Being a guest at a wedding, Italy, "Breathless" Marathon no.3, and tons of mail!

I'M BACK!

Firstly, I was a GUEST at a wedding a couple of weeks ago! It's so unusual for me to go to a wedding these days and NOT be the official photographer. But it was really good fun to be on the other side of it all at my cousins wedding at Oxenfoord Castle near Edinburgh.

David and Laura his lovely bride, has enlisted the fabulous Alan and Jackie Rankine of Rankine Photography to do the hard work, and I am sure the results they give the couple will be fabulous. I did take one of my back up bodies and a couple of lenses on the day but I only clocked up just over 20 images on the day, I was more than happy to sit back, speak to family, enjoy the champagne and check out the wonderful Oxenfoord Castle. There is nothing worse than an "Uncle Bob" at a wedding, not letting you get on with your job, and I made sure I didn't disturb Alan and Jacqui while they were working hard.

After my 070707 wedding called it off last minute, hubby and I booked a late deal to one of our favourite countries, Italy. Of course, the Jman came too; boy have the terrible two's hit the McLeod household or what?! I think I need another holiday after that!

We love Italy, we honeymooned there nearly 8 years ago and have been back several times since. Of course the camera went with me, you just can't NOT take amazing pictures in Italy!!

We visited the beautiful Amalfi Cathedral... which Jack desperately wanted into.....................he even sampled the amazing Italian ice cream.......... And on the way home, it was a stop-off in Newcastle for another "Breathless" Marathon; another bunch of lovely girls, who were very patient with me arriving late after being stuck in traffic for 5 hours, on what would have normally been a 2 hour journey! Thanks girls, check your emails for a sneak peak of the results!

And of course, I came back to a pile of mail at the door; orders, a couple of bookings for next year, and a ton of email to take care of, though I did touch base a couple of times at the local internet cafe in our little Italian village! The joys of working for yourself is that you can't really NOT ever be available for too long, so the work mobile came with me, as well as a couple of emails sent!

There were also some lovely notes sent while I was away; Gail and Derek dropped me a note regarding their November wedding;

"We's also like to say thanks for the fabulous photos you took - it's been very hard deciding which ones to get printed. Our album is amazing too and certainly has the "Wow" factor!"

I am looking forward to seeing Gail again end of this year, when she returns the favour to Fiona, by being HER bridesmaid!