Wednesday 16th December

Well Christmas is almost upon us and our STUDIO has been extremely busy. Debbie brought down her two lovely children for a photo session on Monday, with an urgent request to get out two 20x16 FRAMED PRINTS by Friday ! As you can see above we got some wonderful images. Debbie popped back to the STUDIO yesterday to make her choice. I have ordered the materials and hopefully we will be able to get them out, along with a FRAMED PRINT for Angela & Phil Donaghue, and three FRAMED PRINTS for Rosalyn who has become quite a regular, I posted a print of her two boys Alfie & Ryan in one of my earlier posts. I'll let you know if i get it all done by Friday ! I always hate having to let people down but I have one PICTURE to FRAME for Liz & David Haslett, that I am having real difficulty with. My supplier is out of stock of the moulding they have chosen, but hopefully will be getting it in soon. Call me a pessimist but I can't see them getting it in before Christmas now!

Anyway I better get on I have another client coming in to view their portrait proofs this afternoon and I have mounts to cut ready for framing tomorrow.

Just before I go, if anyone out there is thinking of giving a FAMILY PORTRAIT as a gift for Christmas, we do a range of PORTRAIT GIFT VOUCHERS that start at £25 upwards. The £25 GIFT VOUCHER gets the recipient a ONE HOUR PORTRAIT SITTING and a 10x8 PRINT included. So unlike some other PORTRAIT STUDIOS you can actually walk out of the SESSION with a PRINT, without having to put the £25 towards a more expensive item. We have lots of fun during a shoot, with the emphasis on natural shots rather than formally posed shots.

Busy weekend

Good morning, I hope you all had a good weekend, I certainly did. One thing I didn't mention in yesterdays Blog was that Tom & Helen Stuart came to pick up their WEDDING ALBUM on Saturday. The prints had arrived that morning and I had originally ask them to pick it up on Tuesday, but I made the fatal mistake of looking through the prints, and that was it I wanted them to have it immediately. So I cleared all the work I had planned to do on Saturday and got to work assembling their album. I get really excited when clients are coming to pick up their albums, as I have said before its the best part of the job to hand something to a client that you have created. I never tire of it.

Hi again,

I was out last night at my wifes Christmas party, so I am a little hung over this morning! Yet here I am working yet again, I have so much to do right now that I am working seven day weeks to try and ensure I get everything done for my clients for christmas. Who ever said working for yourself was easy, I put more hours in now than I ever did when I was employed. The only difference is that I really love my job and that coupled with the gratitude of your clients when you give them something truly bespoke that you have created, makes the long hours so worthwhile.

Yesterdays portrait shoots turned out to be one shoot and one no-show, but the lady who didn't make it booked in for next Saturday so that is still going ahead. We took another booking for a portrait session on Monday, this will be a real quick turnaround because the client would like a canvas print in time for Christmas, which might be pushing it at this late stage. As always I'll see what I can do.... Think I'll have that on my headstone !!

While you are here reading this how about popping over to my website to let me know what you think - www.wildsidephotography.org

I have two portrait shoots later this morning, I'm really looking forward to both of them. I wake up in the morning and think to myself how lucky I am, I have the perfect job, not many people really enjoy what they do for a living. Our PORTRAIT STUDIO is open from 10am until 5pm Monday to Friday, we do have approximately two afternoons a week where I close the studio so that I can FRAME ARTWORK for bespoke commissions. The FRAMING SERVICE that we offer is going really well, but then it always does in the run up to Christmas.

Recently we started operating BISPHAMS ONLY DIGITAL PRINT KIOSK, our customers can PRINT THEIR OWN IMAGES from as little as 25p in either GLOSS or LUSTRE/MAT.

We are hoping in the near future to sell, the HARDWARE FOR HANGING our FRAMES safely, we also want to be able to offer our clients premade reasonable frames ready for them to slot in a favourite print, so watch this space !!!!

Well here we are, my very first blog. I wasn't sure what I was going to write but I thought that I would start by giving you a run down of our business. We started trading 5 years ago, we supply WEDDING, PORTRAIT and EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY, IN BLACKPOOL, BISPHAM, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, FLEETWOOD and the surrounding area.

Our WEDDING photography starts at a mere £400 and goes up from there. We offer reasonably priced GRAPHI STUDIO packages and TRADITIONAL ALBUMS from GF SMITH.

Our EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY has really taken off recently, we find ourselves attending BIRTHDAY PARTIES, ANNIVERSARIES, as well as CHARITY EVENINGS and BLACK TIE EVENTS.

Our PORTRAIT STUDIO opened in January of this year, it was a key turning point for us, our PORTRAIT sittings have increased ten fold and it has given us lots of opportunities to experiment with new ideas.

Come along and visit our website : www.wildsidephotography.org