About JasonParlour Photography
JasonParlour Photography was developed in response to the desire to find great photos for my own commercial enterprises. Unfortunately, the more research I undertook into trying to find a local photographer who captured moments, ideas, and thoughts, in the way I intended, the more I realised the sort of professional photographer I was looking for, were few and far between.
Thankfully I was able to find a few select and very inspirational photographers, who were able to capture the images I was hoping to achieve, for various elements of commercial work I was involved. Of course photographers of this calibre came at a price.
For some of the smaller images I was hoping to gain for smaller elements around the websites I was involved, the price of paying the professionals I wanted to use, or the price of buying commercial images from the stock libraries, was just too high to justify for size and use of the images required. I similarly wasn't willing to go down the routes of 'copying and pasting' other people's images, unlawfully, from their own websites.
Then, with the cost of suitable quality SLRs dropping year on year, in December 2007, I was finally able to justify purchasing the equipment required to take the standard of photos I was looking to gain.
Things progressed very quickly, with friends and colleagues quickly realising my aims. Within just a couple of months, my images were being used in the local printed press, national magazines, on promotional and commercial literature, other people's blogs, and on commercial websites around the world.
In June 2008 I put in my first entry to a photography competition with Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2008, and won the UK photography finals. Thankfully my images were of sufficient quality to then also give me the chance to be entered into the Worldwide Finals (this year in Paris for 6 days) where I was fortunate to come in the top 6, as a solo entrant against other teams from around the world!
Business continues to grow from strength to strength, and I'm always finding new images to help capture a feeling, a moment, or an expression.
If you have an event, function, or idea you're trying to capture, please do let me know and I'm confident an amicable agreement can be reached.
To see a wider stock of the various images I've been taking over recent months, please also do check out my collections on Flickr.
Links:
Some links to other business's I'd recommend and/or am involved with:
- The Therapy Agency - Professional Massage therapists around the UK - This national agency of professional complementary therapists has some of the highest standards of selection and professionalism in the industry.
- Minutes A Day - To Improve Your Life - A range of simple techniques that take just minutes a day to apply. Free tasters are also online.
- Parlour Design - A web development & design company I founded and am also involved with. The guys who also built this website.
