tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26488519394950183062011-10-31T12:38:48.565ZMPA SW Portrait Photographer of the Year 2011. Wedding and business photography based in Newton Abbot in Devon but working throughout the UK to create fabulous images for marketing and personal use.Keith Hathawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075142045924990480noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648851939495018306.post-30576330140110382032011-10-31T12:34:00.000Z2011-10-31T12:34:09.225Z

Family portraits taken in my Newton Abbot photography studio.

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What a beautiful place Dartington Hall is to have your wedding. There are so many fantastic places for photography I could have kept going all day.

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With some fantastic locations in South Devon for photography, this model wanted a winter collection for his portfolio, and the back drop certainly works well.

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These two looked amazing and were so well behaved at a recent wedding I photographed in Devon. I just thought you would like to see them. More images can be seen on my Devon wedding photography website.

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The Wedding planning bible Here is a wedding planning book that everyone is talking about. It really will help you pull all the elements of planning your wedding together and keep you organised. Kate Garraway, GMTV "All you need to get married is a groom, a dress and the Wedding Bible!" Carole Hamilton, Editor, You & Your Wedding, "A must for any wedding! Inspirational, beautiful and full of

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Cabaret artiste Mike Samuels and I have worked together many times in the past and this is the result of his updated publicity picture for advertising his act at the various venues he works in and around the South West. He is a multi talented singer,musician and comedian. entertainers portfolio

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With the latest promotion running saving 50% on studio portrait sessions, it has brought in a lot of parents wanting gift ideas for family and friends. New born baby photography sessions can be very rewarding both for the photographer and the parents, as with this session we ended up with so many beautiful baby images it was difficult for the parents to decide which ones to send out to their

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I was recently asked to attend a family gathering and photograph everyone together as a special keep sake. Various members of the family had travelled from all over the UK to celebrate their mum's 60th birthday. The house they had hired for their weekend visit to Devon was featured a week later on national television in a programme called "Britain's Empty Homes". To my suprise...http://

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Holne Park House in Ashburton, Devon was the location of this weekends wedding and below is an image taken from the happy couples wedding album that I have just finished designing have edited over 400 photographs taken on the day.  Wedding photography in Devon  For more images taken from my wedding albums please visit my wedding photography pages by clicking here

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Interior images for hotel brochures and websites are not difficult to achieve providing you know what you are looking for in your final images. Blown out windows means the rooms are full of light and look more spacious, combined with a very wide-angle lens will add more space to your rooms. When using a wide-angle lens the walls tend to look sloped at the edges so work has to be carried out on

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 Fitness photography for brochures and marketing Model portfolio photography in Newton Abbot 

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Whilst putting together a shooting plan for a future wedding at Forde Hall in Newton Abbot, I thought I would take advantage of the beautiful sunshine and flowers that were blooming in Courteney Park. Since Sally Henley has taken over as town center manager, Newton Abbot has really developed into a beautiful place, long gone are the days of it being known as simply a market town. It now has

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 Web TV filming in Torquay  Having spent the week waiting for the mist to clear and the sun to shine, yesterday we started filming a web interview with the independant candidate for Torbay Mayor, Susie Colley. It was fairly early and the sun lit up the bay beautifully and Susie said her scripted piece to camera and the whole project was wrapped within 30 minutes. Editing starts now and we

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Wellswood in Torquay is the location of a restaurant and bar called Premier Cru, and I have to say this is one of my favourite haunts. It is beautifully and stylishly decorated and has a relaxed and casual ambiance making it the perfect place for a daytime drink, evening meal or somewhere just to unwind and relax at the end of the day. The staff are always happy, friendly and always willing to

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A busy week this week having photographed more visitor attractions and restaurants in and around the Torbay area. Amici’s restaurant in Torquay offered new challenges with UV lighting and nightime shots on a busy Saturday night with party-goers taking to the streets early. Trying to get a clear street without pedestrians or attracting attention to myself took quite a while, but I got there

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Indoor attractions are key when it comes to making the visitor enjoy the all year round experience in the South West, and thankfully this new indoor pirate themed golf centre is the perfect place for all the family. Once you have grown accustomed to the dark lights, glow-in-the-dark statues and wall murials it is a fun and clever venue for all ages to experience. However, photographing it for a

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Studio portrait photography is all about capturing the right expression and you do this best by getting to know the person you are photographing and trying to create the right image for their intended use. Below is one image taken from a shoot in my Newton Abbot photographic studio of the Torbay Mayoral candidate Susan Colley. Other images were taken in various outfits and lighting set-ups, which

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I have just finished photographing stock for http://www.getanact.com/ who supply entertainment and entertainment memorabilia for venues and functions throughout the UK. Interior designers who are looking for something different to hang on their clients walls, maybe in a themed pub or restaurant, need to visit this site and look at the various artistes pictures and signatures displayed in their

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Wow, this year the enquiries are coming in thick and fast for smaller family weddings in boutique hotels and venues across Devon. Apparently more and more people are finding they can get huge discounts with venues if they opt for the mid-week package, especially if numbers of guests are limited to those of immediate family. All this is great news for my business as I tend to specialise in the

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Paul Burling, the comedy impressionist and finalist in last years Britain's Got Talent, had his own television programme on ITV over the Christmas period and it was great to see some of his new impressions - including Harry Hill, Alan Carr and even Simon Cowell. Paul asked me to photograph him for his publicity picture a few years ago when he was touring the cabaret circuit performing on holiday

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Photographing well cooked or prepared food really excites me. There is a passion coming from the chef that you have to match with your level of photographic skills - is the lighting right, is there enough depth of focus, are there enough shadow areas to add contrast etc etc etc. Making the food look as good as it tastes is a real challenge and when someone says "it looks good enough to eat" then

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Today saw the start of a run of restaurants and pubs to be photographed for the Teignbridge Eating Out Guide. This is a lovely place - The Castle Inn in Holcombe. So nice in fact I have booked in for Sunday lunch where the award winning chef, Dirk Doose, is going to serve up a traditional Sunday carvery but with a modern twist. I look forward to it! The Castle Inn

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I see so many businesses go down the "home-made" route when it comes to providing an editor with their personal photograph for news articles that it drives me mad! Investing in a simple professional portrait will enhance your business image and give you with a much more readable story. The chances of your story being printed are vastly improved if you can supply a clear sharp and well lit

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The sun came out and it was a beautiful day for this couple as they were joined by friends and family from all over the world to celebrate their wedding day. The Buckland Tout-Saints hotel near Kingsbridge in South Hams is a fabulous location with friendly and helpful staff, combined with cream teas on the lawn after the service this really was a wedding to remember. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting

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Creating images for your brochure or website can be very time consuming and expensive, but with a well thought out brief and schedule you can save you a lot of time, money and effort. Below is an image taken from a recent shoot to photograph new products which compliment their existing range, so we had to create the image using the same lighting and back drop as the original product shots so

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Here is another image taken from the portfolio created for singer Lindsey Collard, her new single will be available in a couple of months on i-tunes. We wanted to go for a "cabaret" style look that was very graphic in its choice of colours.

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When someone steps in front of the camera they will be naturally aprehensive until you as the photographer can put them at ease to the point they trust your direction and can see what you are trying to achieve. It is important to have a brief before you start shooting so you, the model and the agent know roughly where you want to go and the sort of look you are trying to achieve and its final

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Morning everyone, I am in the middle of changing my business to KJH Media Limited and was looking for your opinions on my new logo design. If you have time please let me have your construction(!) thoughts.

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Having taken over the photography for the Torbay Hospitality Association, today has seen me photographing restaurants and the casino in Torquay, this image is not the one being used in promotions but it does show some great architectural detail and colours. Ladies night at The Mint Casino

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September is always a busy month with weddings taking place every weekend and I was lucky enough to be invited to two beautiful venues including The Cary Arms in Babbacombe and The Lavender House Hotel in Ashburton. Both have amazing scenery on their doorstep and superb wedding/events team managment which really help the day go without any hiccups. The Wedding Album from The Cary Arms in

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Newtons Furniture has appeared in many national magazines and on numerous television programmes displaying its ornate hand carved french style furniture, and I was asked to photograph its latest collection - one of which can be seen here. I originally started to photograph their furniture when they first opened a shop in Kingsteignton in Devon, but they have now moved on to a much bigger and more

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Captain Crumble - yes that's his professional name - and I go back at least 15 years when I was a cabaret act appearing on the same holiday park where he was the children's entertainer. He wanted to look professional without looking like the usual children's entertainers, so we came up with this very straight forward image dressed up with some fancy text - job done, only took half an hour!

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Continuing my contract to photograph the hotels and B&B's of Torbay for The Torbay Hospitality Guide, I went along to The Briarfields Hotel where they have just taken over as new owners and have spent a lot of money updating the hotel and making it appeal more to the business traveller with clean lines, spacious rooms and internet access. The Briarfields Hotel in Torquay I have also been asked

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It is not often you find a successful furniture manufacturer here in the UK but I was recently invited along to the head office of Smirthwaite, designer and manufacturer of furniture for children with sprecial needs, and asked to photograph some of their new designs. We are now putting together a new range of images for their portfolio to be used on their website and in printed marketing material

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Brixham Harbour before the storm! Have been out today photographing some hotels and guest houses for the Torbay Hospitality Association. This is an on-going contract to supply images for their magazines, adverts and web site of all their clients venues, but trying to get the weather right and find rooms with no guests in, can be a little time consuming, but with the help of the meteroligcal

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Creating the wedding album for any couple takes time and patience. Designing a one-off individual album can take a week because I try to build the pages to suit the couple concerned. The finished album will tell the story of the day and include images taken of the bride as she finishes getting ready - putting the finishing touches to her make-up - the guests arriving and the anxious groom, pacing

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Cupcakes and confetti at The Imperial Hotel Another busy week editing photographs and designing a wedding album. This couple were really unfortunate as the weekend weather turned very windy and wet so most of the photographs were taken inside, but thankfully the Imperial Hotel in Torquay has some lovely back-drops for wedding photography and the BBQ was moved indoors!

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This has been a very busy time with wedding photography, album design and plenty of commercial brochures to photograph. Here is a page from the Methodist Curch in Paignton album. Paignton Methodist Church A few days later and another wedding, this time at The Grand hotel in Torquay. It was a much smaller and more intimate wedding and although being rather cloudy and wet on the day, there was

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This has been a very busy wedding season and to include all of them in this blog would take forever. But this was a particularly beautiful wedding at Oldway Mansions in Paignton Devon, where all the family were very relaxed and enjoying themselves, and the couple were very happy on their big day. I created a coffe table style wedding album for them as well as giving them all their edited images

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This week, having returned from holiday, I have photographed a Panto star and I'm now off to photograph a wedding at The Cary Arms in Babbacombe overlooking the bay with the sun shining.

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This has been a very busy month, with last minute weddings coming in and plenty of family portrait sittings. When you have a celebration planned it is a great idea to hire a holiday home for the weekend and bring all the family members together to celebrate, whether it is for a special anniversary, birthday or simply a catch-up, and to have it all captured photographically can really enhance your

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Catching up with work after illness is never easy and fun but I am glad to say I am now getting there and everyone is being very helpful. Above is a photo shoot of James who wanted new publicity for his performance venues and his agent put him onto me. The idea was for a simple backdrop and lighting set-up as he wasn't too comfortable having his photographs taken due to previous bad experiences,

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Making the whole photographic experience fun really enables me to create some wonderful photographs for anyone wanting a portrait - whether potential models or just your family members. I always find it is best to create an atmosphere where i will be relaxed and so will the sitter, whether it is on location or in a studio environment, so working together to create the images becomes less of a

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On a crisp winter day in December the guests were gathered outside All Saints Church in Brixham, I had to work quickly to fend off the effects of the cold weather on both my fingers and the guests noses! Two pages from the album can be seen here.

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What a beautiful day for a winter wedding. We just managed to get all the photographs taken between the showers which was fantastic as the venue - Bovey Castle in Devon - is a photographers dream wedding venue. The wedding album has now been created and here you can see two of the pages. The venue organisers have asked for a copy to put on show for future couples to view, which was very

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Today has been very busy, editing a wedding album taken at Bovey castle on Dartmoor National Park, photographing more products for an online company and a family portrait sitting, just in time for Christmas gifts.This image will be mounted onto canvas and presented to family members as a reminder of how special their first granddaughter's first christmas is. Happy days to look back on for many

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Some online retailers find they become so busy or simply do not have the skills to photograph the images they want for their sites, they come to me. This happened with Siiren and Richardson Arcades, and using their products and local models I created some images for them to use on their websites and in an in-house promotional DVD respectively. Working alongside a film crew for the amusement

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Just finished another wedding at Torquay's Imperial Hotel where the weather was fantastic and everyone was in a good mood - always helps with the photography! What a nice couple. This month, off to photograph more weddings including ones at Bovey Castle, portraits for a Pet Bereavement counsellor, family portraits and an amusement arcade along with a film crew - should be interesting.

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September has been a busy month for weddings, especially last minute bookings. Above is a page from the latest wedding album book designed by me but photographed by David Brine, who stood in for me due to family funeral. Everything went well and the couple were very happy with the service supplied. The window light is enhanced by someone else using flash on their camera, which has been

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This was a small and intimate wedding which took place in a boutique hotel called Whitehouse in Chillington. With just close members of the family and a few friends the day raced by. A disk with all their images along with my trade mark style bespoke coffee table wedding book was supplied and arrived approximately 3 weeks after their big day. Black and white wedding photography works extremely

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Married at Cockington Church in Torquay then off to Ilsham Marine Drive for private shots, this really was a wonderful day, both for the couple and myself as the weather was perfect and they were really involved with their photography.

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Last week I performed my first duty as treasurer for the Master Photographers Association meeting here in the South West. A lecture was planned with two highly sought after professional wedding photographers - Gordon McGowan and Mark Seymour - both at opposite ends of the scale when it comes to approaching wedding photography, one likes to be very much in control of the staging of his photography

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My new wedding album design is proving very popular and can be seen here with the cover design of Neil and Claire's wedding which took place at The Imperial Hotel in Torquay, Devon. The sun was shining and family and friends really helped to create a fantastic day for them, which i believe has come across in their wedding album.

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This week i have just finished editing a new publicity portfolio of photographs for the singer Katy Mae, then i travelled to Bristol to see Neil Sedaka perform for 2 hours - just him and his piano. It was amazing how charismatic he was. Listening to his body of work and his stories of working with some of the great stars it makes you realise how much this man has contributed to the world of 20th

Keith Hathawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075142045924990480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648851939495018306.post-31349871070145629112009-06-04T12:44:00.005+01:002009-07-06T13:05:42.050+01:00

Creating a photograph for publicity and model portfolios can be very challenging at times especially when the "model" is inexperienced and not quite sure how they want to look. This was not the case with Paul, who had studied other images before coming to me to help build his portfolio. After the shoot I experimented with photoshop and created this final image which I am very happy with. It will

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I have now found a supplier for my wedding album books. They look absolutely great and the feed back from clients has been superb. I design the book and send them off to be professionally printed and bound, just like normal everyday books, and they come back with a glossy cover making them look and feel like expensive coffee table books. They are much more practicle and convenient than

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Im celebrating!We have just sold our theatre school franchise, having bought it 14 months ago, built it up from scratch and sold it on at a profit. The kids, aged from 5 to 16, put on an end of term show and impressed me so much, they have all grown not just in talent but also self-confidence over the past year and it has been fantastic to watch. Sara and her team have taught them skills ranging

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What a busy month this has been! Winter weddings, civil ceremonies, model portfolio shoots and product shoots!! Here are a couple of photos taken from a recent model portfolio shoot, dramatic lighting effects and a great location here in Devon all help to make these images really stand out.

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HR Media required photos for one of their clients magazines of Tarot reader Maggie Horton, so I was asked to visit her at home and take some publicity shots. I got more than I bargained for, the moment I walked in, Maggie said she was strange vibrations from me!!! Apparently it was my Grandad watching over me! After a reading telling of my future we then got around to photographing her for the

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Whilst some are snow-bound and feeling miserable about not being able to get to work(!) I thought I would take a trip up onto Dartmoor and take some pictures. It was -3 degrees and the sun kept disappearing behind the snow laden clouds but inbetween times some great images were captured and it was worth the wait in the freezing wind.This week is a busy one, with a winter wedding and a publicity

Keith Hathawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075142045924990480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648851939495018306.post-75048471177338911752008-10-15T14:10:00.005+01:002008-10-15T14:20:54.073+01:00

Well, what a day! As a nation we love pets, especially our dogs, so to have them photographed then printed and framed can be a real pleasure for some. To me, it can be very challenging but great fun. I was asked to set up a portable studio in someones house and photograph their two dogs which were about a year old and extremely lively. It took about an hour and a half but we eventually came out

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The Exeter Court Hotel were looking for new publicity pictures and I was asked to spend a few hours taking various shots of their interiors, capturing the new decor and facilities they have for conferences and weddings. It can be very difficult to try to create images that are different and eye catching when it comes to hotel interiors because you are at the mercy of the interior designers and

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More and more couples are deciding to get married in the winter months which is fantastic for them as there are obvious cost benefits to take into account, but for the poor photographer it can be a nightmare. Gales, dark skies, rain - oh what a wonderful set of images!! So how do you get around it? Well, for a start, early planning is key. Visit the venue and look for all the sheltered places

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Recently we bought a theatre School franchise called Razzamataz and set it up here in our home town of Newton Abbot in Devon. It's been a great success mainly down to us taking charge of how we want to market it and the content of each lesson. We have arranged with various cabaret acts to come in and lecture for us as well as teaching the children social and talent based skills. Our second term

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I have just finished producing the photography and design for our new Razzamataz Theatre School which opened in May. The school operates as a franchise and was featured on BBC TV's Dragons Den when Scottish Entreprenuer Duncan Bannatyne invested into the business.We are about to finish our first term with over 40 children having already signed up. They learn various skills including dance, drama

Keith Hathawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075142045924990480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648851939495018306.post-7384819373126094702008-06-23T13:08:00.000+01:002008-06-23T13:15:20.758+01:00

Well, the Great British summer has come and gone, I think it lasted a week in June, but now we have our usual grey wet days to look forward to! If another person says to me "it's going to be an Indian summer" I may well be tempted to help them pack and move them to India.I have been asked to photograph scenes of South Hams in Devon for a marketeers business project to produce a calendar, but do

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Welcome to The Image Maker, or as my website describes me, The Creative Photographer! It's been a busy day today, I have just finished writing and updating my new site, hoping to put in a few words and phrases that Google will notice - what a long and drawn out process that was.I started photography by accident when I was looking for a graphic designer to build a piece of promotional material for

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