Silver Award for Environmental Portraiture
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Over the Christmas period we had a short break in Egypt. This was partly for my daughter as this will probably be the last chance for the whole family to go on holiday together; She’ll be going to university to study Bio-Chemistry! However it was also very much a business trip for me.
Seeing some of the wonderful sites in Luxor and Cairo gave me the opportunity to photograph them for picture libraries for onward picture sales! With any luck I’ll recover some of the money we borrowed if nothing else – ha ha.
But the key reason for going to Cairo was to investigate working there for six months doing wedding photography.
A couple of months earlier I was approached by someone specializing in marketing Egyptian weddings who asked if I’d consider working in Egypt for six months at a time. After we got there I talked to several local tour guides, not the one pictured here, about weddings in Egypt and it soon became clear there was not much money in Egyptian wedding photography. In Cairo I arranged to meet a local photographer but he proved to be unreliable. I discussed everything with Imke and we agreed it was unlikely to earn enough money to support the family home in the UK and myself in Egypt. It would also have made running Inner Beauty Photography very difficult with jetting backwards and forwards between weddings in Egypt. In the end I decided there was a high risk of actually losing money working in Egypt and all the hard work put into building Inner Beauty Photography could be lost, which is where our hearts really are. Not that I’m discounting the possibility of doing international work in the future for either weddings or boudoir 
This is already proving to be a good choice since the boudoir side of the business is really starting to take off whilst weddings remains relatively quiet.
So that’s the real story behind this picture that achieved a Sliver Award for environmental portraiture in the SWPP monthly photographic competitions. It was taken in one of the temples around Luxor and he was the most memorable tour guides for his cobra walking stick used to help us find him in the crowds.
Pat
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Pat Bloomfield is your photographer / artist. He's photographed nude women professionally since 2005.
Imke Bloomfield is your make-up artist. A keen make-up practitioner trained by professional artists; she has a great flare for creating beautiful make-up especially for you.
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