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The New Year is a great time to stop, take a look around, absorb what you’ve achieved, and focus on what the year ahead offers.

I’ve just done the absorb bit. Gone back and had a look at what we’ve posted over the past year. I found some really great stuff I’d forgotten about! No doubt you’ve forgotten or missed some of these posts too so over the next few days we’ll bring you our favourite posts of 2008. 

There’s not much of a criteria – just posts that really stood out to us. I hope they do to you too.

We’ll start by engaging your senses. Today we’ve picked a couple of really interesting interviews, and two gorgeous albums we featured last year. Enjoy.

  • From DJ to Rock star – NZIPP 2007 Wedding photographer of the year Steve Sharp talks to us about how he went from cheap-and-cheerful to high end in five years. He talks about money and productivity and shares one of his albums with us.
  • Red and white all over - Matt and Enna of Grazier Photography reflected the details of this wedding in a stunning red and white album.
  • Wedding venues, valued partners - Relationships with local wedding venues are a great way to build a strong wedding and portrait business. This beautiful album by Simon Whitten rests on the piano in the drawing room of  the luxury castle hotel Swinton Park in Yorkshire.

Tomorrow we’ll have the top tips, how-to’s and marketing posts of 2008.

See you then

Nigel

 

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    When we asked our regular clients to complete a survey, we promised a free album to one lucky respondent. We couldn’t believe it when the winner was a New Zealander, Liz March, from our own hometown! In fact she used to work not a mile from the Bindery. When we asked Liz to introduce herself to our readers, this is what she wrote:

    “About ten years ago I was working as an art teacher at a full immersion Maori school in Glen Eden. On my way to school one morning I picked up a hitchhiker who wanted a lift to Queensberry. ‘What’s Queensberry?’ I asked. As we drove she explained.

    As I was already shooting weddings in the weekends after school it was great to discover Queensberry just behind the school and get to know the staff.

    I always worked late and one night after school I called in and met another late worker, Heather, who started the company.

    After a while I could not keep two balls in the air at once and took the step to go full time into photography and have never looked back.

    My business, now into its seventh year, has run well. I have loved the privilege of being part of people’s lives in this way.

    NZIPP has provided good connections with other photographers and Queensberry makes great albums.

    I have won one gold and two silver awards in the last three years in the Kodak gold wedding album awards.

    I feel it is good to keep your personal creative juices running and have kept up work other than weddings, and have had several exhibitions and a publication.

    It’s time for a new display album and I had been working on new designs. So this prize is much appreciated and came at the right time.

    Many thanks, Queensberry.

    Liz March”

     

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