PetStockBoys

It’s taken a lot of time but like the yoghurt covered digestive it’s worth the wait. PetStockBoys has a new website and crikey it’s a lovely lovely thing. Have a gander and see what we’ve been up to…. there’s a ‘chicken and egg’ situation captured in The Sunday Times and we’ve gone fruit batty in The Telegraph, You Magazine, BBC Good Food and ‘other quality publications.’ We hope to keep you up-to-date every month but give us a tinkle if we can be of service.

Hello

As you can see from our last post, we’ve been a little preoccupied since August…. and it is with much regret that we have to suspend this blog, we are knee-deep in work and other NEW plans, it’s all very complicated but very,very exciting. We hope to be back in blogmode at some point but we can’t say when, we could make something up but that would be silly…… Big love to everyone out there and if you want any help or assistance with animal photography or pet photography we are but a mere phone call away on 01908 566 366.

Dear Reader, Well we’ve had a bit of a break and have some great new images for the site - Scottish sheep, highland cattle and a very scary looking rook - I mean a sort of evil personified with wings. We’ve got some new groovy business cards with Ratty on them (cool) and we’ve even splurged on some new Canon kit. Sadly, we didn’t win at The ChipShop Awards (we’d travelled all the way from Milton Keynes to Edinburgh) but on the train home we had M&S sandwiches and a big jelly (with raspberries) which cheered us up a bit. Karen, our chief photographer has been mentioned in Photobox and her website has been inundated with visitors, so we’d like to say well done and why didn’t we think of that…….. Today is Bank Holiday so we really should be out and about shooting animals, best have a cup of tea and prepare……TTFN

We are HUGELY excited and feeling quite chipper as we have been nominated in The ChipShop awards (www.chipshopawards.com) which we think are by far the coolest creative awards. PetStockBoys are up for best Business to Business Ad. The other nominations in this category are from two advertising agencies - one of which is part of DDB so we’re extra thrilled. The awards ceremony is 23rd August - so paws are crossed.

If you would like to see our ad (which is a tad frisky) here’s the link: http://www.chipshopawards.com/nominations/2007/

Sometimes you get the chance to meet a real star and for PetStockboys, last Sunday was a very special day. We met the horse from the Lloyds TSB bank* adverts at Milton Keynes shopping centre. Dante was his name (who knows, his real name could be Norman) but Dante suited him as he was jet black and a big boy. We tickled his big manly chin which felt like big manly velvet. He didn’t seem that bothered by all the fuss and after about twenty minutes he went for a clipclop passed the shops which was quite surreal. (*No deposits were left at the scene.)

You may have read about a huge organic supermarket which is big in America called Whole Foods well, they’re coming to the UK and it’s all very exciting. Their big (organic) cheese is a chap called John Mackey and he seems like a Richard Branson but with a checked shirt, lovely tan and (we bet) a gorgeous Texan accent. We thought that Whole Foods may like some great stock images of British livestock so we sent him a huge chicken in the post. It was actually rolled up in a tube…so it was, I guess, what you’d call a chicken roll. We’d shot the chicken using the new digitalback and it was printed A0 size. We’ll let you know if we hear back but if not we hope that our big bird is now gracing a big Texan office wall. (Actually, if you want to see the chicken shot just look at the ‘Poultry Results’ Post in ANIMAL ADVENTURES, it’s the first shot and what a fine looking chicken he is - we’re loving the ‘vertical tail feather thing’ he had going on.)

We had a sneaky suspicion that the new P21 Phase One back wouldn’t get on with our knackered old powerbook and we were right so we put in a call to Phil over at Scrumpymacs and he’s going to get us something a little better, as the files will be 50MB we’re going to get a bucketload of RAM. As soon as we’re up and running we’ll post some images online. Until then we’ll just sit back and admire the sexy case it came in. Sigh.