This Photograph is probably one of the very best I have experienced in my entire life. There have been two blogs I have been working on for release. The first one is a bit of a rant about a recent event which left me as angry as I have ever been in my entire life. I would rarely describe myself as being incandescent with rage but the recent situation shredded my usual placid nature. Sadly whenever I try to describe it diplomatically and touching only on the feelings and not t

In a week of ups (few) and downs (many) the best thing that happened to me was an angry bald man calling me f’ing idiot. This has not been an good week. It has been a week of setbacks, delays, interruptions and when things went wrong a pretty much universal view that Chris was to blame (with various degrees of culpability on behalf of yours truly). Being a man of determination and fortitude I did what any sensible person would do and shut everything off and went to sit by a p

The Photo accompanying this little bit of irrelevant meanderings was submitted into a photography competition … It lost. This made me angry. Not that I did not win as that would have been highly egotistical and as it was taken a good few years ago I knew little about photography and was only shooting with a little compact camera. It was way before the days that I knew the salmon I was about to eat last night was paid for by taking some photos of a shop. It made me angry as th

Normal scenario is that you already have a full time job and have done a bit of Photography and have decided to earn a little on the side by covering some couples happy day. As you are not experienced you are going to have to undercut the local pro’s which makes you an attractive saving on an expensive day. You will also be someone who is both approachable and friendly … You will also have to be good with people and small humans as you are going to be dealing with them most o

There is no such thing as a free lunch. So goes the old adage …. But how does it apply to Photography? Or at least how does it apply to working in Photography? In the photographic world there is something known as TFP, TF or more recently P4P. Now the photography world loves to baffle you with descriptions such as small numbers being larger, ISO and suchlike … A lot of it seems designed to be some kind of magic elf language to baffle and confuse the uninitiated. Whenever I do