Pop the kettle on! Welcome back to Our Creative Commune, Episode 108. Pete, Laura, Liam, and Bee are here with the usual coffee-fuelled chaos, chatting all things wedding photography and videography.

This week, the pollen count is trying to take us OUT, Liam’s back from a surprisingly chilly Spanish wedding (his 21st there! Buckfast may have been mentioned), and snapping portraits of the lovely Martin Cheung. We swear everyone else has been doing some work too!

Things have gone a bit crazy – suddenly everyone wants to book us, pay us, and meet us! We’re navigating the 'OMG money!' vs ‘****, tax bill!' tightrope, and, of course, drooling over rumoured new cameras. Liam’s also attempting to bring back the 90s with film photography (spoiler: he forgot the film).

Then we get stuck into the proper meaty stuff: Is it cool for photographers to shoot a bit of video (or videographers to grab stills) when you're both on a job? What do you do when a supplier you recommended bails for a stag do THE NIGHT BEFORE?! And you absolutely HAVE to hear the story of the 'Scottish Retreat' – think Fyre Festival, but for photographers. Seriously, it’s a car crash.

As always, we’ve got our highs (awards night planning is looking lush!) and lows (Pete’s hay fever, Bee’s iron levels, Liam’s twitchy eye – it’s a medical marvel over here). Plus, we day-dream up our own hopefully-not-a-disaster creative retreat. So grab that coffee (or a Buckfast, no judgement) and join the commune!

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Hello & What's In Our Mugs?

00:32 - Hay Fever vs. Wedding Pros: The Struggle is Real

03:00 - Liam's Spanish Wedding No.21 (Minus the Sun, Plus the Buckfast)

06:25 - Liam Shoots Martin Cheung

07:02 - Are Shorter Weddings The New Thing?

09:00 - It's All Kicking Off! (Bookings, Cashflow & Mild Panic)

11:21 - New Gear Lust & Why Our Old Photos Are So "On Trend"

13:28 - Liam's Great Film Camera Experiment (Fail No.1)

15:35 - BTS Content: Phone Clamps, Meta Glasses, or Just Being a Dick?

18:09 - TOPIC: Hybrid Shooting - Are We All Secretly Filming/Snapping?

26:27 - Child Labour... Uh, I Mean, Content Creators in Training

28:31 - TOPIC: Recommending People - What If They Go On a Stag Do Instead?

37:10 - TOPIC: The Photography "Fyre Festival" - You Won't Believe This Scottish Retreat Story!

51:46 - Our Creative Commune Retreat? (Less Disaster, More Booze)

53:58 - Highs & Lows: Awards, Macerators, Table Tennis & Twitchy Eyes!

01:03:44 - More Highs & Lows: Running PBs, Posh Funerals & Dodgy Iron Levels

01:10:28 - Never Eat Only Haribo & Coffee. You've Been Warned.

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