SELDEX ALBUMS

And finally along with the flush mount & Asuka came this mega Seldex album in a fabulous ice silver shimmer cover! These are the traditional kind of album I offer and as I've said before they're made using prints behind mats and that's as traditional as it gets - no tissue paper between pages, no gold or frosting around the edges, no nasty cover with 'my wedding' text on the front! And they're handmade and shipped all the way from Australia.

Asukabook Coffee Table Book

Along with the flush mount album, a mega Asukabook was delivered also. I love these books, so much so that I always get my holidays published in one (password: wild). This couple has chosen the superb red main cover, which I absolutely adore!

FLUSH MOUNT ALBUM

With the Christmas period approaching fast, my album suppliers international deadlines have come and gone to guarantee delivery before Christmas. So the books are starting to get delivered!! This morning I got delivery of 3 client books, and my own Churchill book (password: wild). This is the gorgeous flush mount album, which I posted about before. This time, the couple has chosen a sultry chocolate brown cover. Every time I get delivery of these albums, I'm blown away by them...they're fab!

FULL ALBUMS ONLINE

I've just updated the Wedding section on my main website to include two examples of full wedding albums. These are actual clients albums like all my sample albums are, that you'll see if you visit for a chat about your wedding. Both albums are flush mount landscape style albums. I'll have a Seldex traditional example online very soon.

ENGAGEMENT SHOOT

Since returning from Churchill, I've been really busy getting album designs finalised before all the suppliers Christmas deadlines. So it was nice to get out and get shooting again this weekend. Karen & Peter are getting married just before Christmas, and it'll be in a superb location, Lough Rynn, so it should be a great day. We done this engagement shoot yesterday in the gorgeous November sunshine at Dunmoran Strand.

CHURCHILL POLAR BEARS 3

I've finally gone through and edited all the images from Churchill. So here's a couple more! Again, having been 'forced' to stay at the lodge for an extra day, we managed to spend halloween there! How mega are these pumpkins that the Churchillwild staff carved! And as I've said already, the extra day was also the best for photography, with blue skies, a gorgeous sunset, and then the next morning had an equally great sunrise (2nd image). The last image in the series is the Seal River Lodge where we stayed.

CHURCHILL POLAR BEARS 2

Within an hour of arriving at the Seal River Lodge, we had seen 3 or 4 bears. And within two hours, we already had experienced close-up polar bear sparring twice, all within 15-20 feet of the front door!! As you can see in the images, the bears are really a yellow colour, and it's not until there's snow on the ground that they turn a more whitish colour. The day we arrived, there was no snow on the ground, and the temperature was 0 C. The next day snowed lightly all day and was enough to put a covering on the ground. The next day got much colder at -7 C and was snowing & raining all day with very strong winds making shooting a nightmare! And then our extra day at the lodge had temperatures of -16 to -20 C with lots of snow overnight and throughout the morning, but then the sun made it's appearance and we had the most amazing sunset while out hiking on the frozen bay which was cracking under out feet!!

CHURCHILL POLAR BEARS 1

Here's a taster of some of the images I've come back with. Again I haven't even started editing and have just posted these five as a sample of some of the single bear action we seen while up in the Seal River Lodge with Churchill Wild. All bar the last image was taken on our extra day in the lodge, thanks to 75 kph winds stopping the turbo prop plane from taking us back! I guess we got really lucky, as this day was also when the sun made it's first appearance, and the temperature dropped to a whopping -16C and with windchill, it made it feel like -25C!!!

PHOTOS & REVIEW SOON!

I haven't even begun to really check out my photos from the trip yet, but I should have some up here later, along with a review too! But here is one image from the one night we briefly seen the northern lights!

IN SEARCH OF THE POLAR BEAR

I'm just back in Sligo after having gone for a week in search of polar bears in northern Canada, and it's probably the longest route I've ever had to take to get somewhere! Sligo-Dublin, Dublin-Heathrow, Heathrow-Toronto, Toronto-Winnipeg, Winnipeg-Churchill, Churchill-Seal River Lodge! I booked this trip last year, but have really only spent the last month looking forward to it due to a really busy spring & summer with weddings. I'm not going to write all about the trip, because you can read it here on the ChurchillWild website.
For any clients or potential clients, I'll get responding again first thing tomorrow!