I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and I would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year.

There has been a lot going on in my world lately except when it comes to blog posts of which there have been too few!

As you will have hopefully noticed, the blog has had a bit of a makeover and is looking a bit tidier. I have even managed to include a few photographs of myself in the header. Like most photographers I do not really like having my photograph taken so it took me a while to dig these out and as you may guess from the images I like warm and sunny places! I thought it would be nice to include one from my wedding too, it was just over a year ago so I really do know how it feels to be on the other side of the camera. We decided to have an intimate, destination wedding in Sorrento, and appreciating the value of photography, chose a package which included two photographers to tell the story of the whole day. I am so pleased that we did because just 14 months later my memories of the day have blurred and we are so glad that we have a gorgeous album to help us relive the day.

On the business front, I have been making connections and am developing partnerships with some hand picked vendors which I am really excited about. I hope to be able to tell you more about these in the New Year. For now though I am really pleased to say that I have partnered with Irving at Freedom Hair Experience and Kezia of The Beauty Room to provide the photography for the makeover prize for a campaign which recently took place on Tay FM. Irving does a lot of great work for charity in Dundee and Tayside and recently organised the Face of Freedom 2009, Dundee’s Next Top Model. This is a great evening and raises a lot of money for local charity – this years beneficiary was Maggies Cancer Caring Centre in Dundee.

I promised some more photographs from Dean and Jo’s wedding as well as Dean and Dani’s wedding. These will be coming soon, and I hope to be able to introduce some interesting posts by guest bloggers in the not too distant future.

As no post is complete without some images, here are some photographs from the Face of Freedom evening, including survivors from Maggies and some of the acts who provided entertainment during the evening.

The ladies from Maggies:

Entertainment was provided by a couple of young dance acts…

The highlight of the evening was the fashion show by the contestants including a hairdressing display by Irving and his team.

If you would like to know more about my wedding & portrait photography services in the Dundee and the Tayside area you can contact me or visit my website.

I would love to hear your comments on my blog and it’s new look or photography so please leave your comments below.

Wishing you all a happy New Year,

Louise