woodard photography blog

Have you been trying to contact us ?

If you have been sending us e-mails from around 11am on Tuesday 24th February, we have not been recieving them. We only discovered the problem late yesterday evening and have been trying to rectify the problem since.

The issue is now resolved, so if you are wondering where our responce to you is, we maybe didn't recieve the question, many apologies for this.

Please resend and Ev or myself will get back to you

What our couples are telling us

Just back from a 3 day roadtrip around the country,we shot some lifestyle images 2 e-sessions and we had 4 meetings with potential clients for this year and next.

Before we left we were very much aware of how much photography meant to our couples on their wedding day and beyond, but in the last few weeks and talking to the people we have met over the 3 days, photography has taken on an even more important role for their special occasions. In these troubled times it seems that certainly the people we are working with are putting an even bigger emphasis on capturing their day in great detail with creative vision.

We have posted here about budgets for events in the past and this is not the time or place to mention again, what is heartening for us is the importance our photography holds with so many of you out there.

we dont like monday's

Well, the year is off and running, phones are hoping,email buzzing (thank god) thank you to evryone who has made contact with us, an even bigger thank you to our past B&G's who even after several years are still thinking of us and referring us to family,friends, workmates and pretty much everybody in between.

We had to take stock of our schedule because in the photography business one day runs into the other very quickly, so to that end we have made for us 2 important decisions which you will hopefully undertand.

We mentioned previously we are curtailing the amount of weddings we shoot yearly, with so much travelling on our schedule we had to limit the number of weddings we were shooting, to ensure our 100% is given to the couple we are working with on any given week.

Secondly we have decided to close Monday's, so if you happen to call or mail on Monday, please leave any messages you have and Ev or I will come back to you on Tuesday straight away. We are building a soundproof box and all phones will be going into the box Saturday evening until Tuesday morning, we know you will understand in advance and again thank you

Love & Marriage Magazine

In the winter edition of Love & Marriage there is a section on bijou weddings that makes for interesting reading, we see our couples having smaller more distintive weddings all the time and the this article helps along those lines.

The one thing thankfully writer Sarah Shinton suggests you do not cut back on is the photography and from the article I quote

"Your wedding album is a lasting memento of your special day.It is important that the photographer is booked on the strength of their portfolio rather than the limitations of your budget. It is not a rehearsal so it must be right on the day. Better to have an excellent photographer for a few hours than an average one for the whole day."

we look to convey this to clients we meet and it must be said that couples we work with put a huge emphasis on their photography and say it is one of if not the most important parts of their day, its good to see such thoughts finally going to press in one of our national magazines

Our New Add

just a quick note, to show you our new add that we are currently running in various Bridal magazines

we thought it would be good to have a mini retrospective of some of the work we were able to create with a few of the amazing couples we have worked with so far this year, to all of you we say thank you

for appreciating the art of photography for its simple beautiful storytelling.

We have been to many seminars over to years to improve on our skills and to find out about what is happening overseas in the wedding/portrait market.

We have discovered the amazing talent that is in Australia and have been following a few names for some time now. One of them is David Williams who travels world-wide with his seminars and every time he was in reach of us we were unable to attend for various reasons.

His work is amazing and his approach to photography is one that really appeals to us personally. You can only imagine how trilled we were when he contacted us to host his next UK/Ireland seminar in our Kerry studio!!

He advertised it on his website and it filled up within a few hours with photographers flying in from all over the world to attend. Please look at his site to see why we love his work so much and are so looking forward to hosting him - www.davidwilliams-heartworks.com .

We have been working hard on developing our portrait market in the line of Bump, Baby, Boudoir, and Lifestyle Shoots and know this will help take us to a new level. Here is a little taste from a recent baby shoot we had with the beautiful Katie.

we are delighted to introduce you to Cara MacKessy (she refuses to pose for shot), Cara came onboard with us at the start of the month, and will be a vital and integral part of the growing team here in the studio.

She has just returned from London where she had a great time and career with EMI records, her knowledge of all things business is amazing and already the change she has brought to our setup is defining.

We have a lot of things happening with the studio at the moment, we will be introducing something totally new to our clients in the next week or so, Cara is handling the bulk of this so she has been thrown in the deep end big time.

K&E

More and more we find ourselves in Dublin and along the East coast with meeting clients, e-sessions and wedding days, so we made a decision in the last few weeks to search for studio/office space in the capital. We will be travelling up to finalise plans in the next week or so, which we are really excited about.

We plan to be on the east coast  3 or 4 times a month for meetings and consultations and will list the timings here on the blog monthly.

This will hopefully help our exsisting clients and also benefit any future clients who feel naturally that Kerry is the other side of the country when it comes to booking their photographer for their big day.

When we have the address secured we will be operating with an 01 Dublin number again hopefully to suit are clients convienience, of course the current Woodard Photography numbers will remain in place this is just an addition.

Myself or Ev will keep you informed of progress over the coming weeks, thanks to everyone who have had an input in our thought making for such a big but exciting move.

Talk Soon

The one thing we have no control over on any wedding day is the weather, Aisling & JJ were married just before christmas and boy was it bad !!  It poured all day long no break in the weather at all.

The body of work that Ev & I were able to pick up was just mind blowing, we have put a slideshow together to give you an idea of what can be done in any kind of weather, good photography just happens, its as simple as that, you dont need any influences from the sky above.  Enjoy the images and hopefully if your day goes bad weather wise this should give you a more confident feeling about your photographs.

http://woodardphotography.webng.com/ashling & jj/

Keith & Ev

Over the past few weeks we have been busy updating and refreshing our site, the results of which will be live in the next few days, we are thrilled with the new modified look and although our current site recieves a lot of recognition we are sure the updated version will move us down the road that little bit more. The two main problems we had were narrowing down the selection of images, all the images shown were taken in 2007 by the way and music selection, myself and Evelyn both stood our ground with our own choices on this as we both love such varied strands of music. In the end it came down to 2 songs and hopefully the one we selected is the right sound to accompany the gallery slideshows.

Thank you again for all your support the slideshows on this blog are a big hit with clients past and present and future of course, it allows us to show people the way we feel our  unique wedding style is evolving and becoming more creative with every wedding and photo session we shoot.

So hopefully you will enjoy the new site in the coming weeks

Keith & Evelyn

David Williams

We have been to many seminars over to years to improve on our skills and to find out about what is happening overseas in the wedding/portrait market.

We have discovered the amazing talent that is in Australia and have been following a few names for some time now. One of them is David Williams who travels world-wide with his seminars and every time he was in reach of us we were unable to attend for various reasons.

His work is amazing and his approach to photography is one that really appeals to us personally. You can only imagine how trilled we were when he contacted us to host his next UK/Ireland seminar in our Kerry studio!!

He advertised it on his website and it filled up within a few hours with photographers flying in from all over the world to attend. Please look at his site to see why we love his work so much and are so looking forward to hosting him - www.davidwilliams-heartworks.com .

We have been working hard on developing our portrait market in the line of Bump, Baby, Boudoir, and Lifestyle Shoots and know this will help take us to a new level. Here is a little taste from a recent baby shoot we had with the beautiful Katie.

Introducing Cara

we are delighted to introduce you to Cara MacKessy (she refuses to pose for shot), Cara came onboard with us at the start of the month, and will be a vital and integral part of the growing team here in the studio.

She has just returned from London where she had a great time and career with EMI records, her knowledge of all things business is amazing and already the change she has brought to our setup is defining.

We have a lot of things happening with the studio at the moment, we will be introducing something totally new to our clients in the next week or so, Cara is handling the bulk of this so she has been thrown in the deep end big time.

K&E

Woodard Photography Kerry & Dublin

More and more we find ourselves in Dublin and along the East coast with meeting clients, e-sessions and wedding days, so we made a decision in the last few weeks to search for studio/office space in the capital. We will be travelling up to finalise plans in the next week or so, which we are really excited about.

We plan to be on the east coast  3 or 4 times a month for meetings and consultations and will list the timings here on the blog monthly.

This will hopefully help our exsisting clients and also benefit any future clients who feel naturally that Kerry is the other side of the country when it comes to booking their photographer for their big day.

When we have the address secured we will be operating with an 01 Dublin number again hopefully to suit are clients convienience, of course the current Woodard Photography numbers will remain in place this is just an addition.

Myself or Ev will keep you informed of progress over the coming weeks, thanks to everyone who have had an input in our thought making for such a big but exciting move.

Talk Soon

What Happens if it Rains

The one thing we have no control over on any wedding day is the weather, Aisling & JJ were married just before christmas and boy was it bad !!  It poured all day long no break in the weather at all.

The body of work that Ev & I were able to pick up was just mind blowing, we have put a slideshow together to give you an idea of what can be done in any kind of weather, good photography just happens, its as simple as that, you dont need any influences from the sky above.  Enjoy the images and hopefully if your day goes bad weather wise this should give you a more confident feeling about your photographs.

http://woodardphotography.webng.com/ashling & jj/

Keith & Ev

Updating Website

Over the past few weeks we have been busy updating and refreshing our site, the results of which will be live in the next few days, we are thrilled with the new modified look and although our current site recieves a lot of recognition we are sure the updated version will move us down the road that little bit more. The two main problems we had were narrowing down the selection of images, all the images shown were taken in 2007 by the way and music selection, myself and Evelyn both stood our ground with our own choices on this as we both love such varied strands of music. In the end it came down to 2 songs and hopefully the one we selected is the right sound to accompany the gallery slideshows.

Thank you again for all your support the slideshows on this blog are a big hit with clients past and present and future of course, it allows us to show people the way we feel our  unique wedding style is evolving and becoming more creative with every wedding and photo session we shoot.

So hopefully you will enjoy the new site in the coming weeks

Keith & Evelyn