Klaus and David (still smiling!) at the end of a long and very hot summer wedding

Hey it’s the future already – we’re arrived in 2011

Say it out loud, “Twenty-eleven” – doesn’t it sound like something from the start of a Sci-fi film?

All of us at Picture-Of-Me studios want to wish our wonderful clients past, present and (we hope) future, a gorgeous, amazing and happy Twenty-eleven…..

Love David, Klaus, Christine and Kathrin

Klaus, myself and our design team of Christine and Kathrin have been busy with some amazing weddings both in the UK and over in Germany, and we have had the truly excellent pleasure of photographing some pretty special couples. Before we started shooting weddings together a couple of years ago we were full of concern and apprehension over whether we would be able to live up to our own high expectations of producing gorgeous, classy yet modern photography for brides and grooms. As professional photographers (and tough self-critics) we knew from the start that we only wanted to produce photos we would be proud of, yet we recognised how fast moving and pressurised wedding days can be. We were full of questions – how would we cope,  would we have time to make great shots, is that woman in the blue hat the groom’s mother, where were the toilets???

Well we shouldn’t have worried because every wedding we have photographed over the last two years has been a total joy with the most amazing couples, guests and venues (and easy to find bathroom facilities). Of course it was hard work like nothing we’d done before – I remember driving home after the first wedding we shot together saying to Klaus “Hey, that was the longest, toughest day of photography we have ever done” but Klaus was already snoring like a baby in the back of the car……

But we knew from that very first wedding that this was a real honour to be involved on such a special one-off day, and to be able to capture for ever these fabulous moments. Of course the wedding day remains a long and hard working day (not to mention the week of processing the images afterwards) but it gets easier and we were always made so welcome that by the end of the day we felt we had known knew the couples and the guests for years – honestly I think we enjoyed the weddings as much as the guests did!

Working as a team could have been difficult – we are both long experienced photographers and long time friends and there was always a chance that we may not have made a brilliant team together (we’re both pretty headstrong), but the reality was that we seem to make a perfect professional team – and knowing that you can 100% trust your photographer partner to get the photograph is truly liberating.

Thank you to our all wonderful clients from 2010 – you made this year really special for us.

So anyway, enough gabbing on – here are a small selection of some of our favourite wedding photographs from 2010. I will make another gallery with some of the fun evening PhotoBooth photographs as well. Looking forward to 2011 with some great new ideas and products – blimey, looking at the calender we are already getting busy for the spring and summer….

We’d love you to get in touch if you are getting married next year, to see what we can offer you.

Happy Christmas and a very happy new year.

David, Klaus, Christine and Kathrin

A million thanks to Zone1Creative for building me such a lovely thing! To have a look at my new website click the image

Just a few random shots from Japan.

Feel free to contact me about any weddings or portraits or other commercial work while I am away – I’ll still be in email contact of course – or contact Klaus. I’ve got a couple of exciting jobs out there and I hope to photograph some of the crazy Japanese stuff you hear about, like the wild youth culture. I’ll post these when I return.

Sayanara and see ya’ll soon

David

Brighton Graffiti - nothing to do with Japan....

We are trying out some new designs and layouts and though most of the blog works fine there may be the odd page that isn’t quite finished. Don’t panic – we’re working on it day and night to get it right for you.

When it’s finished then all of the images will be really nice and large, and there will be some cool slideshows.

Stay tuned.

David

You’ll have to image it square because the way it shows on screen is as a double page spread – like if you have the book open. The pages are actual archival quality real photopaper of a nice thickness, and it is bound so that it will lay flat – cool.

You can view the slideshow by going to the Photobook  link on the right top.

Enjoy!

The POM team of Klaus (photographer), Christine (designer) and myself would like to wish all our past, present and future clients a great year ahead (come on, we all deserve it surely) with a lot of happiness, laughs and love.

There are some great things ahead for POM during the coming few months including some ace weddings we are really looking forward to (stay tuned) and some brilliant assignments in Japan, Germany, and the USA.

Personally I would like to thanks all my clients during 2009 including the Guardian and Independent Newspapers, Alamy Stock Agency, Zone 1 Creative,  St Johns Street Cycles, Little England, The Brighton Argus, Sarah at Happy Mondays Ltd, and obviously all the wonderful people I have had the pleasure to photograph for their weddings and engagements.

I would also like to wish luck to the charities I have been lucky enough to be involved with during the past year ‘TravelAid’ who work in many developing countries, ‘BMF’ with whom I photographed the 2010 ‘Help For Heroes’ Calendar,  the ‘Lebenshilfe Werkstadt’ in Munich which helps to employ and rehabilitate over 400 disabled people, and ‘The Brent Centre’ who work to improve the lives of London teenagers.

So a Happy new Year and please feel free to get in touch for any of your photography needs – we’re friendly guys and look forward to hearing from you

David