Website Back Online
After a long period of down time, if you are reading this then you can see that my website is now back up and running. I am not quite sure what went wrong in the first place but i contacted my hosting company and they ran a fix on the account and now all is working. I am a little bit annoyed that the website was down for so long for no reason at all and that i had to send an email detailing the problems before it was fixed. In the near future there will be another small period when the website is down, but this time it will be planned as i will be moving hosting company. For anyone interested in hosting a website, please try to avoid using streamline.net as the service is terrible.
Ok, rant over.
Photobox Gallery
Finally the good lads over at Photobox have sorted themselves out and allowed me to create a professional gallery. This means that i can now offer an easy way of buying any of my prints at a great price. Most importantly, Photobox provide a very fast and high quality service. I have only uploaded a few test collections at the moment, but more will be added within the next few days. If you would like to purchase any of my prints that can be found on my Flickr site, that are not yet on the Photobox gallery, please let me know and i will update them asap.
Testimonials
Some people may have noticed a few smal changes to the site. I have updated my avatar picture, updated the bio and a few of the pages have changed. The most major of these changes in the addition of a testimonials page in place of links page. This is for a few reasons, for a start my web designer (petercolesdc) has informed me that links pages are very last season and do not get used very often. I have also noticed that people do not seem to view the links page very often through my google stats. The other reason is that I hate to blow my own trumpet, so i am hopeing I can get a few previous clients to do it for me! Now i have a clear place for anyone I have worked with to post any comments about my work, good or bad. If you have a look, at present it is an empty space (except from me testing it) so please leave any comments you can so I can start to fill this up for future clients to see. Thanks
Stephen Russell
Many people will have noticed, at each of the weddings I take photos at, there is always a second person with me. His name is Stephen Russell and he is a photography graduate from Bath. I have had a link to his website on my links page for a while, but i wanted to give him a little bit more space on my website. Stephen is a great help to me at the weddings and many of the final pictures that are chosen to be displayed in my flickr gallery are his. If you have attended any of the previous weddings where Stephen has been in assistance please check out his website at www.stephenrussellphoto.co.uk. Stephen also provides his own photography services including weddings. Due to the nature of my full time job, i am usually unable to do weddings on week days (unless it is during my holidays), so Stephen should be your first port of call.
I think that is enough of my space he has taken up…
More photos for everyone
I have had loads of fun picking out my favorite photos from the last few weddings and its great for everyone to be able to look through 100’s of photos of such amazing days. Whilst i have been doing this i noticed that i only picked out a very small selection of photos to upload from the other weddings I have shot over the past few years, so I am going to go back to the storage locker and dig out some more to upload. As always i will post here as soon as I have updated the previous galleries.
Broken Gallery
As always, I have been playing around with the website and i have managed to break the gallery page. For the moment I have redirected all of the photo links on my website to my flickr page. Please continue to use my website as normal, as all of the links still work, I will fix the gallery asap and post here when things are back to normal. Sorry again.
Pre-Wedding Shoot.
I have just got home from the rehearsal night for the wedding I am shooting this weekend. What a fantastic place to have a wedding, the photos are going to look fantastic. After seeing the church, it is now not only the bride and groom that are excited about the wedding, but me too. I have added a few photos below as a sneak preview, but you will have to wait until next week for the official photos.
The Summer
Sorry for the long time without posting, I have been manically busy but unfortunately not with photography. School is nearing the end of year and the summer is almost hear. I will be traveling all over the country for the summer, recording in London, seeing friends in Plymouth and most importantly doing a wedding shoot in Bristol. I am really looking forward to it and i am currently buying some new equipment to play around with. For now, i am looking into entering the GWR-Bath photography competition. Its a bit of a standard competition, you have to try and capture summer in the city of Bath, but it will still get my thinking cap on and get me out and about with my camera again.
Once again I want to shout out for anyone that has any music gigs on, I really want to get some experience and start experimenting with new techniques. If you have anything, as always, give me a shout on the contact page.
Fixed
The website is back up and running for your viewing pleasure. Any problems you find please contact me so that they can be fixed. Cheers.
Flickr Problems Update
Finally I am getting closer to sorting this problem out. Should only be a short while until the site is back up and looking beautiful again. For now please continue to use my Flickr page for all of your photo needs. I will update this as soon as the website is fully functional again.
