Hope Photography

This is the first January I have been in this country for a couple of years and I was a little apprehensive about how it would be, nothing quite beats starting the year in a hot climate. I am pleased to say that I love January. I was planning to go into hibernation and get some home projects done however I haven’t found the time, which I feel a little guilty about, but there has been an influx of bookings for summer 2010, which is brilliant. It is crazy how far in advance the wedding industry works and trying to get my head around my plans for 2010 in January 2009 is a little overwhelming. I have had some great e-mails lately and I love hearing from new people and I am so excited about all the great weddings I am going to be photographing this summer. 

Photography aside life is also sweet, I am loving all the new films out at the moment and can’t recommend Slumdog Millionaire enough. I am still running like mad and loving it more and more, I keep expecting to lose the motivation I have for it but after months of months of running this hard I still feel excited about getting out there each day. This summer is going to be crazy busy but I am planning some trips to some nice destinations-after all one of my new years resolutions was to travel to 2 new places! 

Thank you to clients past and present for your e-mails. I really do like making connections that last and keeping up to date with how married life is going and hearing wedding plans from upcoming clients. 

OOHH while I remember I do a business/entrepreneurship course at York Uni and we are holding a corporate golf day for charity in May at Sandburn Hall. The money raised goes towards supporting a student from the university, hopefully acting as a springboard towards their own enterprising dreams. If there are any people out there who play golf and want to enquire about details send me an e-mail. It should be a great networking day for local businesses. 

Christmas came,  Christmas went. Probably the best part of my Christmas this year was going to midnight mass at York minster-something I have never done before. Last year we had intentions, good intentions, but this year we actually went. Other than midnight mass this year felt like some of the others to be honest, I think Christmas is so much about Children, I think that’s where the magic is-and the Children in our family are now teenagers and as I think I am next in line to have some, children that is, we may have to wait a while. I had a wedding on 27th December, which was good because I did way to much sale shopping-Boden had the best shoe sale, and I, like most women have a thing about shoes. I have enjoyed my time off, I have a list a mile long of New Year’s resolutions-from learning the piano to travelling to two new places. I think what I enjoyed most about the service on Christmas eve was the mention of ‘newness’ … new life, new year, new beginnings. I enjoyed having time off to pause and reflect, asses and change. So Happy New Year to you all, N x