Back from Sitges

I haven't posted for a week as I've been too busy enjoying the sights, sounds (and other more tangible delights) of Sitges in Spain.

What a fantastic place. Beautiful town, beautiful beaches, beautiful weather...

Have taken loads of photos but not as many as I would have expected as I was enjoying myself too much to cart a heavy professional camera around especially in the 35 deg C heat! I'm going to start looking for a high quality smaller sized camera for this sort of trip.

Back to normal from tomorrow. We still have lots of photographs to edit from the last couple of weddings so no time to stand still

Climb Every Mountain....

Well... we clambered up a few steep hills. Mountains will have to be for another day.

We have been lucky enough to have been commissioned for a few jobs abroad recently and this was another request for photographs from a travel company.

We travelled to the area around Innsbruck. I have never been to Austria before and I have been completely smitten and cannot wait to go back again. It is such a beautiful country with absolutely breathtaking scenery and quaint attractive towns and cities.

We are not able to show you any of the photographs taken at this time as their use in promotional material by our client is imminent

Barrie Neil Photography

Grilling

I rarely get the opportunity for a holiday outside of the quieter winter months so when I had the opportunity to travel to the Gran Canaria in the beautiful Canary Islands for a photo assignment, I jumped at the chance to extend it to make a personal holiday as well.

The 1st to the 12th of May saw me sunbathing, swimming and doing all those other things you do on holiday. Oh yes, I did do a bit of work too.

Lovely!

Back from Crete

Kalimera

Back to normality after a fabulous week away in Northern Crete.

The weather was absolutely wonderful and I am so brown my own family don't recognise me (that's their excuse anyway).

Anyway, don't want to annoy you with my holiday stories (especially as Autumn kicks in here in the UK) but suffice to say Neil and I had a wonderful time of eating, the odd drinkie, swimming and sunbathing.

Here are just a few photos from our trip

The harbour at Sissi

Part of the remains at the ancient site at Knossos


The harbour and galleon at Agios Nikolaos

...and this week....

... we are heading for some sunshine (we hope).

Our bags are packed and on Monday, we head to Manchester to do a little work then it's straight off to a airport for an overnight stay before an early morning flight to Crete.

We've never been to Crete before so we are really looking forward to it. One of our cameras is coming with us (naturally) so no doubt there will be a few photos. How good they will be could be dependent upon how good the local wine is on Crete.

In all seriousness though, we frequently do travel related photography so our journeys abroad are not just for pleasure as it affords us the opportunity to build our travel photo library with a variety of images for which there is constant demand

See you all soon.

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