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Vintage Wedding Album / Queensberry

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:22:57 +0000

The new vintage wedding album that we designed and had made by Queensberry is proving very popular and they do look great. Here is the latest one featuring photography from Charlotte and Tristan’s beautiful Spring wedding at Combe Bank School.
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Vintage Wedding Album by Queensberry

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:05:21 +0000

So what to put all this gorgeous Vintage Wedding Photography in? I was looking for an album that had the Vintage feel but could match the craftmanship of my Queensberry albums. After much research and contacting other album makers, I still hadn’t found ‘The One.’ I was chatting to the very lovely Jo Newman from Queensberry who suggested looking at their Vanilla Bean cover material which is the one that Amy and I both loved from the newest swatch book anyway. It is very soft and tactile but looks weathered so tick for the Vintage cover. Jo then reminded me of the Barcelona album that the mighty Johannes Van Kan had shown at his talk back in September that had completely blown me away. This album is relatively small but chunky and lots of the images are tiny so it has a precious feel to it. Another Vintage tick. So I merrily went about designing a new sample in Photojunction, using images from Nicola and Daniel’s beautiful Sussex country house wedding. I wanted to add their names or the date to the cover but embossing doesn’t work with this material. My great friend Katharine is in the process of setting up a company offering Vintage inspired stationary for weddings so I asked her and her partner Debs to design a label for the Vintage Queensberry. Being the creative types that they are, they have come up with a gorgeous range which can be personalised for each wedding and the ribbon will be sourced to match. I showed it to some sets of clients on Saturday and one of them spent a while subconsciously hugging it, which has never happened before! So here it is, would love to know your thoughts.

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Vintage Wedding Photography / New Queensberry Album

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:02:46 +0000

Click on the link below for a new Queensberry sample album from Nicola & Daniel’s stunning Buxted Park Wedding, let me know what you think. (You need Quicktime)
Its 10 x 7 inches so will have a small and precious feel to it. I also wanted it to have a retro look to accommodate the Vintage Wedding Photography.
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Vintage Wedding Sussex/ new photography service launching soon

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:29:03 +0000

Here is a preview of some images from our Vintage Wedding Photography portfolio which will be going onto the redesigned site soon. Clients will be able to have this option on their images for either a Queensberry album or The PhotoBook. We love the vintage influence in wedding styling and wedding dresses and wanted to reflect this trend in our wedding photography. So the colour images have a slightly faded over-saturated look with creamy skin tones, whereas the black and white photos have a slightly retro warm tone. So if you are planning to have vintage tea sets, vintage candelabras, a revamped vintage dress or jewellery, retro bunting or an English garden party style wedding, then you will love this style of photography.

To help you plan here are some invaluable contacts from our little black book.

To hire vintage bird cages and candelabras, plus gorgeous old fashioned rose covered jugs speak to Dex at Pollen Hire.

For show stopping flowers with a vintage feel contact Donal at Pollen flowers. Even if you are on a tight budget and are planning some DIY floral pieces, they have various useful things for hire.

To hire or commission fabulous bunting for a lovely country wedding, we recommend Beautiful Bunting in Sussex.

For vintage inspired couture bridal gowns, we love Joanne Fleming in Brighton. Her unique dresses remind me of 1930′s Hollywood glamour with a contemporary edge.

Finally, if you love the look but don’t know where to start, wedding stylist Jennifer Oliver has a great sense of design and access to all sorts of lovely vintage wedding items.
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Wedding Photography new products

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:55:10 +0000

We are very busy in the office and very excited about our ten year anniversary. The website is being updated soon by Richard at Brightonweb and we have had some help from Leif at Kendall Copywriting. I now have a rough idea how google works and what meta data is, though don’t test me on it!

Perhaps the most revolutionary change is our switch to digital photography for weddings. Much as I love working on film, our new Canon 5D mkIIs are everything we need in a camera and we have really seen their magic in our last few winter weddings. We can now be even more flexible on what we can offer clients and the products we can offer. Queensberry are still our main albums and the duo pages with photofronts have been most popular but we have always been looking for a more cost effective album that looks robust and stylish. There are a few coffee table book companies around but I have always found the printing or binding to be poor, especially when sat next to a Queensberry album. At last though, we have sourced a great 12 inch square photo book that sits flat, has a hard backed photo cover and the pages are made up of photographic paper. The first wedding sample should be here next week and it will also showcase our other big new service which is Vintage Wedding Photography. For this option, the images are printed with a slight warm tone on the black & white and a retro effect on the colour. The results are gorgeous and worth all the hard work we have been putting in over the winter. Well done Amy on getting this gorgeous shot of Maddie’s shoes in the snow, it is going to feature in the site redesign too www.devlinphotos.co.uk

Claire & Lee’s Queensberry wedding album at Ravenswood

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:09:35 +0000

Once again the Queensberry duo album has proved most popular this year. They are so much fun to design and it has few limitations. We have just finished the first design of Claire and Lee’s album from their wedding at Ravenswood in Sussex early this summer. It is lovely looking at the blue sky and sunshine while the weather outside is miserable.

Click on the link below to see the album.

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Joanne & Mark’s Queensberry Album

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:23:54 +0000

We have just finished working on Joanne & Mark’s Seaside themed Queensberry Duo album. Their wedding at the Pub Du Vin in Brighton was lively and fun which is reflected in the images in the album. The editor at Wedding Magazine has requested a CD of the images so they are thinking of doing a spread in their real weddings section. I think the album is rather funky!

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Hazel & James’s Queensberry Album

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:56:05 +0000

We have just finished designing a gorgeous Queensberry overlay album for Hazel and James who had their wedding at Ashdown Park Hotel in Sussex, earlier this year. The album, like the wedding is very classic and should look stunning. The deadline for getting album plans in for this year is only next week so please get your selection back to us as soon as you can.

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New Queensberry Album

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:49:19 +0000

Yesterday we had a company outing to London to attend a seminar by Johannes Van Kan I am not normally one for getting involved in this kind of thing as the last one I went to started with the speaker asking what kind of car everyone drove. (mostly BMWs) They then went on to explain up-selling techniques to squeeze extra money from clients and upgrade that all important flash car. However I have seen Johannes’s work through Queensberry and love his images and philosophy.

2010 will be my ten year anniversary shooting weddings and I want to revamp the business to reflect how I work now and to stand out from the growing crowd of other photographers around. So I was seeking some inspiration yesterday and was not disappointed. He is an intelligent but kooky photographer who has great passion and energy. He is not afraid to put his heart and soul into his work and clearly packs some magic in his camera bag on a wedding day. I made furtive notes throughout the day, not exactly of what he said, but of the ideas that were germinating in my head. I now need to sit down and work out how to translate those and progress but am very excited about the coming year and about not being afraid to make some changes and be me. It was the first time I have met another photographer who gives clients a full set of prints and then the freedom to choose a Queensberry album if they can afford it. He then puts a lot of creativity into the design but like me, he doesn’t package everything. We also seem to have a similar taste in music and that is mostly cover versions. From some of the questions that were being asked, we got the impression that some of the other photographers there still wanted him to tell them how to up-sell or brag about how they do it but I came away feeling that I had met a kindred spirit. I didn’t speak to him or shake his hand but wish that I had said thank you. As for cars, we drive Skodas because Clare’s Dad runs the dealership and we got a great discount!
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This is our latest Queensberry Duo album that Annabel & Martin have kindly agreed to let us use as a studio sample. I am very much hoping that it arrives in time for the wedding fair at Buxted Park next weekend as it should be beautiful.
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