That was the week that was....

A quiet week, though I have to add, quite thankful for it. Lots of catching up to do, press passes to get hold. Stendhal Festival seems to be gathering pace, hopefully ticket sales are going well.

Still no response regarding CountryFest so I'm considering that one gone.

This months Professional Photographer is the best I've seen in ages. I was starting to get a little despondant with the publications. A round table discussion about Bob Carlos Clarke was well worth the wait. I was a little dissappointed that they didn't use some new images though, it seems to be the same set of pictures that gets featured in every magazine. Regardless, it was still excellent.

Wedding Photography by Jason Bell

It has to be the single most popular question that I am asked, "do you do weddings?".

Well the simple answer is yes.

Red Sails Festival - Portstewart

The final day of the Red Sails Festival in Portstewart was busy, really busy. I didn't actually arrive there until 7pm.

George Jones and Clubsound were onstage when I arrived. Crowd shots were easy to do as the auditorium curves round in front of the stage, so it's quite easy to get a live stage shot with a good selection of audience in the image as well. I wanted a shot of the band post gig, had a quick chat with George to arrange it, we walked over to the town hall and within thirty seconds had my shot.


I walked up and down Portstewart with just a 50mm 1.8 lens on the camera. I tend to have a selection on me but decided to leave the bag and work with one lens. The promonade is split on two levels, the road and the sea. So it's quite easy to get good candids.



After a chicken burger, numerous coffee's and the piercing screams of a child or two the fireworks kicked off at 10.30pm. I have to admit I wasn't too bothered about photographing fireworks as I've done stacks of times before, this display was good but finding a way to capture anything to possibly sell afterwards is a fun one to sort out. I'm there though and happy.

From 10.50pm to 11.30pm was just solid traffic out of Portstewart

Foyle Fashion Week Launch Party (Part II)

Sugar in Derry has the most varied set of light sources known to man. All very well in a disco setting but nigh on useless when it's fashion.

So every shooter resorts to the last resort, on camera flash. No matter where you point it, it's harsh white light. I got all the shots I needed from the social point of view but to get flatting catwalky type shots... hmm a little harder to do.

A good nights work, and the photoshop mods I made to the web layouts are working a treat.

Foyle Fashion Week Launch Night

A frantic day of marketing and running around today. Looking forward to tonights launch do, not that I'm the party type.

All the same I trust the event will go well. Proof galleries are going up tonight for publications to see.

It's all happening this week.

A light weekend, I tend not to do too much on the 12th of July. There are others who are far more interested in getting into the thick of flutes and lambegs. Sadly, I am not one of them.

This week coming brings up a whole bag of problems. The fashionistas will piling down to the Foyle Fashion Week launch, then the Shackleton Charity Festival runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In the middle of those things there are two charity gigs on at the same time. Add to that that there's a strike which will bring Derry City Airport to a standstill. It could actually be quite a good news week.

Purchasing newspaper prints.

I get a lot requests about obtaining prints from pictures that appeared in the newspaper. You can purchase these online. Each week I will put up the available pictures on my website.

This week's Constitution pictures are available now.