My first real photography job!

OK when I say "real", I mean I actually got paid!!! My first real job was to photograph Camp Quality for a week.

Anyway, today I had my first WEDDING photography job! We got this through the night class we did at the high school. The bride saw the course, and as it was her second wedding, she didn't want to pay the mega dollars for a professional photographer. She contacted the school to see if any students would want the job for a small fee. There were 3 of us on the course that had never photographed a wedding, so the class voted for us to do it. After the tutor told the bride how many photographers she could have, she said she didn't mind if all 3 of us wanted to have a go. We would've done it for free, but she paid us a small fee for our time. Sadly, as I'm the only one who uses film, I will use mine on film and developing. All part of the experience though. And we can use our photos for our portfolios (no I don't even have one yet!)

It was great fun to do wedding but the weather was pretty bad, so the bride called off the photos after we'd only done a few wedding party shots. She was happy with what we'd already done so fingers crossed that they turn out!

I will post some photos later when I get them developed.

So if you want to book me as a photographer...
I can do all occassions, not just weddings!

Prefer weekends though as I think I'll be pushing my luck in the future to get more time off my Mon-Fri job to take photos!!!

another birthday!

On Friday saw the start of Cameron's long birthday weekend!
We met at Le Dome, a Belgium cafe and bar, after work. By the time I got there just after 5pm, Cam had already polished off his first of MANY beers! Gotta love Stella on tap! So Rach, Cam, Tobi, Jo, Kim, Quentin, myself and 3 of Cam's Stud Ville mates had a lovely dinner. It was a great social evening with lots of chatting and lots of beer consumption (ok that was just Cam and Tobi).
Sadly, the night was not all great. By the time I got home, I wasn't feeling too good. Spent the rest of the night with major stomach pains and feeling sick. Thought it was something I ate, but several days later, I'm still not 100% (could have what Hayley had - totally feel ya!).

Saturday, after finally dragging my sorry butt out of bed, Jo and I headed to Auckland. We did a bit of shopping before heading in to see Jeremy Corbett's comedy show, which I might add, we got to see for free! The main reason we were in Auckland was to see another comedy show. We just happened to find out about Jeremy's free one online. Show a ticket to another comedy show and we were in!
The show we paid to see was Ardal O'Hanolon. You will know him as Father Dougal from the TV show, Father Ted! So it was 3 hours of comedy! A fantastic night! You know what's not good though - laughing while you have a stomach bug! Kinda hurt, but it was worth it!! Plus who doesn't love a good Irish accent??!!!

Sunday morning saw me waking up at 6.30am. It's my normal wakeup time, but it really sucks on a Sunday morning!! But it was still exciting cause I was going to see all my friends from Camp Quality! Can't believe it's May already! But the first weekend of May is generally Camp Quality reunion! We had organised a number of things to make this reunion something exciting, as previous ones have been lots of adults talking and the kids get a bit bored. Sadly, most of the things fell through (sadly this is sometimes happens when you rely on others). Next year will be bigger and better! Jo will be camp manager for next year's camp, so it'll rock! It was still a great day and I enjoyed catching up with friends I hadn't seen since camp.

It was a full on weekend but it was great fun!