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01Dec 2011

Christmas Family Photos

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Well here we are in December so I guess we can talk about Christmas now! Its obviously a busy month but we still have bookings available with prints and canvasses guaranteed in time for Christmas!

Family photography is very popular this time of year, as is pet photography! We have some great packages that are very reasonably priced so please do get in touch if you want some kids photos, family shots, pet photos or some nice portraits from your local award winning photographer!

We can also offer vouchers for any of our packages which make a nice gift for Christmas!

I’ve also put together a little slideshow of some of my kids photography which is on Youtube! On my main website follow the link at the bottom to my new Youtube channel!

11Nov 2011

Dabbers in FA Cup History & Guillemots at The Box

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I spent the afternoon at the Weaver Stadium in Nantwich. Nantwich Town have made history by reaching the 1st round proper of the FA Cup for the first time in their 127 year history and head down to Milton Keynes for Saturday’s fixture. The place was buzzing as the team got ready to set off with Sky Sports News broadcasting live as well as all the local Press. I’m off to the Stadium:MK on Saturday to photograph the match for the club and local press.

Thursday night saw one of the best nights of music at The Box in Crewe I have witnessed. Guillemots were in town and the performance was special. I had a good chat with the band before they took to the stage and shot a portrait of each band member as well as a group shot of all the band together.

I also was the official photographer for the WTD Promotions darts exhibition at Crewe Alex with three times world champion John Part. Did a great portrait and also all the shots with the fans!

I’ll be working with the Retrospective on Sunday on a band shoot. Got some great ideas and looking forward to an interesting shoot!

09Nov 2011

Duff McKagan and Four Four Two Magazine

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Another busy week is underway at SJN Towers! After a weekend spent partly in Blackpool photographing loads of MPs and a day at RedShift Radio for the special photo day we have loads underway this week.

On Tuesday night I was off to London to meet and photograph former Guns ‘n Roses musician Duff McKagan. Duff is now with Loaded and I met him at The Garage in Islington. We did some portraits followed by some live shots of the last gig on their UK tour! Great gig it was too!

I recently received a request from the famous football magazine Four Four Two for some images of Nantwich Town manager Jimmy Quinn. I photographed the former Northern Ireland international leading up to my exhibition at the Lyceum Theatre earlier in the year. The resulting article is in the December issue and is a humorous take on Jimmy featuring on the bench for the Dabbers due to suspensions and injuries! I photographed Jimmy in a charity match in which he found the back of the net against Franco Baresi’s AC Milan Legend XI.

Still got lots on over the rest of the week. Guillemots stop by Crewe on Thursday at The Box. On the same night I’ll be photographing three times world champion professional darts player John Part. John is taking part in an exhibition with WTD Promotions at Crewe Alex’s Carlsberg Suite. Friday sees another gig at the Box before a weekend which will involve heading down to Milton Keynes for the historic match between the MK Dons and Nantwich Town in the first round of the FA Cup. Sunday I have a family shoot followed by a music promo for local band The Retrospective!

07Nov 2011

Cheshire Market Towns Photography Competition Judging

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I am very pleased to have been asked to sit on the judging panel for the Cheshire Market Towns Photography Competition run by Cheshire East Council.

I took charge of 2 of the 6 categories and I have to say the selection of images from amateur photographers around Cheshire was very good indeed. It reminded me how amazing the Cheshire countryside is and how much there is to photograph so close to home! The winners are due to be announced on Wednesday and congratulations go to all the winners in all categories, the overall winner and the under 18 winners.

The competition was run through Flickr which is an amazing site dedicated to sharing photographs! I have had a Flickr account for many years now and still use it regularly. If you want to check out some of my images that aren’t necessarily on the main website in the galleries check it out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonjnewbury/

Meanwhile this week I will be photographing The Guillemots and Canadian former darts world champion John Part!

21Oct 2011

Ray Parlour at the Weaver Stadium

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Over the summer I was appointed the official club photographer for Nantwich Town FC. I had previously done a portrait of Chairman Jon Gold and club manager Jimmy Quinn for my exhibition ‘People’ staged at the Lyceum Theatre. Mr Gold was so impressed with the portraits that he invited me to take up the position, which I was very happy to accept.

I now attend all the home fixtures to take action shots which are used on the club website and in the programme! I also have a full page advertisement in the matchday programme. As well as the action shots I have taken the full squad photograph, recently published in the Chronicle and all the player portraits.

There are many fundraising events held at the Weaver Stadium including after dinner speaking. I was privileged to be invited along to a recent event starring BBC football commentator John Motson OBE. I had a good chat with John and also did a monochrome portrait which was also included in the ‘People’ exhibition. Last night England and Arsenal legend Ray Parlour was at the Weaver! I was once again invited to attend and provide the event photography and produced a portrait of Ray.

Ray had some great stories to tell about his playing days and a great evening was had by all!

20Oct 2011

NME Music Photography Competition

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Every year NME hold a music photography competition. There is an amateur category and a professional section. I entered the maximum photographs allowed, five. This year I let my Facebook friends decide the 5 I entered by making their selection of 5 from my narrowed down selection of 10.

The top 5 were:

– a portrait of Al Campbell of Sham 69, a black and white portrait I did at The Box in Crewe.

– a portrait of Matthew Davies-Kreye of Funeral For a Friend, another monochrome portrait.

– a portrait of Kingsley Chapman of the Chapman Family, a hot and sweaty shot taken straight after a performance.

– a live shot of The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, taken from the pit at Transmission 001 Live From Jodrell Bank.

– a live shot of Iggy Pop performing with The Stooges, taken at Chester Rocks this summer.

A have a huge passion for live music and music photography. I love photographing bands on stage, in posed group promo shots as well as documentary style shots. I have accompanied several bands into the recording studio and documented the process of recording music.

You can check out my NME entries here:
http://www.nme.com/ratemy/218221/nme-professional-music-photography-awards-2011/item/225945
(Mine are this image and the following 4!)

Also feel free to have a browse on the website where I have many of my favourite music photos in the galleries!

I’m pleased to say that at the time of writing all 5 of my NME entries are in the top 20!!

20Oct 2011

Celebrity Bargain Hunt in Nantwich

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We recently had a great time at Peter Wilson Fine Art Auctioneer in Nantwich, Cheshire. The BBC was in town to film a set of episodes of the popular Bargain Hunt series, including the celebrity Children In Need episode.

I was asked to go along to get some photographs of the proceedings and was pleased to meet up with the celebrity red and blue teams participating! I did a great portrait of the show’s host Tim Wonnacott as well as the two experts on hand to lend their advice to the teams!

I spent some time with the star of The Crystal Maze and The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien. I love the monochrome portrait! Its in my front wrap on my website if you want to check it out!! I also photographed Jodie Prenger, famous from ‘I’d Do Anything’. They represented the Westenders while the Eastenders were Billy Mitchell and his on-screen wife Honey from the popular BBC soap. Perry Fenwick and Emma Barton were both happy to pose for portraits!

A great day was had and lots of money raised for the wonderful charity Children In Need. The episode is due to be broadcast on November 18.

19Oct 2011

Special Photo Sitting Days in Crewe

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The blog is back, lets hope its here to stay!! I’ll kick things off with a quick post about the special photo sitting days I am holding in the lead up to Christmas. I have organised a set of photo days at various locations which means you can take advantage of our £20 for a shoot and print offer. Its great value for Christmas presents and we offer the usual fantastic quality!

You are free to select your favourite image and have it printed as you desire, in colour or in monochrome. You can also select any other images if you like and may choose to upgrade to one of our good value packages or to a canvas print. There’s no hard selling, you get a unique login and can select your images at your leisure online!

To kick things off we are heading over to RedShift Radio on 6th November and then a week later we will be at The Box on Pedley Street. We are open to Newborns, Kids Photos, Family, pets or professional portraits for social media use! If you are after a nice pro portrait to use on Twitter or Facebook you can choose to have a web resolution digital image instead of the print ready to upload!

If you want to book yourself a slot, just pop along to the page and follow the links!!

http://www.simonjnewburyphotography.co.uk/offers/photositting.html