It has been a manic month hence the lack of blogging so I thought I'd do one of my famous catch up posts to let you know what I've been up to.

First of all I shot Kelly and Simons beautiful wedding at the gorgeous Jesmond Dene house hotel, one of my favourite venues and always a pleasure to photograph weddings and events at.  Here's just a few highlights from their day -

a really beautiful celebration of 2 people in love and I'm so happy that I got to shoot the wedding.

Also this month as usual there have been lots and lots of portrait bookings in the studio

So lots of lovely babies, toddlers, children and families to photograph and it's all been a pretty fantastic month.

In the last week I've booked 5 weddings and I would say that if you want to book me for your 2013 wedding please don't wait around too long or you may find that I'm too full as I only shoot 15-20 weddings a year.

If you would like to talk to me about shooting your wedding or if you want to arrange a time to come in for a family portrait please click through to my website 

Maternity Photography - Mandy Charlton Newcastle Photographer

This week in the studio spring has arrived and we all say a big yay verily!

This means of course that it's time to meet lots of women with superbly fabulous bumps and then I get to photograph them again when baby arrives.

On Monday I met this lady who is going to have a little baby in April, she has the perfect bump!!

Today I have a newborn shoot and another bump shoot in the morning before going off to a wedding in the afternoon, next week I am going to have so many photos to share so stay tuned and in the meantime have a wonderfully sunny weekend.

If you would like to book a bump or newborn photoshoot please click through to my website and contact me

Whats been happening? - (Mandy Charlton, Newcastle Portrait and Wedding Photographer)

My last blog was January 31st, since then so much has happened, I've even had a birthday, I can't really be 38 can I?

So this is a bit of a catch up of what I've been getting up to both personally and professionally over the last month.

February was probably one of my busiest months ever, it started on the 1st with my birthday when I had a lovely trip to York with hubby for the day.

On Friday the 3rd I was honoured and delighted to shoot my first wedding of the year, Livi and Andy at Langley Castle in Northumberland, splendid couple, gorgeous and wonderful couple and I have to say that it really got my 2012 wedding season off to a great start.

Andy was so nervous as Livi came through the doors, a few moments later she cried, he cried, I cried, it was a total tearfest and a beautiful thing!!

They Really are such a gorgeous couple and Livi is so beautiful as well as having the loveliest sweetest personality.

I also met this little Diva during February, completely gorgeous and she wants to be a model when she grows up, with poses like that I think she might just manage.

This is Sara and Andy who are getting married in April, I went down to York and had lunch with them and then shot their wedding in the Museum Gardens, I cannot wait for their wedding.

Spot the heart shape ;)

Now then, Freya, she is all kinds of awesome and mum and dad Simon and Kelly below are getting married at the end of March and it's another wedding I am utterly excited to shoot, Freya also wants to be a model when she grows up, watch out world I say!

I'm so utterly lucky to have such wonderful lovely clients who are all as gorgeous on the inside as they are on the outside!

this family of 4 children came to see me in the studio just a couple of weeks ago, beautiful though I have to admit with twins aged 19 months it was always going to be a challenge, lucky I loved it and we got some great photos of them all.

and these sisters came to visit, poor little one had missed her sleep so it took a lot to make her even sit, stand or run around, she's gorgeous though isn't she

no such problems with her big sister who actually has an expression for every occasion!

and as for this little wonder, all she did for an entire hour was smile and say Wow, that's my kind of client!!

and you know what I've also done other things this month but I'll save that for another blog post.

If you want to book me for your 2012 wedding please be speedy as I'm almost full, just click through to my website to contact me for a chat.

This is an advance warning - January is Boudoir Month

Why yes my sweeties January has to be boudoir month if you want to give your loved one gorgeous images of yourself for Valentines day.

Miss L did just that a couple of weeks ago, in fact it was the same week I had the pleasure of photographing Miss Dee La Beau

and so my pretties, lets share a few photographs from those shoots, I have full permission from both ladies but let me reassure you I'd never share your boudoir photos unless you wanted to.

How gorgeous is Miss L, she really said she had no confidence and then pulled this shot off, it's amazing!  I actually won an award for this image!

Of course Miss La Beau was beautiful as ever and totally worked it, I love this one best as it's just a little vunerable.

so now you've seen some gorgeous ladies doing it for themselves it's your turn, during January boudoir shoots with a little black book are only £249 instead of £295, thats a huge saving and if you go the time only option your boudoir shoot is going to be as little as £120, to book just go to my website, email me or call me on 07918 121838

Now there's just 1 thing left and that is come on boys, you want to give your other half nice photos of you don't you? January isn't just boudoir month, January is dudeoir month so get yourself booked in!

Now if you are looking for a super saving why not pre-purchase a gift certificate and then you'll get 20% extra value and also save on the shoot, it's the ultimate present if you are in Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham or anywhere in the north east of England, with one of my awards this year being won for that thar image up thar you can be assured you are in good hands

It's a little Christmas Giveaway

Yes, you heard it here first folks, in the spirit of Christmas I am giving away 2 festive photo shoots down at my Studio this Saturday afternoon.  All you'll pay for are any prints and I'll even guarantee delivery for Christmas.

Here's just a couple of portraits from last weekend -

So, what do you have to do to win one of these portrait shoots and when are they available?

Well you can choose pretty much any time from noon on Saturday and they'll be at my studio, I'm based within The Photography Studio, Unit 6, The Old Co-Op buildings, Ralph Street, Hebburn, NE31 1HP, it's literally a 10 minute drive from central Newcastle and it's cosy and warm and full of fun things for the kids, we have a trampoline, rocking horse, tons of dressing up and festive things, it really is a whole lot of festive fun!

So to win one all you have to do is email mandy@mandycharlton.com, leave a comment on this post, Tweet Me or send me a Facebook Message you can even contact me through my website 

I'm also going to open up evenings for portrait shoots at my studio next week, so if you wanted to book a shoot but you haven't had time I can do after school pretty much all next week, I even have some slots available on the weekend of 17/18th but thats going to mean being super speedy when it comes to placing orders if you want them for Christmas.

x

Festive Family Photoshoots in the Studio

This is your festive warning, Christmas is coming and in my lovely studio Christmas family photoshoots are taking place resulting in photographs like this -

There's still time to book in to have lots of festive fun in my warm and cosy studio based in Hebburn (10 minutes walk from Jarrow Metro and only 10 Minutes drive from Newcastle city centre)

Photo shoots are only £20 until Christmas so give me a call on 07918 121838 or contact me through my website and I might even be able to fit you in this weekend.I'm adding extra added free photo shoots on Wednesday 30/11/11, if you're off work with the kids because of the strike then why not come and have some fun at my studio because photo shoots are free all day, if you would like one just contact me in any of the above ways, you'll only pay for prints etc and everything will be with you before Santa comes, so laugh in the face of the doom, gloom and strikes and take advantage of my special happy offer.

Welcome to the festive season!

Big, Big, News, I have a Studio!

I can hardly believe it myself but it's true, from Friday I'll be relocating Mandy Charlton Photography to a gorgeous 1008ft studio, I say 1008ft but thats just the main part of the studio, it's absolutely flippin enormous!!  Because it's fully equipped all I need to do is move myself in so if you fancy a studio shoot with me then you can book one with immediate effect.

I'm so excited about the future, I'm sharing the studio with my good friend and fellow photographer Tommy Jackson, we'll be doing some pretty funkaliscious stuff together over the next few months as well as maintaining our own individual brands.

For me, I guess I'm most well known for my environmental portraits and you know what thats not going to change, I'll still be out and about creating art like these from Sunday up in Hepple, Northumberland.

and should that white snowy stuff fall you can bet I'll be out doing snowy shoots just like last year, I have to say though that in the most horrible of winters it will be lovely to spend time inside a warm cosy studio and it means lots of new exciting possibilities for the quirky style of my photography which I know that you all know and love, for sure I am not about to become Venture Photography, you can count on that.

One of the most exciting aspects of the studio is that we want to share it with the hardworking photographers (and film and video guys) of the north who from time to time need a little studio space so we'll be subletting the Studio for a very reasonable £20 per hour, we may even have special offers from time to time.  We have a full white seamless set up and also black, grey and many other wonderful colours for the other set up.

One of my plans for the future is to have photographers networking nights, a place for all the NE photographers to gather together, network, maybe drink a little wine and beer and maybe make some new valuable connections in the process.

We have props and furniture aplenty and you'll always be welcomed by a friendly face and a mug of coffee, well as soon as we find the kettle ;)

To book use of the studio all you'll have to do is visit http://www.the-photography-studio.co.uk/studio-hire to check availability and book your slot in.  On that page you can also do a 360 tour of the studio, don't worry about the football portraits on the wall, they will not be there for very long ;)

Tommy and I are super excited about the future, sharing a studio has given us the ability to offer something we probably couldn't if we were on our own, I've always believed in studio sharing, it's always great to have someone to bounce ideas off and lessens that tuesday morning, lonely working alone feelings.

We also plan to rent some space to a makeup artist/hair stylist so if you are a local makeup artist/hair stylist looking to move out of home and looking for an unbeatable deal then please do get in touch with either me or Tommy, you can of course get to me by clicking on the contact tab of MandyCharlton.com

So to celebrate my move into the studio I would like to give one family or kids shoot away, all you have to do is leave a comment and I'll get someone to draw the name from the hat on Friday, you'll be saving yourself a whole £40 and of course all you will pay for is any prints you want afterwards.

I  am sorry for the seemingly epic blogpost but it is business changing news for me and quite epic, don't worry I just have 1 final thing to say and that is....look out for your invite to our studio opening party and bring a bottle!!