The Studio: The Opening Day Event...

Well the studio is now officially open and the real hard work begins.  

I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who attended & sent best wishes/good luck messages on the day it really means a lot. Love you all. 

The day went great and I could not of asked for anything better. Friends, Family, Past Clients all in the same room.  

Dad & Mark- Since you could not attend on the day I hope the images below give you a good sense of how well it went. Thank you both for your help and support. 

During the day I had a Fuji Instax camera on the go and a small video camera that anyone could pick up and shoot with.  The Instax proved very popular and the film soon ran out.  I will edit the video (with stills) together once I have some images from others that attended, for now I have a few images that were shot on my cameras during the day. UPDATE: Added images from Danny Codling's camera. Thanks Dan.
 

I also shot some portraits during the day.  Could not resist. If anyone would like copies of any of the images please let me know.

 

Now the hard work begins, it's scary and exciting but one thing I know for sure is that I have the support of a lot of great people.  Thank you. 

Looking forward to the 1 year anniversary already. :) 

Rick

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The Studio: Part 1 of ?

As of 10am Monday I am now the renter of four walls and a false ceiling.  The journey begins.

You have no idea how much I have thought about this space… a space.  Should I go ahead, can I make it work and about 5000 other questions. 

That said I now have a space, now it’s not a studio space yet and that’s what this blog series will be about.

Over the next month or two I will be getting the space ready for use and I will be sharing the progress via this blog and social media, I have ideas for the space but some of them will have to wait…for now it’s all about making it functional and seeing how the first 12 months go.

Below is the rough floor plan and a few stills of the space as it is right now (a mess). It needs some work.

·         Cleaning

·         Painting

·         Better Lighting

·         Storage Unit Building

·         Floor Laying

·         Background brackets Installing

To name but a few. 

You will see a lot of stuff that needs to be remove in the images below, the land lord is getting that done for me but I am keeping some of the desks and furniture. 

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Yeah that little person is supposed to be me, thanks Mark. :)

I will take you all on a guided tour of the space as it is at the start and discuss my plans at some point this week.

Also in future progress posts I will get in to gear and all that stuff, what I think I need and what I can get by without for now. 

P.S If any knows of a dark blue leather or fake leather 2 seater sofa for sale give me a shout please.

More soon.

Rick

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