A Grumpy Old Tog!

Like most photographers I get the emails and calls asking for quotes. Many of us subscribe to websites where clients post their needs and we pay a small fee to answer them! It’s a great way to see what’s out there and find customers you normally miss out on with the more usual methods of…

Right! Here I go! I promise not to sound too “bah Humbug”, but after 10 days of photographing Christmas office parties I’m beginning to lose the Christmas Spirit! Why do they do it? The Oompa Loompa look! Yes, you’ve seen it! Females sporting the most outrageous orange spray tan! The I’ve just climbed in side…

Lately I’ve been bombarded with phone calls from Brides to be insisting on being given a price to shoot their big day! Some are quite lovely and engage you in a conversation, ask you a question and listen to the answer. The majority these days are waiting for one thing and the inevitable reply I…

I suddenly realised that I hadn’t blogged in ages, and, was paying for the privilege of not doing so! So what’s been happening. Hell, to be honest loads, but as a small business and often working on your own there is always lots to do. Don’t forget I have to answer my own phone calls…

Well as most of you know, this is the time of year when things start to get a little bit manic! It starts Mid April & ends sometime in August. Occasionally you will see the odd tweet from me, but this year I have decided to write the “2013 Flashing at Strangers Tour” Diary. My…

A few posts back I said I was going to get around to writing that book as soon as it went quiet in January and February? Yeah! Well, it hasn’t gone quiet. In fact its been bloody brilliant. I haven’t stopped most weeks, and as I look at the diary its Mid April  before I…

Wow, what a couple of months since my last blog! Christmas parties, New Years Parties all shot and uploaded. New work coming on-stream all the time and business looking really good for 2013. It’s been a long hard slog the last few years. At times I have doubted it but I think now I am finally starting to reap…

Just over 5 years ago, I was made redundant for the 4th time in as many years. Having been a photographer for everyone from Insurance Companies, Bands, Music websites & Metal Foundries I decided that I would go it alone. Simple, so I thought. Well the honest truth is it has been the most brilliant up…

Well 3 weeks ago I got it wrong. Not just a little, but massively wrong. I had unknowingly fallen for the anti-Olympic drivel being wheeled out by the naysayers. The same people who I usually mock had taken me hook, line and sinker! Sat on the sofa with an iPad and cold beer I was…

As a photographer working in twenty-first century Britain you get to see the best and worst of the world around you. You see the celebrations such as weddings, Bar Mitzvahs etc, the victims of life as it is today, its many ups and downs and the down right ridiculous. Quite often you walk away feeling…