Just a quick note to apologize for the recent downtime, due to an error with my hosting company everything got moved around a little, I have took the opportunity to redesign the site and will be working over the coming weeks to perfect the layout.

So please bare with me as some of the pages will be requiring a little tweaking over the coming weeks.

Catch you later

Simon

Just a quick update to let you know a few things that are going on. I have now uploaded and made public All of the Sheffield Pride 2009 Photographs and they can be viewed in the gallery. The photos are also available over on my Facebook Fan Page so drop by and tag you and your friends and become a fan while your at more updates.

Additionally I am also happy to let you know that I am now taking bookings for Weddings and Civil Partnerships, This is a new area for me and I am hoping to gain some experience before fully moving into this area of photography. Here is a little information.

Simon is currently looking to gain more experience covering Weddings and Civil Partnerships  in order to move into photographing this area (at the same reasonable prices as you have come to expect of him) and would like some volunteers to allow him to photograph their ceremony.

For volunteering Simon will offer you a friendly, honest and reliable service to photograph your Special day and provide you with the images in a format of your choice (Online Download or CD/DVD-Rom)

In return Simon requests that he may have the option to use some of your photos in his portfolio of work and £50 just to cover his basic costs.

Short notice bookings can be accommodated so please do no hesitate to contact me.

Simon Is also looking to cover Engagement parties under the same offer.

For more information please Email:

enquiries@simontodd.info

For some examples of some of the work I have all ready done please select the Weddings & Civil Partnerships option on the right hand side of the page.

And finally I just wanted to let you know that I have had some images published in Shout! – South Yorkshires queer paper. My photos from Sheffield Pride have been used as part of the article on the event, Shout! can be downloaded online or copies are available in most Gay Venues around Sheffield .

Firstly I would just like to apologize for the lack of updates recently, as you may have guessed it really has been a busy month or so for me which has left me with very little time to do much at all.

So quick rundown of what is, and has been, happening:

Spring Out:

once again I had the privilege to work for the centre for HIV on this years Sping Out Event,  A fun day for all involved with activities that provided something for everyone.

Sheffield Pride & Poptastic Afterparty:

This month saw me working with the Sheffield Pride committee doing the photography for the first ever Sheffield Pride. A truely marvelous event which really brought the gay community together, an event which can only go from strength to strength in the coming years.

The evening then saw me working with the Poptastic Crew from Manchester at the Official Sheffield Pride Poptastic Afterparty, again another great event with a brilliant turnout. These are the types of jobs I enjoy most, working with some superb people.

There has been a delay in getting the photos online for Both Pride and the After Party but I promise, they are coming soon (I’m uploading them as I type this)

The photos are now online, and you can tag your family and friends over on the gallery available on the Facebook Fan Page, While your there don’t forget to become a fan for more updates.

Still to come:

If you head over to my events page you will see that I have a number of events coming up including some work with “For The Peeps Who Don’t Sleep” This Saturday As well as coverage of protests, (Due to Unforeseen Circumstances these are now being rearranged). , Flashmobs, and Viva Climax.

So with a bit of luck the good weather will quickly return and we can all get back to our Shorts, BBQ’s and Summer Fun soon enough. (also with a bit of luck I’ll be able to keep the site more up to date)

See you next time

First of all I just wanted to remind you that Sheffields IDAHO Event this year will be on Monday 18th May at Barkers Pool outside the City Hall.

More Info

I am also happy to announce that I will be in attendance at Sheffields Annual Springout Event on Saturday 13th of June at St. Mary’s Community Centre.

More Info

Also I am happy to announce that the new Service Hire price guide is now available online over on the prices page. Quotes already issued are still valid and will not be affected by the new prices.

And finally, I would like to invite you all to join the new facebook page, this page replaces the old Facebook group. Members (or fans) of this page will receive regular updates via the messaging service provided by facebook as well as also allow minor updates which you would not ordinarily see by using the status updates.

To join the new facebook page please click here

(oh and 35 days until pride! )

Also don’t forget that May 17th is the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) more info to come on that and I shall update you as I hear more.

Also the Countdown to sheffield pride has begun, 48 Days to go!!

View The Gallery Here

Also just a quick reminder of the Macmillan World Water Bombing Championships coming up on April 29th at Ponds forge, for more information on events I will be covering in the next few months then please feel free to take a look at the events page.

I hope you all had a happy and safe Easter this year and that you haven’t made yourselves to ill after all that chocolate. Just wanted to let you all know about some upcoming public events that I will be covering over the next few weeks as an official photographer:

• The Day Sheffield Moved – April 18th 2009
• Macmillan Cancer Research World Water Bombing Championships – April 29th 2009

I also plan to be in attendance at:

• International Day Against Homophobia 2009 – Sheffield -  May 18th 2009

In other news I am now delighted to announce that I will be fulfilling the role of an official photographer for Sheffield Pride 2009.

In site news I would also like to direct you towards the new Copyright and You section of the website, this is a new section giving a brief overview of copyright and what it means when hiring my services. You May have also noticed that the price guide have been taken down from the site. This is a temporary measure while I update the price lists to their latest versions. This won’t effect any quotations or Invoices that have already been issued.

Finally following feedback on the current watermarking for the on site galleries I am currently in the process of updating the galleries to a new method of watermarking which should make viewing much easier

For anymore information on any of the events listed please view my Events Page.

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After the move to the new servers at the end of last month it may have seemed like there was very little work occurring on the site.

However I have been working on a number of the back end changes on the site to make things more secure so that I can roll out some new features on the site.

New Improved Galleries

I am now delighted to inform you that I have now updated the gallery pages on the website making the viewing of images more streamlined.

Your are now presented with fewer options then before. This is because I am now able to group galleries together into sets. So now instead of finding two separate pages for the two TEASE club nights last year, you will now see just the one option, TEASE 2008. Included under the new heading will be an option allowing you to choose from the two sets available for TEASE.

The update to the gallery has now allowed me to add more images to the galleries then I was able to before, this means that new images are available, they are as follows:

Sheffield

New images added, including Tinsley Cooling Towers Images

Miscellaneous

New images added

Portraits

New images added

Sheffield LGBT Events 2008

New gallery album

South Yorkshire Pride 2008 gallery set imported

Spring Out 2008 gallery set Imported

New Sheffield Pride Christmas Party Added

TEASE 2008

TEASE September and December galleries imported

Client Logins Now Online

I am very pleased to announce that I can now provide logins for clients allowing them to receive samples of there images online using their reference numbers and a password I provide them.

This will speed up the process of clients being able to access samples of there orders so that they can start considering the photos for uses sooner then they were able to previously.

New email address

I am also pleased to announce that there is a new email system that has just rolled out for making enquiries. The new email is:

enquiries@simontodd.info

Existing clients should continue to use the email which has already been used, future clients should proceed to use this address.

]]> http://simontodd.info/2009/03/10/site-feature-updates/feed/ 0 http://simontodd.info/2009/03/10/site-feature-updates/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimonTodd-Photographer/~3/KUmPSak2c_I/ http://simontodd.info/2009/03/07/winter-200809-online/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:18:24 +0000 Simon Todd http://simontodd.info/?p=230 I am pleased toannounce that the new Winter 2008/09 is now online. I apologise for the delay for these, this was down to the site maintenance issues that arose during the essential maintenance at the end of last month.

The gallery can be viewed here.

I Apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause and hope to have the matter resolved swiftly with only limited interruption to service.

Simon Todd

*Update* 4:46pm

Maintenance work is completed and all areas of the site are functional and stable once again however more down time may be to come. I will attempt to limit incidents like this as much as possible however sometimes such incidents are unavoidable as it is a matter for my hosting company.

I once again apologise for the down time and any inconveniance that it may have caused.