Walk this way ..

I was delighted to lead a Photo Walk around our little village yesterday. Delighted too that I gave practically all of it in French, thanks to a little .. er, a lot .. of help from the DeepL translation app! I'm chuffed to bits that I got the turnout that I did, and chuffed to bits that everyone was so enthusiastic. The afternoon was a taster of the Shoot 'n Tutor One-Day Camera Workshop I offer at our gîte here in France. Thanks to all who came along. We'll do it all again soon ..

What joy ..

Thirty nine years! That's how long it is since I shot my Joy Division photographs at Bowdon Vale Youth Club in Manchester. Thirty nine years ago today, as a callow 18 year old junior photographer just 5 months into my career. Now I wouldn't normally have mentioned this anniversary, but ..

Tomorrow I'm off to meet with a chap in a town near here to discuss an exhibition of my pictures, and I was literally taking them out of storage this morning when today's date dawned on me. Funny how things work out ..

Moreover, I had an email last weekend from a Blogger, asking if he could use some of these photographs to go with a piece he was writing. The fee to me? Zero. My answer to him? No, you can't! Funny what people for free expect these days ..

Also last week, an email came from the Visitor Centre in Macclesfield - Joy Division's home town. I'd had some prints and booklets for sale there but the Tourist office has decided to return them to me. They weren't "selling well enough"! What joy ..

(Just as a matter of interest, today's shot shows an original scan of a strip of negatives from the gig. Interesting to see that, in those days of shooting film sparingly, four out of those five shots were selected for the exhibition!)