Portrait and Bridal shoot in the gorgeous City of Amsterdam, Netherlands | www.gavinconlan.com

Last week I had the absolute pleasure of spending a couple of days in the beautiful City of Amsterdam with some great friends.  Myself, Bandele and Evette had travelled from the UK (London and Birmingham respectively) and Tasha travelled in from the States with her friend and now our friend too, Alisha.

Special thanks go out to Tasha for organising Charlotte our amazing model and the fashion outfits and Evette for bringing the bridal wear and being our make up artist, she is an amazing beautician as well as a photographer and Bandele for booking us into a great boutique hotel with not only free wifi but also free drinks sadly for me no alcohol....

If you are thinking about having a break in Amsterdam then I recommend you check out this place its called the Hotel Hermitage (click here) it's really close to a metro station and is walking distance to all of what Amsterdam is famous for - a word of warning though keep your eyes on them bikes they seem to ride them everywhere.....

I had so many great laughs while I was there, learnt loads and generally just chilled out for two days.  Walking through the red light district was an eye opener I'd heard the stories but to see it in person was slightly surreal I've gotta give the girls credit though they were looking damn fine apart from one or two that I'm still trying to forget about...... On the last night we all took a canal boat ride all joking aside it was pretty good just a shame we chose a boat with no bar and a sexist driver, still can't believe he would only allow the girls to steer the boat. Seeing the narrowest house in Amsterdam and quite possibly the world with the width of one meter (3 1/2 ft) was my personal highlight of the canal tour.... 

Here are the links to my friends websites, please check them out they are all amazing photographers;

Bandele - www.bandelezuberi.com

Evette - www.evettechiverton.com

Tasha - www.tashawalkerphotography.com

I have selected a few of my personal favourites from the shoot with Charlotte, I hope you enjoy them and please feel free to post a comment.

Anyways enough of me, here is the imagery;

Photo shoot on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral with Stella | www.gavinconlan.com

Back in November I met up with Stella for our second shoot.  This time we decided to meet at St Paul's the weather again dictated our schedule, you'll see from the images below the locations we ended up using.  The shoot started on the steps of St Paul's I love the columns of this building, amazing architecture.... from there we travelled across to the Southbank and started to walk along the river to London Bridge, the next location was a tunnel we walked through, I saw this awesome piece of light (our very own spotlight) and lastly we ended up on Southwark Street with the panel of wicked lights they have on display.  As I mentioned the weather was bitterly cold so to end up with the selection of imagery we did was amazing.  Every shot except the ones on the last location were shot using just natural available daylight, the last selection were lit using my wicked little portable daylight balanced led lights.....

I hope you enjoy the images below....!!!!

photoshoot with Sabrina in Halstead, Essex | www.gavinconlan.com

Over Christmas I was out walking my dog when she discovered a hole in the fence leading into the grounds of what used to be an adult education college... I had walked past this building loads in the past wishing I could get in there to shoot, it never looked possible as security was really tight until now. Finding the way in I've now promoted Holly (my dog) to chief location scout, i'm not sure she's that bothered by the promotion though ...lol...  

I decided to run an advert via the starnow website & get a shoot planned for sometime in January, you'll see by the images below the shoot went ahead and I loved the results Sabrina and myself achieved.

Another location we used was the church at the bottom of town, it opened recently for people to visit, its no longer a working church but the interior is still stunning.

The day of the shoot we started in the Church and finished in the derelict building, I loved the shoot it was a great day even though it was bitterly cold we produced some great imagery that I love...

For your enjoyment (hopefully :) I have selected a bunch of favourites to give you a flavour of the shoot ....