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Toby, Lesley and Arabella

Lesley, Toby and Arabella came to the studio a few weeks ago now. There are some adorable pictures of Arabella in the slideshow, a very smiley baby so Shane tells me! You guys can finally remind yourselves of what pictures you have to look forward to...sorry for the delay!

Laura

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Colleen and Ryan

Ryan couldn't make it to the viewing so this'll be the first time he sees the pictures that mum, Colleen, chose. And what a great selection! Some really interesting shots I think, both individually and together, and a great choice of wall portrait (the close up together above), something with a real wow factor we all decided in the viewing. Hope you like them Ryan!

Laura

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Ophelia, Scott, Charlotte and Sophie

Ophelia is a past customer and it was so much fun when her, Scott and the girls, came into the studio once again. Ophelia is one of those dedicated mums who, as well as doing all the 'normal' mum stuff, seem to do everything else, and that includes the school PTA. When asked we always like to help charity functions that people are trying to organise, this year was no exception, and once again we were able to give Ophelia two of our gift experience vouchers. One Family, and one of our Pour Femme makeover vouchers, each valued at over £300.00. Ophelia was the lucky bidder, and so here is the slide show from the studio session.

Shane 

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Lesley and her boys.

As you'll see in the slideshow it was pretty tough getting this little chap to smile! I really love the wall portrait these guys chose, another more unusual shot, which I'm definately looking forward to working on. It's great to keep ideas fresh in the studio, but it's also really important to keep your mind fresh when working on finishing the pictures, so I always love it when I get to try something new.

Shane

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Joan and Family

Joan and her family came in for a shoot not long ago. As you can see, I was able to create some unique images for them. Unfortunately, David couldn't make the viewing so this'll be his first look, hope you enjoy...

Shane

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Kathryn

Katherine had a brilliant session and we've been waiting to get this slideshow online for a while now. We think the pictures look brilliant, and Katherine's shoot was a while ago now so hopefully this will remind her of what a great set of images she's got to look forward to...

Laura

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Gemma

This name rang a bell, but at the time I thought nothing more of it, until Pauline, Gemma's mum, rang to book the session with us. Its always great to photograph people you know, and this was no exception. Gemma has turned out to be a beautiful young women and was fun to have in the studio. The images look great, even though I had to bully her into not wearing the leggings with the shirt, but they turned out perfect. Oh yes,  and it seems someone forgot to post this slide show - yep thats me. I was looking last night and could not see it. I went back to Christmas and wondered what I had done with it and then figured out that I had not uploaded it, sorry Gemma so here it is enjoy.

Shane

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Increasingly we're finding our Gift Experience Vouchers are becoming more and more popular, particularly for birthdays, anniversaries and, at the moment of course, Christmas. Sam was given one of our  fashion photo shoot sessions for her birthday and had a really great shoot. I was at school with Sam's dad Chris, and it only seems yesterday that we were at St Birinus.

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Mark, Jenny and Alfie

What fun this session was and Alfie was good as gold. Poor Jenny could not believe it when Mark mentioned that he owned a bike shop... that was it we were off. I used to race and when we got onto bikes that was it the usual boy thing.

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The Minor Majors

The last time I had a shoot with my brother Sam and two sisters Katia and Beth was in 2000...and we did look slightly different, so we were definately due an update. I have to say, with no pressure from my boss or promise of a pay rise, we were all blown away by the pictures... and yer my hair became that blonde with age.

Laura

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WHO ARE THESE HOTTIES!!!!???

Studio teasers.

Yep let loose with the blog and just wondering how many mistakes I can make and how long before they are redone. These are a few image teasers of upcoming slide shows.

Margaret and the gang.

Here's an apology to Margaret and the family from me this time...(I think Shane might be getting tired of always taking the blame.) Things are definately starting to heat up this end in the run up to Christmas, so it totally slipped my mind to put your slideshow online. Anyway, here at last it is... I hope you enjoy it! 

Laura

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Still amazing Master Photographer of the year

While looking at the web recently I came across this and it made me smile. I was, and still am, so proud to have been named Master Photographer of the year.  I would love to say it was all down to my pure brilliance, but in reality so much is due to fantastic friends and great photographers sharing their skill, time and passion with me. I will never forget what help and support that they have and still give me. Each time I win an award I think of all those people, and in my heart share it with them.

Thank you.

Katherine

Katherine brought a really individual selection of clothes with her to the shoot and some pretty amazing heels, so it was great fun for me to photograph. Sorry it's taken so long to put up the slideshow Katherine but here it finally is!

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Gold

Here's my latest Gold winning image. I haven't entered any pictures for a couple of months as we've been really busy shooting makeovers in the studio. But I'm going to try and enter some more before Christmas.

Caroline

Everyone who knows me tends to know how absolutely hilarious I am, yer it's true....and I'm sure Caroline would agree :-) We laughed all the way through the session (as Laura my assistant noted!)and that makes my job so easy. Enjoy!



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Emma and her family

Emma has been to us before for one of our Pour Femme sessions, so it was great to see her again, this time with all the family. Although this was a present for her mum, I think everyone enjoyed the session, me included!

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Laura

Laura has a slightly different slide show to the one she saw in the viewing, purely because my assistant - who left it up to me to make the show in this instance - thought my attempt was errrr shall we say...'substandard'. Anyway, we both know who the boss is...so I let her re do it. Hope you still enjoy it Laura!

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Kim

Kim's boyfriend is an avid football fan, so the Liverpool shirt was a must...whether Kim liked it or not! These shots always work really well, whether its a sports top or a shirt and tie, something that belongs to a partner always goes down a treat...there's a tip for those to come!


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Frankie

Frankie and her mum came to the studio a while ago for seperate sessions. Frankie was good as gold, Caroline however... :-) her slideshow will be up soon

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Kerry

This Pour Femme shoot was given as a present for Kerry's 18th birthday. We've had both brothers into the studio for photoshoots as 18th Birthday presents and Kerry was the last in the trilogy. I know she's looked forward to having a shoot since the last time she came... here they finally are...
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Carla

Sorry its taken so long Carla! But here at last is your slideshow...

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Deni

My mates say I've got the best job in the world and Deni proved that. We had such a laugh in the studio and she was just great fun to photograph. Enjoy!

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Yve

Yve had a really great Pour Femme shoot with us, and I know she's looking forward to getting her finished pictures. In the meantime enjoy the slideshow!

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Emma

Deni bought her two daughters Emma and Natasha to the studio, all three had great shoots and as you can see I had to work particularly hard...

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Nikki and Family

Nikki and her family came for a session as a present for mum Mary...as you can see from the slideshow the kids were angelic...it was the 'adults' that were a handful!

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Gillian

I think it's only fair to say that Gillian was one of our more reluctant customers...and believe me we do get a few! But, as you'll see in the slideshow, the session proved to be totally fantastic.

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New slideshows

Here's a new style slideshow we've been working on...

Harriet and Alex

I have had the pleasure of photographing these guys a few times now and each time I find that I have great images from the session. This was one of our environmental portrait sessions. These take a lot organising, as we have to put book 3 days in advance because of the English weather. This was the last of the 3 possible days and a corker of a morning. I love doing these Portrait sessions and cant wait to do more. I really would love to do this type of session on the beach but I have yet to find someone willing to lend me a house on the beach and then I could invite a different family down each day for sessions how cool.


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Rachel's Pour Femme Photo Session

As promised I have made Rachel's slideshow at last.

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Harriot & Alex

I have had the pleasure of photographing these 2 guys a few times now and have always loved the images and am very sorry to see them leave the studio. This time it was just the same and once again I can see me having to make a sample for the studio without fail. Another unusual set of images as it was shot outside. We do this several times a year but weather is always a factor, but as you can see it was perfect.

Shane

Full/Part Time Receptionist

Well not for the feint hearted but whos up for the challenge of working for me. So whos going to bite the bullit and take up the challenge. Please apply by e-mail.
info@shanemillerphotography.co.uk

cheers

Shane

Facebook, Myspace, bebo

Well it is just a thought but Facebook seems to becoming the big social network for all the people I know, what about you? Twitter for me seems way to much work and I dont think I have that much of interest for people to read, you never know but its not high on my list at present. What I am looking at is images and if people really want them for there social pages?
I am more than willing to provide them but what should I expect in return, its a hard one and if anyone wants images from recent sesions they only have to call me and I will arrange to create them for use at no charge.

Shane

Emma

As promised the complete slide show of Emma’s 'Pour Femme' session. I did say it was great fun and I was not kidding. Such a beautiful girl and I can see were she gets her looks from as her mum was very attractive. Oops am I allowed to say that, well I will wait for the complaints and then remove that sentence. Some new tweaks with some of the images and the use of borders again. I love this style of finish on the images and the borders, what do you think, is it something that you would like to see on your images or not?

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Emma and another PC

This PC has decided to crash every time I try and create a slide show for the web. Ya its been one hell of a couple of weeks believe me, both work and personally, a couple of weeks I don’t want to repeat, Talk about being kicked in the B...s or what. But here is an image of the lovely Emma and she was just fantastic fun to photograph and just thinking about the session puts a smile back on my face. I will make the web slide show and post it as soon as I have kicked this machine in to submission.

Shane

Soul Alldayer

http://soulpower08.mypodcast.com/

Just the best music you will find anywhere. Give it a try and you will be hooked forever.
Shane

Back at last

As some of you will have read disaster struck when a power failure wrecked one of my PC's. It happened to be the most expensive to date that I have had built and it was stuffed. Well these guys sorted it out http://www.bluegrit.co.uk/ and it is back and working great. A new power unit and as it seems the need for a new hard drive and its good as new and flying.

Thank guys

Shane

Wroclaw

Yes more images and this is after the very short amount of time we had to spend shooting tourist/memory type images. The only time we did have planned to do this it p....d down as I said before.

The last image is of the Church/Cathedral that was used for the wedding, and believe me the image does not do it justice to the sheer size and the power of the building.

Shane

Power cut OUCH

Yes it happened Saturday morning early sometime, and now I have a very sick PC. I came in and thought that it was quiet and that was because none of the computers were running, even with battery back ups they were all dead. No problem this has happened before just reboot and away we go. Well normally that is the case but not today as it just says no O/S

NTDRL press CTRL-ALT-DELETE to restart well after 20 attempts guess what nothing.

I need help now to find it.

Shane

Wroclaw Poland

After a very hectic week I have at last a little more time to reflect on what it really was like to visit Wroclaw in Poland. My opinions remain the same if not stronger, I have been asked so many times what it was like and found myself saying how great it was and that everyone should visit wroclaw before its ruined totally by tourism. I will be going back and the sooner the better. I would love to do a fashion shoot there and believe me the choice of beautiful women in wroclaw would make it hard to choose there were so many and very well dressed with great style. I would not take a model with me but get local women from there to pose for me hopefully. Can’t wait and only have to find the right contact? I will post more and more images over the next few days to give you all a little look how beautiful the city is.

Shane

Wroclaw, Poland

What a beautiful city and a great few days. After a very early start on thursday morning, and eventually finding a way to transport all the photography gear within the weight limit on the plane (batteries and showergel were sacrificed), we arrived in Wroclaw. By and large the weather was gorgeous, except, of course, for the only day we had to ourselves on which it was p***ing down! It wasn't all fun and games though, no no, we had a wedding to photograph and some serious chilled vodka to sample. It seems the polish bride and her family certainly knew how to throw a party...lets just say we didn't get in untill 5am, and didn't get up untill...well, after the vodka, it's probably more accurate to say we just didn't get up!

Spend Spend Spend!

Here's how our image has been used on The Watermill Theatre's official Spend Spend Spend! poster.

Fashion Shoot

Here's one of the images we haven't yet blogged from our fashion shoot.

Mo Sollis

Here's two more from Mo Sollis's collection. It was a really successful arts week for her - so congratulations Mo!

Sue

Here's Sue's slideshow. A great session and some beautiful pictures...

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Charlotte

Here's Charlotte's slideshow. This was a birthday present for Charlotte, she wanted a real model experience and that's what she got! I don't think I've ever seen so many pairs of sunglasses...


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For 2

To celebrate the launch of our For 2 (Les Deux) shoots we are offering five couples a bespoke fashion photography session normally worth £250 absolutely free. For 2 is a truly unique experience. Unlike anything on offer on the market at present, our For 2 shoots are designed specifically to suit you, capturing the best of both of you together outside of the tired old 'wedding' setting. This shoot is done both on location and in the studio to achieve a whole range of images; from soft and sensual, to edgy and sexy, this is perfect for those of you who want some truly original and beautiful images. For more information, or to apply for this offer, phone the studio on 01491 671864, alternatively you can email us on info@shanemillerphotography.co.uk.

This is art, not just photos.

Sue Nadine

Yes, I’m away today so this is another preview of a slide shows to come in the next week. I get back tomorrow and then Thursday I’m off to Poland. I cannot wait, the city is called Wroclaw, how that’s pronounced is anyone’s guess, but it looks fantastic and the wedding is in the Cathedral in the city so should be really cool.

Shane

Charlotte.

Up coming slide show - just a sneaky peak at one of the images.

The Sculptress

From time to time we do get to carry out some very unique photography as this is just one of those. Mo Sollis who came to us for a family session mentioned that she was a sculptress/Sculptor [before anyone kills me] and I was intrigued by her work and really impressed. So this year just before Artweek Mo asked if we could photograph some of the collection before it was all sold. Here are 2 of my favourite pieces from the collection with some others to follow in the coming days. Last night was the Preview evening which we attended and I think the work is now on show for a week or so, if you fancy Im sure Mo would be only to happy to see you.

Contact details.

Mo Sollis 01865 390009.

Shane