Rachel and Marks wedding album

All the photos taken for Rachel and Marks wedding

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/valephotography/collection?album_id=94089628

Judith and Bashir's Wedding Photos

All the photos taken for Judith and Bashir's wedding

Vale Photography wedding photographers

Wedding Fayre St Mary's Golf Club

Thanks to everyone who showed an interest at the wedding fayre yesterday, looking forward to photographing some nice weddings

Photo Restoration

We've been having more and more enquiries about photo restoration lately so we have decided to promote the service and add a page to the website.

Amber and Marks Wedding

Amber and Marks photos are now online at http://www.photoboxgallery.com/valephotography/collection?album_id=478519991
enter the password to view them and order prints.

Amber and Marks Wedding

I'd like to thank Sian Thompson (our newest photographer and member of the team, who is based in Bristol) for all her help at Amber and Marks wedding on the 28th of August 2010 at Cardiff City Hall. Her help was invaluable and she created some beautiful shots, well done Sian.

Links and Venues - Cardiff City Hall

City Hall is the centrepiece of one of the world's finest civic centres, an area of prestigious buildings, gardens and broad avenues. Within its magnificent exterior can be found elegant rooms of all descriptions and sizes to meet all of your wedding requirements. These include the spacious Assembly Room, undoubtedly Wales' premier function venue, accommodating up to 500 guests. This is often the setting for major national and international events and is accessed by a grand Victorian staircase and the splendid Marble Hall.

A selection of rooms is available for the wedding ceremony and/or reception, whether you have 5 or 500 guests. Click here to look at the rooms in more detail.

Rachel and Marks Wedding Slideshow

Here's an update of Rachel and Marks slidesow

Links and Venues - Fonmon Castle

Heres another recommendation

Fonmon Castle is a fortified medieval house near the village of Fonmon in the Vale of Glamorgan. It dates from the 13th century, and is still in use as a private residence. The walled gardens are surrounded by woodlands.

http://www.castlewales.com/fonmon.html

Links and Venues - Best Western Mount Sorrel Hotel

Here's another recommendation

Renowned for good food, fine wines and hospitality, the Best Western Mount Sorrel Hotel can offer you a venue for your wedding ceremony, for just the two of you or up to 120 people. Choose from one of their three licensed wedding suites, the Cardigan, Cricceith or Conway for this most important day.
http://www.bw-mountsorrelhotel.co.uk/Weddings.asp

Links and Venues - Newton House at Dinefwr Park and Castle

Here's another recommendation

Newton House stands at the heart of the stunning 800 acre estate at Dinefwr Park and Castle on the outskirts of Llandeilo, West Wales.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-dinefwrpark/w-dinefwr-park-castle-weddings.htm

Links and Venues - Nash Point Lighthouse

Here's another recommendation

Nash Point Lighthouse holds a licence under the Marriage Act 1949. It is an ideal venue for small, intimate weddings with 15 persons permitted on the third floor and 10 persons permitted on the fourth floor. Please note that the maximum numbers include the Bride, Groom, Registrar and Photographer.
http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/events_and_leisure/civil_weddings.html

Updating Links and Venues

Updating my links page with ideal wedding venues in South Wales for ceremonies and receptions. Heres the first one of my recomennedations.

Copthorne Hotel
Cardiff Caerdydd

The Copthorne Hotel Cardiff is just 4 miles from the city centre and 20 minutes from Cardiff International Airport. Also nearby are the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Bay and Cardiff International Arena.

Cardiff City Stadium Wedding Fayre

Hi I'd just like to thank everyone I talked to at the Wedding Fayre at Cardiff City's ground on the 31st of May, who showed an interest in Vale Photography. We will be attending other events, of which I'll post details nearer the dates.

Cardiff City stadium Wedding Fayre

30th May 2010

11am - 4pm

We will be attending this wedding fayre so come along to meet with us and discuss your needs.

RHS Show Cardiff in Pictures

Pictures taken at the RHS Show Cardiff

Enjoy the following collection of photos taken when the Royal Horticultural Society show came to Bute Park on the weekend just gone in the beautiful sunshine.

Photographs: Nigel Whitbread Vale Photograpy

The sixth Royal Horticultural Society show was the host to a plethora of floral interests with many on the exhibiters coming from the local area.

Run in partnership with Cardiff Council the show includes floral marquees, expert advice, including a radio show with Roy Noble and show gardens.

RHS Show Cardiff

Ticket are available for the Royal Horticultural Show Cardiff.

The RHS Show Cardiff (April 16-18) returns to the parklands of Cardiff Castle to mark the beginning of spring 2010 with the first show of the Royal Horticultural Society season.

This will be the sixth year of the annual Cardiff show, and in 2010 it will be bigger than ever, with even more blooms, garden designs, inspiration and entertainment at the very start of the gardening season.

Following five successful years, the RHS returns to work with Cardiff Council on a show that features:

• two floral marquees brimming with award winning nurseries and their magnificent displays
• show gardens created by Welsh designers, societies and colleges
• a wheelbarrow planting display involving local schools supported by L & G
• an 'Interactive Allotment' reflecting the boom in demand for places to grow our own
• the opportunity to quiz the friendly RHS advisory team about issues such as climate change and its effect on our gardens
• a variety of talks and demonstrations by national and local experts
• countless plants and gardening accessories for sale
• schools floral wheelbarrow competition

• nature trails

• street entertainers and live music

• craft village

• Welsh produce from the Café Quarter

For information and tickets (£8 in advance, £10 on the day, children free) for the RHS Cardiff Show Cardiff visit www.rhs.org.uk/cardiff or call 0844 338 7528

Vale Photography will be busy at the show with their own photojournistic challenge on the opening day, so why not come along and join in the fun.

Mobile website

Website can now be viewed on your mobile

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/msite/vale-photography

Crystal Weddings Promotion Day 2nd April

Reminder that Crystal Weddings are holding a promotion day on Friday 2nd April 2010 at Bridgend Designer OutletThey will be promoting their spring & Autumn wedding fayres by giving out goody bags containing a magazine, leaflets (including ours at Vale Photography) and some free gifts.

British Wildlife Photography Awards

The following contains news of some new 2010 categories and some new sponsors, and
some of the prizes.

The 2010 competition opened in January with these new categories:
1) International Year of Biodiversity, sponsored by Natural England
2) Wildlife in my Backyard, sponsored by Countryside Council for Wales
3) The 2020 Vision Special Award, sponsored by the Wild Media Foundation
4) British Seasons

Check out the category pages for full information:
http://www.bwpawards.org/categories/

2009 Awards Exhibition Tour
The 2009 exhibition featuring: winning, commended and ‘best of entries’
from the 2009 competition, launched in London last year, is now on show in
the Riding School at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire until 28 March 2010. The
exhibition will be open Saturday to Wednesday 11am to 4pm which falls in
line with the house and garden open days.
Calke Park is a rich and varied landscape, from rolling grassland to
ancient oaks, some as old as 1000 years. The park extends to over 600 acres
and was designated as a National Nature Reserve in recognition of its wood
pasture. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-calkeabbey
Address: Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derbyshire, DE73 7LE

Prizes – http://www.bwpawards.org/prizes/

1) Adult Awards and Prizes
British Wildlife Photographer - prize £5,000
Category prizes - value £1,000
BWPA are delighted to welcome the RSPB as a sponsor and they will be giving
each category winner a pair of RSPB (10.5 x 42 WPG) binoculars.
BWPA have teamed up with leading wildlife photographer Heather Angel who
will be giving a unique ‘one to one’ full day’s masterclass as part
of each category prize. Plus a specialist and tailor made ‘one to one’
full day photoshop course with Giles Angel.

2) Young Awards and Prizes
The Young Wildlife Photographer prize is £500, and is sponsored by
Towergate Camerasure
BWPA are also delighted to welcome Serif who are sponsoring the Schools,
Youth and Community Group Award. The prize for the best school youth or
community group is Serif Design Suite - value £3,000 (a copy of the Serif
Design Suite for each of the contributors (£149)* which contains 5
software titles covering; graphics, photo editing, digital video, DTP and
web design. The school or organisation will receive a 50 User License on
the Serif Design Suite (£2,199) and a Digital Video camera (£149)
*Maximum of 5 individual copies of the software for the winning entrants).

Exhibition and Book
Along with a series of nationwide photographic exhibitions launching at
Hoopers Gallery, London (on 14th October 2010), all winning, commended and
‘the best of entries’ will be included in an accompanying full colour
book with around 180 images.

Sponsors and supporters
The British Wildlife Photography Awards are sponsored by Natural England.
Supported by WWF, RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, The National Trust, The
National Trust for Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Countryside Council
for Wales and Outdoor Photography Magazine.

If you use Twitter, you can follow us here: http://twitter.com/BWPAwards
On Facebook, you can become a fan of BWPA here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BWPA/367221843244

Published by Wildlife Photography Awards Ltd
Company Reg. No. 6796295

Slideshow of Wedding Albums

A new feature is being added to the wedding album page where you can view a slideshow of some of the wedding albums created by Vale Photography via Youtube







www.valephotography.co.uk

Crystal Weddings Promotion Day

Crystal Weddings are holding a promotion day on Friday 2nd April 2010 at Bridgend Designer OutletThey will be promoting their spring & Autumn wedding fayres by giving out goody bags containing a magazine, leaflets (including ours at Vale Photography) and some free gifts.

http://createyourday.co.uk/

Spring Clean/New Blog

Welcome to our brand new blog and news page, where we'll keep you up to date with all thats going on at Vale Photography.

www.valephotography.co.uk