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Website Re-launch

We are very very excited. You cannot possibly have got this far into reading the blog without noticing our fab new website. We have had a busy couple of months working hard on all our marketing material – everything from our business cards, through our brochures and right up to the website has been changed and we are very proud of the results.

This new look would not have been possible without a number of people, including Edge Creative, Audacity Marketing and Stef, and we really appreciate their creativity, inspiration and hard work in making this all come together so well.

So here it is – we have a section for our weddings, portraits, events and corporate photography, as well as a whole new portfolio area, where you can see the images a lot easier. We are also developing new areas in the future, so we can show off some of the great people we work with to make what we do stand out from the rest.

You can also follow us on Facebook – become a fan and we will keep you updated on the latest shoots.

We are also on Twitter – @crockfordphotos, so don’t forget to follow our Tweets.

So, we hope you love our new look as much as we do. Please let us know what you think – at the bottom of each blog section is a ‘Leave a Comment’ link. Just click on that and follow the instructions, and boost our egos with a lovely comment.

James & Kat.

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Christening Photography – Berrow Court

Erk – my blog has been slightly neglected of late – the trouble with being busy is that the things that are important but not urgent get pushed back if you are not careful.  However the blog is going through a major overhaul, as is the rest of our site, so keep your eyes peeled for the not too distant future…..  hmmm – intriguing…

Anyhow, I will endeavour to catch up as I have some great shoots to post up.

I love being the family photographer – I have several families that I particularly enjoy working with, because I have seen so many stages of their lives.  The Murphy family fit this category perfectly.  I shot their wedding a couple of years ago, I have done a couple of different portrait shoots with them, including their new baby, Anaya, and most recently, Anaya’s Christening.

The family (and their friends) always love a good party, and this was no different.  The party was at Berrow Court, which is a hidden gem in the Harborne / Edgbaston area, and they had the whole house and gardens to celebrate, and they doubled the day up as Phoenix’s birthday (the younger of the boys).  Towards the end of the evening they had a band playing, and quite a few of the family and friends sang late into the evening (and they were good – not just some poor karaoke attempt!).

So here are some images from the day….

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REC Corporate Photography

I have posted a lot recently about my wedding and portrait work, but inbetween these shoots, I am constantly working on corporate photography, so I thought I would post up a couple of my recent jobs to give a flavour of what else I get up to.

One of my favourite corporate clients are the REC - the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.  They are a member organisation who promote and lobby for the Recruitment sector.  They organise events for their members across the country and often invite me along to capture the events, either for internal publicity or for the press.

The most recent event was a Public Sector Recruitment conference held in the Congress Centre (a great venue in London for corporate events by the way), where amongst others, they had Sir Peter Gershon as keynote speaker.

My role on a day like this is to take photographs of the speakers, but also to give a photographic overview of the event, so I take photos of the networking during the breaks as well as delegates during the event itself.

The one thing about my job is the variety it gives me, and I genuinely find corporate events such as this interesting.  So here is what I do…

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Christine & James Pre Wedding Photography – Birmingham

I have had some great shoots recently – the weather has been great, and it has been lovely to meet up with wedding couples in different places.  Christine and James are getting married in Edgbaston later on this year, and we decided to go up to the Lickey Hills to talk through their wedding day plans and to get some pre-wedding photographs.  I love the Lickeys so it was nice to be able to get into the hills for a couple of hours (although I always seem to end up down the paths that lead nowhere…), and Christine and James are really easy-going so we wandered around stopping at various points to get some photographs of the two of them together.

We ended up at the cafe and spent a bit of time looking at the details of the day, which for me is an essential part of the pre-wedding shoot – the more I know about a wedding the better; if I know what is important to the bride and groom then I can make sure that my photos on the day reflect that.  And the more fun it all is too.

So here are some of the photographs from Christine and James’s pre-wedding shoot:

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Anya & Dario – Pre Wedding Photographs in Birmingham

I spent a couple of hours around the city centre with Anya and Dario a couple of weeks ago.  Their wedding is in August, so we met up to take some photographs of the two of them (so they get used to being in front of the camera), but also to chat about some of the details for their big day.

The weddings I love the most are the ones where you really get a sense of who the bride and groom are.  Sometimes this is through the speeches or readings in the ceremony, but often it is just the little things such as the little flourishes of decorations, or quirky table plans.  Anya and Dario are definitely bringing their personalities to their wedding.  They are getting married in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.  Actually in the forest.  There is a small clearing where they are having the ceremony, and have commissioned a stained glass window to hang from the trees, followed by a reception in Anya’s parent’s garden – it all sounds absolutely magical.

It was great to catch up with you both, and I am really looking forward to the day itself.  Here are some sneak previews of the pre-wedding shoot.

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Baby Portrait Photographs

Since we started our own family, portraits of babies has taken on a new significance for me – I love looking at photos of my own boys, and really enjoy the reactions of clients when I show them photographs of their children.

It is so interesting watching children develop, particularly in the first year as the development is so fast, and it is easy to forget what they were like (I am now coming out with the phrase that I scoffed at not so long ago – “You forget how small they are when they are born…”.   I never tire of taking photos of babies and children because they are all so different, and each session allows me to get to know a little bit about them, and I get a lovely perspective on them when I return to do more portrait sessions as they grow up.

Here are a selection of some of my recent baby portrait sessions….

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Chesford Grange Wedding Fayre Photography

It was great to meet all the brides, grooms and their families at Chesford Grange Wedding Fayre in Warwickshire last weekend.  I always love finding out about people’s weddings, and I am looking forward to meeting many of you again to chat through your big day over a cup of coffee sometime soon…

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Business Toolbox Corporate Photographs

I often get asked to take corporate photographs for people who are after something a bit different – a corporate portrait should reflect the company, whether that is more formal or more playful, depending on what they are trying to say about themselves as individuals and as a business.

I met Tracy from Toolbox For Your Business – a company that help startup businesses – through networking, and she asked me to get some images for and article for Raw Business magazine.  I headed over to her offices near Cotteridge, and spent a really enjoyable couple of hours getting a variety of photographs for her.  Raw Business were looking for a more quirky approach, playing on the idea of toolboxes and building, but Tracy also wanted a mixture of images for other uses, so we made sure I got some without the hard hat…

Here is a flavour of what I got for Tracy and Raw Business….

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Catalyst Lend Lease Corporate Photography

One of my regular clients, Catalyst Lend Lease have been involved in building schools and communities in New Town.  They have been putting a huge amount of resources into the area – not only physical buildings, but helping support and develop the community as a whole.  I have been covering various aspects of their projects, but particularly their Young Design Champions – a group from Holte School who are designing two sculptures, along side the school, LEP, City Council, and community groups.

I enjoy the variety that my work gives me – sometimes I am photographing a wedding in a country hotel, and other times I am in a vibrant classroom of kids moulding wax to make a sculpture and talking about design.  And that variety is what makes me constantly looking for inspiration and new ideas – never stop learning, that’s what I say.

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