Wedding & Portrait Photography in Leighton Buzzard, Beds…
Hi and thanks for stopping by. My name is Uzair Kharawala and I am a portrait & wedding photographer based in Leighton Buzzard, Beds. I specialise in capturing you and your loved ones in a relaxed manner which you’ll cherish forever. My specialty is shooting on-location, that’s why I don’t have a studio with 4 walls with the same old boring props! My studio can be your back garden, on a beach, up a hill or anywhere you fancy! The choice is yours.
I’m a cricket fanatic, been photographing since I was a kid, follow Chelsea FC (just to make my son happy!), favourite website BBC, cameras: Nikon of course, enjoy playing Wii, going out to eat and meeting people. I’m proud & privileged to be a Nikon ‘Evangelist’ and am part of the Nikon Training Team in the UK for professional photographers. Also am very privileged to be on the ‘Preferred Supplier List’ of these very fine venues, The Grove, The Sculpture Gallery and The Inn at Woburn.
This blog-site features my life in general, my work, my travels and anything and everything which interests me. For regular updates and latest news, become my Facebook friend, follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this site.
Arctic Adventures & Ice Hotel Wedding
Here’s the video which you have been waiting for. Shot with the Nikon D3s in Kiruna, Sweden during my recent trip to the Ice Hotel.
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Northern Lights
Arctic Adventures & the Ice Hotel Wedding
Charity Girls Night | Brain Tumour Action
We are proud to support this noble cause and charity. This event organised by Brain Tumour Action & Research will be held at the Leighton Buzzard Golf Club on 5th March 2010 from 1930 – 2200hrs. Tickets are for £20 only and all proceeds go to the charity. We’ve donated a Gift Voucher for the auction to the value of £195.00 and Farzana will be attending this event to support this cause. Ticket included drink on arrival, light buffet and entry to The Grand Prize Draw.
This event features Fashion Shows, Stalls from local companies, Makeovers and much much more!!
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Focus on Imaging
7 – 10 March 2010, NEC, Birmingham
FOCUS ON IMAGING is Europe’s biggest annual imaging show, covering all your needs from image capture through to output and beyond.
Whether you are a professional image maker or processor, a buyer of image making equipment or materials, a manufacturer or distributor of products or a keen hobbyist, a visit to FOCUS ON IMAGING is a must.
Over 200 exhibitors and product launches galore – including all the very latest digital cameras and processing equipment – will feature at FOCUS 2010.
This will be my 4th year at the Nikon stand and presenting my seminar. My presentation is titled ‘Arctic Adventures with the D3s”. I’ll be speaking about my experience in Lapland in extreme temperatures of as low as -29C with the Nikon D3s. You’ll also see some coverage from the wedding I shot at the world famous Ice Hotel, shooting the Northern Lights at extremely high ISO and much much more. I’ll be presenting all 4 days at the following times:
Sun 7th Mar – 1600-1645hrs
Mon 8th Mar – 1600-1645hrs
Tue 9th Mar – 1600-1645hrs
Wed 10th Mar – 1500-1545hrs
LASTOLITE
I will be at the Lastolite every morning demonstrating how to set up a simple yet very powerful & effective lighting system on-location using the Nikon Creative Lighting System. I’ll be using a brand new product which will debut at Focus by Lastolite. I’ve been testing it out and I tell you it is something which is going to be a part of my lighting kit.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
Oz
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Babyworld Photo Competition
I’ve just finished judging the entries for the Babyworld Photo Competition. Babyworld is one of UK’s busiest websites for parenting. The quality of the entries were fantastic and I had a hard time picking up the winners. Instead of the 10 Runners Up prizes, I selected 16! All those entries deserved something and my heartiliest congratulations to the winners & the runners-up. Well done to everyone who entered.
“Photo competitions on Babyworld are always popular, but the Creative Photo Competition that we ran with SF Digital has been very successful. We have had an outstanding number of entries and all of them were of very good picture quality.
Working with SF Digital has been a real pleasure, Uzair had the task of judging the entries, not an enviable task when you see the quality submitted and he couldn’t keep to his original and generous offer, a clear indication of how well this partnership has worked and I hope will continue to work with future competitions on Babyworld.”
Editor, Babyworld.co.uk
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February 25, 2010 - 12:30 pm I am delighted that my daughter, Hollie, was one of 3 who won this competition! Thank you so much :)
Northern Lights, Sweden
I was extremely fortunate to see the Northern Lights on the first attempt in Sweden recently. In a group of 9 snow mobiles, we travelled about 45 kms in to the wilderness to see the Northern Lights. The experience was just incredible and worth it even though it was bitterly bitterly cold. I think it was around -23C but felt a lot colder than that on the snow mobiles! I was still cold even though I was wearing 4 layers of warm clothing, a jacket and then the snow suit, 3 layers of thermal socks & the snow boots and 2 wooly hats and the helmet!!
Leighton Buzzard News printed this article last week and you can read the full story on their website.
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A Lavish Wedding Costs More Than You Think
Came across this very interesting article on The Wall Street Journal regarding the cost of weddings. Click here to read.
Oz
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Arctic Adventures & The Ice Hotel Wedding, Sweden
One of the most exciting & challenging shoot I’ve ever done was during my trip to the Lapland, Arctic (well about 250kms north) in Sweden. The trip came about when I was booked to photograph a wedding at the world famous Ice Hotel in Sweden. This was roughly the same time when the Nikon D3s was launched and was the perfect opportunity to test the camera for its high ISO capabilities in such low light and extreme conditions of as low as -30C.
If you are a photographer and would like to read this post with more technical stuff, then click here: SF Photo School
The trip involved photographing the a pre-wedding shoot and the wedding, a dog sledding tour on a frozen river and through the wilderness around Jukkasjarvi and a 4-hour Northern Light tour on snow mobiles and staying in the ‘cold accommodation for 1-night at the Ice Hotel. Yes I did sleep in a cold room at The Ice Hotel at -5C and still here to tell the story. In fact, you get a diploma if you wake up alive in the morning!!! A fairly packed schedule within a 4-day trip to say the least.
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Zarina & Simon, Wedding at Great Fosters, Egham
Zarina & Simon got married recently at Great Fosters Hotel, Egham, Surrey. Was a cold & somewhat wet day but the ceremony & celebrations made up for that. A super day which I thoroughly enjoyed and would like to share some images with you.
Rest of the images can be viewed by clicking on the ‘Clients’ button at the top. Please contact the couple for the password.
Oz
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Claire & James’ Wedding at The Ice Hotel, Sweden
I’ve received quite a few emails as to when the images will be up. The images will be online soon once the couple have come back from their honeymoon. So please come back in the next few days and enjoy the images. Well here’s one for all of you which is one of my faves from the wedding. Full story and more images to follow….
Oz
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