I spent the morning creating the DVD slide show and web gallery for Alistair and Amy’s wedding, which will be available for viewing once they return from their honeymoon in Kenya. John and Ida’s for Sunday lunch.
After lunch I created the thumbnail prints that are included with the DVD slideshow and created the second DVD back up of the wedding images.
A quiet and relaxing evening.
Today I had the pleasure of photographing Alistair and Amy’s wedding at Bryngarw House, they are a lovely couple with great family and guests. It was quite overcast when I arrived at the venue but by the time we were taking the outside photographs the sun was blazing. I spent the evening converting the raw files from the day to jpegs and creating backups of all the images to DVD.
Here are some useful Welsh language terms relating to photographing weddings:
ffotograffydd priodas – wedding photographer
gwenwch – smile!
Edrychwch arna i – look at me!
Here are a couple of photographs of Alistair and Amy’s cake.
I took the Passat to Chris Babbage in Cardiff for a service this morning, I travelled back by train to Treforest and then caught the bus from Treforest to Upper Church Village. The bus stop is adjacent to the river Taff so I walked down to the observation platform and took this image of the weir with my Fuji F11 point and shoot camera.
The bus stops outside the pub, which is only a few hundred yards from home, here’s a photograph of my local, the Farmers Arms in Upper Church Village
The ‘main road’ through Upper Church Village has only a pub, a church and some cottages, so here’s a photograph of St Illtyd’s church – the reason the village is called ‘Church Village’. The church is on a site that has been used for Christian worship since the fifth century although the present building dates from 1525, the tower dates from 1636 and the 16th century chalice and paten are still in use. The church is said to be one of the finest examples of Laudian architecture in Wales.
One of the hard disks on my main computer has crc errors, reformating the drive and restoring from Wednesday’s back up has cured the problem. A trip into Caerphilly to Walters Photovideo this afternoon, on the way back home I called in to see my Mum. Paul called in this afternoon, his band have another gig this evening. David called in this evening to hog the computer once again.
A bright sunny day. A visit from the Yell rep this morning to talk about Yellow Pages advertising. David called in and I ended up buying him breakfast at the bakery in the village (again!), he has a streaming cold. Installed Ghost 10 on the main computer this afternoon and it’s been running most of the day creating new images and restore points to the new additional external hard disk.
Welsh class this evening and I’ve now completed all the assessments for this year. 🙂
I went into Caerphilly this morning to buy a new larger camera bag, now all I need to do is work out at the gym to be able to carry it when it’s full of equipment. 🙂
I’m also rapidly outgrowing the capacity on my USB external drives so I’ve also bought a new 300 Giga Byte drive that will be a lot more convenient.
Installed some more software on the new laptop computer, should get everything I need on there soon!
David’s car finally passed the MOT. 🙂 Booked the Passat in for a service on Friday and I’m hoping that the red BMW will be in the garage next week.
A photographic trade show at the Miskin Manor hotel this afternoon, made a change being there and not photographing a wedding, met up with many familiar faces most of whom were other South Wales members of the Master Photographers Association. An interesting range of displays and demonstrations from a number of major suppliers.
A relaxing evening.
A quiet day at home today. I installed Norton Internet Security 2006 on the desktop pc today, for a few years I stopped using Symantec products as I found they were often a serious resource eater on my computers, however the latest versions seem to perform very well. I’ve now removed AVG anti-virus, Agnitum Outpost Firewall and Spamweed and we’ll see how the more integrated approach in Norton works, so far so good.
A fairly quiet day, upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2006 and Ghost 10 on the new laptop. I’m very impressed with the latest version of Ghost in particular the incremental back up feature.
A trip to Caerphilly Garden Centre and B&Q in Pontypridd this afternoon, with a quiet evening relaxing.
I had an appointment with the hygienist first thing this morning in Cardiff, called into Tesco at Upper Boat on the way back for breakfast and a little shopping. I called over to see my mum this afternoon and she was actually at home! Installed a few more programs on the new notebook, just about all the key software I need is now on it. Submitted my VAT return on-line using the e-vat system, I just wish entering up all my sales and purchases etc. into the accounting package was as quick and easy.