Yearly Archives: 2010

Happy Christmas & New Year

Wow! where has the year gone. It has truly been an amazing year. We have met so many interesting people and been to some incredible places in 2010. It is difficult for us to thank everyone but first I would like to say thank you to everyone of our couples this year. Every wedding has been great to be involved with and we have been made so welcome by everyone on their special day.

We’re so lucky that we work with some amazing suppliers in the wedding industry so a big thanks and happy Christmas to them, especially Fiona at Firenza, Sally and everyone at Papakata Tipis and all the amazing venues we’ve worked at this year – Allerton Castle, Hazlewood Castle, Ripley Castle (so many castles!), Oulton Hall, Rudding Park and so many others. Also big love to James at Roeni who not only is an amazingly talented designer and all round lovely chap but also designed and produced the Barber Photography Christmas cards again this year.

Thanks to my friends at Aspire up in the Lake District who have continued to inspire me this year. I’m so proud to be part of the team up there and really excited with the projects for 2011. Catherine & Jane we wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for you guys.

In the my other world of 3B Media particular thank yous go to Hope & Social Si, Rich, Ed, Gary, Si & James and the peeps involved with them Ben  Mark Roo. You guys have given me the most fabulous experiences this year and long may it continue into 2011.

The lads of Cities Between Us – Josh Nimal Stef Jo & Val – You rock and we are looking forward to the new album in 2011. Skylarkin for allowing us into your inner sanctum to record you guys at work. Mike Heaton for letting us get involved with your exciting project ( More of which in 2011!)

Also of course big big thanks to Rob and Barns, my 3B partners in crime. These two guys have been my biggest inspiration this year. Opening my eyes to new worlds and seeing things that would normally pass me by. They make me as giddy as a kipper. We’ve got big plans for the future helped by the wonderful Hayley who has given us the belief and focus – so 2011 will hopefully be a great year for us.

Lastly a big thank you to my main partner in crime – my gorgeous wife Lou and mother to our fab kids.These guys are the reason we do this. Lou is someone who keeps me on the straight and narrow . Gives me kick up the backside when I need it but allows me to follow my dreams not matter how stupid they may seem at the time.

Lou I love you and you are all I could ask for .

Happy Christmas everybody and have a Happy New Year.

Phil xxxxx

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New 3B Media Course // Getting to know your DSLR

You may know that this year Rob Booker & Barnaby Aldrick joined forces to create 3B Media, a lens-based media & training company.

We’ve been dreaming big for the future, and are excited to announce a whole list of training workshops for amateurs & aspiring professionals.

Check out our 2011 curriculum here.

The wedding, portraits and flash workshops we’ve run so far have generally been full-day mid-week courses for aspiring professionals. Yet, we often get amateur enthusiasts contacting us about the best SLR to buy or asking if we run basic courses on how to get the most out of their digital SLRs.

So we’ve created a ‘Get to know your Digital SLR’ workshop:

The title may not be so catchy, but it does what it says on the tin!

It’s a 3-hr evening class (6.30>9:30pm) for DSLR owners, and we’re running workshops in January, February, March & April.

We’ll be covering aperture, shutter speeds, ISO, composition, lenses, focussing and lots of other tech stuff but without all the tech language.

Based in Leeds, it’s going to be a lot of fun, with myself and another 3B Media pro photographer on board to answer all your questions (even the silly ones)!

As we’re offering it an introductory price of £50 (usually £75), it also makes an ideal Christmas gift for ideas for your photo enthusiast partner or family member!

For online booking and all for more information, head over to our 3B Media website here.

Hopefully see you there!

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Helen & Dan – Hazlewood Castle Wedding

There’s no let-up here at Barber Towers. After a really busy summer and autumn we’ve got an equally busy winter with lots of albums to design, pictures to edit and a general housekeeping ready to start the new year afresh.

So I though while I’m snowed in I’d do a quick catch up on some of the weddings I haven’t yet blogged starting with Helen & Dan’s who were married back in October at Hazlewood Castle. It’s a beautiful venue inside and out and this time we were lucky enough to go into the beautiful chapel where the ceremony was held. Although we’ve shot weddings at Hazlewood many many times before we’ve never yet been into the chapel so it was a lovely treat for us as well as a gorgeous venue for Helen & Dan and their guests.

As always I spent the morning with Helen and Lou was with Dan and the boys. Helen’s dress was amazing and she looked stunning in in as she walked down the aisle. The rain was kind enough to hold off and we managed to get lots of pictures of everyone outside in the gorgeous grounds – we’re always spoilt for choice for great locations at Hazlewood so it’s nice when we can use them.

The speeches were fantastic and after a first dance to an ace live band we left the revellers to enjoy the rest of the evening.

We had a great day with Helen & Dan and would like to wish them lot of happiness for their future together. We’re really pleased with their photos so here are a few to enjoy:

Phil & Lou xxx

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Aspire Training – New Course ‘Man About Town’

As we start to see the end of the year approaching – already we are looking forward to an exciting 2011. There are a number of projects in the pipeline which I will talk about in separate posts but here I want to mention our relationship with the fab people up at Aspire Photography Training. Over the last couple of months these guys have change the look and feel of who they are. They have new premises, a fab new website and a bunch of new courses for people to go on. One that Catherine was keen to introduce was ‘Man About Town’. There are a lot of courses about but usually photographing gorgeous women ( no bad thing! ) but at Aspire they wanted to address the balance a little. So ‘Man About Town’ was created and I am running the course 3 times during 2011.

3rd March 2011

19th May 2011

21st July 2011

This course will teach you…

  • How to photograph men
  • Techniques to make your subject feel comfortable and confident
  • How to turn a man into a model
  • The importance of light, wardrobe and location
  • How to keep you and your subject relaxed
  • How to make the shoot fun and get the best results

So checkout the website if you are interested and book a spot on one of the days. It will be great to see some of you there.

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Half price prints offer

We’re currently running a fantastic offer of 50% off all print prices and individual digital files.

The offer finishes at midnight on Sunday 14th November so hurry up and get your orders in and we’ll have them delivered to you in plenty of time for Christmas – a great idea for stocking fillers for friends and family.

To order just go to our SECURE ORDERING SITE and enter your password when prompted. The 50% discount will be applied to your basket when you check out. If you’ve forgotten your password just drop us an email and we’ll send you a reminder.

Please note the offer only applies to prints and individual digital files and does not cover albums, books, frames etc.

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