Question: How do you make a traditional Irish ceili band look slick and sexy? Answer: Easy….just send them to me!
This is a job I shot a while back for the Innisfree Ceili Band for their lastest CD cover artwork. It was a miserable morning weather wise over the summer in the Wicklow mountains but we managed to get some beautiful pictures in the end. I applied some interesting retouching techniques to give the pictures a traditional yet contemporary feel.

A big thanks to my buddy and photographer Peter Evers for helping out with the location in Annamoe.

Monday, 9th November 2009. The Irish Examiner  featured my award winning shot for Wayne Lloyd Hair, winning Wayne “Global Stylist of the Year 2009″. The image was awarded by the OMC Prestige Club in Paris on October 17. Read the full story attached….

Following the success of winning a national award for Wayne Lloyd Hair in Cork in the IHF Photographic Awards 2009, another one of my images has won “Global Stylist of the Year 2009″ for Wayne!
The image was awarded by the OMC Prestige Club in Paris on October 17 in the “Short Trend Ladies Section” and was selected from 250 applicants from over 40 different countries.
OMC (Organisation Mondiale Coiffure/World Hairdressing Organisation) is the world’s biggest beauty organisation, with over 60 member countries and 500,000 salon owners worldwide. Wayne Lloyd Hair is the first Irish winner of “Global Stylist of the Year”.

To see the winning image, click on the link or see below.

http://omcprestigeclub.com/global-stylist-winners-2009/