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Aldeburgh Festival Sunday Beach Events: Images ready to view

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Over the past two Sundays, I have photographed two lovely events on the beach at Aldeburgh for Aldeburgh Music: one involving semaphore and one singing.

You can see highlights from the semaphore event here and the singing event here, but all the images that made my edit are now available to view by clicking HERE from where you can also make print or framed print orders. Please contact me on 07811 242266 (daytime/eve) or email me anna@annamccarthy.com if you would like to order anything you see and like. Thank you.

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“All Voices to the Beach”: PR Photography in Aldeburgh, Suffolk: Aldeburgh Festival 2011

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, but dogs, men women and children were out in force at noon yesterday on Aldeburgh beach for another of Aldeburgh Music’s free festival events.

With not a cloud in sight, and the midday sun at it’s highest, All Voices to the Beach kicked off with a traditional Punch and Judy show and a group of eager children.

Punch, who must be one of the earliest english anarchists in history (dating back to the 1500s I’m told), was in full swing following his usual pattern of driving Judy to distraction (she really should have left him years ago) and causing chaos with the baby, a string of sausages, a mop and a constable..

At the end of the show, with Punch full scolded and chastised, the children turned to face the audience and forming smaller groups sang, with actions and in unison, various traditional english rhymes and songs with the theme of summer and the seaside. Later they were joined by other singers emerging from various parts of the beach and finally everyone was invited to join in - a fully inclusive and uplifting spectacle and sound… and lovely to be a part of.

The full edit of pictures from this event - and the Semaphore event I covered on 19th June (click here to see highlights from that) will be online shortly where you will be able to view and make print or framed print orders. In the meantime you can contact me on 07811 242266 or here if you would like to order anything now. Thank you.

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Wedding Photography in Suffolk: Lance and Kate galleries ready to view

Friday, June 24th, 2011

A few Saturday’s ago, I photographed Lance and Kate’s lovely wedding day at Yaxley Hall on the borders of Suffolk and Norfolk.

Highlights of their wedding can be viewed here:

And the complete edit of their images are now ready to view online here

If you would like to order prints, framed prints or digital images files from their wedding, please contact me at anna@annamccarthy.com or 07811 242266 or through the contact link here. Ordering information can also be found in the galleries.

At the moment this is one of my favourite images from the day. Not because it is photographically clever or different, but because it does exactly what I want my photographs at weddings to do: capture emotion, and the specific relationship between the bride and groom. This moment, when Lance’s best man (as best men do!) told Kate something about Lance that she didn’t know, encapsulates the sheer joy that exists between these two - and their absolute sense of fun - and there is that hint of ‘boy found out’ on Lance’s face that I love.

Kate and Lance have chosen a luxury bespoke Queensberry album which I am really looking forward to creating with and for them. I will post highlights of this later in the year.

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Publicty Photography in Suffolk: Aldeburgh Festival 2011

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

I have been commissioned again by Aldeburgh Music to photograph a couple of events taking place in Aldeburgh, Suffolk as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.

These beach events epitomise for me performance at its best and most relaxed. The audience can pretty much sit, stand or move about anywhere - and no one bats an eyelid if you make a sandcastle, throw a stick for your dog or tuck into your fish and chips as you watch. It is just about as chilled as a Sunday morning should be.

Weather wise last Sunday was perfect in terms of the quality of the light - those well defined, heavy grey brooding clouds interspersed with shafts of intense sunlight that you get just before a downpour so typical of this time of year. Perfect for photography in Aldeburgh with it’s wonderful seafront houses, long flat beach and vast sky.

The performance was all about Semaphore - a new term to me but basically involves using flags as an alternative conducting tool. All ages dispersed themselves out across the beach with their instruments and responded to the movements of Duncan Chapman (who wrote the piece). A series of drawing apart and coming together, doing your own thing and being part of a whole: I couldn’t help thinking Pears and Britten would have approved..

There’s something about tubas and sousophones - rather like clowns they make you feel happy and sad at the same time. Must be combination of size, shape and sound… but there’s also a dignity about them I think.

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Suffolk Wedding Photography at Yaxley Hall: Kate and Lance

Friday, June 17th, 2011

I was at Yaxley Hall on the borders of Suffolk and Norfolk last weekend. My first wedding there and a dream setting and wonderful atmosphere both inside and out. If you are looking for somewhere quintessentially English, sophisticated and elegant, yet effortlessly relaxed and intimate, (and exclusively yours for your wedding day) I can’t recommend Yaxley strongly enough.

Despite threats all week of heavy downpours and thundery showers, not a drop of rain fell on what turned out to be a beautiful midsummer’s day where Kate and Lance’s celebrations took place under mostly cloudless Suffolk skies.

With thanks to Michael and Richard (butler and chef par excellence) and the team at Yaxley for their generous help and hospitality, to Miran, Chris and Pete, and to Lance and Kate for being simply one of the loveliest couples I’ve worked with… and I found out so much more about you Lance in those speeches!

Congratulations to you both and I hope you will enjoy these for now. Make sure you check out young Master Sam’s photographic contribution. I get the feeling that with concentration like that (see below), you may have some album contenders there!

The complete edit of images from Kate and Lance’s Suffolk Wedding at Yaxley Hall will be available to view shortly. Watch this space and I will post a link to them soon.