gill maheu photography: professional lifestyle portrait photography based in Annecy, Geneva, Rhone Alpes

so it’s nearly christmas and i have a real treat for you …. if you feel like really spoiling a friend or perhaps someone from your family treat them to a gorgeous piece of jewellry by the fabulously talented tanya at tlk jewellry..   i had a brilliant time on the shoot we did together recently to showcase her latest collections for her website – stunning jewellry worn by the beautiful JJ Fitch,  oh and lots of loud music and laughs !       have a look at this selection of her work and then go and look at the full collection of gorgeousness at her site  http://www.tlk-jeweller.com/

now click here http://www.tlk-jeweller.com/ and go and treat yourself – you know you want to   x

 C’est l’heure du Salon de la Mariée qui se deroulera sur Annecy du 22 au 23 octobre !      voici juste un petit rappel de pourquoi le salon est si magnifique – ces photos ont été prises pendant les défiles des années precedentes ….

it’s time for the Salon de la Mariée   which is on in Annecy this Saturday and Sunday ( 22nd & 23rd October) – here is a quick reminder of why this show is so gorgeous – these photos were taken during the beautiful catwalk shows over the last couple of years  …  enjoy !

à très bientôt

 yesterday the sun was blazing down and i had a glorious lazy sunny lunch with the very talented vanessa  – creatrice at Bijoux Volutes.  i love going to her boutique, i stand there for ages looking at all the beautiful jewellry that she creates, ‘magicks’ and imagines.  it’s like a sweetie shop where you just want to buy lots and lots and lots and then feel guiltily happy about it all afterwards !    at the start of the year we did a photo shoot with the beautiful charlotte to showcase all the wedding collections for vanessa’s new web site – here are some more shots from that seance.   

now you’ve seen those i know you are dying to visit her site, here you go again www.bijouxvolutes.com …  vanessa can adapt the jewellry to your particular colour scheme so do give her a call or send her an email – and last but not least don’t forget to check out her ‘everyday’ (bright, colourful, original, …. would be more appropriate) jewellry i love it !!!  

i love the ‘Carnaval Vénitien‘ in Annecy – the costumes are so spectacular, so intricate and so colourful that photographing them is just brilliant !    this is the second year i have been along (see here & here ) – the carnaval starts on the friday evening with the ‘costumiers’ parading round the old medieval town of annecy in all their magnificence, then on the saturday and sunday hundreds of them take over the old town and the area down by the beautiful lake.  You can’t help but be amazed and seriously impressed by the amount of work that has gone into the creations which often take the whole year to prepare.  It was extra special this year as i knew some of the participants – though if i’m honest they recognised me rather than the other way round (possibly helped by the fact that i was accompanied by two little girls armed with cameras on their own mission to create "Volume Two" of their "Carnaval Masterpiece").

oh and the other reason it was special ……. it was the very first outing of my new camera !  hope you enjoy these shots ….

 a huge thank you to Marie Christine, Antonio, Corrine and all of the participants for making it such a spectacular sight

and for those of you that are tempted,  next year the

Carnaval Vénitien d’Annecy  is on the   2nd, 3rd & 4th March 2012

PS à tous ceux qui m’ont donné leur carte de visite je ne vous ai pas oublié.