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28/11/2010 The CATS Awards, 10 years of Celebrating Cheshire’s Vibrant Tourism Industry

At Celynnen Photography, we are better known for our wedding photography, our family portrait photography and our Boudoir photography. Recently, we also became the official photographer for Bounty’s parenting club offering newborn portraits, the Wrexham Crusaders (watch this space!) and renewed our relationship with the Wrexham Symphony Orchestra and Save The Family. All this work doesn’t leave us much time for event photography. But last Thursday, I was able to capture one of my favourite events of all: the CATS Awards.

The Cheshire Awards for Tourism Skills, or CATS are a fantastic event that celebrates all the hard work done by the people in Cheshire’s vibrant tourism industry. The categories reward everyone from volunteers to up-and-coming chefs, unsung heros to people deemed to have most contributed to the visitor economy. This year’s event was hosted by Chef Simon Rimmer.

The people I got a chance to talk with that night and seeing how much the awards meant to them made it a fantastic night to work at and I would like to thank all the people at Visit Chester and Cheshire for organising it so well and, of course, for choosing Celynnen Photography! icon smile The CATS Awards, 10 years of Celebrating Cheshires Vibrant Tourism Industry

All the winners are here: CATS 2010 Winners

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The welcome and entertainment was spectacular!

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Mark from Nunsmere, rewarded for his contribution to the industry!

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Celebrity Chef Simon Rimmer, Jane Casson and Gaile Wundke

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Gulliver's World, Winners of Team of the Year

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Eric Wong and the Team from the Doubletree Hilton in Chester

 

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11/10/2010 Celynnen Photography Returns to Hopton House Bed and Breakfast!

One of my favourite things as a professional photographer is returning to see previous clients. We’ve worked with Hopton House Bed and Breakfast in the past and it was a pleasure to go and see them again to witness a few changes! Hopton House B&B , a 5 Star Gold Bed and Breakfast featured in Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay Guide, is a fantastic B&B located in the beautiful Shropshire countryside and is located just a few minutes away from Ludlow, described as “The Loveliest Small Town in England” .

It offers gorgeous rooms and breakfasts which are the envy of many, including myself! But you don’t have to take my word for it! It was recently named as one of UK’s Best Boutique B&B and one of the Coolest B&B’s in Britain ! So don’t wait! Experience Hopton House Bed and Breakfast for yourself and you will experience the best Shropshire has to offer!

If you are a B&B owner yourself and would like Celynnen Photography to help your business by providing you quality images, click on the contact link at the top of this page or contact us here! You can also see more interior photography on our sister site, Ioan Said Photography

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One of the new rooms!

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Comfort and quality, the trademark of Hopton House B&B

 

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03/08/2010 And the July Rhino Mania Celynnen Photography Prize Winner is….

Samantha Wheeler of Chester!

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Rhino Mania winner, July 2010

Congratulations!!

You’ve just won a FREE family photoshoot plus 16×12 Box Framed print as well as a souvenir ceramic Rhino of your choice!

The available Rhinos are:

  • Rhino Romano
  • Regal Rhino
  • Fleur
  • Splodge
  • The Racer
  • Precious Commodity

If you participated in the contest in July, your entry is still in for August and September! If not, don’t miss out on this great contest!

Click here for details on how you could be next month’s winner of the Rhino Mania and Celynnen Photography contest!

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08/07/2010 Time to start hunting the Rhinos…with your camera!

Rhino Mania has taken over Chester!

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Wherever you go in Chester, from now till the 12th of September you will be able to see these beautiful sculptures all over Chester!

This open art event, brought to you by Chester Renaissance and Wild in Art, the people behind the Superlambanana in Liverpool will not only bring lots of colour and happiness to Chester, but when the event finishes, the Rhinos will be auctioned in order to raise money for Chester Zoo’s Black Rhino Conservation projects in Africa as well as the Hospice of the Good Shepherd!

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Charity Rhino on a day out at Riverside Organic, near Northwich

Celynnen Photography, partners of Rhino Mania from the start are inviting you to go an see these beautiful sculptures! Pose with them and you could win a FREE family photoshoot plus 16×12 Box Framed print as well as a souvenir ceramic Rhino worth £350 in total! In order to win, you need to email us by clicking here a picture of YOU or a family member with FIVE of our favourite Rhinos! Winners will be picked at random and there will be one winner in July, August and September! Staff and family of Wild in Art and Chester Renaissance are NOT eligible.

The Rhinos you need to find are:

  • Regal
  • Charity
  • Fleur
  • Ladybug
  • Rhin O’clock

To help you out, here is a link to the Trail Map which you can also pick up at the tourism information Center. You can also see more pictures of the Rhinos here. Have fun and be original!

The winners will be announced at the end of each month! So go out there, find the Rhinos and strike a pose!

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Me and Regal Rhino

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22/09/2009 The Nantwich Food Trail

Well, it’s that time of the year! The Nantwich Food and Drink Festival is coming this weekend, offering you the best opportunities to taste the finest in food and wine, special cookery demonstrations, cocktail workshops and so much more!

With load’s of exhibitors, it could be easy to forget the immense quality found just a few steps away from the hustle and bustle of the festival. So I invite you to follow the Nantwich Food Trail so that you too can discover that fine foods in Cheshire is a yearlong activity.

You ca also follow more food trails on Taste Cheshire’s Food Trail’s website.

Featured here are

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Ginger and Pickles, Nantwich

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07/06/2009 Visit Chester and Cheshire's 5th Annual Tourism Awards!

Friday night, I was the official photographer at a great night in Chester and Cheshire’s tourism industry calendar: The Visit Chester and Cheshire 5th Annual Tourism Awards!

It was at the Chester Racecourse and great fun was had by everyone!

Mark Durden-Smith
was the host and he was really funny! No wonder he’s been invited for a second year in a row!

Our good friends from Harrop Fold Farm won, so did the following people:

Arley Hall & Gardens – Best Small Attraction

Blue Planet Aquarium – Best Website

Corks Out- Best Retail Oulet

De Vere Carden Park – Best Large Hotel, Business Tourism Award and Sustainable Tourism Awards

Harrop Fold Farm – Best B&B

Kerridge End Cottages- Accessible Tourism Award and Best Self Catering

Nantwich Food and Drink Festival – Best Event

Peckforton Castle- Best Small Hotel

Roman Tours- Best Tourism Experience

Tatton Park- Large Attraction

Walk Mill – Taste Cheshire Award

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It was a fantastic evening with Paul Pashleyproviding entertainment on the night at the Chester Racecourse, with the best hits of Jazz, swing and all the crooner’s best known hits and Cruise Nightclub had a great after-party till 3:30 am!

If you are in the tourism industry, make sure you contact Visit Chester and Cheshire so that your business can be part and even possibly win on one of those great evenings!

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23/05/2009 Going, going, gone!

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The Knutsford Amateur Operatics Society is the latest group of performers to work with us and we sure hope to work with them again soon! As the title suggest, their latest show was Adrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “The Likes of Us” , their first ever collaboration, and it’s unfortunately not on show anymore, the last representation being tonight.

Though they call themselves amateurs, the professionally made sets and costumes, combined to the excellent vocal and acting talent they harbor guarantee a night of quality entertainment, joy and so much more!

This performance was seen at the Theatre at The Grange School in Hartford, Cheshire.

Check out their website for more information!
www.knutsfordaos.org/

Or contact us at ioan@celynnenphotography.co.uk if you are part of a theatre group that would like their events covered by Celynnen PHotography!

Ioan

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25/04/2009 Fairies Go Free!

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All under 11 children can go for free until June the 1st in the gardens of Capesthorne Hall, Norton Priory, Rode Hall and Arley Hall!

To celebrate , Celynnen Photography is offering a £50 discount on all outdoor children portrait sessions until June 1st!

Let’s get out and make the most of the sunshine!

Ioan

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08/04/2009 LLyr Williams at the Wrexham Symphony Orchestra

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If you’ve been reading this blog regularly, you will have probably figured out that I’m a fan of the Wrexham Symphony Orchestra . These passionate musicians bring some of the greatest classics right here in North Wales at a price that is affordable and makes a great evening out in the William Aston Hall.

Next month, they will not only play with passion, but with world-class pianist and North Wales native LLyr Williams.

Having played with the BBC Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras at the BBC Proms, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Hallé, Llyr has awed spectators and critiques from all over thanks to his intensity, passion and musical intelligence.

Come and see him at the William Aston Hall on the 2nd of May 2009

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28/10/2008 Hotels in Cheshire Masterchef! The CATS Awards Masterchef photography in Chester

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Today was the CATS (Cheshire Awards for Tourism Skills) Masterchef competition held at West Cheshire College in Chester and let me tell you something right now: the heat was on in the kitchen! Four chefs were battling out, trying to outshine each other with a combination of their own ingredients and the “Mystery box” using local ingredients. Food photography on an empty stomach is a challenge in itself, but when you have to photograph some of the best chefs in Cheshire, it makes the job that much more complicated. In the pictures you’ll find Dan Speak of De Vere Carden Park, Leigh Myers of the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel and Spa
, Richard Clarke from De Vere Daresbury Park and Craig Malone from Nunsmere Hall

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