Panasonic & Canon Day with Graham and Ruth at London

Phew, what an incredibly busy few weeks it has been. What with moving my stuff between Bradford back to Brighton, moving into a little shared studio right near to Brighton seafront as well as helping lovely guests with their photography, today is the first day of sitting still enough for the past month to be able to update this blog. I promise that it won't take me so long in future ... So on 12th May it was time to welcome lovely Ruth and Graham with their Canon Powershot and Panasonic Cameras to Amphibian Sports. It was definitely one of the most special occasions of ever running my underwater photography courses in 6 years as Graham had absolutely no idea where he was going! His lovely wife Adele had booked the course as a complete surprise for him and kidnapped his camera without his knowledge, sneaked it into the car and took him on an unknown mission! Ruth was learning how to make the most of her strobe as well as getting to grips with all the different creative settings that her Canon S95 could offer her. Graham learnt how to make the most of his Panasonic camera and had lots of fun playing with his settings and learnt that even though he had less buttons to use than Ruth, that he was still capable to taking beautiful shots without having any of the manual controls that Ruth's camera did. Graham also had another surprise, not only did I bring him a birthday cake, his favourite chocolate one but Ruth did too, a lovely chocolate and cola one, so there was cake for everyone at Amphibian Sports that day, including its customers! Happy Days! It really was a great day helping them both and having Adele along too ... it was another reminder for me that all compact cameras can take great pictures, it really is a case of knowing those settings that each camera has to make the very best of it!