Full Steam Ahead for Charlotte Wright Photography!
A new year for Charlotte Wright Photography
Blimey, what a start to year 2013 for Charlotte Wright Photography!
So where we left off last time it was snowy, wet and cold… Snow and the occasional Spring flower aside, has much changed!?
I had a fantastic time at Gemma & Stuart’s wedding, what a stunning day it was. There was a dusting of snow on the ground and mulled wine inside. Who could ask for more!? Being a bridesmaid, I didn’t take many photographs, the wedding photographer chosen did a great job and the photographs were lovely.
Here is just one of Gemma & Stuart that I took the next day at the venue Brownsover Hall. Congratulations to the happy couple!
As well as my usual work recently, I have helped a couple of people create new blogs, So to Talton Mill Farm Shop, with the blog taltonmillfarmshop.wordpress.com and to Chris Wright Photography (yes my Father!) with the blog chriswrightphotography.blogspot.co.uk – Welcome to the world of Blogging!
To work! What have I done in the last month or so? It feels like all meetings, but I have been let out a bit…
I did my very first wedding show in February at Ragley Hall, what a day! I met some amazing brides and some great suppliers. I was running a competition for one lucky bride to win her wedding photography for free. I had 23 brides enter and lucky lady Sarah won! She is getting married next year at Ardencote Manor, and I can’t wait. The other 22 brides all received a nice little voucher via email as well, so it is always worth entering something!
There has been a change at Charlotte Wright Photography, I now have a head of Marketing! Welcome to Chris Haines, who has come help me market and sell my photography. I am very good at what I do, but I am dreadful at selling myself. I could sell someone else quite happily, but myself? No way! So far it has been great, we are just at the end of the second week, and he assures me he is enjoying it. We have contacted around 100 potential new clients, so I hope this is how we mean to go on!
I was asked to photograph at a private party for 5 soon to be 18 year olds, they were all rugby boys, so the evening got pretty messy, especially when a rodeo sheep is involved…
I was recently asked to attend a breakfast meeting for a very amazing, worthy company called The Heart of England Forest, who I have photographed for over the past 5 years. It was a business breakfast meeting where we were told how to increase our profits threefold, etc. (We’ve all been to one!) But the best and most humbling part were my photographs! They were printed up large on a banner, in booklets given to all the people attending and we all sat through a slideshow made up by my photographs, ooh cringe but SO proud! Recently the Heart of England Forest planted their one MILLIONTH tree! How great!
If you want to give someone a lovely present then buy them a tree, sponsor a sapling, or simply go for a wander through the woods! Below is a shot of a sapling being planted and a field before and after where broadleaf, English saplings have been planted this year. In 5 years time I shall go back and what a difference it will be!
I think my favourite forest has to be Bannams Wood, Spernal, Warwickshire. An amazing walk in the bluebell season, wild garlic and bluebells are everywhere, and a cobbled road leading through!
Now I think that brings us nicely up to date, and this morning I photographed a very exciting new idea for the wedding and party food market. Who hasn’t been to a wedding or a party that serves up a hog roast? Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a bit of pig (!) but THIS is something new, something exciting, and can be something vegetarian!
This is The Wild Oven, a portable wood fired oven, inspired from a holiday that Danni & James took to Italy. They saw a passionate gentlemen with a portable wood fired oven cooking delicious food for people. All fired up (pun intended!) they came back, made their very own wood fired oven and are going from strength to strength. A fantastic product by a fantastic couple. Congratulations to Danni and James at The Wild Oven for coming up with something different, that I hope does extremely well. I can’t WAIT to have an excuse to book you!
That, I think, brings us nicely to the end of this months blog. Next month will hopefully bring about Spring and with it a flurry of weddings!
Ta ta till then!