Kids Corner

For some reason the kids at Niamh and Ben's wedding were...well....way above average !

Niamh and Ben - early graphic design

A day with Niamh and Ben

Spent Friday last working with Niamh and Ben on their wedding which finished at Maryborough House in Cork. Very early days on this project but already some great results are starting to build.

Talk to you soon guys and looking forward to sitting down for preview in two weeks time.

Grand Camp Maisy - April

Two for the road - Emer and Robert

Fast , fast, fast lenses

Always grab that jaw dropping shot. Here's one such from some time ago that illustrates this point...exactly.

Male Perspectives

Too often the male perspective runs in second place at weddings. To address this imbalance here is Robert and his bunch of merry men from last week. Hope Liverpool can do as well against Stoke today (sorry Robert I have blue blood as a Chelsea man !)

Le Pere et Le Fils

Self portrait of....well the self and my beautiful son Jonathan photographed on board a solar electric boat in La Rohelle.

Early Album Design Emer and Robert

Three early proposed page designs from the album. Thank God for being able to push the highlight details in RAW format files - really comes in handy when you need to pull details out of a flat sky.

Marie - Early Work

As promised ...the very first graphic design from Marie's day. As we progress further with the design more sheets will appear in this place.

La Rochelle

Had the pleasure visiting this stunning French city with my son Jonathan. What can I say but totally blown away with the beauty of the place and the warmth of its denizens. Here are my son and the two towers La Chaine et La Tour Saint Nicholas. We will return...

Almost - les Serfs Volants - kite surfing at Sableceaux on Ile de Re. I like the idea of a hint of something going on before you actually see it. I think that this image captures this effect.

More from Aoife and Morgan

Two page drops from the proposed graphic design of the digital art album. Hope you had a ball on honeymoon.

Small Cameras ... Big Images

I occasionally like to travel with just a compact digital camera. You know....just the type that fits in your pocket .....no fancy Canon Series 1 married to an L Type lens.....just cheap and cheerful.

Here are some images I did with my son's camera in Easter 2009 capturing West Clare atmosphere.

New Postings

Coming very soon !

So far....

My favourite sheet design from Aoife and Morgan's day.

Beavering away at graphic design

Edit almost wrapped up on Aoife and Morgan's photography. Some very early graphic design now starting to emerge. Guys have a nice one and we will see you really soon.

The Irish Times Perspective

Over the years I have been a big fan of Matt Kavanagh and Luke Betson both Irish Times photographic staff. One ruse they often resorted to to shake up perspective was that of photographing the subject from behind. Hey presto they always stole an edge with this freshness. Anyway in homage to the lads....here is my take at Aoife and Morgan's day.

Aoife and Morgan

Some very early images from Aoife and Morgan's big day out ! Guys have great safe trip and we will see you really soon for preview.

Into the night with Orla and Niall

Nothing like capturing a sequence of movement on a graphically designed panel like this.

Sinead a year on

And what a totally stunning bride you were ! Forgotten the layout of your digital art book until I went back over it today. Hope you and Brian are good and plus one !

While hanging around

Got this sequence at Orla's wedding. The happy couple were waiting to be called to the dining room and this captures some quiet moments. OK well I was playing a bit of hide and seek but candid images like this really steal the show.

Anyway still chugging away on the graphic design, in fact this is the first proposed sheet.

Orla and Niall and Ballykisteen !

Hi guys ! By now I hope you got to the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian chain safe and sound. I am only just turning into your edit now but it should gather pace over the next week or so.

I want to thank Catherine Griffin of Ballykisteen Hotel and Golf again - always such a pleasure coming to your hotel.

Tune in again over the next few days and we will get more up.

Regards,

Peter

Limerick Bicycle Sunday

Thank you so much to Joe Coughlan of Limerick Corporation for asking me to cover this event. Great weather brought a sea of colour ...and a sea of bicycle enthusiasts. All this celebration of bicycles was not lost on me as I am a long standing bicycle convert.

Managed to get literally hundreds of great photographs but here are just two quick montages. Really looking forward to doing audio visual on this image set...I have a certain bicycle song by the lovely Katie Melua in mind for the soundtrack !

Una and Iain

Spent a very wet but very productive day with Una and Iain in Stunning Glandore, Co. Cork. A massive thank you to Michelle at The Rectory. What can I say but the place really blew me away. In the fifteen years or so doing this job The Rectory has to be one of the finest venues ever.

Very early days on this edit / graphic design, but despite torrential rain there was a really beautiful quality to the natural light which is making for some great portraiture. Once we get rolling on graphic design we will put the merchandise on display !

Red is the colour

As a Chelsea FC fanatic I may be blue to the core but I have to admit that I love the reds in this page layout. Using firstly DPP raw processing then Adobe Lightroom we can really amplify selective colours and get things pretty radiant.

Now finished your work guys see you at the preview session very soon.

Reportage and Natural Light

Its always a buzz capturing pure reportage moments of the day. Here we have a little boy on his nanny's lap doing something....well. Anyway if his mammy and daddy want this sheet altered during the preview session we will be happy to go with their wishes. But me....well I think he steals the show.

The other sheet is from the same wedding. Just a glorious lighting condition indoors and it really shows on the subjects I believe.

Thursday updates

Getting there slowly but surely - basic editing done and now attention turns towards graphic design and audio visual elements of the package.

Work In Progress

Still plugging away on the edit and graphic design of Friday's wedding. Here are two images that I quite like. The performance of the L type Canon lens is absolutely stunning...each and every time.

Teresa and Ray

Between the odd rain drop a great day was had last Friday with Teresa and Ray. Our day started really early and generated some great reportage moments thanks to staff at Velvet Hair Studio.

Later on, and hardly half a kilometer away we brought the entire bridal paty to Funderland.. The great thing about going to a place like this are the really vibrant day glow colours and the carnival atmosphere. Lets face it....not every wedding has an amusement park on its doorstep.

See you soon guys to preview your entire graphic design and to collect your media.

Castletroy Park Hotel

Big thanks to all the crew at Castletroy Park Hotel who make things really easy any time I am working there. Cheers guys !

Spot toning.....

Has been around for donkey's years and is easy peasy when you know how ! Just outside the door of the quadrant in Adare you can make out just about the coolest Bentley Turbo I have ever seen.

Just because....

I love the verdant green of hostas and the the way rain forms in silver pearls.