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A busy weekend

17 November 2008Daily LifeAmanda, Andover, Cardiff, Enjoyable Evening, Former Colleagues, General Insurance, Insurance, Lloyds, Newport, Reunion, Saturday Evening, Tiger, Tiger Tiger, Twenty Years, Wedding AlbumStephen Brennan

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.

Computer Upgrade

3 November 2008Daily LifeStephen Brennan

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.

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15 October 2008Daily LifeStephen Brennan

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What lovely weather!

29 September 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesStephen Brennan

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.

John & Amanda

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.

Scott and Alena’s Wedding

18 July 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesAlena, Castell Coch, Evening Party, Lovely Day, Pleasure, Posts with Images, RainStephen Brennan

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.

Wedding Cars

22 June 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesBentley, Bridesmaids, Carriages, Love, Marriage, Mum Heather, Photograph, Pip, Sally, Sunbeam, Wedding Cars, Wedding Shows, Weddings, West NorfolkStephen Brennan

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.

I think summer has arrived!

10 June 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesCountry House Hotel, Family And Friends, Fixation, Lenwade Country House Hotel, Maze, Nikon D2x, Photographs, Pleasure, Rain, Tripod, Wedding Ceremony, Weddings, Weston ParkStephen Brennan

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:

An interesting workshop

30 April 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesStephen Brennan

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

Click on a thumbnail to view an individual image and then click on the image again to view a larger version, use the back button on your browser to return to the thumbnails.

A fine Monday

28 April 2008Daily LifeStephen Brennan

Welsh class this afternoon with more practice speaking.

I bought two new tyres for the Passat this afternoon.

I met with Michael and Leanne this evening who are getting married soon to go over all the details for their wedding day, they are a lovely couple and I’m really looking forward to photographing their wedding.

I’m attending a wedding photography master class tomorrow that’s been organised by the Welsh Region of the Master Photographers Association, should be an interesting day.

A busy few weeks

21 April 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesBrother Reuben, Cardiff, Christmas, Commercial Photography, Kidney Transplant, Lot, Personal Injury, Photograph, Photographs, Roath Park, Rose, Sally, Spare Time, Wedding Day, Wedding SeasonStephen Brennan

I’ve been very busy recently with quite a lot of commercial photography and personal injury assignments. There’s also been quite a lot of work to complete with the various courses I’m studying which has left very little spare time, luckily the courses come to an end before the busy wedding season.

Yesterday I went to Roath Park in Cardiff to take some photographs of Adam and Sally who are getting married next month. Adam and Sally are having a signing frame at their wedding and wanted a photograph of the two of them for the frame which will be replaced after the wedding with a photograph of them taken on the wedding day.

This is the image they’ve selected for their signing frame.

Adam and Sally

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