Wedding Photographers Essex - Reminder to myself - I must keep my Blog up to date!

Geoffry Archer once wrote that the hardest part of writing a novel (read Blog) is sitting down - I concur and promise to do better.

Over the last week (when not photographing widgets and other commercial necessities) I met up and assisted my good friend Richard Palmer with his Toastmaster Training and met new member of the English Toastmasters Association Michael Wall. Together we also visited the Church of St John the Evangelist and St Erconwald at Ingatestone where Clare and Pat are being married on the 23rd May with the reception at Layer Marmey Tower.

On Sunday I went to All Saints Church Theydon Garnon - Jess and Jack were also there to hear their Banns being read - I am photographing their wedding there on the 28th May (the reception will be at Gaynes Park).

Earlier last week I visited my fencing club (The Lansdowne Club). Over a glass of wine we all agreed how healthy sport was - of the 8 fencers present 6 were carrying injuries of which 5 were directly attributable to sport (2 hips (mine included), one back, the remaining shoulders and arms) - the one exception was an injury incurred whilst looking for Polar Bears in the Arctic Circle - crashed snowmobile.

I also learnt that my eldest daughter - Rebecca, had been accepted to read Photography at the Royal College of Art for her Masters in September.

Art in the Car Park, Liverpool

Yesterday I put aside my role as a Wedding Photographer in Essex and Herts and visited Liverpool to view an exhibition at the CCP Car Park in Duke Street.

To quote "Art in the Car Park is a diverse group show in response to the CCP Car Park, Liverpool. The result is a body of new artwork that weaves into the social, economic, political, historical and geographical situation of the site and the city at large.

In the 80s, CCP Car Park, based in the heart of Liverpool, housed the offices of a car-sales business. After it was abandoned, it remained dormant in the portfolio of property developers until its rehabilitation by The Art Organisation (TAO) this year. TAO respond to the unique situation of a city in regeneration, negotiating the use of empty buildings for use as rich and compelling temporary space for artists and art.

Liverpool is an 801-year-old city with a unique story. The intractable relationship between Liverpool's maritime successes, heavy bombing in WWII, slave history, diverse religious demographics, extraordinary cultural diversity and long economic decline make for a city loaded with ambiguous social history. It provides fertile ground for creative commentary at the CCP Car Park.....

Curators Hannah Hull, Iavor Lubomirov and Jordan Dalladay-Simpson are dedicated to allowing artists freedom to create work in a range of challenging situations that are relevant to their practice. Working in partnership with TAO, they invited artists to match themselves to this opportunity via an open brief. This allowed an 'auto-curation' of site, producing work that could not happen anywhere else."

Amongst the exhibiting artists was my Daughter Rebecca Court -

"Rebecca Court - The post-industrial city of Liverpool, once known as one of the most deprived areas of the UK, is at present undergoing a 920 million transformation. Rebecca is producing a poignant site-specific installation consisting of photographs of the local area projected onto found building materials. She aims to represent the process of change the City is undergoing, preserving and documenting the memory and identity of what has or will be lost by this development."

Photograph copyright Rebecca Court - future Wedding Photographer Essex and Herts?