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In this bumper edition of Litebook we feature the talented Nicola Selby, a real life DSLR Dancing Queen who hasn’t exactly been tip-toeing through life so far. Our Canadian distributor, Henry’s, gets involved in this issue of Litebook through a Bowens inspired development programme; winners and runner-up images inside. Our ‘Behind the Scenes’ story this issue features Gary Ombler who secured a commission to photograph some of the world’s most beautiful and dangerous animals. We’re also featuring the Bowens enabled University of West England in Bristol, and four of their most talented students. And we’ve changed the name of our tutorial section from ‘Hough To’ to ‘Lite Bites’, this is to accomodate our new friend (and lighting expert), Ohio based Kevin Focht. We hope you enjoy our new issue, happy reading.

You can pick up your free copy from a Bowens dealer today or simply click on the links in this email to read the interactive online version - now iPad compatible too! In this issue we travel down-under to talk to one of Australia’s most thought-provoking and out-there photographers, Peter Coulson, about the meaning of life and the message behind his images. Our other ProFile photographers like to keep it in the family, we chat to Leo Holden and Meriet Duncan, an aunty and nephew duo who go by the name of Snooty Fox. We also go ‘Behind the Scenes’ with David Cantwell, an award-winning commercial photographer based in Dublin to talk about the day he photographed individual portraits of three of the worlds most influential and iconic VIP’s. And, due to the phenomenal success of our seminar sessions at the Focus-On-Imaging show earlier this year at the NEC we’re including a round-up of photographs taken by the various leading photographers that hosted some the many demos throughout each day. And of course, you can check out another great lighting tutorial from our resident lighting expert Christian Hough.

It seems that we haven’t kept our blog up to date recently! First up to date post is for our Litebook magazine, Issue 1 for 2011 is available online now. In this issue we’re ‘messin’ about in boats’ with Mike Jones and we take a look ‘behind the picture’ with Roy Kilcullen, who goes walking on water with his trusted Bowens lighting for a special Swan Lake themed shoot. Nick Webster chats to us about how he ever managed before he swictched over to using our Gemini and Travelpak combination…with difficulty. Also in the edition we catch up with top fashion photographer and head tutor at the American Intercontinental University (AIU) London, Jon Gray; and as usual we bring you another fantastic ‘Hough To’ tutorial from Christian Hough, this time - ‘Motion Mayhem’.

For all those lucky photographers who will be rocking up to our stand at Focus-On-Imaging this year (6th-9th March 2011), here’s a sneaky preview of our fantastic line-up of leading photographers who will be hosting some of the many, live demonstrations that will be taking place on our stand throughout the whole show. So, if you want to learn about about lighting from some of the best practitioners of the photographic art in the UK you can do so for FREE on stand M2.We hope to see you there.
Photographer line-up: // Christian Hough: Litebook’s very own tutorial expert - www.christianhough.com // Trevor & Faye Yerbury: Edinburgh’s ‘King & Queen’ of fashion & glamour - www.yerburystudio.com // Steve Collinson: enigmatic fashion shooter - www.stevecollinson.com // Nick Webster: sports & fashion photographer - www.nickwebster.com // John McRae: fashion & advertising photographer - www.johnmcrae.com // Jon Gray: fashion & glamour photographer - www.jongrayphotographer.moonfruit.com 
SUNDAY 6th MARCH:  10:30-11:00 Christian Hough // 11:30-12:00 Nick Webster // LUNCH // 13:00-13:30 Christian Hough // 14:00-14:30 Nick Webster // 15:00-15:30 Steve Collinson // 16:00-16:30 Christian Hough // 17:00-17:30 Steve Collinson.
MONDAY 7th MARCH: 10:30-11:00 Steve Collinson // 11:30-12:00 Trevor & Faye Yerbury // LUNCH // 13:00-13:30 Christian Hough // 14:00-14:30 Steve Collinson // 15:00-15:30 Nick Webster // 16:00-16:30 Christian Hough // 17:00-17:30 Steve Collinson.
TUESDAY 8th MARCH: 10:30-11:00 John McRae // 11:30-12:00 Trevor & Faye Yerbury // LUNCH // 13:00-13:30 Christian Hough // 14:00-14:30 Nick Webster // 15:00-15:30 Jon Gray // 16:00-16:30 John McRae // 17:00-17:30 Christian Hough.
WEDNESDAY 9th MARCH: 10:30-11:00 Christian Hough // 11:30-12:00 John McRae // LUNCH // 13:00-13:30 Jon Gray // 14:00-14:30 John McRae // 15:00-15:30 Christian Hough // 16:00-16:30 John McRae.

We’ll be lighting up the Focus-On-Imaging show at the NEC with a virtually non-stop programme of live demos and talks from leading photographers across a wide range of photo disciplines. We’ve put together an exceptional line-up of experts to help us create unique ‘rolling seminars’ every thirty minutes on every day of the show. Each speaker will reveal his or her shooting secrets when it comes to the key subject of lighting control and application. The Bowens’ Focus event speaker line-up includes: Edinburgh’s ‘King and Queen’ of fashion and glamour, Trevor and Faye Yerbury; enigmatic fashion shooter, Steve Collinson; editorial, fashion and advertising photographer John McRae; sports and fashion expert Nick Webster; yachting and lifestyle photographer Mike Jones, and Litebook’s own lighting guru and tutorial expert Christian Hough has signed up too! So, if you want to learn about lighting from some of the best practitioners of the photographic art in the UK you can do so for FREE on our stand (M2). And we’re also inviting visitors to bring their own cameras and ‘go-live’ by joining us on stage to shoot your own amazing images using our world-class lighting system. We hope to see you there.

You can now stay up-to-date with all the latest Bowens and Litebook news and reviews, as well as staying in touch with us directly; all this is now available by simply following us on Twitter! If you’re already a Twitter user, all you have to do is follow us @litebookmag; so, if you have any questions about our products or if you’d like to see any specific lighting tutorials in our ‘Hough To’ section, or even if you’d just like to have a chat with us, why not join us today and say hi. We hope to hear from you all soon.

Our latest edition of Litebook (issue 4 2010) is available to read online now. In this special ‘fashion’ issue of Litebook we PROfile two very unique and talented photographers, including internationally acclaimed James Nader, widely known for his ‘technically brilliant’ fashion shots.  Hair and fashion photographer Jack Eames also features in this issue as he takes us back to his roots to talk about his early experiences as a student photographer in Southampton. Read more…

It’s a first for us at The Societies’ Convention (Jan 10-17 Novotel, Hammersmith, London). We’ve planned a superb ‘rolling seminar’ programme each day on a specially prepared stage in our stand area. And it’s completely FREE on a ‘first come, first served’ basis to all Convention visitors. We’ll have enigmatic north of England-based fashion photographer Steve Collinson, Christian Hough, Litebook’s resident tutorial expert will be on hand with highly original live demonstrations - and world-acclaimed award-winning portrait photographers Trevor and Faye Yerbury have signed up too. And remember it’s all FREE! Demos will run in 30 minute slots starting at 10:30am until 5pm each day. We look forward to seeing you at the Novotel West.

Litebook 2010 Issue 3 is now available to read online. This fantastic edition of Litebook sees us catching up with two Bowens photographers who are both on very special journeys; firstly we speak to Gareth Gatrell, a creative, free thinking photographer who believes ‘Photography is one helluva cool journey’. Our other main PROfile photographer is award-winning, Hungarian photographer, Adrian Samson who is winning commissions from some of the worlds biggest brands including Microsoft, Ford and Motorola to name a few. Read more…

Once again Photokina is nearly upon us and Bowen will of course be attending the event in the Cologne Messe to show our most exciting and innovative lighting products during the 6 day event, from Sept 21st to 26th. Our experts will be available during the event to provide hands-on demos of the world’s leading lighting products.Visit us on our stand @ HALL 9 / STAND c20-D23.