Whilst travelling around Europe, we stopped at Belgrade Bible college where we were asked to re-write their website. We’ tried to retain the general feel of the site, whilst making minor improvements where possible. We added a videos page, a calendar page (simple embed of a Google calendar), a blog, used consistent icons for the contact page and embedded a Google map on their contact page. We also created one stylesheet behind the whole site rather than having individual page stylesheets (as the old site did), which should help to improve consistency of pages across the site. Oh, and did we forget to mention that the site had to operate in both Serbian and English? Gotta love a bit of a challenge!

As we travelled around Europe in our trusty motorhome Bertha, we had originally planned to accompany our blogging with a video diary too. We got to video number 3 and realised that actually we were spending just as much time editing the video as we were living the experience, so we carried on filming, but left the editing until our return to the UK. And then life happened… so here are the 3 original videos. There may be more in future (as we are sitting on over 40 hours of footage!) but possibly in a different format

The brief for this church website was to make it easy to keep up to date – so key to this was adding functionality that would always display the most up to date information on the front page – what was happening this week, what the events were that were coming up and what the latest news was. The easiest way to tackle the first without writing a whole calendar framework was writing an integration with Google calendar, so those in the church office could just keep the Google calendar up to date rather than having to update the website directly – the latest iteration of this code is on GitHub

Steve photographed over 30 weddings since he was first asked to stand in at the last minute as a photographer at a friend’s wedding in 2005 through to the last one in 2013. The style majored in more on trying to capture natural moments from afar rather than staged photos – but always taking the lead from the couple getting married (hence the three shots above that were staged)! Most were under the branding of “SRPhotos”, but the final couple were under the branding of “Lightbulb Head”.

Before we moved out of London we wanted to do a timelapse of a busy junction near our flat… so with the permission of the vicar of St. Mark’s Kennington church, we set up a time lapse as dusk fell of the junction at Oval tube station leaving the camera to take a picture every 3 seconds.

When on holiday in Cornwall in 2013 we wanted to capture the sea consuming the causeway to St. Michael’s Mount. We had a minor creative disagreement as to the composition for the first part of the time lapse (should we focus on the silhouette of St. Michael’s Mount, or people crossing the causeway?), but that doesn’t really matter as after an hour and a half we chose to move to a better location anyway! The tide times really were perfect as it was slowly getting dark just as the sea was lapping over the top of the causeway. We won’t lie – it was absolutely freezing sitting with the camera, but it was also incredibly beautiful.

Robin and Sean from Pig and Porter provided tasty refreshments at our wedding in terms of incredible burgers and microbrewery beer, so when they announced they were going into business together providing artisan event catering we were delighted to write their website. It was been a great learning experience for both of us working with Robin and Sean as they had clear ideas about how they wanted to create their brand, but they were also open to our (read “Kiri’s”!) creative suggestions.

After 6 years of photographing weddings, it was hard to break the habit for our own wedding – so we decided to set up a camera to take a picture every minute in the 2 days prior to the wedding and on the day itself. It’s not every groom that has to think about changing camera batteries, timelapse controller batteries and memory cards (we ended up filling four 4GB cards!) in the build-up to the wedding!

Between 2006 and 2012 Steve did wedding photography, trading as SRPhotos. The website for the company evolved over time, but its final iteration was designed by Andy Gray and implemented by Steve sitting over the top of Wordpress. The domain is now in use by another SR who does photography, but much of it is archived in the Wayback Machine (see between 2006 and 2012)

3D photography is something that I was massively into for a few years, starting when 3D films were beginning to make a resurgence at the cinema and 3D televisions were just entering the market. In that time I bought a Fujifilm W1 3D camera and a couple of 3D Loreo lenses so that I could take stereoscopic images using my existing SLRs. I even offered the option of a few stereoscopic photos at weddings for a short time. The issue for me was always how to view the photographs afterwards; lenticular prints (ridged prints that let your right and left eye see different images) were the best option, but I also gave online options red / cyan anaglyphs (viewable using red / cyan glasses) or stereoscopic pictures (viewable using stereoscopic glasses, or by using the “magic eye” technique of going slightly cross-eyed). This also led me to write a script to process the .mpo files the Fujifilm W1 3D into these options, which is now available on GitHub