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Below are the images from the E-Session of Eamon and Stephanie whos wedding is comming up next week in Killarney. If this shoot is anything to go by we will be comming back with some great images from the wedding day, as the couple seem to be so into each other and their love they show for each other is very visable in front of the camera.
*brendan*
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The sun graced us for a change in Ireland and what a day we had with Muiriosa and Nigel , fun fun and more fun all day , I know we had a blast been on this wedding and I think the couple had too. Its great when you get a couple that go with our ideas with total trust and without reservations.
It was so touching to see how Muiriosa’s Dad got very emotional moments before we headed for the church…..more and more at LandyPhoto we are in search of the touching moments that happen at weddings, and none more was as touching when you see a dad break down in a flood of tears on the realisation that he is no longer going to be the number 1 man in his little girls life. We know in months and years ahead that this photograph will be truly pricless and that nothing can replace that magical moment, but at least we can remind them with our images of how special this brief emotional time was.
As always Muckroos Park Hotel was a great host to us and it was also great to be back in Knocknagoshel to shoot a wedding and also bumping into Fr O Mahony after all the years…lets say it was a long tinme since he was my scout leader.
Enjoy the selection and be sure to look at the slideshow below and leave any comments if you wish.
*brendan*
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Below is the E-Session from Muiriosa and Nigels E-Session from the wedding that we have this weekend.
A real nice couple that I am sure we will have a great time covering their wedding and hoping to post some images from it in the comming week.
*brendan*
Following the E-Session of Lorraine and Joe from a few weeks ago, we got to re-visit the same areas having checked them out first on the E-Shoot.
This time we had the addition of not only a beautiful bride & a handsome groom but also, a vintage Jaguar E-Type….ok I better mention the beautiful bridesmaids and handsome ….& wild… groomsmen too!!! Despite it being a day full of thrills and spills as regards equipment; with one of my main cameras going on the blink the night before, and then catching the strap of my other one on the handle of a press , hitting the floor and going out of action , we proved that having backups in this job is so vital to continuing the job without any interruption to the performance and quality of what is expected of us. The backups were pulled out and the shooting continued as if nothing happened.
Lorraine and Joe made it such a pleasure to photograph on the day and it was even commented to me by a few people that it has been a long time since we have seen a couple look at each other with such admiration and love that this couple showed on the day…they could not keep their eyes off each other and it made capturing the romance of the day so much easier and natural. It was great to work with Videographer Leon Costello , it’s always a pleasure to shoot beside Leon and you would hardly know that the guy is there. Thanks Leon, hope to see you again during the year.
The reception was held in one of our most popular venues -Ballygarry House Hotel in Tralee…Padraig and the staff,as always, were very professional and accommodating to our requests…as always it was a pleasure. But I have to say it again - it was such a pleasure been part of Lorraine and Joes ’Big Day’ …it was a great start to the wedding season. We strive as we always do, to bring a unique set of images to every couple and always push the boundaries of great imagery .
On a closing note, I have just got the following quote texted from their honeymoon in New Zealand….. “Oh my God, you did amazing work. They are fantastic! Thanks a mill! , Lorraine” It’s great when we get it right!!
Highlights slideshow of Lorraine & Joes day is below images
*brendan*
Highlights from the Wedding Shoot
Lorraine and Joe were the subject for this recent E-Session in Athea in County Limerick.
We had a great time despite the wind cold and muck. Even teh stray dog ariving on the scene while we were in the quary adding to the fun.
We have there wedding comming in in the next few days and if the E-Session is anything to go by we should be very exciting , and we even have something after planned which should be equaly cool….watch this space.
*brendan*
Kate and George got married recently in Killarney, Kate from Nenagh and George from London, decided on the beautiful Killarney to tie the knot in Fossa Church and later held their reception in the Muckross Park Hotel , but not before we ventured up to Torc Waterfall to have a bit of fun.
They both work togeather in one of London’s top hospitals, one as a Radiologits and another as a Radiographer which is which I’m not quiet sure , but there was a lot of “…..Graphers ” working on the day, but no X-Ray images this happy day, just great happy moments captured forever more.
Thanks Kate and George for putting the trust in us to be a vital part of your big day, and hopefully we have captured the essence of love and happiness that was visable through every look you showed to each other and that hopefully we captured at least some of them .
We at Landyphoto had a great time with Ciara & David on their wedding recently , it was such a blast getting to know this couple and they were up for anything that we threw at them. The wedding was held in West Limerick and the reception in Bunratty.
Had the pleasure of having Estonian Photography student Tarmo on the shoot with myself and Catherine and he seemed to enjoy the experience.
Well enjoy the shots and thanks again to Ciara & David for welcoming us in on their big day
Full Slideshow Of Highlights Here
We had a wonderful (long) day out with Linda and David in West Limerick recently. Linda who is from the Newcastle West area and David who is from Northern Ireland met while they both studied in Scotland and fell for each other straight away.
Over the past year or so we have got to know them quite well, between them booking us well over a year ago, and then a few months back they came to Listowel for their E-Session . From the minute we met them we knew we were going to have great fun, they had a very open attitude towards the photography and were willing to “go with the flow” so to speak which is the way we work best.
It was very touching to see both Linda and her dad have emotional moments before they left her home for the last time as a single girl. We also stopped on the way to see Lindas gran who was in a nursing home in Ardagh, and what a location it was to capture a few images before we headed for the wedding ceremony in the Church Of Ireland, Adare. This was my first time in this church so it was wonderful to shoot in a brand new location , though I have shot in the grounds on a few occasions.
The bridal party on the day were equally a pleasure to work with and we are sorry guys for catching you out on one of the pictures …don’t blame me it was the girls doing.
My “Pick of the Day” as seen above proved that you are never safe when me or my assistants are lurking with our cameras. I adore letting children be themselves, it lends for sometimes the most candid but natural antics that a child can get up to.
To Linda and David thank you for letting us be part of your big day , and also for deciding to go with the extended coverage, I think you will agree that it would have been a shame to miss out on some of the magical facial expressions we got at the speeches; and to David…. loved the touch of finding one of Linda’s old works of art where she declared ” Linda is the best”……I persume she will now have you frame that and hang it up somewhere where you will be reminded on a daily basics.
On a personal note, thank you to PJ who second shot for me on the day and who’s many pictures featured on the day , and to Clodagh for lighting the shots so well.
Full Slideshow Of Highlights Here
*brendan*
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Had a wonderful day out with Mairead and Enda in Tipp and it was great to be part of their day. I first met Mairead when she was a bridesmaid at Rosemarie and Michael’s wedding way back in 2007 in Kerry and it was out of this wedding that Mairead booked me for her big day.
We had great fun with the lads in the morning and even had time to check out the progress of Enda’s brothers rebuild of an old ruin and also see how the progress of his crops was going, despite the bad weather we have been having here in Ireland.
Maireads house was full of hustle and bustle, as every brides house is on the morning of the wedding, and we were made very welcome by her family as we wandered around looking for suitable locations.
I guess the funniest part of the day was getting delayed by a flock of sheep that ran riot on the roads up by the Silver Mines but as always it made a quick photo opportunity that could not be missed.
To the staff and management of the Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh, thank you for your support and assistance on the day, I am sure it wont be the last time we work with you…it was a pleasure.
The View from Cliona’s bedroom, Imagine she is giving this up all for the love of Paul…WOW.
The Look of Realisaition
The Look Of Loss
The Look of Love
The Look of Happiness
What a day we had with this beautiful couple…the sun was shining, a rarity this year…pretty much everything about the day was different than a normal wedding, and on top of that the couple were up for some fun.
Cliona & Paul said to me a week or so prior to the wedding that they loved the style of my photography and that I had creative freedom on their day and that they would go with any ideas that I had or any opportunities that presented themselves on the day…..ahh bliss…this is the way I love to work and I find that this blends very well to the style of our photography…no menu…no agenda…no idea what we will encounter…and out of this always comes a collection of images that are new, fresh, exciting and most of all FUN. I think Catherine and I captured this on the day…and when you have a couple as good looking and fun to shoot as Cliona & Paul , the only thing else we could have hoped for is a beautiful day…and what did we get …yep…a scorcher…in fact by 6 o clock we were all feeling a little sun burned.
Some of the images that I loved from the day are the images that say a lot, especially the images “with the look” . By this I mean, if you look into the eyes you see emotion, sometimes emotion of sadness, sometimes of love and often of happiness. I have picked out a few above that I feel, to me, tell a big story of the emotion that was going on in the day.
A bit about the yellow van that is in some of the pictures- This is the camper van that Paul did up and that he and Cliona have toured part of Europe in, but on the wedding day we decided to go down where it was parked up and do some shots by it. Paul the romantic that he is, had it kitted out with flowers and champagne and even had tubs of Häagen-Dazs ice cream for the girls. We had a blast on the shore doing some photographs and just chilling out and the truth be told I think none of us wanted to leave, but alas the boat was waiting to bring them to Glandore.
To all the staff at The Rectory in Glandore, thank you for your courtesy and welcome, it was our first time there but i am sure it won’t be out last.
*brendan*
Way back in 2007 Michelle and Brian attended a wedding fair of a difference by Weddings Listowel Style, where they entered a competition to win over €4000 worth of prizes, part of their winning prize was for me to shoot their wedding with a saving of our regular price. Well the day is fast approaching and soon I will be spending the day at their wedding in Killarney.Their E-Session was done in Studio, because as we were about to go out on location the heavens opened and we had to resort to a studio session instead. The session actually turned out very well and we were able to give the couple some great coaching tips about posture and posing which will greatly benefit their big day shoot.
This is the SlideShow of the shoot.
*brendan*
Julie and James are a couple from London who booked me a good while back, who’s wedding I have coming up later this year in Adare Manor.
As you can see from the pictures below they were great fun to spend time with and we had a blast shooting in the sunshine in Listowel the day we visited.I am really looking forward to their wedding day as what they have described to me sounds like it will make very interesting photographs indeed, and as they come from the hotel industry themselves, I am sure there will be no holes bared when it comes down to the finer details.Here is the SlideShow of the E-Session itself.
*brendan*
Was out around my own town of Listowel last week shooting a E-Session with Chicago based couple, Candace and Jimmy, who’s wedding I have comming up in a few months.
It was great getting to know them, first off in the Studio, and then later when we went ‘walkabout’ around the town to do some shots of them.
Really looking forward to capturing Candace’s beautiful smile again next time in her wedding gown.
So roll on the summer .
*brendan*
Comments from Stateside welcome !
To my regular readers of my blog please accept my apologies for the lack of post in the past few months.It have been VERY VERY busy here at LandyPhoto and continue to be, but I felt that I had to take time out and get the blog up dated.I am going to back date a lot of the work I have been up to so be sure and use the slider on the right to see any of the new posts.If you want to be informed of any update to our blog , please be sure to subscribe to our RRS FEEDS.A new years resolution will be to update the blog at least once a week…I promise.*brendan*
The final competition of teh year for the SWPP is November and again I was trilled to continue my very succesfull year since entering March, with another 2 winners.
This brings a total of 21 I think for the 9 months I entered, which now go forward to the Annual International awards in January which is held in London.
It would be nice to pick up a top prize, but as I have always said I only enetred the competition to get a guide line on my yearly perfomance in comparrison to other well established photographers around the World.
But I really only know that my images really shine when my clients eyes gleem with satisfaction when they see what i have created for them….they are the true prizes I want to earn.
*brendan*
Picked up 2 awards again in the October section of the SWPP photographic competition. Its been a great year I had no expectation when entering the montly competitions, I was just trying to get a guideline of my work in comparrison to other leading International Photographers, but the response has surpassed my expectations totaly.
*brendan*
Its amazing how time slips us by, I remember Brita as a not to distant neighbour of mine, playing on the streets of Listowel as a kid and now here she is on her wedding day marrying a realy nice guy Colm O Connor from Ballydonoghue.
We had a great time shooting the wedding and as always the humour of the day mad the shoot even more fun, with a lot of banter on both sides.
Autum /Winter wedding can be very special photographicaly because at time we get some great light when teh sun peeks out from behind the clouds. Be sure and say hi on teh comment box below as i am sure teh coule will be checking in to see the what’s said.
*brendan*
Spent 5 day in the magnificant Eastern European city with my mate David.
In recent years I have been lucky to get a lot more traveling in and Prague had been a city that I had been meaning to vivit for ages, well a oppotunity came up and i jumped at spending some time there. Prague is everthing and more, it has charm, history great people, and most espicaly it is a city that has many stories to tell.
You only have to walk around see why Mozart was drawn to this place. We jumped in the deep and and did the touristy thing, the Cathedral there in one of the finest in the world, and in my opinon far excedes Notre Dame. While in a city like this it would be foolish to miss out on teh culture it has to offer, in a way it reminded me a little of Krakow, I love the agged buildings that held years of sutt from times gone by, the Trams, had the old feel to them just like Cracow, and from someone coming from Ireland , the value was exceptional also.
Hopefully it wont take me so long to return, and maybe next time I will venture out to see more of teh Czech Republic.
*brendan*
While I was in Prague at the ‘Once’ premier I also had teh oppotunity to do a Model Shoot with two beautiful Ukranian girls Anna ( with the Hat) and Oksana ( Black Hair), our time was limited as the sun was setting on this magnificant city, so we worked quickly despite the very cold conditions.
Below is a sample of some of the shoot
Of course you can also see the Slideshow here which includes more images.
The main purpose me and my mate David of going to Prague was as guests of Glen Hansard who was very kind enough to put us on the guest list, and in exchange I agreed to do some shot for himself and Marketa.
The concert was part of the Premier of the low budget film ‘once’ which was filimed in Ireland in a fe short weeks with a purse of only one hundred thousand euro, by Hollywood standards, this would not even cover the cost of the Coffee for the crew.
Having seen Glen in action many times before, theer was never going to be a doubt that this was going to be a special Gig, and it so lived up to be what real live music is about.
It was great hanging out with you both for the 2 evenings after and I hope that Japan went well.
looking forward to seeing you soon.
*brendan*
