Craster - Dunstanburgh Castle

Today me and fellow photographer Andrew headed out to Dunstanburgh Castle, Craster for a short shoot, we had great weather and great light and was a thoroughly enjoyable day. Car smells of Kippers now though....

Here's some of my favourites:

North East coast line

Randomly had some sunny weather the other day so headed out to the North East coast line, for a wonder and a pub lunch. The sun didn't last long so now waiting for the Summer to really kick in before headed back to spend the day in the dunes.

Angel of the North

Every time we've driven up north to Newcastle we've passed the Angel of the North, and every time we're driven home again I've always said, 'Damn, we didn't go and get shots of the Angel'. Well, now we're here permanently, and we've had good weather, I finally got to head over and shoot the big steel guardian.

 

Holga

OK so a little while ago now I got given a Holga camera - not having used one before I thought the results were going to be a little hit and miss, but I was fairly happy with what I managed to get. With more practice I should improve.

Here's some of the shots I managed to get before we left Greenwich.

Mistaken Identifty

On the 20^th April 2012 the Telegraph and the Mail Online (and other websites since then) ran a story about a company called Westgate Photography ruining a British couple’s wedding day with their incredibly bad photography. The two ‘photographers’ we’re named Ian McCloskey and Nikki Carte.

In backlash people have been Googling ‘westgate photography’ to find the culprits and have instead been finding our website, subjecting us to angry and upsetting rants.

We set up a disclaimer straight away and contacted the press to explain what had happened since they were the one’s to run the story. We were told that they would only run a counter story if we were being forced out of business or being forced to rebrand. ‘Westgate’ is my family name and the reason we are called Westgate Photography so why should we re-brand ourselves!

We have waited a few days to see where the story is going, and thankfully things are dying down. We are a small company and ride ourselves in our friendly communications with our clients and delivering the images that they are happy with. We are horrified to be associated with such a story and only hope that people will be able to tell the difference between us and, the now devolved, other Westgate Photography.

This was in no way a scam, as some people have accused us of, and we cannot stress enough that we are and have never been in any way associated with the other company.

This has simple been an unfortunate case of mistaken indentify and the media not checking or being clear with the facts.

We would personally (and I think we have and will continue to do so) like to thank everybody for their positive messages we have received and hope this will not tarnish our name and the work we produce. 

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*sigh*

19th Oct - Goldheart Assembly!!

Last week we were off to see one of our favourite bands - Goldheart Assembly - at the Spice of Life.
The gig was great - small and intimate with a strange Magician to kick things off (odd I know!!!)

One down side was that I didn't have a camera with me - shock - so instead I put my faith in the 'trusty' (ahem) Blackberry camera - Yikes!

Well the results weren't toooooo bad - hardly great shots admittedly - but still, you get a feeling of the small environment.

These guys are well worth seeing live..... so so so good! Shame the Nov date is sold out - would've been back in a shot!!!