Wedding photographers in Cumbria, The Lake District – Derwent Photography

We are running a fabulous competition with the chance to win yourself a £1000 art nude photo shoot.

The lucky winner will be drawn from a hat and will recieve a 2 hr photo shoot of their choice, either studio or location based or a mix of both; an album of their favourite 20 images and a 30″ wall print of their choice.

The next 10 lucky runners up will recieve a 2hr shoot and a 12 x 10 mounted print of their choice worth £165 Simply complete the entry form below and submit or look for the competition voucher in January’s Me supplement with the Cumberland News on Fri 3rd February and send that.

Dont delay, the closing date is Friday the 10th February.

You can see some examples from our blog posts here, or on Steve’s art nude site here.

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I was very pleased to be awarded the Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2011/2012 award at the recent Master Photographers Association NW England Regional awards presentations in Bury, Manchester. I also picked up the silver award for Fashion & Beauty photography with an image shot to promote the KAOS theatre groups  production of  Cabaret.

Followed by 3 bronze awards, in Contemporary Weddings, Childrens Portraiture and   Location Portraiture.  These were the highlights, with very stiff competition this year from really strong photographers. I also managed to collect a total of 21 merit awards across various categories, including 3 or 4 each in fine art, reportrage weddings and location portraits.

 

It was a thouroughly enjoyable day, presided over by 2 excellent and knowledgeable judges, Richard Dutowksi and Paul RG Hayley. Richard gave an insightful seminar on the art and power of portraits and Paul turned the clock back with his slideshows from the falklands war, where he was one of only 3 photojournalists who managed to sail with the task force.

It was a powerful and poignant show on the eve of the 30th anniversary of a pointless war.

We are all really pleased and excited to have handed over the cheque today to the MS Society, a total of £15,288.92. Raised from the sale of our Moving Mountains for MS charity art nude calendar.

And thats after the costs of the second print run etc etc were all paid for, which came to around £2k.

There are a handful of calendars left for sale on the website www.moving-mountains.co.uk until the end of March, if anyone still doesn’t have one

I would like to thank all the women involved in this for their bravery and hard work, it has been a tremendous success. We have  another couple of projects in the pipeline, keep an eye on our facebook page and here to find out what they are in due course.    Click read more below to see the calendar images.

This client was perfectly happy to have her art nude shoot in the  lake district landscape photographed in February! which obviously marks her out immediately as a very brave lady. Not for getting her clothes off, because as many other clients have found, after the first couple of minutes, you forget you are nude and it becomes just about the images, and suddenly it’s very easy indeed. No, the biting cold february wind she endured was what marked her out as a brave lady! So well done Joanne, you were fabulous and your images are really beautiful  Here is the sneak preview for you I promised.

This weeks Cumberland News is running a competition where one lucky winner will get a £1000 art nude or boudoir photo shoot. Comprising a 2 hour session, a large wall print of their choice and a coffee table book of  their favourite images to remember the day by.

To enter use the coupon in the “Me” section or go online and enter here

The competition closes in 2 weeks, so get your skates on.

There will be some runner up prizes from us too, but you neeed to have ticked the opt in box to allow the paper to give us your names to have any chance of getting them.

Dont forget, all women are works of art!

Tuesday nights exhibition preview and calendar launch had people queueing out of the doors to get in!  And we have had a lot of coverage.

A News and Star article…

The Look North piece is here…

And don’t forget you can buy your copy online here today.

Well, its been a long and exciting project, and is now rapidly coming together.

Moving mountains for MS is the name of the fine art calendar we have been shooting for the past year and will be launched at the preview night for the touring exhibition of the images at The Treeby and Bolton Gallery in Keswick on tue 7th september, from 7pm till 9pm.

You are welcome to join us and the calendar girls there to celebrate the launch.

Friday night saw us getting our group shot  in the pouring rain…well done to a bunch of very tough and  brave ladies  ranging in age from 30 to 70.

We have created an art nude calendar based in the lake district using  models who have Multiple Sclerosis and the family and friends of MS sufferers.

The project was the brainchild of  Sue Hope, whose daughter woke up one morning blind, the first indication they had that she had contracted MS.  Luckily her sight returned after a few weeks, but the disease brings a whole host of other conditions and side effects.

The calendar features the ladies in various locations of the lake district, in all seasons of the year. I knew that the original calendar girls idea had been copied ad nauseum so wanted a different twist;  I decided on  a fine art nude project.  I didn’t want the images to be titillating or “benny hillesque”,  I wanted them to reflect the beauty and resilience of normal everyday women, in sympathy with the hills,  stone, water and woods that they live amongst.

The girls have been brilliant, and I would like to give them a public thank you for their patience and courage in some of the poses and locations I have put them through.

NW Professional Photographer awards 2009

After our success in the first round of the Kodak Portrait Awards, we thought we would enter the annual Master Photographer NW England regional awards, aand were pleasantly surprised to come away with a clutch of 8 awards from the evenings presentation ceremony near Manchester.  Including the coveted title Fashion and Beauty photographer of the year 2009 for the region and the silver in reportage wedding photography, the silver in Under 5′s portraiture and a  bronze in fine art, as well as 2 merit awards in pets and merit awards in fashion and beauty and fine art.

Here are the winning images….

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