Blog by James Bridle highlighting some of my recent work in the field of Photography, show casing festivals, like Bestival, Isle of Wight, Global Gathering, SoundClash, and many more. Also covering PA club events, fitness fashion shoots and weddings! Photographer based in Bournemouth, Dorset covering Christchurch & Poole.
After years of years of great success Basement Jaxx have been touring some of the smaller venues and festivals of recent months. I shot these guys at Southampton SoundClash in September and again this month at Halo Bournemouth.
Halo is the perfect place to house such a great duo. A night of KishKash, Peace love and unity, while the crowd definitely lost their heads!
Thank you to event organisers at Halo Bournemouth for allowing me to pop down with AAA access.
The time is here, for another great instalment of my favourite trance brand. REMEDY run by my good friend Andy Parker has gone from one success to another. This Autumns round up sees the incredible Eddie Halliwell returning after 5 years, DJ'ing for the Slinky brand way-back-when.
John O'Callaghan also returning to the O2 Academy after being away for I think 3 or 4 years. I think one of the best photos Ive ever taken was of John in a perfect 'God is a DJ' pose on stage performing at Slinky in 2011.
I will let the photos do the talking as we all know thats why your here ;) I will end on saying I really enjoyed Giuseppe Ottaviano and Sky Patrol in the early hours of this morning. Not seeing these guys before was a real treat as Giuseppe's set was live.
BESTIVAL, The time has come I'm a bit late posting this as its been a busy September however the blog updates MUST continue! Some of my Bestival work has added to my Music Portfolio and Previous works, but this just lists a few of my favourites.
This years I was shooting for a main travel partner in helping this awesome festival continue its success. Wightlink Ferries helps promote through competitions, Photo coverage as well as video from each of the 4 days.
Some massive acts again this year brought to you by Rob Da Bank and Josie. Missy Elliott's first UK appearance in 6 years provided a new sound to the main stage. Not forgetting the classics Duran Duran and the electronic duo The Chemical Brothers.
Weather fortunately turned out to pretty good and the only rain that we had was on the Sunday, and my god did the heavens open! Luckily it came just after Missy Elliott had closed and the fireworks despite being somewhat staggered due to the weather went up and looked amazing!!
Heres some of my snaps from this year!
All Photography is taken by myself - James Bridle Please do not use my work for publication unless previously request and authorised by myself. I work hard for what I do so please be respectful of the work I produce, Kindest regards and I hope you enjoy the images!
JB
www.James-Bridle.com
Bournemouth Air Festival has arrived, and unfortunately so has the rain, Thursday was called off due to rain but Friday turned things around full circle and a day of beautiful blue skies and sun. I had been at work all of Friday so my first chance to capture the festival was Saturday which remained bright and sunny with patchy cloud until about 4.
My fun was had on Saturday when I managed to get to the top of the Cumberland Hotel, and when I mean the top, I mean the Roof! Then afterwards joined up with the FONIX team and watched the Vulcan fly by from the best vantage point on the whole festival!
Sunday was a rest day for me but did snap the HMS Iron Duke sailing past Bournemouth Pier and the Helicopter fly-by to end the festival.
Heres some of the photos over the weekend, I hope you enjoy looking as much as I enjoyed taking them!
JB
This week I was invited by a good friend of mine Mr Matt Hardy to assist at the Bournemouth Calendar Girls Final. What a laugh this was, 7 Limos, 50 girls lots of beautiful dresses and a Church named HALO, raising money for those with that horrible C word, Cancer. local businesses joined together to make this event possible. It was lovely meeting new people, one of the main reasons I love Photography and my job is the ability to meet so many great people from all different industries, heres some of the photos!
Enjoy the Photos
JB
This weekend I was attending the beautiful wedding of Francesca and Will. The wedding took place in a lovely barn/hotel in Dorking named Mercure Box Hill Burford Bridge Hotel, on the East side of Guildford. Despite the weather for the previous 2 days the sky brightened up and the ceremony went on without a hitch. It was lovely to see my old friend Anton again, who played Groomsman and a great chance to see two amazing people say their vows to each other.
Ive uploaded a few photos to Social media but wanted to highlight a few photos before Honeymoon.
I hope you guys have a wonderful honeymoon in the Dominican Republic!
JB
Confetti outside the Barn, in the rear of the hotel is a huge heated swimming pool, Very posh!
Francesca 15.08.15 engraved on Wills Ring.
That moment the Registrar gets Francesca's middle name wrong and asks her to to repeat it.
The Newly wed couple, showing off Francesca's jewels and the recently signed register.
During August we are lucky enough to have a fireworks display 5 minutes from home. Bournemouth Pier is lit up every Friday at 10PM, after an early finish at work I decided to head down but not before having a BBQ on the beach with friends.
Thanks for looking
JB
This years CampBestival hosted an impressive line up, with The likes of Mr Tumble... Jokes, but seriously he was pretty ace, there was confetti and everything! The Castle stage was hosted by Saturday night headline act Kaiser Chiefs, Ella Eyre, George the Poet, DJ Underworld, Clean Bandit, Wretch 32 along with many other fabulous artists.
Unfortunately I couldn't stick around much over the weekend as I was knee deep in weddings however I did shoot a few artists on Saturday and captured a bit of the magic. This festival breads so much positive energy its definitely worth a look in. Even if your not a kid, this festival has loads to do and see that adults and teens will still find interesting and fun to watch.
Think my favourite part of this weekend was seeing some of the horses from Game of Thrones and Harry Potter. The riders and horses were incredible and so majestic!
Heres a few shots for you guys
Thanks for looking,
JB
This weekend I was invited to go with a good friend and Photographer to a VW Festival in Devon know as DubFest. Now I love classic cars, and have just recently started developing a love for Transporters and their amazing ability to be customised to anything that you need!
This was a perfect intro to some of the best Dub Campers around. We headed down on Saturday morning due to bad weather on Friday and had a thoroughly bright and sunny Saturday to enjoy the festival.
Heres some of the photos!
Hope you enjoy,
JB
www.James-Bridle.com
Sitting at my desk editing this evening, and for the past week or so has reminded me of where my music love and interest began. It all started with Rock despite my interests and previous work in EDM, Trance that sort of corner. My love has always been for bands like Disturbed, SOiL, Static X, and A Perfect Circle. So to remember my roots I thought id do a little post on some of the rock bands I've shot. Also from a photography perspective, its safe to say that they can be some of the challenging 3 songs you can get behind the camera. The hardest I've ever had to work was actually for The Prodigy at this years Isle of Wight. It was raining hard, I had a rain cover but had lost my eye cup so couldn't fix my weather gear to be able to see through the viewfinder. The Prodigy move around and use lighting that makes them almost impossible to shoot. I know now what my friends in the industry talk about, when they say Prodigy are a pretty good challenge.
However... We Like Challenges ;)
SOiL - 1865 Southampton
SOiL - 1865 Southampton
The Prodigy - Isle of Wight 2015 - Main Stage
The Prodigy - Isle of Wight 2015 - Main Stage
Asking Alexandria - O2 GuildHall Southampton
Asking Alexandria - O2 GuildHall Southampton
Industry Music Photographer from Bournemouth, Dorset (UK) covering a wide range of festivals, Bestival, Isle of Wight, Creamfields, Wireless. Providing professional covering for weddings, commercial, event photography.
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