It?s Friday night, the workweek has ended and you and your pals are out for an evening of fun, frolics and well, shall we say, whatever else comes along.

And then as you are there laughing and enjoying a spirit or two, out of the crowd comes someone with a camera and this someone is usually a good looking young man and he asks if he can take your picture for Bermynet.com.

At this point, you and your mates huddle together in a pose and hope for the best. And then by Monday, when you could be working, you begin scrolling through the hundreds of pictures on the site. You are one of over 4 million clicks that have been registered on the seven-year-old site.

But have you ever spared a thought about who these photographers are, what they do for a day job, or how they continuously roam about night after night capturing your moments. Well, if the thought ever crossed your mind then this is a story for you.

Three members of the Bermynet.com Photovibes team Philip (Uncle Phil) Trott, Omar (Royal Oak) Lodge, and Robert (Big Boy) Daniels, and founder Brenton Richardson popped into and told us all about what drives them, their most favourite event, and what they look for in candidates.

?I was into photography anyway and I recently purchased my own camera with a friend of mine in November of last year,? said Mr. Trott, a graphic designer with AAC Saatchi & Saatchi.

?I shot a couple of times at Chewstick just for fun and then I asked Brenton if he wanted anyone else for the team and that was in December and it wasn?t until March that he said, ?Hey, what are you doing on Friday?? It kind of just went from there.?

Mr. Daniels has been shooting for Bermynet.com for seven years. He got into photography while studying architecture at Tuskegee University.

?Photography was a part of that programme and I took pictures of people?s models and stuff like that. They had a little photography room and I kind of got in there and learned how to process black and white photographs and it kind of grew as a passion from there.

?After graduation and coming back home I heard about Bermynet in 1999. So I went onto their website and I saw that they were looking for photographers. I got in touch with Bermynet and I remember that one of my first shoots was one of my most enjoyable ones and that was the Four by Four Party on the beach, which basically was a swimsuit competition. ?So as far as the first assignment, I was thrown right into the mix because I was shooting from the crowd so I had the same perception of the guys who were up front and throwing beer around.?

Meanwhile, former Rotary Exchange student, Mr. Lodge wanted to find a medium to showcase his photographs that he had been taking while he was studying in Brazil.

?I was really trying to think of a medium of how I wanted to showcase my pictures because during the first month I took 300 pictures,? he said. ?I wanted to show them (my friends) this and then I wanted to show someone else another photo because this girl was gorgeous. But I would have had to e-mail 50 people pictures, the sizes were big and the computer was slow. So I thought Bermynet.com and I e-mailed Brenton and sent him a formal letter stating who I was, what I was doing... and he immediately responded.?

But it was when he returned to the Island that he began shooting for BermyNet.

?When I came back he asked when I would start shooting. So this went on for a month and I remember my first night and a friend of mine asked if I was going on a cruise and then he told me that it would cost $30 to go.

?So I thought I?d leave it out. But for sure did my great friend Brenton ask if I wanted to start that night and when I asked where, it was the same cruise.

?It was one of the worst nights ever because I had never had my hands on a professional camera before and it was pitch black. I had to use the infrared light and shoot ? I know you won?t be able to see anything, but let her rip. I must have taken about 150 pictures and only about 50 were good. It was definitely an experience and from there, that?s all she wrote!?

Mr. Trott said in his work required him to deal with photographers on a regular basis.

?I kind of know the standard of photography that I want to use, so I don?t like using low-quality blurry pictures so I don?t like taking them,? said the newest member of the Photovibes Team. ?I still have a lot to learn too, but I know what a good picture looks like ? this is not to say that my pictures are perfect, but it is where I want to get to. Also if people look good in the pictures, they are more willing to let you take them again or at least it is easier.?

When they first started out they had been shooting film, rather than digital shots, said Mr. Richardson. ?We had to develop, then scan them and reducing size, and things of that nature.?

Mr. Daniels, who is a tactical supervisor at Bermuda International Airport, added: ?A lot of the up front stuff came out of pocket and we split costs and filled in wherever we could.?

Mr. Richardson added that everyone does their own editing. ?We take pride in the quality of our photos and it all keeps it on-edge,? he said. ?Whereas in the beginning we didn?t take that much time and effort, but you want people to look good, not all dingy and out of focus.?

?When I got my first camera I got a ProSystem and Pro Lenses,? said Mr. Daniels. ?I had a particular lens that I used to use and the picture was so clear that it pointed out imperfections on the face.?

It was then that the Photovibes team started to use Photoshop and other techniques to ?soften the face?.

?It is the end result, despite whether you are being creative, but at the end of the day ? the person you are taking the picture of wants to see themselves and their friends in the best possible light and that is what we try to do. People download them and when you go into certain offices BermyNet pictures are everywhere.?

Asked about the weirdest or oddest thing that you have ever shot, Mr. Trott said: ?It wouldn?t be anything on a regular week.

?But it was the shoot I did at Splash for the World Cup and there were about 200 Italians going crazy, sweating, drinks flying ? it was fun. I think they enjoyed those pictures.?

Commenting on the same topic, Mr. Daniels said: ?Weirdest thing that I have ever seen? Hmmm... I wouldn?t say that I have seen anything per se that was weird, I try to venture to the artistic side from time to time, and shooting people pictures are fun too, but I find myself shooting lights.

?When Brenton first got them he was wondering what were they. But weird, some things open your eyes from time to time.?

Mr. Lodge, who is now studying global business management at St. Mary?s University, admitted that the strangest things that he had photographed were tourists.

?Sometimes when I am changing venues, tourists can be really drunk and want really crazy pictures,? he said. ?Like you might get a guy and a girl and they would be hugging a pole and then want to jump on people?s cars while saying, ?oh my God, I?m in Bermuda!?.

?So I would have to say between tourists and also some of the most random things happen when you are changing venues and the camera is off and you are thinking where should I go next.?

Another issue that they have to face is that sometimes people want their photos removed.

?People e-mail each other on Mondays with the shots taken on the weekend and if someone gets ten e-mails saying, ?did you see your picture??. They may get a little shy and some people just don?t like it ? so we take it off.?

Mr. Trott added: ?Also some people were in places that they just weren?t supposed to be. Also sometimes I?m in a party and someone who knows I?m from BermyNet will ask that I don?t take their picture that night ? now I don?t have a problem with that.?

But deciding on who to approach can be a tricky business, the photographers admit.

?That is a learned philosophy,? says Mr. Richardson. ?When I first started ? and I want to let people know that there were people out there who paved the way and kind of broke the ice ? but I got plenty of ?nos? and people wanting to know who I was.

?Just the fact that we were putting people?s photos on the Net was disturbing for most people and a lot of people shied away from it. But I think that it has a lot to do with trust and relationship building.

?One thing that I look for in a photographer is personality ? there are a lot of great photographers out there ? but if they are not a people person than they will come home empty handed.

?You have to be likeable and personable ? great photographers can be taught, but great people... well, you know.

?Some of the other photographers are Charles Anderson, Raz Mykal, Alec Bond, and I can name so many people, but these are part of the core group.?

Adding to the question of who to approach, Mr. Trott said: ?You want to approach people who look like they are having fun.

?Because you might see someone who is absolutely beautiful, but they will sit there with a miserable face and it?s like the party is about them and that is a lot of work. Brenton wants a lot of pictures and I am not going to spend five minutes begging this girl for a picture when in the same time I could have had ten or 20 pictures. In the short time that I have been there, you learn to read people?s attitudes and personalities and if they look like they are not having fun then I don?t approach. And if someone says, ?no?, that?s it ? I don?t beg people.?

Mr. Lodge looks for the leader in the group, as opposed to the shy one. ?I look for the one who made the calls and said, ?let?s hook up?.?

Mr. Daniels? thoughts were that they were capturing Bermuda?s entertainment history. ?To reiterate on what Robert said, we are kind of documenting history and when you think about it, these are your memories,? said Mr. Richardson.