Hey everyone!

First off, Happy New Year to you all – I hope everyone had a good one and celebrated it in good style!

I thought I’d use this first post of the year to summarise 2011 a bit and hopefully where 2012 can/will lead me to

2011…in short, was a fantastic year for me, personally, and from a business perspective.

Personally because:

• I had a massive health kick and lost 5 stone, coupled along with taking up good/regular exercise.
• I had laser eye surgery, giving me better than 20/20 vision
• My career outside of photography got taken to new heights
• I moved and now have my own place

That’s all I can think of off hand, either way…it’s been an extremely hectic year in a lot of ways, mostly good!

From a business perspective:

• My portfolio expanded considerably.
• I, personally, feel my photography abilities have reached new levels.
• I did my first wedding abroad, Italy to be precise!
• Took more bookings for 2012, 2013 and one for 2014! (nothing like planning ahead hehe)

Lots has been going on, obviously I cannot mention everything as I’ll be here all night (and you will most likely get bored) but either way the year has absolutely flown by with everything happening. Hopefully 2012 will prove to be just as fruitful!

And, I can actually say that 2012 has started off well! In October last year I was contacted by Pure Weddings magazine to be featured in their next issue, released this week…and here it is…

I’m beyond chuffed with the result! and thoroughly enjoyed the experience overall!

Not much else to add for now…I’ve got a lot of gallery updates coming within the next couple of weeks…and I do have an image to leave you with…one of my favourites from last year.

I’ll post again before January is out, take care all!

Jake

Hey guys!

Saturday’s wedding was brilliant, in short.

As predicted, overall Mark and I had a really great time that day. The couple were fantastic to work with, the venue was pretty special as well, just overall everything fell into place exactly how you would want it to.

I haven’t got anything to show you…yet, give me a week or so and I’ll have some photos for you.

In other news, and I’m quite excited about this…I’m being published in the Essex January edition of Pure Weddings! I couldn’t believe it when it all started to happen and fall into place! So keep your eyes pealed…you’ll see me, a bio about yours truly and JE-Design Photography, also readers Q&A along with a full page with one of my images from the Italien wedding

So yeah that was a bit of a shock to the system! Couldn’t believe it!

Overall just winding things down now, no more Weddings until 2012, so it’s time to regroup, look back over the year, and prepare for next year where the bookings are starting to come in

I will do a summary blog post just before christmas with some of my favourite shots throughout the year (most likely also including one from Saturday which is probably my shot of the year)

Stay tuned, keep safe.

Jake

Hello!

I tell you what is becoming a common trait with these blog posts…it’s me making excuses and apologising for not doing a blog post in ages!

So…err, well yeah, sorry for that! I am trying to post more! but y’know…I’ve been busy! Loads going on as always, but I’m positing now!

Ok, so whats new? Well – weddings are basically done for the year bar this Saturday with Mark, which should prove entertaining as always! Then straight away on the Sunday I’ve got a boudoir shoot which I haven’t done for a while. I was supposed to go to Richmond Park this Sunday just gone but stuff got in the way unfortunately, so that’ll be Richmond done for the year, gonna hit it lots next year though!

Also, I did an Equine Charity shoot a couple of weeks ago (for those reading those photos will be ready soon)

I’ve also been trying to use twitter more recently, and it’s getting there, it’s such a powerful tool…I need to learn how to use it more, if you’d like to follow however, heres the link! https://twitter.com/#!/jedesignphoto

Oh, one thing I have got to look forward to…I’m going to see my friends in Manchester in a couple of weeks and I’ll make a point of doing a shoot whilst I’m there…be it a location shoot or studio one…I’ll make sure I produce something

I haven’t got any photos to add to this post unfortunately, I’ll post some equine stuff when it’s done this week…until then please subscribe (top right hand corner) and until then happy snapping!

Take care,
Jake

The following:

“Fantastic wedding pictures!

Jake’s subtle style of photography meant he got some great natural poses of us and all our guests, he captured the love and fun of the day without interfering or missing any moments.  Some lovely posed shots as well that didn’t keep us away from the guests and the fun for too long.

We couldn’t be any happier with the results, WHATEVER WE PAID…. IT WASN’T ENOUGH!

Many thanks
James and Eli”

Time to add to the testimonials me thinks

Jake