The dates of the workshops will be: August 27th (evening theory) and 28th (2 theory sessions & 2 practical sessions), so book it in on your calendar! I’ll be taking bookings shortly, be sure to subscribe to the blog to be notified of the announcment.

Regards

Paul Pichugin

http://paulpichugin.com

The exciting news:

I’m going to be running a few different photography workshops, the first ones will be here in Perth, I’m still working out the details, but I’m going to run some 1 or 2 day workshops. We’ll start with some theory and questions and answers, then move on to a practical session on one of our beautiful beaches here in Perth. I’m thinking of doing a follow up session where I can give practical feedback on your photography and then possibly one final practical session.

Workshop number two I’m looking at running is a 2-3 day photography trip down in the South West corner of Western Australia. Probably somewhere like Yallingup or in the surrounds. I’m still working out the logistics of such an undertaking, but it would be 2-3 days of theory, practical sessions at dawn, morning, afternoon and dusk.. and possibly even some night shooting if anyone is kee. The idea is that it is an all inclusive fee, you pay your fee and that gets you accomodation, food, the workshops, transport to and from the practical sessions etc.

And now for the very exciting news.. I’m in the process of working out the feasability of running a 7-10 day photography tour of Phuket / Thailand.. it would involve accomodation, food, private tours to the islands, including a private tour to Phi Phi Dom Island, the beach where “The Beach” was filmed, before all the speed boats and tourists arrive. Private tours of some of the more secluded beaches on the islands as well as the more famous ones like James Bond Island.

I’m looking for people who would be interested in being a participant in any of these workshops :) Let me know and I’ll be sure to send you some details once they are ready. I’ve already had heavy interest in all 3 workshops, so places will be limited!

Regards

Paul Pichugin

http://paulpichugin.com

I’ve never seen the Swan River so still and with such a perfect reflection! I’ve posted up a couple of shots for you to have a look at, as always the images are available to purchase either through RedBubble or if you are after something bigger and better, just email me.

I’m in the proecess upgrading and updating my website, I’ve added a shopping cart system that will eventually have all my limited edition prints available to purchase through it. There will also be calendars and other prints available for sale on this site. In the near future I am planning to hold some photography workshops both here in Perth and possibly somewhere down south around Yalingup or Margaret River. The bookings will be handled through this website and will be able to be paid for online.

I’ll have more photos and news shortly.

Regards

Paul Pichugin

Perth City Skyline

Well today was the first of 2 days I’m spending at a seminar run by Yervant (http://yervant.com/), an excellent photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Today’s session included some great tips on what not to do when running a studio and how to avoid some of the problems Yervant went through when he was starting up. It’s certainly given me some ideas and thoughts that I’ll have to go through as I finish off the business plan for our photography studio and we go into the setup stage. Things like how to keep good staff and how to make sure that every client is happy with the value you are giving them, while still keeping a healthy business running. Anie, his wife, had some excellent things to say about how they got through the hard times and gave some ideas and thoughts on how to think outside the box when it comes to marketing.

After that he ran us through how he works with the couple when shooting weddings. While he was doing this, we were able to capture some of our own photos and setup some of our own shots. Yervant hired a model (Rachael Cross.. beautiful girl, very easy to work with) to be our “bride”.. he didn’t get a groom though so I was roped into being the groom in some of shots.. haha. Anyway.. I don’t have any of those photos, though I’m sure they’ll pop up around the blogosphere in Perth over the next day or so.. if I didn’t wreck the photos :-)

I’ve got some more photos from our trip away to come, but I’ve got to go through them yet.. it’s been go go go since we got back on Monday.

I’ve included some photos from today in this post though, feel free to leave comments.

Regards

Paul Pichugin

Bec and I are having very busy, but great time in Mullewa.. we’ve been working with some great people in the photography workshops and today we had the opportunity of working with the local Indigenous Women’s Group. They have some serious artistic talent in their paintings and their photography.

Mullewa are producing a community book with stories and photos of the community, I will be submitting some photos for the book as well as the loclals. The blog for the project is at: http://mullewathickerthanwater.wordpress.com/

Here are some of my photos from the trip so far:

- paul

The photography workshops are having a great response and we did the first practical session this morning (dawn.. ughh), I hope everyone is as happy with their photos as I am with mine :-)

I’ve posted up a couple of photos here and on Redbubble.. I’ll have more fairly soon I hope.. we have no internet access at the moment and our phones don’t have any reception out there.. I’m trying to get a pre-paid sim to work in my phone.. hopefully we’ll have some more updates then :-)

- paul

Our Accomodation

Bec at Coalseam