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Love and War
These Things Happen
International Webmasters Association
Canon vs Nikon
Anna-Jane Casey
Soho Cinders
Stock photography
Family Portrait session
IRM Risk Leaders’ Conference
Piaf
Love SuicidesI know, I know, no more websites, I said. Well I couldn’t say no to my own daughter, so here it is.
The background designs are the the up and coming young designer Domnall Starkie.
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Hello, my name is David Ovenden and I am a professional photographer providing a wide range of photographic services to individuals and businesses.
I specialise in theatre, fashion and commercial photography but I can turn my hand to most forms of photography and can help with all your photographic requirements.
I offer studio or location shoots, and with my portable studio I can create studio quality shots in your own home, office or at your function.
I can cover all areas of London and the South East, or further afield on request.
For more information please take a look at my Profile and browse through my Portfolio. My Blog on this page shows you what I have been doing lately.
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Love and War
One of my images from Girlriends is appearing on the poster for Love and War, a new musical review based on the music of Howard Goodall. The review features music from many of his shows including The Hired Man, Days of Hope, and A Winter’s Tale.
These Things Happen
These Things Happen, a new stage work for singers and orchestra by Jonathan Pease, is at the Courtyard Theatre from the 5th to the 15th January. It is directed by Matthew Eberhardt and conducted by Benjamin Cox.
A talented cast of classically trained singers performed a series of interlocking stories accompanied by an orchestra of about 25 inspired by the classic musicals such as Anything Goes. Is it opera or is it a musical? It clearly needed opera singers who could act (and dance). Probably most musical performers would struggle with the score but having said that is was (mostly) light and comic with only the last story being sinister and ‘operatic’ in tone.
I shot the dress rehearsal. There were the usual ‘problems’ with the lighting. A lot of it was overhead or behind the actors and ofter the ‘wrong’ person was lit or all you could see was their nose! As the piece has the orchestra in the room next door there is an open door spilling light onto the stage the balance was very difficult to achieve. Still I think I managed to do a reasonable job.
International Webmasters Association
I have decided, as I am winding down my web development business after some 15 years, not to renew my subscription to the IWA.
The IWA is the industry’s recognized leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals. It has over 200,000 individual members in 106 countries. It provides guidelines for ethical and professional standards, education programmes, specialised employment resources, and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. Their forums help web professionals keep in touch, and help one another.
At about $200 ($100 for members) their courses cover a huge range of topics and are great value. Some of the courses I have taken over the past few years include graphic design for websites, logos, and corporate identity, web security, search engine optimisation, databases and programming in JavaScript, PHP and Flash.
I strongly recommend, whatever you do, that you join the appropriate professional body, play an active part in it, learn from what others do, contribute and help develop others and continually challenge yourself.
Leaving them feels like the end of an era.