Wedding bells

Sunshine Portrait, originally uploaded by AnthonyGibbons.

Doing my first Wedding in a couple of weeks.

Nerve-wracking thought.

It's for a work-mate, cost only, which gives me, in theory the chance to take my pictures in a relatively stress free environment. The happy couple are fairly relaxed about it, but it's important to me, to make sure I do a good job.

I'm in the process of trying to "monetize" the whole photography thing, and weddings are the obvious starting point to fund all the lovely equipment I want to buy. I fancy some lovely Nikkor glass rather than Sigma.

Also, I'm in the process of setting up a website to start offering freelance photographic services (i.e. not doing wedding on cheap) at http://www.anthonygibbonsphotography.co.uk . Bit of a work in progress at the moment, though I'll have it finished by the date of the wedding on the 30th October. It's a Google website thingummy, so a bit generic and dull, but I'm going to re-host it and stick up a more fancy html-built website in a couple of weeks.

Also going to sign up to Shutterstock and put a selection of my best shots, or stock-photography friendly shots on to sell them.

I might not be able to give up the day job just yet, but I can dream.