John Lalor Photography

Wild tunes and songs, new and old from Scotland and Ireland. The band members have taken their music all over the world and have now joined forces to make a new and exciting sound.

Below are – from top left Shane Booth, top right Ricky Murray, Bottom left Farquhar MacDonald, and bottom right John Davidson.

Percussion, 2 fiddles, 4 vocals, 2 guitars and pipes combine and mix various styles and genres to make a new and exciting sound in the folk world.

An interesting and fun group of men – wild men ahh haa! Great musicians and lovers of Gates

Many thanks for a great day and i hope to catch ye at a summer festival over the coming months

John

The Irish Youth Music Awards is a National Youth Programme ran by Youth Work Ireland to promote and encourage music participation in young people throughout the Country.

Bands that performed at the event were, Cramptown Spaces, The Perception, Unborn Voices and M.T.B.A.

The competition was very tight with a vast range of talented acts. However, a group of Portlaoise Musicians known as “More To Be Announced” (M.T.B.A.) triumphantly walked away with the victory.

M.T.B.A. consists of five talented young musicians which includes: Gary Maher on vocals, Shaun Costello and John Delaney on guitars, Robert Brennan on drums, and Stephen Kehoe on bass.

The five local lads are beyond excited about the whole experience They are all really looking forward to going onto Liberty Hall for the finals of the IYMAs this April. However, the lads are very much taking the victory in their stride. When asked about the future plans that M.T.B.A. have, guitarist John Delaney, simply answered, “We intend to be home very early tonight, have a nice cup of tea, and to be in bed before ten o’clock.” National Finals is on in Liberity Hall Dublin on Saturday the 28th of April.

Best of luck lads and well done with your first Photoshoot.

John

This week i started to give Photography lessons to a woman who was a little overwhelmed, distracted, annoyed at the digital rat race. She bought a new camera, her first since the age of Film. It created a feeling of snap shot, quick, reproductive, disposable way of thinking about and taking photographs. It was impossible to find the unique and inventive method she was used to with her old camera. the idea of a delete button seemed wrong. So my main aim is now to inspire and find that timeless tone and mood so that digital a camera can be used with an old age feel. The detail, and control, quality and sharpness, touch and feeling is all different.

This led me to do the following:
People love black and white film… Its mood and romantic energy. It cannot be created on a Computer. Before this era in the history of photography, Photographs were developed on glass – this was know as the Wet Plate Colloidal Process…
producing an old deteriorated looking object but untouchable in my mind when compared to anything we have in photography today.. Amazing one off images that cannot be reproduced after the decision to press your shutter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process

The work of Sally mann is a great example of this process at work.

I recreated the look in photoshop with some old travel images i had on my computer – Photos i really liked and that meant a lot to me i suppose.
I knew i could not create this look or feeling to an old image – so once i had made my effort using Photoshop i printed the files as 10 x 8 and then deleted the raw files from my hard drive.. This is not easy to do but it changes the Print and the way i see it. It has become an object with much greater value to me.

Monsoon in Kathmandu

Nepalese Fruit Vendor makes a sale

Kids in Varanasi join a funeral ceremony along the at the banks of the River Ganges.

Portrait of a youn boy at a wedding in Hampi - India.

This Portrait was Recently taken at the Sky-Lite Studio. A fun Photoshoot that produced some interesting ideas.. Cheers Dave..

Dave is an up and coming singer songwriter from Ireland emerging onto the alternative pop/rock music scene.
Dave’s unique style of songwriting has seen him play all throughout Ireland over the years seeing his name alongside top acts such as Damien Rice, Glen Hansard, Declan O Rourke and Bell X1 just to name a few.
Dave is a former music performance student of CSN in cork which has introduced the likes of “Mick Flannery”, “O Emperor” and “Fred”
Dave’s debut single “Ocean Road” is set for release in 2012 being taken from his EP “Japanese Writing”!

Jamie is a dancer who studies at Cambridge University. Entertainer and Male Vocalist who aspires to be a male model in his future career.
He arrived at the studio and we took a series of images for his portfolio. Best of luck to Jamie when the industry opens it arms to him.

John

This Project sets out to find a similar beauty to that of a Mountainous Landscape in the Decaying Urban Landscape. The Irish countryside is a place of wonder and beauty that people travel the world around to be apart of. Across this beautiful countryside, exists abandonment, from century old Buildings and Castles to modern isolated Ghost Estates, Schools, Hospitals, Industrial Work Houses, Mines that have all been left to waste and decay.

There is beauty in decay, and excitement in desertion.

Would you consider an invitation to enter a place you would bear in mind not to, fear of what’s inside, fear of trespassing, fear because it is unknown and there is no reason to go inside this place. Why go all the way to a desert in Africa to watch the sunrise?
Because it gives you energy the National Geographic Channel and your front living room cannot give you.
Surprisingly, the silence of these abandoned rooms gets a more energetic reaction. Even though they are scenes of decay and darkness, notice how each image is beaming with light, how the outside world decides to fill the rooms with colour and enthusiasm.
This is an ongoing project that I hope to exhibit or Print in the next year or after. I look forward to the spaces I discover. If you know of any that would fit in here, send me an email with the whereabouts etc.
John

16 Images selected from the Project 'The Redesigned Landscape'

I Photographed a large selection of Candles this month for a new business soon to be launched in the midlands -
Very detailed, delicate, colorful and each one unique.

‘The act of Photography allows us to see light in a weightless and very energetic fashion’

– John

The following Photo Shoot took place in the Tea Rooms of Emo Court in County Laois. Many Thanks to the Manager there for allowing us to use the space, which is beautiful for any Photo shoot Inside and out. Fiona Booth is the model, a Dancer from Co. Laois who has recently moved to LA to further her career in the Art of Performance Dance. Best of luck to Fiona and many thanks again to all involved in the Days of Photography.
John

Editorial which appeared on page 222 of The Irish Wedding Diary – Spring Edition 2012

John Lalor is a graduate of Griffith Collage Dublin for which he received an academic achievement award for excellence in the field of Photography during his final year. His passion and dedication for Photography has taken him around the world and resulted in a number of solo exhibitions. His love of Photojournalism, Fashion and People are united to create stunning images put together as a dramatic document of your wedding day.

John has been photographing people, places and all else in between for over a decade, and is very passionate about the images he creates. John works hard at making clients feel very comfortable in front of his camera, he works in a discreet manner, subtle and tactful, which helps to transform unnoticed candid moments into works of art.

With John, you are getting a genuinely relaxed professional, Beautiful Images, High quality DvD production and an Album from one of the world’s leaders in Album manufacturing at an affordable price.

John works from his Studio ‘The Sky-Lite’ in Co. Laois and is available to work all over Ireland and Overseas. Call John at 0868953208 or email him at info@johnlalorphotography.ie. His personal portfolio, blog and Wedding page can be viewed at www.johnlalorphotography.ie.

Page 223 of the Irish Wedding Diary Spring Edition 2012

Details of a competition from the magazine can be found at the following link:

http://johnlalorwedding.blogspot.com/p/competition-iwd-spring-2012.html

Thanking you to everyone involved at the Irish Wedding Diary.

John