Emma’s Diary

We’ve recently teamed up with Emma’s Diary and are now the exclusive photography partners for Huddersfield.  All new mums can take advantage of the free sitting & photographic gift offer and also be in with a chance of winning £1,000.  Contact us today to book in for your baby’s portrait photographs.  Lets see if we can have a local family winning the top prize!

Old Huddersfield film

One of the nice things about running a photography studio is the variety of jobs that come in. Recently a customer brought some old cine film in to be converted to DVD. Nothing particularly unusual about that but this was 16mm film from the 20′s and 30′s. Some of it taken around Huddersfield. I’ve very kindly been given permission to put some of it on here as people that are interested in local history (like me!) might like to see it.

The family owned mills at Longwood. The first clip below shows some of the old processes the the wool went through before being shipped to London. Scouring, blending, carding. Traditional jobs that are very rare now. Some of the relatives of people in the film must still live in the area.

Some more shots of Longwood mills and a train running past what I think must be the old Millnsbridge station. St Marks church can be seen briefly too. The wool goes to London docks before being checked, weighed and shipped across the world.

A Remembrance Day parade from sometime between the wars. The soldiers march past Rushworths and Burtons where Nandos and McDonalds are now. There’s the Waverly Hotel where A1 stationers is today. The soldiers file past a rather large Remembrance Day poppy wreath in the shape of a cross followed by all the Huddersfield dignitaries of the day including the Lord Mayor. There’s a photographer with a box camera at 0.44secs in, possibly from The Examiner. At 1min 11secs I guess the person filming moves to outside the Town Hall as the shots seem to be across the road from Whitleys department store on Ramsden Street

I don’t think this is  Huddersfield but it’s interesting because it’s in colour. It could be the Isle of Man

A few seconds of football from Leeds Road. Can’t work out who Town are playing

Finally a 10 minute wedding video. 4 weddings, in fact, filmed as each couple leaves the church. I’m pretty sure at 7:27 they’re at Huddersfield railway station and head off on honeymoon on the Manchester line.

New Wedding Options

If you are getting married in 2013 or 2014 you may be interested in our exciting new Wedding Boutique photography service.

It includes digital files in a beautiful designer case as well as pictures and videos for social media.
You can also order albums and reprints at hugely discounted prices whenever you like.

The product launch is at the ‘Wedding and Lifestyle Fair‘ in the Byram Arcade on March 9th.

Free entry and a chance to see a host of other wedding suppliers

Yerbury Seminar

I was lucky enough to sit in on a couple of seminars given by Faye and  Trevor Yerbury at the SWPP Convention in London recently. Theirs is quite a unique, easily recognisable photographic style. The pictures below are from the seminar and just a taster of some new ideas we’re working of for this year.

 

 

 

Christmas and New Year opening times

Budapest

A few pictures from a recent trip to Budapest given some ‘retro’ HDR treatment in Lightroom.

 

Christmas 2012

In addition to our studio pricing guide, below are several collections of portraits grouped together with further discounts.

For grandparents

•  2 – framed 8”x6” prints £75 (save £25)

9 Christmas presents!

• 5 – 8”x6” prints in mounts, 2 fridge magnets, a DVD slideshow and 1 digital file with copyright release to print your own Christmas cards £145 (save £50)

For the wall

A beautuiful single image canvas print

• 20”x16” £190 (save £35)
•  24“x20” £259 (save £50)

For everyone!

• 20”x20” 9 image square montage or canvas plus 5 8”x6” prints in mounts. £319 (save £44)