Ok, that's enough Queeny stuff now, thank you very much. I think we can safely say the Diamond Jubilee has been well and truly marked, and now we can get back to normality.. well, Euro 2012, anyway! Just love this shot of my sister, taken in '77 as she sat at her suitably celebratory dressing-table but, like she was, I'm all Queened-out now and chomping at the bit to move on.
One of 'my' couples came round to collect some parents' albums yesterday and gave me a lovely big vine as a thank you present. If this photography mullarkey ever starts to look grim I'm going to set up my own vineyard and start producing a cheeky little Chateauneill for you all. Their gift gave me cause to raise a glass though, as the simple act of saying 'Thank You' seems to have gone out of the window these days. The photographer has become 'just another supplier' at a Wedding - take your money, do your job. The thank-you letters, the happy little emails, they seem to have disappeared, and whilst that's fair enough I just feel the photographer is a much bigger player in a couple's Wedding, sharing everything from the tension and excitement of the bridal preparation to the love and intimacy of the first dance - behave! - and deserves a little more appreciation. When a couple are unsure about the 'next move' on their Wedding Day it's the photographer they turn to, it's the photographer who guides the day and makes it run smoothly. It might be that not saying thank-you is a generational thing, as the general level of politeness in society slides ever downwards. People just expect you to do your job and might not even realise that a little word of thanks might do a world of good. As a freelance, working alone, that little bit of positive feed-back makes all the difference. So I believe we've got to fight to maintain standards. Maybe not as hysterically as that rosy flag-waving, cap-tilting British world that's just been projected across the globe but hey, even Her Majesty said thank you!
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