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Ailish, Mike & Killian at Rossbeigh

Had a great afternoon recently with Ailish, Mike and Killian at the beach back in Rossbeigh. The guys wanted photographs with Killian but nothing from a studio, which as you know is the market we are onwardly developing, just being out having fun regardless of the weather is a win win situation, for us the natural bond comes shining through in all relationships and for our clients the natural work is a huge plus. The kids well they just remember having a great time with their parents which is what life is all about after all is said and done.

Myself and Ev insist on having the parents in the shots with the kids, because in years to come thats what your children will be looking for from their photographs, this is me with mum & Dad is a phrase I have used often when showing photographs of me when I was a kid as im sure we all have, our children today, especially today with the lifestyles that are being led expect nothing less from us and it is with great pleasure that myself and Ev witness and capture these moments for our clients.

Here are a few of my favs from the shoot

K

 

Kelly & Sean at Fels Point

What a great day ! Kelly looked stunning, all along we knew how important her photographs were to her, it was the most important part of her day. Everything just flowed so naturally the whole day, Kelly and Sean were married in Churchill just outside Tralee, it realy is a gorgeous church and the views around it of Tralee Bay is just outstanding.

Because of connections we were able to access a private gardens, which were just stunning, with the same views, marble arches and everything else in between, myself and Ev just had a great time with everything in front of us.

Kelly we know you will love the work from the day, yoursel, Sean and all the gang could not have been nicer to us on the day for which we thank you.

This was probably the last day we had with that amazing soft light that our little country can produce, being outside at this time of year is a bonus to avail of the light and all the things that are around us which goes into the makeup of this Island of ours.

We have selected a few of our favs from many for you to enjoy.

K

 

 

Clare & John at the Tea Rooms

I met up with Clare & John through the week for their lifestyle shoot, our meeting point was the tea rooms in The Pheonix Park, have to say love that place, I think your transported back in time the minute you enter and the coffee is pretty damn good as well.

We waited for the rain to clear, we had good weather down here all week but talking to clients and other togs based on the east coast it was bad all week. Wednesday seemed to be the worst of it, it lashed, then lashed again (time for more coffee, yummy) then suddenly a window no rain for about 1/2 hour and off we went.

The colours were incredable, overcast sky, no sun, autumn colour equals colours of every shade jumping at you wow!.

As I said 1/2 hour later just finishing up down by the small lake, a few more idea's I have and bang it just falls down again, but hey in that time we picked up some cool stuff, some of my fav's here.

Clare & John totally looking forward to Doonbeg now its going to be great fun

K

 
 

Maeve & Noel Avoid the Rain

When we first met Maeve & Noel it was lashing, just torrential rain, when Evelyn met them for their lifestyle session it was lashing again, just falling down and most of the shoot was under realy large umberalla's.

Maeve wasn't holding out much hope for the main event weather wise, but we travelled to Newcastle West in Limerick and took the good Kerry weather with us, it was a little overcast but as all of our past couples will know who experienced the same kind of day is perfect for good photography.

Maeve looked just stunning, she has a very beautiful Irish look to her, we are very lucky to shoot beautiful women from all over the world and that Irish look is very distintive.

We travelled onto Charleville through Adare and stopped off for some work around the village, the craic was great and the photography shows all the fun that was had.

Thank you to everyone for the fun we had and especially to Maeve's mum for insisting we devour those amazing rasher sandwhiches she was handing out at such a fast pace 

 

 
 

W Boudoir just got sexier

So excited to let you all know that Woodard Photography took our "W Boudoir" to a new level last week and shot our first Couple!

We shot their wedding last year, so when they 
  wanted to do another shoot with us for their anniversary, a Boudoir was suggested.

I did the shoot as always and Keith kept a low profile for the day as we shot it at our place. It was amazing to work with a couple who were this trusting and comfortable around us, right from the pre-wedding shoot through to the wedding and the boudoir.

The same concept applied, intimate and sexy was the plan and a glass of bubbly along the way helped calm the nerves..

Here are a few of my favorites and as always we can only show little details.

Hope you like and looking forward to the next one.

Ev

A Day at the Races

We have had a great spell of weather lately and last weekend we found ourselves in Caherciveen completly by accident on the same day as their annual legendary race meeting. The meeting is ran on a track outside the town on a wonderful point out in the bay, which now has houses built around the place, so the jockeys find themselves literaaly racing around the houses, but it is all good fun and one of the last bastions of Irish life from an age not to long ago.

Here is a selection of a few favourites

 

From Oz to the Cahernane with Love.

Helena & Darren are just a cool couple, their story is one of fate no question of that, of how they met, even the sternest of non believers in the story of our paths being mapped for us would struggle to argue against this story. Just to say that both Helena and Darren where thousands of miles from their homes in Oz and Ireland in Asia one deliberatly and one completely by accident, chance, fate call it what you will, meant they had a 2 hour window to bump into each other in this strange country before they moved on again in totally seperate circles, but meet they did and the rest of the journey brings us all the way back to Ireland for the continuation of their story with their wedding day.

The sun beamed, the reception and speaches were outside (yes in Ireland) and the whole day was just cool.

Helena & Darren thank you for the warmness from you both and to your families also, it was just great to be part of your day

K&E

A Bride a Scrapyard and a River

We shot Bridget and Mark's wedding back in May and she was always getting back in the dress to have a bit of fun and let us create some work that any magazine photoshoot would be proud of.

The weather has been good these last few weeks and all our schedules came together and so the date was set.

Bridget left it entirely to us, but at some stage did want to get into water (and no fresh water will not destroy the dress) although it was lets say a little chilly for the parts that were in the water.

 First stop was the scrapyard to which we thank the owners for allowing us to use it, they kept scratching their heads wondering what was going to happen next which was createing howls of laughter outside of anything else and finally into a nearby ravine with a wonderful river running through it and Bridget eventually being allowed to take to the water.

Mark her husband was alongside us all day and turned into a great bag and props man to which we say thank you to him and to Bridget also for a great afternoon of fun and laughter.

K&E

Vivienne & Jason at Carton House

We come to shoot Vivienne & Jason's wedding from refferals that have taken us from Liexlip to Kerry and back to Maynooth again which is pretty cool when you think about it.

Vivienne who is from Maynooth lives and works in the U.S. with Jason both working in law within the United Nations (cool job) so when thay decided to tie the knot although Ireland was always going to be the venue,it was realy going to be a global event with friends and family travelling literally from the 4 corners of this planet of ours.

Vivienne and Jason just could not done enough for us and we thank them for their and their families kindness, the brief was just shoot it as we see it, which in honesty is pretty much the brief in every wedding we shoot and we did just that.

Carton House is a stunning building and we got a lot of use out of it because the weather certainly went against us for most of the day,but as you can see, from some of our favourites being outside isn't always the right place to be.

K&E

 

Johanna & James at the Muckross Pk

From a little village on the very top of Sweden's border with the Artic circle, Johanna made her way to the very mild climate of Killorglin working with Fexco,she didn't bargain on meeting James but cest la vie as they say and meet they did.

A great crew travelled from Sweden for Johanna, the Killorglin crew had been quite since the end of Puck so they were mad for road. The sun shone and then it rained, then the sun shone again, I think you get the idea of the type of day we had weather wise, but we had great fun all day with everybody involved.

Johanna has to be one of the coolest people we have ever met, nothing troubled her on the day and that influence was transferred to James and the two of them were totally chilled and enjoyed every moment of their day.

Thanks for the oppertunity of shooting your day,we now know more swedish than ever before and Johanna we will be taking up you invitation to visit home and experience the Northern Lights.

K&E