This year Durham saw it’s second Lumiere light festival in which our city was once again transformed into a magical winter wonderland for a total of four not so dark November evenings.
Our involvement has been mainly with behind the scenes work leading up to the festival itself, whether that was photographing workshops or some of the fantastic art works in the making.
Lumiere 2011 was a much-anticipated weekend after the success of the 2009 event, as expected numbers of 140,000 people are thought to have visited the City over the four day duration apparently making it the country’s largest light festival.
Regardless of the hordes hustling and bustling their way through the light filled streets of Durham we managed three out of four nights and just soaked it all up, whether that was a hot dog and a mulled wine at Flat White coffee house or a hog roast sandwich at the Cathedral gardens.
Some of the artworks on the last evening were simply spectacular. We had a chance to take a few shots of some of the exhibitions on show.
We just loved every minute of it and ultimately enjoyed falling in love with our city all over again. Here is a selection of our favorite images from the evening we hope you enjoy them and we look forward to seeing you there in 2013.
Recently Steven embarked on a 1950’s mission to bring awareness to Durham’s most unique Laundrette and its current “Let us take the stress out of Christmas” campaign.
The Old Cinema Launderette is not your average place to drop off your delicates, it is also a 1950’s inspired establishment based in Gilesgate where one can enjoy a coffee and the use of free Wi-Fi while you wait for your laundry. You could even just drop by to grab a coffee to go.
Steven found the setting for this shoot ideal as this place is literally packed with suiting memorabilia and decoration that has obviously been carefully acquired by the proprietors. There are even old washing powder boxes on display.
With such a great setting the theme for this project was always going to be 1950’s Pin-Ups, using the likes of Betty Grable, Ava Gardner and the iconic Marilyn Monroe as the main sources of inspiration.
We feel that the images have conveyed this well and we had a great deal of fun in the process as did Steph the model and all involved. As always we hope that our client is as happy as we are with the results.
It was a blast from the past.
The rest of the team were unimpressed with the strikers new headgear !
A huge thank you to all who entered our 8th birthday competition, we hope you enjoyed submitting your captioned images as much as we enjoyed viewing them. We have to say the standard; effort and creativity of the entries received delighted us to no end, so once again a big thank you.
Therefore it gives us great pleasure here at Steven Landles Photography to announce the five lucky winners.
In no particular order congratulations to David Marley, Karen Smethurst, Paul Stainthorpe, Frank Harrison and Richard Carter
To claim your prize just give the studio a call on 0191 386 8999 and have your unique code ready which you would of received through facebook. We will then take your address details and post out to you your Steven Landles Photography voucher pack. Alternatively you can email your details and to info@stevenlandlesphotography.com
Steven Landles Photography recently celebrated its 8th Birthday, so to mark the occasion we are running a Photography/Caption competition.
To enter this competition simply click on the picture below, upload your image to our facebook page coupled with a clever caption to win one of five family portrait voucher packs up for grabs. That’s It!!!
Winners will be announced on May 9th via this blog page and on twitter, then just call the main studio number (located to the right) with your unique winning code that we will send to you through facebook.
Below we have provided an example however we are sure you can do much better, so please be as creative as you like but keep it clean and appropriate.
Good Luck
“I know I said we are gonna need a bigger boat but COME ON!!!”
This Sunday afternoon we are part of an even at Fowlers Yard called 10x10x10- we are calling it this because it is the 10th day of the 10th month in 2010
So in celebration each of the studios are producing something which is 10x10x10- so we here at Steven landles photography are producing some limited edition prints which are 10cmx10cm and we will be selling them for….yes you guessed it £10 each.
The images are taken from a series that i produced a few years ago about urban landscape in Durham and include images of Durham in a slightly different light- i was very interested in subcultural groups such as Skateboarders and BMXers and what interested me was the way in which they would view the urban landscape in a different way to anyone else- almost thinking of how they can use architecture to create their”art form” the images focus on these “spots” and how there are marks left behind by these sub cultures as they create their art which of course is art in itself- anyway enough of me rambling on a bout it- why not check out some of the images below by clicking read the rest of this entry and if you want a limited edition print for a tenner just let us know.
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Last week we had the pleasure of working with Tiffany Charlton. Tiffany has recently been voted “Miss Teen Durham” and needed some great shots to show off the reason why she got all the votes – so here are a few of the shots from her shoot- she was a delight to work with and had a real flare for working in the studio- Tiffany and her Mum Julie had a great time here at SLP studio- we hope these images set her apart from the other girls and might help her through to the final and a trip to the states- good luck Tiffany – click below to see more shots from the shoot.
Leonards Cafe in Durham asked us to come in and shoot some promotional photos of in and around their amazing cafe. Leonards is a small independent cafe based on the banks of the River Wear in Durham city centre. They do a huge range of home made snacks and sandwiches along with a fine selection of tea’s, coffee’s and other beverages ideal for any day of the week. Plus we like going their for our lunch because they’re rad! Click read more to have a look at some of the shots from the day.
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Last week we had a visit from Neil and Zanna who are getting married this August in the lovely Devere Latimer Place hotel all the way down in Buckinghamshire – As part of all of our wedding packages we offer a pre wedding shoot to give us a chance to get to know the Bride and Groom a little bit better but also so that they can have a little understanding of how we work and what to expect from their photographers on the big day – Neil and Zanna thought this was a great idea so we arranged to meet in the wonderful setting of Durham Cathederal Cloisters- Here are some of the photo’s from the shoot – (just click read the rest of this entry to see them) – I hope you enjoy looking through them and please join me in raising a glass to Neil and Zanna wishing them all the best for the big Day in August.
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Last Month we worked with Sam to create some images for his portfolio, Sam is looking to get into modeling and wanted a range of images to show to respective agencies to try and get some work- lets hope that these images do the trick for him-to see all of the images from Sam’s shoot click below. if you’re interested in modeling and need some portfolio images taking or if you know anyone who is a model and needs their portfolio updating then please don’t hesitate to get in touch- our details are on the right hand side.- in the meantime good luck Sam!!
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Well I’m not actually turning seven, But officially this week Steven Landles Photography turned Seven Years old!! In Celebration of this amazing event instead of you buying us a gift we are going to give you a gift, for a limited time only we will be giving you this beautiful image that I shot in Mozambique 11 years ago and has become one of our signature images absolutely FREE for you to use as your desktop background.
All we ask of you in return is that you Join our mailing list so that we can inform you monthly of any similar special offers and other interesting and exciting stuff, just input your name and email address in the box on the right hand side, its as simple as that!
So raise your glasses and here’s to another 7 years!!