UPDATE: With some luck I should be back soon! We have just heard that UK airspace should be open soon! In the meantime, If you have any queries or bookings, please email me on my alternative email – simonkemp@mac.com

I’m a big fan of Chase Jarvis, an American photographer who coined the phrase “The best camera is the one you have with you”. The fact is, I don’t often carry a pro SLR camera when I am not working and if it wasn’t for the brilliant invention of a camera in a mobile phone, I wouldn’t take as many ‘off duty’ pictures as I would like.

Of course, the quality of the phone camera leaves a little to be desired but just being able to snap those little moments in life is a wonderful thing.

Here’s a few recent iPhone images.

EDITED TO ADD: I decided to start a little tumblr iPhone photo blog – you can see it here.

Happy Christmas and all the best for 2010 from Hyde End Studios. We are looking forward to an exciting year and have some great new products and services lined up. 2010 will be my 17th year of shooting weddings and I am as excited as ever about the coming year. Stay tuned…

So sorry to steal the James Cameron/Avatar thunder but I’ve just posted a new video supplier interview with Richard Wakefield of fxfilms.co.uk

Not surprisingly I have *no* ambitions to shoot video professionally (one quick look at the footage will tell you why)! but I hope that you find it useful if you’re planning a wedding next year. Comments? Please let me know via the button below.

So it’s a whopping five years since my first blog post. I think it was probably uploaded from a ZX Spectrum or something, it seems so long ago. It’s funny how blogging, twitter etc. has become such an integral part of online life, it seems impossible running a photography business without these tools. At the end of the day however, my product comes down to the tangible hand made print, album or frame. I don’t think these things will ever change. None of us really knows how digital media will change but I think that photographs of our younger selves, our loved ones (whether still with us or not) turn into some of our most treasured possessions. Here’s to the next five years.

I’ve been blogging now for quite a while and thought it would be fun to make a book of blog pictures. I took a few hundred and had a hard back book made from them. It’s a really nice idea, almost like a diary of my work over the past year or so. I think I’ll do one of these every year now as a record of all the great people I’ve been lucky enough to work for. Ask me for a look at it next time you are around.

Yet again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please email me via simonkemp@mac.com if you’re trying to contact me.

Thanks.

Thanks to everyone who I have worked with this year, I’m looking forward to 2009 with some exciting new products and services in the pipe line.

Have a happy and peaceful Christmas :)

My blog has had a facelift, courtesy of the talented Zofia. I hope you like the new simplicity of it. It’ll be tweaked a little over the next week or so but comments as always are welcome.

I know, I am very behind with blogging at the moment. I have a lot to catch up with so thanks for your patience :)