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 Happy New Year, and it's started well. Please allow me a moment to blow my own trumpet, as I go into 2023 with exciting news. I've been asked if I can stage an exhibition of my photographs, and have been offered the chance to have my work used on a new range of clothing ..

A town near Bordeaux has invited me to show my work in a Spring solo show staged in a vineyard .. details to follow .. and a fashion designer in Japan wants to use my Joy Division photographs on a new range of clothing. All very exciting ..

In other news, our car's broken down and a friend just told me he's got prostate cancer. Life sure has a way of keeping you grounded ..

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bits and bobs and bookings ..

The world would be a boring old place without its characters, and I couldn't help but be curious about this guy, snapped at the air show over the weekend. He looked Japanese - and, with 3 Canon lenses and bodies, obviously a pro .. or a very keen snapper - but he kept retreating under this towel and falling asleep, only to jerk awake when different aircraft began their displays. Still, at least he didn't sleep through the displays, like the people I wrote about yesterday!..

On another outing 'darn sarf' last month I found myself in Oxfordshire. Very nice, lovely little market towns, plummy accents! I picked up a local 'What's On' magazine from one of the shops there, and read it whilst I was sitting in the sunshine yesterday. They had a feature in it about one of the Estate Agents in their area, a big time boy whose houses go for up to 5 million quid. But I almost spat out my 'g and t' when I read they were .. and I quote .. "just as adept at selling homes for as little as £250,000" .. !!! .. I won't be moving to Oxfordshire any time soon ..

Anyway, back to photography and I was absolutely thrilled yesterday to get not one, but two, confirmed Wedding bookings in one day! I can now add Rookery Hall and Great John Street Hotel to the list of next year's Weddings. The thing that pleases me most is that neither bride wanted the all-pervasive current 'trendy' photography of stupid poses and sickly vintage colouring. Looks like 'sticking to my guns' is paying off ..

©Martin O'Neill 2014

Bit of a Buzz....

Yep, more flowers, but I've got one guy in mind as I blog this picture today.
He's one of those "old codger, I used to take photographs when you only got 2 6x4 plates and that was your lot" types, who came up to my stand when I was selling my Florescence shots at an Arts Market in Cheshire. "Hm.." he said "Very nice! But why didn't you photograph them with insects on 'em?"

Well, there ya go, sir! A picture of my lupins, shot yesterday, just for you, and the next time I have eight months to blow whilst I wait for butterflies to land on my geraniums..you'll be the first to know!

The Buzz, of course, has nothing to do with bees. It's all about my latest Joy Division project!
A major Men's magazine in Japan will be selling a T-shirt from August with one of my images on as part of a new Autumn Range! How's that for you, honey?

So, a bit of a football match tonight, and let's hope we can write about it if Giggsy scores, especially if he does so on the pitch! Ouch!