Boxall and Edmiston

One of the benefits of our profession is that we very often get to see places and meet people we would never otherwise meet. Sometimes this is getting to meet and chat to celebrities and other famous and interesting people and at other times, it's being granted access to facilities usually off limits to the general public.

The commission we had on the 10th August 2010 falls largely into the latter category.

We were commissioned by Sodick, the manufacturers of some highly specialised engineering equipment, to photograph their installation at Boxall and Edmiston, a firm in Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Even more interesting, this firm craft (I cannot say 'manufacture') the most exquisite shotguns. They are quite simply, works of art.

Here are just a couple of photos from the assignment

Playing with trains again

A few weeks ago, I reported our visit to the nearby town of Llangollen and the great day we had travelling up and down the Llangollen Steam Railway during their Autumn Steam Gala.

We enjoyed it so much that when we heard about the Severn Valley Railway's Autumn Gala we couldn't resist and so Friday 25th September 2009 saw us travelling south to Bridgnorth.

What a fantastic day! Neil and I know very little about steam trains but you don't have to just to soak up the atmosphere when being close to and travelling on these magnificent locomotives. The sights, sounds and smells really stir the imagination and when these huge noisy beasts pulls into a station, you almost believe you can hear Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in one of their scenes from "Brief Encounter". It is so evocative of a bygone age.

Anyway, enough of the romanticism, here are a few photographs I took on the day.

Locomotives in the sidings at Brignorth Station

A locomotive enters Highley Station

And the same locomotive steams out of Highley Station

Another locomotive enters Bewdley Station

Going by tube

YouTube that is.

We've put a small selection of photos from a number of our weddings at various popular venues into video format and put them onto YouTube. If you are interested in having a look, then simply click here to go to our YouTube Channel.

Wedding DVD

Some exciting news for those getting married.

All the couples we photograph automatically receive their proof photographs as prints, uploaded to the password protected "Client's Area" of the website (so all of their friends and family can see them wherever they are in the world) and also as a slideshow presentation on CD.

We particularly like the Slideshow as it means you can see the photographs on a computer screen at large size and you can of course supply copies of it to your friends and family and even email it to them.

Now we have moved on a step and with immediate effect, we will be supplying a DVD based video presentation of all of your photographs in addition to everything else just described completely free of charge.

This presentation is a video of your photographs that you can watch, pause and rewind just like any other file you watch on your television. This is a fantastic step forward as you can see yourself in all your glory on your own television set in the comfort of your own home whilst perhaps enjoying a glass of something chilled (I like the idea of that!).

As I say, it's completely free and I hope will be a welcome addition to the service we offer.
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Wedding at Albright Hussey Manor

As I mentioned a few days ago, yesterday (Saturday 5th September 2009) saw us toddling down to Shropshire to photograph the wedding of the gorgeous Ita to her lucky fiancé, Greg.

The ceremony was at the beautiful St Peter's Church in the wonderfully named town of Myddle not far from the venue for the wedding reception, Albright Hussey.

The bridal preparations took place at Albright Hussey Manor and the hour or two I spent in the bride's room with all of her fellow Irish bridesmaids, her mother and flower girl. It was so much fun I am surprised any of us managed to make it to the church (and if anyone has spent any time with a bunch of crazy Irish women out to have a good time, you'll know what I mean).

But make it we did and luckily, so did the groom although prising him away from the attractions of the nearby Red Castle pub was a little trickier than first thought.

Beautiful church as I say and a great service followed by a wonderful afternoon at Albright Hussey and once again, the weather behaved itself.

Have a great time in Dubai Ita and Greg and for now, here are a few of the photos from your wedding day.

We'll post a few more photos over on our wedding blog at www.barrieneilweddings.blogspot.com

Albright Hussey Manor ♥ Ita and Greg

As I mentioned a few days ago, yesterday (Saturday 5th September 2009) saw us toddling down to Shropshire to photograph the wedding of the gorgeous Ita to her lucky fiancé, Greg.

The ceremony was at the beautiful St Peter's Church in the wonderfully named town of Myddle not far from the venue for the wedding reception, Albright Hussey.

The bridal preparations took place at Albright Hussey Manor and the hour or two I spent in the bride's room with all of her fellow Irish bridesmaids, her mother and flower girl. It was so much fun I am surprised any of us managed to make it to the church (and if anyone has spent any time with a bunch of crazy Irish women out to have a good time, you'll know what I mean).

But make it we did and luckily, so did the groom although prising him away from the attractions of the nearby Red Castle pub was a little trickier than first thought.

Beautiful church as I say and a great service followed by a wonderful afternoon at Albright Hussey and once again, the weather behaved itself.

As usual, a small selection of photographs from the wedding to be going on with whilst we get to grips with editing the other 1400+ from the day.

Albright Hussey in all it's glory

Ita and Greg's wedding service

On the bridge at Albright Hussey

The very beautiful Ita

On the mat at the Albright Hussey Hotel

More photographs from Albright Hussey and other venues can be found both in this blog and on our main wedding website at www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

Wedding photography slideshows

We have just added an exciting new feature to our wedding website.

After we have photographed a wedding, we supply all of our clients with printed proofs of all of the photographs we have taken along with JPEG versions of the proofs and also a slideshow of the photographs. We also upload all of the photographs to a password protected Client's Area so that all of your family and friends can see the wedding photographs, wherever they are in the world and at any time of day.

This slideshow is our personal favourite way of viewing the photographs as it means you can view them on a computer screen at a large size and can easily move from one to another or allow the slideshow to simply go through them all whilst you just lay back with a glass of wine in your hand (bliss).

We have now created a page on our wedding website (link) that allows you to download a small sample slideshow from a number of the most popular wedding venues in our area. As I say, it is only a sample slideshow from each wedding venue as the full set will contain between 450 and 600 photographs and the file would be took big to download!

If you are interested in having a look, simply click here (this will take you directly to the Slideshows page).

Wedding photography slideshows

We have just added an exciting new feature to our wedding website.

After we have photographed a wedding, we supply all of our clients with printed proofs of all of the photographs we have taken along with JPEG versions of the proofs and also a slideshow of the photographs. We also upload all of the photographs to a password protected Client's Area so that all of your family and friends can see the wedding photographs, wherever they are in the world and at any time of day.

This slideshow is our personal favourite way of viewing the photographs as it means you can view them on a computer screen at a large size and can easily move from one to another or allow the slideshow to simply go through them all whilst you just lay back with a glass of wine in your hand (bliss).

We have now created a page on our wedding website (link) that allows you to download a small sample slideshow from a number of the most popular wedding venues in our area. As I say, it is only a sample slideshow from each wedding venue as the full set will contain between 450 and 600 photographs and the file would be took big to download!

If you are interested in having a look, simply click here (this will take you directly to the Slideshows page).

Wedding at Albright Hussey

We haven't been to Albright Hussey for some months so Saturday's wedding of Ita and Greg is particularly exciting.

Albright Hussey is a fantastic old country house near Shrewsbury in Shropshire that is now run as a very high class hotel (the Sultan of Brunei once stayed there!).

As usual, we have everything crossed hoping for good weather and look forward to seeing everybody on Saturday

Updated wedding galleries

Just a quick note to mention that I have now updated the Galleries section of our website to show off just a few photos from some recent weddings.

There are two new Galleries in all. The first new Gallery can be reached by clicking here and the second by clicking here


Our main wedding website is at www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

Friday in Shrewsbury

Have been trying to get back to a sense of normality after losing Jasper earlier this week (see earlier post). Obviously it's very difficult and as we have had so many photos to edit from the previous weeks two weddings, it has meant we haven't had the opportunity to get out and about for a bit of "fresh air".

We'll try and remedy that today. We are scheduled to pop down to the beautiful town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Initially we are hoping to be doing some general photography of the tourist 'hot spots' in and around the town for a tourism brochure but frankly, the weather may prevent us doing everything we want. When doing scenic shots for this sort of application (tourism), it is essential that we have blue skies. Let's face it, when trying to 'sell' a place, blue skies are definitely the order of the day.

Never mind, if the weather doesn't play ball, we'll just do some of the interiors we need to complete as part of the assignment.

Following that, it's off to see a couple planning to get married in the town. The reception venue is the Mytton and Mermaid which is a beautiful old Grade II listed building standing by the bridge over the River Severn so it should make for some great wedding photography

A bridge not too far

Today, we spent some time working in Ironbridge in sunny Shropshire (very hot and sunny as it turned out) followed by the afternoon at leisure at the Blists Hill Victorian Town (a living museum for those of you not familiar with it).

We do love Ironbridge. It has so much to offer both the casual visitor and the working photographer. From a work perspective, I needed to get some shots of the bridge with a blue sky and without tourists. On previous visits I've either had no tourists but a drab sky or a beautiful blue sky but loads of people! Today, perseverance paid off and we got the shots we have been after.

Blists Hill is a fascinating place and a wonderful way to spend a sunny afternoon and I can recommend it to anyone looking for something to do with the family.