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You CAN… Love Your Image…

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How many of you think you’re not photogenic or dislike being photographed?

Having heard this many times from people, over the past few years, I’ve put this question to several individuals and groups of ladies and amazed, not because people responded, but how many did so…

Let me help you feel differently.

Would you join me and enjoy a complimentary tea or coffee, as I give an informative talk on this subject and open up the possibility for change, that you CAN love your image. 

FEAR NOT, no photography will be taking place at this talk… however there will be workshops set up at The Self Centre, for those who wish to explore further – more about these soon.

I really want to share this information so IT’S FREE TO ATTEND:

Thursday 30th Jan 2014 – 1.30 – 2.30pm

at The Self Centre, Drinkstone Investment Park, Kempson Way, Bury St Edmunds, IP32 7AR

Telephone: 01284 769090 –  www.the-self-centre.co.uk

Email:  admin@the-self-centre.co.uk

TO BOOK YOUR SEAT, PLEASE CONTACT:

The Self Centre, or, contact me via my website, or, at – pennyjm@gmail.com – we just need your name, telephone and email address.

See you there!

You Can, Love Your Image

Summer family photo shoot…

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While I don’t blog about all the different shoots I do, had to share a few of the photographs from a recent family group.

Happy to say, a returning client (3rd visit) and this time I got to meet and photograph the grandchildren. Three wonderful little characters and their mum out in the garden on a scorching hot day. The lovely walled garden and angle of the sun (all pre considered) provided a great backdrop and shaded area down one side… however I was over on the sunny side with my camera, slowly melting…

Not a pretty site when trying to stay professional and friendly and your hair is sticking to your forehead! However they understood and appreciated what I needed to do to get the best out of a 6, 5 and 2 year old and kept me plied with necessary fluids and the offer of food to keep me going!

After lots of games later, including mum and grandparents, the children were allowed to play in their paddling pool and I turned my attention and lens to mum to do some portrait shots.

I had been shown 3 generations of wonderful black and white portrait shots of the female side of the family and this would add a 4th generation to the collection – it created a beautiful keepsake… great grandmothers picture looked quite like Helena Bonham-Carter 🙂

This is an ideal time of year, when the children are on holiday for this type of shoot and so much opportunity to capture their wonderful personalities.

 

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Suffolk Hunt Pony Club – Peter Pan Hunter Trial and Showjumping…

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Did I mention a busy summer so far…? Wanted to share with you the fun of covering this event for the Suffolk Hunt Pony Club on the 23rd June – now my pony club days are a few decades ago… and was with the Thetford Chase branch, BUT, I still have my rosettes, which are truly treasured.

This branch of the pony club have their base in the grounds of the beautiful Ickworth Park. Having visited the venue and course previously had some idea of where the best shots would be, but as the sun gradually moves round during the day, so the best positions change. Plus I wanted to catch a good variety of fences, rather than sticking with the same ones for most classes.

Light, angle and a good mix of experience all help capture great action photographs, so have shared quite a selection with you and hope they bring that sense of excitement, challenge and fun that you can have if horses are your love.

We had an Olympian in our midst! Caroline Powell took a couple of her horses round the bigger classes.

Have included a link for anyone wishing to know more about the pony club.

The unexpected thing from the many photographs that went online from this event was the amount of traffic I subsequently got to my website. Ok, there were quite a few competitors, but across 5 days, had around 6,000 unique visits!

A big congratulations to Terry, who bravely covered as much of the show jumping as possible, while I was out on the cross country course. Thrown in at the deep end, he did really well.

 

‘It’s a long way down…’

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Concentration… one of the shots Terry captured in the showjumping.

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Another one of Terry’s, this pony knew how to look straight at the camera!

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Love this young ladies determination…

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Further round the cross country course… some very solid logs…

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I did mention enjoyment…

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This pair were very much in harmony…

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Having your tongue out, helps get over the fence…

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Heading for home…

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Some excellent riding…

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Beautifully cleared….

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and then a few steering problems…

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A well deserved winner in the showjumping…

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Eagerly into the water…

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Stretching for home…

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Coming out of the wood…

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Olympian Caroline Powell…

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The pairs are soo much fun…!

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You’ve both got to clear the fences…

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Well cleared…

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Go faster mum…!

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I love the ponies…

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Radio Suffolk – James Hazell’s Saturday morning show…

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So the 9th March, saw me trundling down to Ipswich for a short interview with James Hazell on his Saturday morning show Radio Suffolk. Another first I guess – he has a slot during the show, called ‘A beginners guide to…’ and this week it was ‘How to be a professional photographer’. In hindsight barely scratched the surface on the subject, but did my best to impart a few tips and some worldly information on the topic! Inevitably, after walking out of the studio, you realise some of his questions could have been answered far more informatively… I guess there were a few nerves kicking around…

He’s obviously a keen photographer himself and a really easy guy to chat to 🙂

If you’d like to listen, click on the following link. Have added a few photos, that we captured while in the studio, mostly thanks to my partner Terry, sitting at the back of the studio with his camera!

Penny Morgan on Suffolk Radio

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Radio Suffolk - James Hazell's Beginners Guide to Photography

Suffolk Young Enterprise Business Awards 2012

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So at the beginning of this month I spent a day at the Ipswich University Campus for the Suffolk Young Enterprise Business Awards 2012. There were 8 competing schools all enduring some rigourous judging. Competing were:

Ipswich High School for girls
East Bergholt High School
Woodbridge High School (had two groups taking part)
Kesgrave High School
St Joseph’s College, Ipswich
Thomas Mills High School, Framlingham
Farlingaye High School

Each group had a display stand in the University Foyer and were interviewed separately by a panel of four judges. This was followed by Power Point presentations from each school, about their business in the large auditorium area upstairs. The judges then retired to consult and put together their marks, for the fifteen different awards, with the overall winners for consistency throughout going to Thomas Mills High School.

Throughout the day and evening, I captured the stands, interviews, presentation and finally awards.

The East Anglian Daily Times featured a brilliant double page spread on the competition in Tuesday 22nd May, business suppliment, printing all of the following photographs:

 

STRICTLY SUFFOLK DANCE SHOW

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A little late in posting this, but in March, got to photograph these ladies as they danced their hearts out, raising money for charity as a result of putting on a brilliant show – their costumes were so colourful and dancing just great, they had practised hard – all credit to Alison Cooklin for organising it.These are links to the folders displaying images from all 13 of the groups who took part – and bear in mind most of the ladies are not professionals, but they look it!: