After my last blog about A selfie – where I talked about how Ireland’s Homes Interiors & living magazine had opened up doors of opportunity and one of those was when I meet Marie – who I have now been working with over the past 10 years – I thought it would be interesting to show how not only Marie’s style has changed over the years but also how the style of my own photography has changed too.
So looking at this image…
.. which was the last one we created of this bedroom in 2008 – and then going back to the first images we produced of it in 1999, which was this…
..  which was part of a series of images which Marie use to launch her interior design business back then – and Ireland’s Homes Interiors & living magazine use them too in the February 2000 issue…
.. on pages 86 to 96, plus her kitchen made it on the cover too 
You can see the framing is actually very similar in both and both have clearly been very well styled too – but what a difference 10 years can make – so is it any wonder I don’t charge for my time anymore 
Anyway, to show the transformation over those years, here is the series of images produced in between. This being the second image which we created in 2004…
.. which was around the time when we both started working together – as part of a home feature, which was then used by a number of magazines, including House Beautiful magazine…
.. in their May 2005 issue on pages 32 to 39.
In 2006 we then produced this image…
.. as part of a Christmas home feature – which again was used by a number of magazines – both nationally as well as locally – including 25 Beautiful Homes magazine…
.. as the lead home in their December 2006 issue on pages 12 to 17.
Also in 2006, we produce this image for Ulster Carpets…
.. to show how their Delta Scroll carpet would look in this room – as well as in various other rooms of Marie’s house too – which they then use to help market their Anatolia Range …
.. in their product catalog – as well as on their website, etc, over the past 8 years.
In 2007 we produced this image…
.. as part of a ‘make-over’ editorial feature which Real Homes magazine ran within their November 2008 issue…
.. as well as this image…
.. which was one of my personal favourites – for this similar type of feature, which appeared  in the May 2008 issue of Northern Ireland Homes & Lifestyle magazine…
.. on how to create a ‘Summertime’ look.
And at the end of 2007, we produced this one for a Christmas home feature…
.. which appeared in Country Homes & Interiors magazine…
.. in their January 2009 issue on pages 32 to 38.
So there you have it, the changes in both our styles over the years, as seen in this one room – which no doubt would look totally different again today, as this last image…
.. was taken over 6 years ago – and now, of course, Marie is totally into white and bright…
.. as opposed to ‘Yella’, as she would often call it – which was naturally partly due how I lit it back then too
Over 2000 years ago, Heraclitus of Ephesus, a Greek philosopher known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, once said:
The only constant is change.
Boy was he right about that – from Marie & me at ampimage.com, who would appear to be constantly changing too
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