Gander Photography 2012

A little late getting this one out, been a busy month for Gander this month. Infact I’m writing this for the first time from an iPod whilst on the Tube so bear with me if it looks a little wonky or the autocomplete takes a few strange turns at the lights.

All in all March was busy with a number of key jobs.

At the beginning of the month I had the delight of taking Barmitzvah portraits for the Davis family. A delightful early Spring afternoon and wonderful group who had gathered together from a number of far flung locations. It was a real pleasure getting the shots. You can see them here

Later in the week a Charity dinner for a local school. This however was a sit down dinner for around 250 people and was attended by the Chief Rabbi. Whilst an entertaining speaker I had to concentrate on getting the shots and completing the brief. I had compete access to the floor from every angle and used the whole space.

Pictures are here

Finally that week I had another function attended by the Chief Rabbi to shoot, when my local synagogue inducted the new Rabbi. I’ve never attended one of these, opportunities like that don’t come along everyday, and my family and
I have also come close with the new Rabbi in the short time he has been serving us. I was lucky enough to have a friend shoot second camera for me. In this case his services were invaluable as the were so many attendees that walking space was limited. I’ve not worked with a second shooter before but I know how he thinks and we ended up communicating with nods and winks and swapped bodies rather than changed lenses to get all the shots. A few people asked me how long we had worked together for as we were always one step ahead of eachother. I didn’t always have the courage to tell them it was the first time.

Pictures from the event are here

The interesting thing about both of those jobs was the quick turn around time required for press releases of the photos to local papers and publications. They turned into long and exhausting days.

And so onto April where I hardly have a free weekend day without some form of photography. There’s a wedding dress shoot, pre Barmitzvah shoot and party for a 11 year old and dozen friends to cram in.

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