In between our other main photo shoots we often help out with other shoots. One last week was covering a morning of the recent visit by several top travel companies, wholesalers and travel industry experts to Turks and Caicos.

Over the years we’ve had a lot of requests to help with incentive groups . Turks and Caicos is an ideal destination for rewarding your top performers. Blue skies, white beaches, luxury resorts and only three hours from New York by direct flight – it’s an easy decision. But in this world of ipads, iphones is giving them a framed 5×7 still a valued option??

With the “season” in full swing and most clients busy with “real” guests we took the opportunity to raise the bar on our film-making abilities. It’s something we’ve always done as company – we never stop learning and never feel that “we know it all” despite having done in Turks and Caicos for over 16 years now !

The annual model sailing boat regatta or Valentine’s Day Cup was held this past Saturday at Bambarra beach in Middle Caicos. With the TCI ferry service laying on a remarkably smooth service of ferry and old yellow school bus it was easy as “pie” to get from literally one end of Turks and Caicos to another.

A great gathering that saw four races including the first ever “ladies race”, some delicious local food catered by the local church and cafes and funding to make it all happen from Islandcom. A great day out!

Yesterday was the second annual Maskanoo festival, a cultural celebration and street party in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

With parades, local vendors selling crafts, delicious food stands, music both DJ and local bands, cultural demonstrations and competitions it was a great afternoon and evening.

I love aerials. Apart from the fact it’s fun hanging out of a helicopter with the door off with nothing between you and the ground 500ft below, it’s just cool to have a different perspective on such a familiar place.

here are a few from earlier in the year.

Today is the 8th Annual Conch Festival in Turks and Caicos  -so having spent all morning tied to my computer editing I went along a few hours ago to check things out.

It was great to see so many familiar faces from the local restaurants, as well as other residents and locals from Turks and Caicos. Great atmosphere with David Bowen leading everyone along with conch blowing and introducing them to “ripsaw” music…

We’ve been working on several commercial shoots this summer – one of which was a lovely shoot for the Caicos Cafe. They wanted to showcase what they do and separate themselves from other restaurants in TCI.

Well – they make there own Pasta – on site – everyday. they have fresh fish – everyday and desserts that are delicious! Enjoy! The shots will be used on their website, new brochures and in several magazines.

The fantastic shoot we did for Ron Shaw of  RA Shaw Designs of an ultra modern looking villa in Turks and Caicos is the lead article in the Winter issue of Real Life Magazine AND the front cover.

With the amazing help from the very talented Stacie for styling we were given a complete “carte blanche” by Ron to capture the spirit and essence of this unique property.

Finally in our series of blogs on the recent shoot for Point Grace our 30 second commercial .

We wanted to make a short video that had a fun message that wasn’t the normal “run of the mill” travel channel type piece.

Inspired in part by the Coleman’s camping TV ad of a couple of year’s back, we developed our own spin on “social media”.

Great fun and a huge thank you to all those that helped make it happen and especially to Point Grace for letting us do it !