You get what you pay for...

Now, we all know you get what you pay for...but, dear brides, it's never been shown to be as true as my examples this week. I have been booked for not one, but two reshoots by people who went for cheap photographers and paid the price (so to speak !)
I'm taking a bride and groom back to their church, with dry-cleaned togs and all...to shoot the portraits that their photographer cocked up...and I'm spending a morning in a factory re-shooting web-site photographs after they booked a naff snapper for a hundred quid and now can't use any of the crappy shots!

Here endeth the lesson!

Spring is here!

Hurrah...the buds are out and the air is warm !
Goddammit, it must happen soon!
Anyway, this shot's just a little taster of the lastest delve into my archives,
and I'll soon be uploading over 150 of my flower and plant photographs, painstakingly scanned from 645 trannies (And for those of you who've never used film, no, I don't mean a lot of homosexuals!)
Stay tuned while I photoshop all the years of dust off 'em....

Holy Scrambled Eggs, Batman!

Ditch those cameras, guys and gals....I've seen the light!
THIS is the new way to shoot portraits...rustle up some eggs and set fire to the pan afterwards...result: an unbelievable likeness of your subject..
(Asssuming Our Lord Jesus Christ Amen Hallelujah was a squinty eyed, scabby-bearded anorexic!)

Then again, it might have just been a flash in the pan !

Who hell he...?

Finished sorting thru my old negs and there's the odd band or two that I don't recognise...my memory's going !! Now I need to know who the hell I've photographed, so if anyone knows or recognises any of these bands/singers could you pleeeeze let me know..ta!
Cop an eyeful of the rest of the shots here...
Is it you?

Bop 'til you drop..

Just caught on to an online radio station for "discerning Mancs"..
Check it out funksters!

PS...The image is one of mine from a Meteors gig...circa 1980.
Just one of the negatives I'm currently restoring and putting online soon!

What am I missing...?

Somebody..please tell me...!!

This photograph has won the World Press Photo of the Year ...and silly old me is at a complete loss as to understand why...

Help!

Blast from the Past..

Look what I've dug up!
Johnny Marr and Sandie Shaw at Manchester Apollo, 1984...and two young punks at the
Joy Division Bowdon Vale gig in 1979...(Is it you ? Get in touch!)

Lots more "old" stuff to follow...got all the negs scanned now and just need to blow all the dust off 'em!

To Infinity and beyond...

Bloody hell! Did you see the Horizon programme about Infinity?
Me and the infinite copies of me that are out there are still trying to get our heads round it !
Infinity goes on for ever, eh? So why does a lens focussing ring stop there ?
Ha!

Best foot forward...

Just a filler whilst I get on with scanning a ton of old negatives of bands.
Stay tuned, 'cos I don't know who some of them are and will need some help in identifying them..

Anyway, just an odd shot I caught the other day...one footprint...how odd. Don't worry, it's not going to kick off a new project like 'On the one hand'....incidentally, this was featured in the British Journal of Photography last week!

Aim, fire!

A good way to introduce the master that is Don McCullin.
He's got a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum of the North, at Salford Quays.
I was going to say I'm dying to see it, but you get my drift...

One for all you snappers reading this, but he was on Radio 4 this morning giving his thoughts on digital (ie: colour) photography.
"That's like offering fruit salad instead of a main meal!"...he said.....bearing in mind he shot in black and white.

I remember another gem from his lips....I met him in 1992 at his book launch at Waterstone's in Manchester. I dutifully waited in line to have my copy of his book signed...and when I told him my name he said, in his gruff, soft once-cockney voice.."Bloody hell..your's is the first Northern accent I've heard here!"

Good luck with the show, Don!

Happily Ever After...

Some helpful hints on life-long marriage here...