Good times on the horizon...

I pride myself in offering a really good selection of photographs when I shoot a Wedding, but must admit to getting a lovely, warm feeling when a new bride-to-be told me she was booking me for her Wedding because she was going for "quality over quantity"! And that on the same day another couple said they loved my "unique" style and could they come and see me, rapido!!

After what, by normal standards, has been quite a slow start to the year, there are real glimmers of better days ahead. My Wedding bookings are really picking up the pace, with lots coming in for next year now, and I've just been put forward as the photographer on a potential long-term construction project. I have my own exhibition running at the moment, of course, and the planning for my very own Wedding Fayre is coming along nicely, with yet another new addition to the exhibitors yesterday. On top of that, my Shoot 'n Tutor sessions are now up and running, with a new price of just £65 for an in-depth two-hour session with your's truly! All that, and my first Wedding of the year tomorrow! Ain't that grand?...

Word up...

Oh, the gales, the snowdrifts, the plunging temperatures ... I'm so pleased they passed us by! Ok, it did go a bit nippy, and there was a bit of snow over the weekend, but in general the good old north-west of England was spared the ravages of the Siberian weather-front .. so much so that we could get out walking yesterday, and I got this photograph that kind of sums things up! Phew!

So, I've got my first Wedding of the year coming up on Saturday, although I won't be ordering my new Ferrari on the back of it as I'm doing it for nothing as a Wedding present to my girlfriend's best mate! (I know .. I'm just too nice!) Can't wait to get cracking, though! It's been six weeks since my last shoot and my shutter finger's itching to go! Hey, speaking of which, check out this shop sign I also shot at the weekend. It's the jeweller's shop next to Corvino's, the wine-bar where I've got .. My Smiths shots! What are the chances?..

But I'm still fond of you...

Oh, you know you want it! I've put together a montage of photographs of Morrissey, shot as he twiddled his gladioli with The Smiths in 1984. Featuring nine images, it's printed on superb Fuji Pearl paper at 18x12 inches, and it's yours - yes, yours - for a mere £15 plus P+P...

(And you can buy the images individually, too!)

I've been looking at the pictures a lot lately. Firstly of course because two of them have just gone up as part of my exhibition at Corvino's Wine Bar in Culcheth, and secondly because the images will soon be on a new range of t-shirts launched at the Paris Fashion shows. Oooh, la la.. Can't wait to see 'em!

So, an exciting day coming up, as I've sourced a great new supplier of Wedding Story-Books, and I'm about to design my first one. 100 images, 30 pages, acrylic photographic front cover. What's not to be fond of?...

Mish Mash...

Hey, hey, we're up and running, and it's all looking good for Mish Mash, my new exhibition at Corvino's, the Culcheth deli! Even before I'd got the pictures on the walls a lady came up to me and told me she wanted to buy a print of Morrissey as a birthday present for her son. Excellent! (Ok, one other young lady didn't know who Morrissey was, and hadn't even heard of New Order, never mind Joy Division! Oh, and one chap asked if it was an exhibition by the new Sunderland manager! His name's Martin O'Neill, in case you didn't know! Hey ho!) Anyway, the show's called Mish Mash because that's exactly what it is .. a mish-mash of my 'hobby' photography, pulled together in just a couple of weeks after the owner of the Deli offered me the fresh white walls of her newly renovated room. I decided to show some of my 'other work', as opposed to my PR and Wedding photography, so there are images from my books Don't Miss That and Don't Miss This, as well as travel shots, Florescence shots, and a selection of images from gigs. You've got three months to catch it!

Send me no flowers...

I've got double pneumonia! Ok, just pneumonia! Ok, man-flu! Oh, alright.. I've got a cold! That's all, just a cold, but I feel yucky today and I only hope I have the strength to get through the FA Cup Manchester Derby this lunchtime! A Hot Toddy might help! Two hot toddies would definitely help!

So anyway, being the hero that I am, I am bravely struggling through the preparations for my new show at Corvino's, and the last few images are being framed this afternoon. Morrissey's Gladdies and a lovely lily are two of the shots that will go up this Tuesday, and then you have three months to come and see the rest!

Atishoooooo!