Looking forward, looking back......

Hello lovies! How have you all been?

I had such a great week last week, I am still feeling on a high today (rainy weather, pah, I laugh in your face!!).

The spring and summer this year have been epic, such gorgeous couples to shoot, meeting amazing new people, enjoying a fair chunk of sunshine, and definitely eating waaaaaaay too much cake..... I could go on.....

The start of Autumn and inevitable winter can sometimes signal a little bit of wind down and slowing of pace but not this year! I best be eatin' me spinach ya ya yaaaaar.

There are a few projects in the near future to pull together, including a tattoo shoot, a baby bump (providing baby doesn't make an exit before we can arrange a shoot date!!), an engagement shoot at some stunning Abbey ruins, what is set to be a super cool (with  TRULY  gorgeous couple) wedding in Manchester (please rain stay away), a wedding closer to home in the shire with another wonderful couple (the groom to be sent me some inspiration pictures from Classic Le Mans, how cool?! Plus he has designed and printed his own invitations, yes a talented chappie indeed, and I am very excited to be shooting his wedding!)....... and seriously loads more, but will share all in good time. If you could see me right now, you might witness me doing the *excited happy* dance.

Carla and Dave have a beautiful traditional wedding in Shropshire.
Just one little piccie of this gorgeous couple to share as I am in the thick of editing at the mo, so more soon promise. Actually I have a few shoots to share in the near future, lots of exciting things to blog and catch up with.

Back from Wales and on a catch up mission...!

What a wonderful week.... hanging out with my mad bad and wonderful family, swimming in the sea, shooting on film and experimenting, watching the sun behind the trees....

But back home I am now, and I am so incredibly lucky enough to drive up our path and have a wonderful man I love to pieces standing at the front door waiting for me, hug and kiss ready. I always joke that John's shoulder is one of my favourite places in the world, I love just resting my head there and snuggling into the nape of his neck. It is warm and safe and wonderful.

Anyway, enough of the soppy stuff, I'm just on a little bit of a loved up high at the moment after spending some amazing time with people who mean are the world to me.

I'm on a catch up mission with emails and things today and tomorrow, but it is weird that I should come a cross a link to this website on my mini wander through the last week.

http://dearphotograph.com/

Have a look, just be prepared for a few tears to plop down your cheeks. Makes me feel warm inside that maybe one day some pictures that I have taken might be looked back on like this......

Bethan xxx

See you in a week peeps!

I'm off to Wales for a week my lovelies :)

I'll be getting in some surfing around doing some shooting while I'm away too so hopefully will have lots of lovely things to share with you when I get back.

I going to be shooting film this week too which I'm quite excited about, we'll see how things work out!

I wont have much mobile/internet time so sorry to anyone trying to get in touch this week, I'll love ya as soon as I get back though!!

Will leave you with a picture of me doing my best Welsh person look.

Around the world in ....... well who knows!!

I'm a bit of a plan hatcher, I'll be honest. I get a tiny seed of an idea and if I'm passionate about it like to try to make it grow into full bloom. My hubby has accused me on many occasions of planting a seed of an idea in his head that grows into something big!!

The whole idea of a house renovation was *just a thought* discussed in the pub at some point or another. We saw our current house advertised by complete chance after wandering through the area and seeing it in the window of the estate agents. Two days later (and two very sleepless nights I have to say!!) we had our offer accepted and we were making plans to move halfway up the country.

Whilst moshing to a gig at university, we conjured up plans to live in Cornwall for a whole summer which became reality the following June when we packed out camper full of essentials and headed for the west country for three months.

We have a vw camper project sat on our drive after a fleeting passing of a conversation that turned into reality even after we had both sworn never to do a full resto again!

There have been many things like this happen through our lives that started out as a little..... what if..... or do you think we could....... and have amazingly become true. A few sliding doors moments but sometimes honestly you have to take a chance and hope it all works out for the best (in a fingers and toes crossed kind of way!!!).

I like the thought of making a tiny plan and then seeing it turn into something real.

Well, I'm on a bit of a wanderlust at the moment. I love travelling, and have been lucky enough to travel around the world. It is this time of year that I start to get itchy feet about making a plan to go away, often it might be a snowboarding holiday at this time of year, but I have bigger itchy feet to scratch this time!

Reading blogs from around the world I have spotted a few amazing locations that I have just been drooling over to shoot at. One being this place....

http://www.neonmuseum.org/

I first saw this place here....

Have a little click on the picture above to see the full article. 

So plan hatching.........

I was thinking of trying to organise some kind of trip away that is punctuated by shoots. A kind of

 **Round The World In 8 Shoots**

or something along those lines. It would probably be more likely a round Europe in 3 or 4 shoots in my knackered old car, but hey, it never hurts to be optimistic!!

So, I've no idea how long this might take to organise, it might be a winter adventure for next year (a good excuse to head to the Southern Hemisphere if I can sort the cost of the air fair out) and maybe a bit of blog publicity to organise some people to shoot) but let me know what you think peeps. 

This is very much a tiny seed of an idea at the moment..... fingers crossed it will grow into something good :)

Bethan xxx

Garrick and Gemma......

Gemma and Garrick, thanks for being so much fun to shoot, not complaining when I asked you to smooch in front of me, or to trek through the spikey long grass in your flip flops, or even to don matching Fez's in a public place. Thank you for letting me in on your lives for a couple of hours on a sunny sunday afternoon.

Thank you too for the lovely bottles of cider, All I'll just say it didn't last very long after you left *hic*.

A love shoot on a sunny Sunday afternoon.....

This is Garrick and Gemma. They are getting hitched next August yipee.

It took ten years after my hubby and me to get down the aisle after he proposed but these lovely guys have done it the other way around, recently engaged but have been together for years. There is no set path when you love someone, things will be what they will be in their own sweet time and I think Garrick and Gemma prove this.

We got together last Sunday afternoon, and here is just one photo from our session, more to come soon.

Sofas and Sewing machines....

Well lovely peeps, I have been having a couple of weeks off and a great time it has to be said :)

I am steaming through my chores (yipee!) tying up some loose ends that have been dangling for a wee while and finishing off some editing I just hadn't got round to.

My two beautiful nieces came to stay last week as well which was ace. I was seriously the biggest kid amoung them (poor old embarrassing Aunty Beejy). We had bonfires, picked blackberries, made jam, stayed out under the stars, fed the axalotls I'm temporarily looking after (lots of eeeeeeughs as we plopped their food, frozen blood worms, into their tank each morning!) went to the Blists Hill victorian town, learned about machine-y types of things at Enginuity, stroked the cats A LOT (surprised they have any fur left tee hee) went to the park and playground, did a nature trail (my eldest niece was very excited to find a dead but fully preserved frog. I'm just waiting till I rediscover the box she put it into and lost in my house somewhere...), oh yes peeps, I was full on adventure aunty!

Now it is a bit quieter this week (sadly as I miss them like mad and am trying my damn hardest to get them to move closer to me in Shropshire) I'm going to start another little project I have wanted to have a go at for a while. Sewing!

I bought some vintage patterns and in vintage styleeeeee also have an ancient sewing machine to have a go on too. I have no idea if this is going to work or not, but will keep you posted on the outcome!

I have to admit, I was more than a little disappointed with vintage sizing.... a 30 inch waist is marked up as a size 18!!! Surely not everyone was so tiny in the old days?

Other news (Oh my gosh I am getting seriously boring now but...) I bought a new sofa! Piccie below, a lovely 50s style lime green number to go in my back room. The back room also has three 1920's cinema seats, a projector screen and a log burner. It is a seriously snuggley little room during the winter, where you can crank up the log fire and stick a film on the screen. Man, it gets flipping freeeeeeezing in this house in the winter! Starting to feel scared it is nearly already eeeek!

If I'm going to be hanging out in the back room I might need to do something about the back garden......

A tiny touch overgrown some might argue (and *ahem* they would be right!)