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.

Es i bore coffi Cymraeg yn y Bwtsiars, Llantrisant. I went to the Welsh coffee morning at the Butchers in Llantrisant.

I scanned a couple of old black and white photographs on my new scanner this morning, these two were taken by my father who was a very good photographer and from whom I picked up so much photographic knowledge. The first photograph was taken in the studio under tungsten lighting, the rather cute subject is me at a much younger age. 🙂 The second photograph of my mother was taken at home during a session when my father was testing equipment.

David’s car was in the garage for a new clutch this morning, unfortunately a slight mis-diagnosis on David’s part as the differential in the gearbox is broken rather than the clutch. The gearbox and clutch were changed so all he needs to do now is get it through the MOT!

I called into Piccadilly Photographic this afternoon to collect the album for Neil and Michelle and then mounted the photographs in the album. Their album and re-print order is now complete and ready to drop off to them this evening.

Received the images from Denise Foggett, Community Relations at RAF Marham taken by SAC Ashley Keates during our recent visit, here are a few.

This one is of me in the front seat of a Tornado GR4.

And here’s one of the Basketball Trophy presentation.

We had a terrific time that day and are very grateful to everyone at RAF Marham especially Keith Watson, Claire Johnson, Cpl Greenfield and ‘Rem’ Merrick for all their work in making it such a memorable day.

I spent the morning creating the web gallery for Neil and Michelle’s wedding album design and processing their print orders.

This afternoon I bought a new Nikon D2X camera and spent quite a lot of time familiarising myself with the menus and options. I’m very pleased with the initial testing – colour accuracy and autofocus are excellent but the 12 megapixel files are significantly larger and slower to process than the 6 megapixel ones from my existing camera system.

Drove David to a job interview at Cardiff Gate, while I was waiting for David I called into Asda for a cappuccino and bumped into Paul Howe, one of my former IT work colleagues at Lloyds TSB.

Some snow overnight so everything covered in white this morning. We had lunch at the Hollybush and then went into Cardiff and visited Cardiff Castle and did the tour, fascinating! Here’s a photograph of the Keep, Claire climbed to the top. 🙂

I took my little Fuji F11 point and shoot camera with me into the village today and took a few photographs, here’s one of the new Youth Centre that has recently been opened.

Here’s a photograph of part the new all weather astroturf sports pitch

And here’s a photograph of the Community Centre.