James and I drove from Torino in the North to Sorrento in the South of Italy in July. I’ve finally had a moment to go through all the images and here are just a few. If you’d like to see more, click here. All images are available to buy as frames, canvases or acrylics.
For those who are looking for the perfect Christmas gift, here it is: the long-awaited 2009 Nude Gardener calendar is now available!
When Adam from YourGardener.com asked me to shoot his staff of strapping lads for this project in aid of Cancer Research UK, I jumped at the chance to get involved. Me and a roomful of nine nude men covered only by a small, horse-shaped budgie smuggler…how could I refuse?
It was a fun shoot and a good laugh was had by all. You can see some behind-the-scenes footage here.
If you’d like to pre-order the calendar for Christmas, then you can do some on the YourGardener website.
Look out for my article in the 15/10/08 edition of The British Journal of Photography. Entitled “Brave New World”, the article talks about using the internet to promote yourself, via Blogging, Webzines (like my PIAZZA), and online video.
The article also mentions that we are going to be offering business and promotion training in the New Year for photographers. The dates for this are February 9,10, and 11 and the training will be held in Wimbledon. Register your interest by emailing us at info@juliaboggiophotography.com. More information to follow next week.
Ages ago, I mentioned a couple that were using their 40’s-movie style pre-wedding photos on their wedding cake. Well, here’s the picture of the cake. It was a lovely wedding held at BAFTA on the hottest day of the year so far - but the bride and groom looked lovely, despite the heat!
President Palin.
I can’t believe that anybody is taking her seriously as a vice presidential candidate. I’d love to see a female in the White House, but would never vote for someone just because the candidate wears lipstick (pig, pitbull or otherwise). This woman stands for everything I am against. And I don’t like hockey either.
After seeing this interview with Matt Damon on the subject, I promise never to say his name again in the manner in which it is said in Team America.
The whole McCain/Palin campaign is riddled with hypocrisy. McCain saw that the people were responding to Obama’s “Change we can believe in” message. So what does he do? He starts running the same message. The question is, does anybody out there really believe it? Does anybody look at McCain and think, “Yes, that is a man who inspires me with hope”? When I look at him, I think that I really should be paying more into my pension fund.
As for Palin and her anti-choice views, Jon Stewart said it best on The Daily Show when he pointed out that, when Palin made the statement that it was her 17-year-old daughter’s decision to keep the baby, decision is another word for choice. Who gives her the right to make that choice for the rest of America?
I’ll end my mini-rant with a note to my country people: as an American who has been living in the UK for ten years, I believe that we now have the chance to correct the world’s view of the USA with one action: vote for Obama/Biden. It’s not just America that needs it.
I had an interesting shoot the other day. Inspired by the shoot I did with Kerrie Keeling for my online magazine, Adam Brindle, owner of yourgardener.com, wanted to do something stylish and fun to promote his business. We decided to go for a very fashion style image, to get across the idea that his company employed a different kind of gardener. I should probably mention now that I’ll be shooting a nude, “calendar girls” style calendar for Adam and his boys in the near future in aid of breast cancer research. Don’t worry, girls - I’ll let you know where you can get a copy!
Wedding photographers commonly refer to this time of year as the “Silly Season” because it’s really busy. The thing is that Silly Season seems to be getting longer and longer…mine started in January and I can see it stretching to December! But it’s great to be busy.
The only problem is that I haven’t had time to post a lot, but I’ve got loads to share with you in the next few weeks, including a few pics from a recent trip to Italy and the cake I mentioned in one of my other entries (the bride used pics from our pre-wedding shoot on the cake).
In the meantime, I thought I’d put up just a couple recent photos from one city and one country pre-wedding shoot. Enjoy!
Sometimes, I really love my job. One of those such times was about a week ago, when I was on a pre-wedding shoot with one of my couples. Like I did, they are having a movie-themed wedding. They’re even getting married at Bafta.
But the best part of it is that my pre-wedding photos are going to be printed onto their wedding cake. With that in mind, we decided to do a 40’s movie-themed shoot so that the cake could have a selection of images of them pretending to be in different movies.
Everyone who knows me knows I’m a complete film nut, so I was looking forward to this shoot. I stuck my overcoat and Bergman-esque black trilby into a bag and away I went. We shot in the Tower Bridge/London Bridge area and had loads of fun while we were doing it. Even the reluctant groom got into it after the first few shots.
Needless to say, the couple loved the images. Even the bride’s mum wrote to me to tell me how delighted she was. It’s always good to keep the parents happy, too! Here are a few of the shots from the day. And don’t worry…I’ll post pics of the cake after the wedding.
Word is starting to get around about the charity wedding ball I’m throwing in November, so I thought I’d better blog about it. The idea behind THE BIG I DO REDO is to get Britain back into their wedding outfits in order to raise money for Pancreatic Cancer UK. As many people know, I met Patrick Swayze on The Oprah Winfrey Show last year. When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, I decided to dedicate some time to fundraising for a UK-based pancreatic cancer charity. Deciding to stick to what I know, I came up with the idea of a charity wedding ball.
The event will be held at the fabulous ANdAZ Liverpool Street. Tickets are currently on sale and going fast, so if you are interested, click here for details.
We are raising money in a number of ways. First is through a big wedding auction on eBay. Wedding Suppliers across the UK are donating their services and products to be auctioned to the highest bidder. We already have donations from Cliveden House, Giles Sherlock Event Design, Swarovski and SWAG, to name a few. I am donating 3 post-wedding “I DO REDO” photo shoots. If you are a wedding supplier and would like to donate something, please email us.
We are also asking couples across the country to resell items from their weddings. The tiara you’ll never wear again. The shoes that are gathering dust. Even the dress, if you’re up for it. On eBay, you can choose to donate anywhere from 10-100% of the profits to Pancreatic Cancer UK.
Finally, although we are having THE BIG I DO REDO in London, people around the country are encouraged to throw MINI I DO REDOs. It’s kind of like a Macmillan Coffee Morning, but at night and with alcohol.
We’re all really excited about this event and hope that it will capture the imaginations of the nation. There are so many ways to get involved that there are no excuses! And if you are worried about getting back in your dress again, you can find some advice here on helpful ways to fit back into your gown. Coming soon on my You Tube site, you’ll be able to watch my first attempt in three years to squeeze into it. It was scary.
Anyway, thanks for reading…now let’s get fundraising!
Apologies to all my loyal blog readers for breaking the number one cardinal sin of blogging: not doing it often enough! The good news is that’s because we’re really busy right now. To make up for it, I’ll post a blog per day over the next few days.
Anyway, back to business. Here are some images from a wedding I shot at the Mandarin Oriental in early May. You can even read about the couple in the London Paper here. It was a beautiful wedding. The thing about Julian and Stella was that they were both up for anything when it came to the photography. Playing on the oriental theme, I did some research and found that origami actually started in China, not Japan. So I set Kate (my assistant) the task of making loads of origami birds, which I then hung from a rope to surround the bride for a photograph. Of course, I couldn’t ignore the groom, so I had some fun with him too. It had come out during our pre-wedding shoot that he really loved reading Brides magazine, so I bought a copy and shot him with it.
