Event Photography in Coventry, the Midlands and Warwickshire

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Macmillan Pride of Coventry & Warwickshire – Awards Evening

– Tuesday 2nd November 2010

I was honoured to be given another fantastic opportunity to photograph an event on behalf of  Macmillan Cancer support earlier this week.

Tuesday 3rd November saw the 2010 Awards ceremony hosted at the beautiful Mallory Court Country House Hotel near to Leamington Spa.

The award’s evening was held to recognise the fantastic (and, at times, somewhat mad) achievements of a number of inspirational individuals and organisations who have helped to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Please click on the following link to view the short video below which shows the events of the evening.

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Well done and congratulations to Sharon Battersby, Sarah Darby, & Karen Shortt  for the organisation of such a fantastic evening for an amazing cause.

This is not the first event that I’ve attended on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support this year and it is a charity that I will continue to support (often in conjunction with Stuart Kettell of Kettell Video Productions) who is a prolific fund raiser (award-winner on the night) for Macmillan and a great friend and colleague. Well done Stuart and all of the other award-winners on the night!

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Macmillan Coffee Morning in Ikea, Coventry – Great day, £220 raised!

It’s 10:30 pm and we’ve just got home and unpacked the car after doing our bit for the fantastic Macmillan Coffee morning. We were doing a children/family photoshoot in Ikea, Coventry city centre and were there for 11 hours.

We had a great time and we believe that the children and their parents did too.

We set up our backdrop and studio lights, brought out the bubbles, soft toys, jingly-jangly jester, coloured balls etc. We then took a series of photos for each ‘customer’ and shot tethered to our Mac and Instant photo printer. We were offering one 8×6 print for £5 and 3 prints for £12. Nearly everyone opted for the £12 offer.

How much money did we raise?

We took loads of photos and met some lovely people. We gave our time free of charge and after removing the cost of the media (the cost of the photo paper and dye sub film for our printer) we made a profit of £220 from the print sales and we will be donating this directly to Macmillan Cancer Support ….. a really pleasing result considering we sold prints at an average of around only £4 each!

We were on the radio – Fame at last!
Thanks to Brody Swain who presents the breakfast show on Coventry’s Touch FM local radio station (96.2 FM). He came along to support, spent a good hour with us, had a couple of photos taken and interviewed me and Sarah Harrison of Macmillan for broadcasting on air. He also helped to promote our Macmillan Photoshoot on the radio and via Twitter.

Here’s a slightly doctored snap shot of Brody, Sarah Harrison from Macmillan (on the right as you see it) and myself …

We also believe that we got a mention by John Dalziel on Mercia FM – Thanks John, much appreciated!

Bonus Prize Draw – £300 Family Photo Shoot
We decided to spice things up a little and got everyone who had photos done to enter their names into a prize draw to win a fantastic half day family Autumn photo shoot with Vicky worth, wait for it ….. nearly £300!!

We did the draw tonight and the lucky winner is …….. Mrs Dawson of Coventry!

A Massive Thanks to everyone who took part, Congratulations Mrs Dawson and we’ll be contacting you tomorrow!

Night all!

Vicky x

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Children’s Face Painting – Earlsdon St, Coventry, 10th July

Earlsdon Kids enjoy face painting

We had a great time at Phoenix in Earlsdon Street in Coventry and our face painter was great! I took loads of photos on the day and I thought I’d show you just a few! We’ll definitely be doing more next year and I’d highly recommend Verity from ‘Sweethearts’ Face Painting in Coventry.

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Saturday 10th July – Busy Day – Late Night Update

Sat 10th July 11:30pm

Just got home and have been taking photographs all day today since 9am!

Face Painting and Photographs in Earlsdon

Photos to follow once processed

I had a lovely time in our family-owned shop today (Phoenix Office and Printer Supplies in Earlsdon, Coventry). I set up one of my small portable studios with 4 lights and white backdrop. We organised a Children’s face painter (Verity from sweethearts in Coventry, who was very good!). I took photos of the Children afterwards and gave them a 6″x8″ print to take away with them.

Note to parents of children who had their faces painted today – If we agreed a password during the photo session I do intend to post extra images of your child on my main website in the next week or so. I’ve got other work to do first but I will be putting your children’s images on my main website within the next week in the Children’s Portraits Gallery.

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Wedding Anniversary Celebrations for Mary and Mark Owen in Earlsdon

This evening I was booked to do a few family photos at a 25th wedding anniversary celebration in Earlsdon. We had a great time and, to my surprise, the people kept on coming! I really enjoyed myself, including meeting some past and present customers of our printer shop in Earlsdon. However, I was caught out by the shear numbers of photos I needed to do and so it will take me a good few days to prepare the images for viewing on a dedicated gallery on my main website 🙂

I’ll let Mary Owen know each time I add more images so she can inform her guests. I’ll do my best to get them up on the gallery asap.

Meanwhile, if you’ve got any problems or want an update please call me on 07739096632.

Vicky

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Looking Forward to Saturday – Face Painting and Photos for Coventry Kids

I’m really looking forward to Saturday 10th July. I’m going to be working in my family-owned shop in Earlsdon in Coventry. The Earlsdon Street Traders Association is putting on some special events for shoppers as part of it’s summer ‘Earlsdon-On-Sea’ event and Phoenix shop is having a children’s face painter ……. and I’m doing some instant photos to go with it.

On the day I’ll be doing before and after shots of children (without and with faces painted) and using my event printer I’ll be printing off an 8″x6″ photo straight away for the children to take home. My aim will be to take several photos of each child.

I’ll also be putting on a small display of my canvas prints and my wedding albums …. And …. I’ll have some special offers available for anyone who successfully recommends me to do photography for future wedding couples …. And…… I’ll have a special offer available for family photo shoots at home.

Pop along on Saturday if you are near to Earlsdon in Coventry. You’ll be very welcome and if you’ve got kids they can get their face painted!

I’ll be based at Phoenix Office and Printer Supplies, 43 Earlsdon Street, Coventry, CV5 6EP all day from 9am to 4pm.

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Leroy’s 30th Birthday Bash in Coventry

I was asked to do a photo shoot at Leroy’s 30th birthday celebration in Coventry a week or two back. I processed the images a while ago but it’s only now that I’ve got round to adding a few images to this blog.

I’ll let the images do the talking. They were a great bunch of guys and were a lot of fun… and I’m really pleased that they had a nice time. It’s nice to have lots of individual photos but sometimes its fun to create a montage so I thought I’d do one here…….

Montage of Photos from Leroy's 30th

I tend to promote myself as a wedding and family/children’s portrait photographer but I’m equally happy to do corporate events and special occasions such as birthday parties. In fact, in the next few weeks I’m doing some anniversary parties and prom nights as well as some product shots for web sites.

If you know of anybody who might need a photographer for any of these things please let me know.

Vicky