As a specialist portrait event photographer I spend much of my time attending and photographing the special milestones in peoples lives; in particular weddings and christenings. When people are planning these events hiring a professional photographer just seems to be the natural thing to do.
For some reason however this is not the case with other milestones such as significant birthdays or anniversaries. All too often people will spend a small fortune on catering, marquees, DJ's and decorations and give no thought what so ever into hiring a professional to come and photograph the occasion for them; preferring instead to leave capturing the memories of these events up to family members and guests with their pocket cameras and mobile phones.
Now call me biased if you like but that's just a little silly, especially when you can hire a professional for a few hours of photography for about the same cost, or perhaps even a little less, than the DJ. Take a quick look through the photo book attached to the bottom of this post and compare this with the photographs taken by your family and friends at your last party and I think you'll understand my point.
