Camelot Photography Blog

On Saturday I delivered John and Amanda’s wedding album to them, they’re delighted with it and love the contemporary style of the album.

Saturday evening I went to a TSB reunion at Tiger Tiger in Cardiff, it was really great to see so many former colleagues that I haven’t seen for a number of years. It was twenty years ago that what was then TSB General Insurance relocated from Andover to Newport. Quite a number of us worked in Andover prior to the move to Newport although very few from that time are still working at what is now Lloyds TSB. It was a very enjoyable evening.

The computer upgrade has gone very well, it’s really nice to be designing wedding albums on a very fast computer.

I’ve recently completed the album design for John and Amanda and I’ve sent all the pages to be printed by the lab.

I’ve recently introduced a new ‘Wedding Box’ which can be used either as an option within the ‘Mix & Match’ wedding coverage, as an additional item or replacement for a wedding album or alternatively in place of a proof book.

Wedding Box

When I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS4 I had an annoying problem that it wouldn’t run under my normal user account. Following quite a bit of investigation it appears that there is some corruption in my normal user account. Deleting and re-instating the user account was only a partial success – Photoshop CS4 ran perfectly but there were problems with other applications.

I decided that it was time for a complete upgrade and I’m now running a new machine with Windows Vista 64, triple core processor and 4G of ram, the performance improvement is wonderful.

I used Laplink PCmover to migrate applications and data from the existing Windows XP machine to the new Vista 64 platform and once again it worked perfectly saving so much time over individually re-installing each program.

One issue with the new platform is that Norton Ghost 10 is not supported on Vista 64 so I upgraded to Ghost 14, which unfortunately despite many hours with Symantec support could not be made to work correctly. Symantec provided a refund on the purchase price and I’m now running R-Drive Image to create images of my hard drives – it works flawlessly.

We have for many years supplied superb quality wedding stationery from CCA to our wedding clients.

Including:

This used to involve browsing through a large range of sample books and we would then complete the paperwork and pass it on to CCA.

We’re delighted to be able to offer simple on-line ordering which you can complete from your own computer and also receive a special 10% discount.

You can order on-line and receive the 10% discount by simply entering our unique referral code 165842WS

To view the range of stationery just click on this link CCA Wedding Stationery

It’s been quite a while since I last posted on the blog, I’ve just been very busy, so here’s a quick update.

I recently had the pleasure of photographing John and Amanda’s wedding at St Pierre, Chepstow, it was a lovely day and only the second no rain wedding this year!

Here are a few images from the wedding.

I’ve also been making up a lot of albums, I completed three Jorgensen E series albums and two Madison albums this week and they’ve all been collected or sent out.

I also have quite a busy week ahead, Welsh class today and a Welsh Region MPA committee meeting in Narberth this evening. I recently completed a teaching certificate and I’m attending a presentation evening later this week and still more albums to make up.

Today is Rose’s birthday and Lee and Claire are visiting as well.

I’ve spent most of the day processing the images from Scott and Alena’s wedding, their viewing gallery is now on-line.

Today we had the pleasure of attending Scott and Alena’s wedding at Castell Coch followed by the reception and evening party at Bryngarw House. It was a lovely day and despite the rain after the ceremony we’ve captured some lovely images here are a few.

My last two weddings have had stunning wedding cars, the photograph below from Lee and Claire’s wedding shows Claire’s mum (Heather) and bridesmaids (Stacey, Pip and Gill) at the side of a beautiful 1934 Sunbeam Twenty Five Six Light in terrific condition from Love and Marriage Carriages of west Norfolk.

At Adam and Sally’s wedding they had a beautiful modern Bentley with an interesting registration.

It’s been a very busy few weeks with quite a few weddings. The Nikon D2X took a tumble off the tripod at a recent wedding but fortunately Fixation managed to repair it and return it to me within a week so I had it back in time for the next wedding.

I’ve just returned from Norfolk where I had the pleasure of photographing Lee and Claire’s wedding at Weston Park. It was a lovely wedding and everything went without a problem. Claire, her family and friends stayed at the Lenwade Country House Hotel which was a great experience, my room was very nice but the hotel is like a maze so always a challenge to find the room again! The wedding ceremony and reception at Weston Park were wonderful and the rain stopped in the afternoon so we could photograph the groups outside.

Here are a couple of photographs of Lee and Claire:

Here are a few of the images I took at Margam Park yesterday.

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