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The new look PhotoCreative 365

It’s been six months since the launch of Photocreative so we thought it was time to shake things up a bit.

Since the start of the year we’ve introduced some regular features like The PhotoCreative podcast, the Business ideas for photographers podcast and of course our newest section The Sunday Showcase.

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Monthly blog digest May 2010

We’re going to make some exciting changes to a couple of our blogs in the next few weeks so keep an eye on whatwherewhoweddings.com and theequestrianblog.co.uk to see what we’ll be getting up to!

Here’s what’s been happing in the Memory Gate and Redrosette world…

May has all been about Wedding venues….

The Equestrian Blog

We have three new showcase galleries….

Plus of course we have Redrosette promo video which is worth a look.

Podcasts

The PhotoCreative Podcast

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 13 – What’s great about wedding Photography today?

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 12 – The 2010 Project update, Rock and Roll bride and Free Photoshop actions.

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 11 – YouTube for photographers week and we finished off with a little experiment that was PhotoCreative 365 TV

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 10 – A look at the last week at PhotoCreative365 plus our new daily 3 minute podcast Business Ideas for Photographers. The Photo Creative Podcast is now shorter and weekly.

The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 9 – Get inspired week and Business ideas for photographers

Business Ideas for Photographers – The first 17 episodes of our 3 minute podcast series.

Posts

Series

What’s Great About Wedding Photography Today?

YouTube for Photographers

Get inspired Week

Most popular posts from the last 30 days…

  1. Day 107 – NextGEN Gallery add-ons for WordPress
  2. Day 45 – Free WordPress themes for photographers
  3. Day 88 – Doug Gordon flow posing videos
  4. Day 97 – Skin retouching Photoshop action
  5. Day 30 – Lens Baby effect in Photoshop
  6. Day 40 – Hair photo-shoot lighting set-up
  7. Day 139 – Rock and Roll Bride
  8. Day 138 – Lens baby Photoshop action version 2
  9. Day 58 – Jerry Ghionis wedding album tips
  10. The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 12

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Monthly Blog digest for April 2010

The Monthly blog digest from What Where Who Weddings, Photo Creative 365 and The Equestrian blog.

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The Memory Gate Monthly blog digest for March

March was a much busier month for us posts wise and there’s certainly been lots of great information shared.

Our Wedding advice and quick tips blog has been given a much needed Spring clean and March saw the start of our Quick Tips series.

The plan is to to a week of daily wedding quick tips at the start of every month.

Top 10 popular posts at What Where Who Weddings for March

  1. Wedding Fairs/Fayres in Surrey in March
  2. Promote your wedding business
  3. Michelle and John Brubaker – Baby Got Back wedding dance
  4. What side does the Groom stand on?
  5. Why would you want all your wedding photos on DVD?
  6. What are the most popular first dance wedding songs?
  7. Wedding dinner buffet ideas
  8. Affordable wedding cake stands
  9. Wedding Storybooks designs for Spring
  10. Be wary about ordering bridesmaids dresses from overseas

PhotoCreative365 has also had a bit of a Spring clean and Saturday marks our 100th post!

Top 10 popular posts at Photo Creative 365 for March

  1. Trevor and Faye Yerbury Presence and Presentation
  2. 189 Ideas to improve your photography business
  3. Jerry Ghionis wedding album tips
  4. Know your rights as a photographer
  5. The £2.59 coloured gel set
  6. Free WordPress themes for photographers
  7. Lens Baby effect in Photoshop
  8. Doug Gordon flow posing videos
  9. The new look Photo Creative 365
  10. Blogging for photographers

Back here at The Gatekeepers it’s been another busy month.

Top 10 popular posts at The Gatekeepers for March

  1. MG Baby Club ‘Funny Baby Pictures’
  2. Stuff – Croydon’s newest indoor market
  3. London Mums Carnival Party
  4. Couple sue wedding photographer Gareth B
  5. Photo-shoot for l’oreal colour competiti….
  6. Sam Millard UK Finalist for Goldwell Tre
  7. Portfolio shoot for hair stylist Sam Mil
  8. Photo-shoot for Klass hair salon Worcest
  9. Free bridal photo-shoot at Cloud 9 Cheam
  10. Miss Wimbledon 2010..

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The Memory Gate Monthly blog digest

I can’t believe January has flown by so quickly! Here’s what ‘s been happening on the Memory Gate blogs:

What Where Who Weddings

We’ve posted only 5 posts in January due to an extremely busy time setting up other websites and attending the SWPP convention. We do however have a brand new contributor to the site. Deborah is our in house make-up artist and beauty specialist and so far has added three posts:

All three are defiantly worth a look for any 2010 bride.

Our most popular post of the month has been Who are the top wedding tweeters?

We are still looking for more contributors to the site site so if you are a wedding vendor who wants to promote either your own blog or website then drop us an email.

Photo Creative 365

The launch of this new site has proved to be very exciting and we’ve averaged over 100 visits a day!

With 31 posts this month I’m not going to list them all but these are the 5 most popular.

  1. Day 21 – 189 Ideas to improve your photography business
  2. Day 31 – End of the Month Fun – The iPad and Twitter
  3. Day 19 – Business school at the SWPP convention Part 6
  4. Day 30 – Lens Baby effect in Photoshop
  5. The PhotoCreative Podcast Episode 1

It’s still early days for the site and the search engines have yet rank our posts very highly so thank you for everyone who has found us via the SWPP forum, Twitter and Facebook.

If you would like daily updates of our posts sent to your mailbox then feel free to subscribe via Feed-burner download the free iPhone app or subscribe to our RSS

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Last week at the SWPP 2010 convention

For the last 6 days I’ve been attending the SWPP 2010 convention and tradeshow at Novotel London West – Hammersmith. After 2 days of business school, a full day of workshops with Doug Gordon and Mark Cleghorn, 3 days of the trade show and Masterclasses I’m pretty knackered!

Still there’s lots of ideas and products which we’ll be implementing to both Memory Gate and Redrosette in the coming weeks.

We have our PhotoCreative iPhone app ready to download for free. So far we’re nearly three weeks into the project and the content is getting better all the time. I will be continuing to post notes from the convention at PhotoCreative365. So far I’ve just about finished my notes from the business school.

Most exciting of all is that this week is Memory Gate’s 1st Birthday! We have a special treat for photographers at PhotoCreative365 which will be posted on the 21st of Jan.

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This week at Memory Gate

It’s been a busy week for me but thankfully it’s mostly be spent in the warmth!

So far I have been making steady progress with my 365 projects and today I recorded at uploaded our first podcast which you can listen to by clicking the link below. Hopefully soon we’ll get it up and running on iTunes.

So far on my photo 365 project I’m 11 photos in and 4% done! Have a look at my progress by clicking the link below. Unsurprisingly there’s lots of pictures of snow!

We’re also waiting on two iPhone apps to be approved. Both will be free to download and I’ll let you know when they’re ready.

One of our shoots that didn’t get called off due to the weather was with rapper Sterling ‘Simion’ Swagga. Here’s a little preview from the shoot.

Last but not least Deborah has written her first post for What Where Who Weddings titled What is the perfect base for a perfect face?

This week we’re off to the Societies 2010 Photographic Convention so have a look PhotoCreative365.com for some daily updates.

Till next Monday!

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New year = new rules

Happy new year and welcome to the….erm….. Tennies, Tenties, Teenies or if you’re Australian …. ‘One-ders’

We have lots of projects in development at the moment so we have decided to set a few rules (for ourselves at least) in terms of what we post here at The Gatekeepers.

Monday is Blog Day – Expect to see all of Memory Gate’s news mainly being updated on Monday. This doesn’t mean that we won’t chuck a few other posts in there midweek from time to time though.

First Monday of the month is our Memory Gate Blog Digest – We currently have two other blogs running at the moment and we’ll give you a little taste of them each month.

These are our two other blogs – 


What Where Who Weddings – Everything weddings. Tips, interviews, photos, ramblings and a touch of humour!

Photo Creative 365 – Michael’s brand new (and perhaps slightly ambitious) personal 365 photo project combined with daily creative posts.

We also have some new websites in development which we’re be officially launching from this blog later this month.

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Happy New Year! New decade, new project!

As I write this there is just a matter of hours left of the noughties. What better way to spend the last few hours than doing something a little creative!
As of today I have started a 365 project. The plan is to post something ‘creative and inspiring’ everyday for at least the next 365 days. Should be fun! Anyway click the link below to have a look……..

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