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Its not always sunny up at Toubkal, North Africa's highest mountian.  I took these shots while stuck in a hide for 3 days & nights waiting for one of the National Park's four Bearded Vultures to come and feast on my bait of goats' legs.  Needless to say none of them ventured out in such miserable weather, but I did manage to catch up on my reading.

We are keeping up the feeding station so hopefully I will be able to have another go over the next couple of months.

Earlier in January we went up to Fes to take some new photos for the Sofitel Palais Jamai.  The legendry hotel was orginally a private palace built in 1879 and the hotel preserves much of its original Moorish architecture as can be seen in our image of the Moroccan resturant.

The hotel also has a unique commanding view over the ancient medina which we captured in the panoramic sunset shot at the top.

Alan Keohane's photo of Priti Paul with husband, Jaouad Kadiri, and their son is in the current Indian Edition of Condé Nast Traveller.

The photo, commissioned by CNT, was shot at the Taj Palace Hotel, which is due to open in January 2012.

Morocco is such a romantic and photogenic country, why not come back with a few amazing photos that will last a life time.  It is certianly a lot more personal and original than buying a carpet!

You can contact Terry direct at terry@still-images.net

And a very special thanks to Risha and Shai for their permission to allow us to use their photos on our blog.

Nous avons crée une nouveau groupe sur Linkedin.com pour les Professionnelles de l'Image sur Linkedin.

Se groupe est la pour tous les professionnelles travaillant dans les domaines de film, photos, graphiste etc d'avoir une forum d'échange d'informations.

Si vous êtes un photographe, graphiste ou autres professionnelles d'images au Maroc je vous invites de joindre ce groupe puis que nous échangés des bonnes conseils et des adresses pour avancer nos métiers dans ce pays merveilleuse!

We've also been back to the new Capaldi Hotel to photograph their suites, some of which have their own private pools.

This is going to be a really nice hotel!

Located just beyound the Lalla Takerkoust, on the edge of the Agafy Desert, it has great views and big enough grounds that there are plenty of places to explore.  They've also hired a terrific French chef so it will quickly become a favourite excursion from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Still Images have had a long relationship with the Sofitel chain in Morocco.  Many of the Sofitel Spas are decorated with Alan's now famous sepia photos of Morocco and we have been doing publicity shoots for the Sofitel Essaouira for some time now.

Our latest job was to create the first photos images of the new City Centre Sofitel in Casablanca.  It is still under construction and is due for delivery in the summer of 2012.  Being built near the port it is Casablanca's second tallest building (after the Twin Centre) and is going to be a modernist spire with fanatastic views over the port and the city all the way to the Grand Mosque Hassan II.

Our external view of the Accor Group City Centre complex comprising of the new Sofitel, Novotel and Ibis needed a bit of drawing in Photoshop and we used NikSoftware's Color Efex Pro to give the image a bit more drama.

Alan took part in the "Rancontres Professionelles" (professional meet up) at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech (ESAV) this week, where he meet up with mostly film professionals across the region and Francophone Europe.  At the meet up were also students and staff from the ISAMM, the Tunisian Art Institute, and ALBA, the Academie Libanaise Des Beaux Arts.

However perhaps the biggest delight for us was to meet Evelyne Madaoui, owner of RVZ Rental, a very big film and photography rental house in Paris.  They were at the conference because they will be setting up a equipment rental branch located in the school itself from January 2012.  The rental will be open to students and professionals based in Morocco and photographers coming here to do location shoots.  As this is a first of its kind it really will become an important address for all those production companies that want to organise photo shoots here in Morocco.

RVZ rents out mostly Profoto and Elinchrom lighting and all types of photography equipment (Hasselblad, Canon and Nikon), and although they will only be starting with a limited range here in Morocco, it is a huge step for professional photography in the country.  If you have any particular needs they are happy to ship down specific equipment if they are given enough warning.

You can contact RVZ here.

Still Images has its own plans to launch a series of workshops - hopefully starting at the ESAV - combined with a small equipment hire (here we think we will be concentrating on mostly US made lighting such as Photoflex and Paul C Buff) and a sales department (RVZ are not in the sales business).

We think together we will really help make some changes in Morocco for both local photographers and visiting shoots.

Terry Munson, from Still Images, will be attending the PDN Photo Plus Convention at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from 27-29 October.

Terry already has a hectic schedule of appointments, but if you are interested in penetrating the North African Photography market, or even planning a shoot in Morocco, you will want to meet Terry.

Still Images is not just Morocco's leading professional photography company but we are also expanding into the photography equipment hire and sale market.

Terry Munson's US Cellphone number is 570 807 6896 and his email is terry@still-images.net

The Royal Mansour Hotel website is now live and features some of the work that Still Images has been doing for them, notably in the three bedroom Riad.

We are now looking forward to the publication of their brochure which will also feature some of our photography of Marrakech and Morocco in general.

Yala Music have just launched their new Amel Bouchoucha video, Darb Jnoun.  You can watch it here.

The film was shot at the beginning of the summer in Marrakech at the Palais Mehdi.

Executive Producer Pierre Grigoriantz asked Still Images to be involved.  Alan Keohane was commissioned to be the Lighting Director and Terry Munson shot the publicity stills.

You can see a selection of Terry's photos on the Yala Music website.

The video features international Flameco star Amador Rojas from Seville.

The filming was done over two nights and was quite a challenge.  Not only did we have to light 5 different sets but the temperatures were over 40 degrees centigrade even in the middle of the night!

It was also an interesting experience to work with a truck load of massive HMI, Tungsten and Kino Flo lights and manage a team of grips and electricians.  Not quite the same as using our portable, but powerful, Elinchrom studio flash, which can all fit into the back of the van and be managed by a couple of assistants!

Luckily Alan is a master planner and he prepared for the filming by drawing up detailed floor plans of each of the locations and worked out not only where all the lights should go ahead of time, but also which lights should be moved where and when each time we struck one set to build another.

It would not have been fun hauling hot and heavy lights around without knowing where exactly you are going with them!

The Still Images Office will be closed from Friday 29th July 2011 and will re-open on Monday 5th September 2011.

Any enquiries for photography, while we are closed, should be addressed to Terry Munson, who will be in Marrakech throughout the holiday.

Terry's contacts are: terry.munson@gmail.com and his telephone is 06 78 52 31 30.

In what has been a very busy 2 months we've also been out and about in Marrakech in the searing heat looking for new images of the magical city for the Royal Mansour Hotel.  Above a few of the more famous historic monuments.