In my opinion, the New Irish concert is the official start to Christmas. Its such a great night (if you haven’t been then go to http://www.newirisharts.com/ for more info).

Apart from being a great night of music, I bumped in to no less than 5 of my wedding customers! Even better, running up and down the stairs at the Ulster Hall was good exercise before the Christmas dinners started .

Ok, so here’s a few photos, starting with the conductor Jonathan Rea.

Lots of behind the scenes photos like this one:

Very much like the next two:

Doesn’t the Ulster Hall look well? Some venue!

Tonight I’m off to the theatre to watch The Fringe Benefits Theatre Company’s productions of ‘The Man With a Flower in His Mouth’ and ‘Lovers – Winners, Losers’.

It was great fun to have some of the cast along to the studio a few weeks back to take some publicity photos. Here’s just a few!

Below: a bed, a drunk man and a religious women – definitely never had this combination in the studio before…

Make sure not to miss the various performances by the Theatre Company – coming up in the next few weeks!

The fact is I spend so much time taking photographs, that I often escape being the subject of their photographs.

So just for fun, here’s a self-portrait taken during a recent commercial shoot at a garden centre.