven't made any this year - it makes eating lots of tasty fatty food more pleasurable. However I am very excited about 2008 and here's why...

1) More weddings and portraits
2) Some very cool travel plans when we take off in April
3) Our big move to New Zealand and starting to build our dream house! (I'm going to post up the plans on this blog when we have them)
4) A brand new big, lovely website and some very flashy stuff to launch my business in NZ
5) Something very very exciting that will be happening mid-year (more on that soon...)
6) More photos of Max!!!
7) More very cool stuff to put on my blog
8) More fun in general

I'm so excited, the fact that I hate January is almost insignificant.

xx

A winter walk

We went for a walk on the Garth today. It was windy but the light was great. Steven even let me take about 4 photos of him!!!

Christmas at the McGiverns

Me and Steven spent Christmas at my parents with my brother Aidan. There's normally more of us, but my brother is travelling at the moment and my sister is volunteering in an orphanage in Thailand.



Its traditional for my family to have a huge fried breakfast on Christmas morning. Here I am cooking the eggs:



Aidan and my mum opening presents:




I got an Ipod - woooohoooooooo!!!



Here is what we listened to - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins:



And here is what we ate(!) - the McGiverns like their food :) I could almost be that strange guy who eats Christmas dinner everyday. I reckon I could do that for about a month.



Max getting a tummy-rub:



Steven got remote-controlled jousting knights. Here he is putting the batteries in. Its a serious business...



The knights in action:



Aidan after too much food (and wine by the looks of it..)



We went for a walk on boxing day:



Here's where I get my good looks from :)



Max running like the wind:



We won't be here for Christmas next year. We'll be in New Zealand! Hope everyone had a great holiday xx

Aoife at Christmas!

Aoife is Susan and Mark's daughter (Susan is my cousin). I last photographed her when she was about 8 months old (I think...!). Susan, Mark and Aoife are heading over to Ireland for Christmas and stopped in Cardiff on their way over. We hung out for the evening and I followed Aoife on her travels around my parent's house. She made friends with Max, played with some Christmas decorations, got on the exercise bike and spent some time on the phone. Huh, its a hard life being 2 years old...





Hello? Can I help you?



Sharon will recognise this!



I thought I would put these together in a little storyboard. So cute!!:





Aoife found santa so we decided to do some Christmassy shots with him:



Until she wanted to undress him. It seems nothing is sacred...





Aoife was determined for Max to obey her and come to her when she demanded. He had other ideas.


Okay, I did sit Aoife down in front of the tree with santa.. but I promise I didn't tell her to kiss him!! It seems Aoife has one eye on sweets, toys and having fun... and one cynical eye on the commercial Christmas card market - one savvy 2 year old.



She is so gorgeous I want to take her home too. I'll have to kidnap Aoife along with Natasha and James, put them in a cupboard and then bring them out for my Christmas parties! Hm, that sounded a bit sinister - I mean it in the nicest way of course... :)