Cheek to Cheek Tour - Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga @ Royal Albert Hall 09/06/15

I was really looking forward to seeing the controversial pair, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett in concert in London! But unfortunately it was cancelled very very last minute. :(
Despite this, I had a very fun four days in London chasing the Lady herself around her hotel - The Langham with lots of friends, new and old. And to be fair, we were so so close. Close enough for a selfie! (lol)

I did however get some pictures, but they're only pap pics from my phone of Gaga outside her hotel...not exactly the HQ I wanted, but still it's something. :)

On the day of the second date show in London, we got to Knightsbridge and went to the Royal Albert Hall..had dinner inside the venue, a drink or two. When it came to queuing up to go inside, and it was just after "doors opening" time when I had a gut feeling that something was going to go wrong or happen...and a few minutes after this, the guy on the speaker announced that the show that night would no longer take place due to illness. Now I have never seen so many people cry in one place at any one time! It was safe to say that it was gutting, old ladies and young girls distraught, it did pull my heartstrings but I stayed in a stable state of mind, because yano....someone has to! Me and my friend were absolutely gutted though because we were excited to see the once-in-a-lifetime event. Of course Tony is in his late 80's now, it's usually not likely someone of this guys age to still be performing. But he's well and kicking! Great guy though, adorable!

Shame about the show, but had a fantastic few days and still thoroughly enjoyed myself...

You can find my pap-pics here @ www.facebook.com/SamanthaFinnPhotography along with many other Lady Gaga photos from artRAVE Manchester and artRAVE Sheffield in 2014.

Sunday 19th to Wednesday 22nd October

On these dates I will be in Manchester ready for the Lady Gaga concert I am going to attend on 21st!

Me and many of my pals will be camping out for one or maybe two nights, in the street at Victoria Station, and enjoying a crazy experience to see one of our idols. It's going to be absolutely amazing, and we're probably going to catch an extreme cold! but it's going to be so worth it. I'm so stoked to actually be within a meter or two of Lady Gaga, rather than seated many many meters away like I was for the Born This Way Ball.

Hopefully I am going to get a lot of pictures so I can upload some on here. But the main part of this holiday break is for me to unwind and totally let go and enjoy every minute of it all.

We're all going to meet so many people there, friends that we've known years and haven't met yet, and I cannot wait. These people have been the bane of my life for so long now, better than the ones that are within actual reach. Nothing could match up to the standards of long distance friendships. Thee best.

Promise to get some cool shots if I can manage without the blur, lets see what my Nikon Coolpix L830 can handle!

I'll be back soon xx

Marmaris Photographs September 2014

Here is a selection of images I have taken this month, in Marmaris. 7th - 15th September 2014.

Well christ it's been one heck of year!

I haven't posted for 8 months! That's crazy. But so much stuff has happened in that time.

I've been to a fair few places and photographed a variety of things. This year for me, it's been mostly about not so much photographing people. But more landscapes and street scenes.

The next few posts will be about the different places I've been and the things I've produced in this time.

As I Told You...

I was going to write how Jessie J went and include some images. :)

IT WAS AMAZING. Heck, she's so funny and down to earth! I've been to her concert before 2 year ago and she hasn't changed a bit like most celebs do! It was ace.

Although she was good, I didn't get THAT many photos to be honest. In fact, I only liked about 17 of all the images I took! But I'm not fussed at the mo, I was too busy having a good time and letting my hair down for once in a LONG time.

I know it's been a while I'm sorry!

I've had so much on my plate and so many different websites to update I forget what exact accounts I have haha! :)

I've recently updated the following;

www.facebook.com/SamanthaFinnPhotography
www.thelifeinmypassion.tumblr.com
www.samanthafinnphotography.moonfruit.com
www.samanthafinnphotography-clothing.spreadshirt.co.uk

A lot, I know! and I forgot all about this place! :(

UPDATES:

Absolutely fuming about the 'new camera' situation. I never ended up getting it and the person still hasn't refunded my money and is being really ignorant about it and ignoring me! So had to contact all sorts of forces like local police and Citizens Advice, Trading Standards and Action Fraud!
So I'm so bogged down and stressed with that. :(

I went to see Jessie J November the 6th so I'll write about that in a new post!

And I have 4 photoshoots for the next few day so I'm gonna be BUSY AS FFF-- ;)

Hard To Be Wise

Okay so last Wednesday I told you about a photoshoot I was doing of a bunch of lads druing band practice, one of which I knew from a long time ago, and it went really well!

They were all so lovely, and although their style of music is by far not my cup of tea in regards to Genre, I loved it. It was absolutely amazing. Everyone's playing part was perfect, and although they said after the song they finished practicing that that particular time they sang it was "Sh*t" it wasn't it was actually wonderful, if that really was their idea and sounding of rubbish, then they must be awesome when they have it spot on.

Outstanding performance and day. I really enjoyed it and hope to see them again soon for a shoot in the studio or on location. :)

Below are just two of the images I took. You can find more at my photography page. :)

www.facebook.com/SamanthaFinnPhotography

So I haven't been on here in a while!!

So, a short update is needed!
I haven't been on here in a while because I've actually done so much stuff, and I've been way too busy to even write anything!

What's more...my new camera hasn't even come yet which is making me sad a bit :( haha. But hopefully that will get sorted out today. If worse comes to worse...I'll be £200 well off again anyway, which I could REALLY do with right now! But I'm going to stay positive and hope that Royal Mail are just taking the pee a bit. -.- it's been a good couple of weeks now though so I'm starting to become impatient.

On the other hand, I'm doing a photoshoot with my friend (and model) Jess, on Thursday afternoon in Cleethorpes...and hopefully the weather will stay dry otherwise it's just going to go to ploppp. :) but that should be lots of fun!

I'll write about last Wednesdays photoshoot of Hard To Be Wise, in a separate post including a few images!!! :D

Pretty Excited for the near future. :)

On Wednesday I've got a photoshoot of a band involving one of my good pals, Dean Garrod who recently sang solo at Grimsby Pride 2013 (You were amazing by the way)! Which is set up from as part of a Music course at a local college located not that far from me. :)

Happy birthday to Dean today as well, hope you had an amazing day mate! :)


I'm certainly hoping that we'll get some great shots from Wednesday, I'm feeling pretty positive so definitely looking forward to seeing the outcome images! :) Will definitely be finding time to put some up on here. There's so much to write about and show you, I'll still be adding photos from a year back on here in close weeks to come. I really wish I started this blog sooner, I love writing and ranting about things way too much for my own good!

Also, I'm getting quite a few shoots booked in for end of this month and currently got 3 to sort out for the end of November! Two of which are going to be Christmas photoshoots with little kiddies! So should be adorable! ;D


Exciiiiited much! :D

Updates soooon! Still haven't got my new camera yet, so review is on the waiting list! No worries. :)

Chat soon. Sam

Can't believe what just happened!

Just managed to bag myself a Canon 600D for £190.....are we forrrr f**kin' real! :O
Been looking for DAYS for a bargain and I just happen to come to a site and think.."oh yeah I'll look on here just incase not that it'll be any different to eBay like," and omggg. YES, there it was.

So I'm pretty buzzing right now, so chuffed :D

And also, that means I'll have two of the same lens(my other camera has the same 18mm-55mm lens so ofc I don't need two) so will end up selling that, so really I've got it for LOADS cheaper than I would have initially done. Soo glad I searched around. On eBay they're ranging from £289.99 to £600! :) jfgbkjbgk. I'll have to make a review when I have a play with it! ^_^

On eBay...

On eBay there's a camera lens and body that I want so bad. It's on a bid, and has 2 days left for people to bid and I'm absolutely wetting myself with anticipation.

OMFG I NEED THIS CAMERA SO MUCH AND OMG WHY SO CHEAP AAAAH.

I'm actually going insane. If I don't win it, I'll be so gutted! Gaah, just thinking about it makes me upset already haha!

An image from yesterday that I took. :)