Another Day Over

Well, here we are on day 3 of the blog. Not much to report today, I've been out printing again, but this time for an aerial photography company.
Caroline is carefully working her way through the quite large list of Lindum riders, so that she can match up people to pictures.
I don't know whether any of you have ever wondered, but being the photographers for a ride like Lindum is quite an undertaking. The after ride workload is immense.
The initial stages involve downloading all of the pictures from each of the five days. From here they are re-mumbered using our own numbering system. Once they are numbered and before we edit or delete any images, the whole five days worth of photographs are burned to a DVD or two. This ensures that we always have a copy of all of the photos taken, just in case ....
Next, Caroline spends quite a few days editing the images, cropping, colour correcting and enhancing if needed. Her eyes get squarer by the hour. Once each days images are edited, they are broken down into 'print'folders, each containing 40 images, which makes it easier for me when I get to the print stage. After all five days are edited and divided into their print folders, they are again Burned to DVD.
Now it's off to the print shop for me, where I personally print every image that gets sent out. I'm lucky that I have access to this facility, which came about by using the connections and friendships I made in my previous Job, which was Sales and Service Engineer, for Konica Minolta Photo Imaging UK LTD......

To be continued..

I'm having fun....

Well, I've been sat with my Laptop all afternoon, while watching 'Live and Let Die' on the TV and I'm just about getting to grips with the new Blog. Caroline likes the Blog and as a budding writer, will hopefully be adding some interesting posts soon.

As the weather has been quite fine this afternoon here in Harrogate, Caroline has been out doing some gardening. She loves gardening, unlike me, although she struggles to find time to do it.
If there are any subjects you would like us to discuss on the Blog, please post here and let us know..

Chris

Welcome to our Blog.....

Hello and welcome to the very first entry in our new blog. (web log)

We have just published the Lindum 2010 Handy Pony and Dog show classes to our website, http://www.west-end-photography.co.uk/ Please take a look!. As usual, Lindum has created such a lot of images to work through and such a lot of data to be processed before we can even get to posting out any prints to you. However, Caroline is working extra hard and I've just finished printing well over 2000 prints, which will now have to be listed on our ride records, before being cut down further to the final images that we will actually send to you.

In amongst all of this, we have a busy family life to contend with as well as keeping our ten year old entertained during the summer break.

I've added a new feature to the home page of the website. You can now pay us for any photographs we have sent you in the post using your credit card, via the paypal link at the centre of the home page. If you decide to do this, please remember to let us know which images you are actually purchasing and don't forget to post any unwanted prints back to us as soon as possible. Both of these actions will help to keep Caroline up to date with what you have or haven't paid for, so it's good for both parties.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions to improve the feel and usability of the website.

Cheers

Chris