We’re hiring
Posted by Kenny
22nd November 2009
Yip, you heard us. We’re hiring.
We’re looking for really great wedding photographers from all over Ireland to join our crew. We’re looking for enthusiasm, passion, humour, the ability to produce great work and be good fun at the same time.
Over the last few years we’ve worked really hard at becoming known for giving our clients great service as well as beautiful images. We would love to shoot the wedding of everybody who enquires but we can’t be in Kerry, Belfast and Sligo on the same day.
We’re really nervous about this. We’re not sure we’ll be able to find photographers to work with us who will have the same commitment and passion that we do. But we’ve decided to give it a try.
Perhaps you’re an art school grad who wants to build a photography career. Come shoot with us and we’ll give you full training. You’ll spend some time as a second shooter before taking on your own assignments.
Or maybe you are already a wedding photographer but are stuggling to meet the demands of admin, accounting, VAT returns, managing, selling, and long days of post-processing. You started your business because you love photography. Come shoot with us, rediscover why you loved photography, and get your life back.
Check out our hiring page where we’ve set out 10 simple rules for the people we’re looking for. If you think you’ll fit we’d love to hear from you.
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Posted by Kenny
5th December 2007
Other than being a man with a tremendously long name, Sergei was also quite an amazing photographer for his day. I was reading about him on a flight back from London earlier in the week and was really astounded by his images of the former Soviet Republic. He was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II to document the Russian Empire using a pioneering colour-photography technique in the early 1900s.
What I loved about his images so much was that they look like they were taken so recently - mainly because of the colour. Seriously, Tblisi just looks like it could have been last year! We have a bit of a thing for the former Soviet Union. We have worked throughout the former Soviet Republic mainly in Armenia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. I couldn’t believe that Prokudin-Gorskii’s images were taken in the early 1900’s!!
Check it out. It really is amazing. www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html
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Moment
Posted by Kenny
12th April 2007
The quote from Ansel Adams reminds me of those rare occasions when, without even looking, you know the image in the camera is going to be something special. It also connects with my belief that that great photography is as much about being truly present and atuned to the moment as it is about techical skill and ability.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter
Similarly, Eve Arnold wrote:
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
On taking better pictures…
Posted by Kenny
19th March 2007
(But)…a lot of photographers think that if they buy a
better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better
camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head
or in your heart. -Arnold Newman
Ideas….
Posted by Kenny
12th March 2007
Having spent the weekend shooting with Sophie who always has lots of great ideas - came accross the following quote which I wanted to share:
To come up with a good idea, you have to have lots of ideas - Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winning chemist