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These guys got the most votes and won our Valentines Day Competition.

We will have some more shots up in a couple of weeks… some really cool ones too

We love shooting couples in love. We also like eating food at nice places. And drinking wine, we like that too.
So we are mixing it all together in a Valentines Day Competition.

The Prize

A Photobat Couples Portrait Experience and Prints for a couple to the value of $800
Dinner for 2 at Cafe Rossilli in Launceston
A bottle of 2009 Brook Eden Waters Edge Pinot

Cafe Rossilli the café has been around for a while and we think is very good (especially the coffee). Now they are open in the evenings for dinner. It’s being operated by Damon (formally of Luck’s) so if you enjoyed eating at Lucks, you can be pretty sure you are going to like eating at Cafe Rossilli.

How to Win.
Tell us the best thing your partner has ever cooked for you and why. Was it a special occasion or just a surprise?
Email it through to photobat@photobat.net by 4pm on the 29^th of January. We will create an image for all the stories entered and put them up into a special photo gallery on the Photobat Facebook Page on the 1^st of February.

Get your friends and family to vote for your story by sharing / posting your entry onto your Facebook page. They can vote by clicking the “like” button under the image.

The wining story will be the story that has the most likes on their image by the 4pm on the 10^th of February 2010.
Some Conditions
Open to all couples, married or unmarried
Session must take place in Tasmania by the end of February 2010
Both partners have to agree to be entered into the competition

So get entering, and please let anyone you know who likes food and photos to enter too

ADDITIONAL PRIZE: Just Retweet or Share this blog post on your Twitter or Facebook and go into the draw to win 10 Rossilli Coffees. Click the buttons on the top of this post to get into the draw. Drawn 4pm 29th January 2010.

I mentioned in the newsletter that we have a special on our limited edition fine art prints. A great present for someone who loves art and good photography.

We currently have 5 different prints avaliable in 2 different sizes. The 15% Discount is in place until 10th of December, which is THIS THURSDAY! We will also guarentee delivery pre Christmas ifyou place an order this week.

Click here to head over to the Photobat shop

Those other dates that are good to know

December 10th – end of 15% discount on Photobat Limited Edition Fine Art Prints

December 15th – Last date of orders of wedding and portrait prints for guaranteed delivery pre Christmas.

December 23rd – End of discount on the new Portrait Albums

December 23rd – Start of Photobat Summer Hibernation (apart from the weddings!)

January 15th 2010 – Photobat back up and running for 2010

We did this head shot of Jeremy a couple of weeks ago, and now it has been published in ‘Inside Harcourts’, the magazine for Harcourts International.

Click if you want to have a read!

While on the way home from Sydney, I did the usual flick through some magazine in the newsagent. Unfortunantly i was between Vanity Fairs (as in i had the latest one already). So in a mission to find somthing desent to read (I bought Men’s Style on the way up, first time ever, had a story about a guy getting mauled by chimanzes…. weird, but kinda the reason I bought the magazine).

Anyway, Esquire. I pick it up, flip through it and then the sudden regognition of one of my images of UK comedian Chris Addison. This was shot a few of years ago in Edinburgh, Chris is a lovely lovely guy (yes, double lovely) and i’m glad to see the shot still getting some use for his markating.

Read the whole article here

From the Launceston Times this week.

Dan and Elise just ordered a couply more photos from their wedding and recieved the 10% discount which is still on offer until Friday. Email your order, or your intrest to order,  for 10% off all previous wedding and portrait images.

Another year and the Epson Tasmanian Professional Photography Awards have been run and won.

This year I managed to pick up 8 Silver awards over 4 categories.

In addition to this I also picked up

2009 AIPP Tasmanian Wedding Photographer of the Year (sponsored by Bride Tasmania)

2009 AIPP Tasmanian Portrait Photographer of the Year (joint) (sponsored by Fuji/Photoforce)

2009 AIPP Tasmanian General Photographer of the Year (sponsored by The Edge)

2009 AIPP Tasmanian Wedding Album of the Year (sponsored by Seldex)

And was named the 2009 Epson AIPP Tasmanian Professional Photographer of the Year.

Basically I’ve gone from no trophies to 5 in a day! Was kinda embarrassing going up to receive all the awards!

Big thanks to the AIPP for running the event, the judges, Zakk and Matt, Rocco, Phil K, and of course to my beautiful wife Vikashni. Plus thanks to all my fantastic clients, I am really lucky to have so many fantastic people to photography and share happy times in their lives. I love my job love sharing it with you all.

And well done to Zakk to for getting his first silver award! Click here to see it

The below images are the silver award images.

You may also hear me if you listen to ABC Southern Tas tomorrow morning and also HO FM tomorrow morning.

And my other entries that played a part in winning all the catergories are below

The last shot is of Tara Badcock’s clothing titled Theda Bara’s Cocktail Party, pink silk camisole top.

 I might blog some of the stories behind these images in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

Another Greece Shot. Promise that there will be no John Travolta at the slideshow this Sunday.

Part of my Best of 2008, 2pm or 3.30pm at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery, This Sunday, 22nd March, RSVP to production@photobat.net

 From a shoot just before Christmas.

Many more photos from my portrait shoots will be on the screen on Sunday.Come along, bring friends, I guarentee no monster children will devower your car!

Part of my Best of 2008, 2pm or 3.30pm at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery, This Sunday, 22nd March, RSVP to production@photobat.net