Not so bad...

Oh, well...things ain't so bad now I've found that I can still actually write my blog from this pesky machine, so.....

Had a great Wedding on Saturday.. Kate and Andy at the Great Victoria Hotel in Bradford. Lovely interior, which is just as well,'cos it was bloody freezing outside! I'd started the day on a high anyway, as one of my Wedding photographs has just been published in Professional Photographer magazine  - you know me and my little ego-boosts! - but the whole day just got better and better. It was challenging, rushed, emotional, happy, fun.. and my shots capture it all. Now I just have to wait to get a working Mac, and I can actually edit the 852 shots...!

Got to tell you about a rather amusing Freudian slip my mate made on Friday night. He asked me how things were in the world of "PhotographRy.." Free? The way the fees are falling it's starting to feel like it, ho ho.....

Back of the net...

I had a fantastic dream last night! I dreamt that Manchester United beat Arsenal 8-2! Can you imagine that? 8-2? All the better to know then that it was true, and Oh boy, what an afternoon at my local that turned out to be! It's not often I talk about football on my blog, but that result was fantastic, and my arms are still aching from all the goal-celebrations!
Well done, Man U !

So, Bank Holiday Monday - well, here in the UK, anyway - and that means, of course, appalling weather! The heavens opened right on cue at the weekend, and it's still raining now as I type this. I had the weekend off, Wedding-wise, so my heart goes out to all the soggy brides and drenched Wedding photographers out there! Anyway, the bad weather's meant I've been able to work on my website, and there's a lovely pair of photographs up on the home-page now. I'm also introducing a fab offer in conjunction with my Facebook page. If you become a fan, and then book me for your Wedding Photography, I'll knock 25 smackers off the price, right there and then (£15 off Crunchtastic!) That's even good enough to put the smile back on the face of an Arsenal fan! Back of the net!...

What do I do now?..

Hmmm! Do you think I should have spent it whilst I had the chance?
I've mentioned before about the time I went out to Libya to cover a story for the Manchester Evening News, and I've still got this one erm, dinar, I think, note, from the trip. By the way, note to self if you're planning on becoming a dictator. Don't pose for the shot on your bank notes with a look of confused resignation on your face. It might come back to haunt you!

I don't know if you noticed but it's another yucky day, weather-wise, and I really can't shake a feeling in my head that the summer is already over, particularly as I've now shot my last August Wedding for the year. My next is on September 4th so it'll be, in my mind at least, an Autumn Wedding, and I'll be frantically whizzing round trying to find yellow leaves to shoot against!

Wonder if Gaddafi feels like things have come to an end?...

Looking forward to the past...

Oh, my word! Another awful day for news, what with looming recession, concert-goers killed in freak weather, suicide bombers and the unsurprising fact that petrol stations haven't dropped prices in line with falls in wholesale prices....

Time to whisk myself away (mentally at least, 'cos I've got a Wedding to shoot tomorrow) to sunnier, happier times - in this case Thailand in the early nineties, when photography meant film, music meant Nirvana and I still wasn't drunk after three pints of Guinness!

So, roll on Saturday, when I can put my Wedding head on again and plunge into the world of happiness, love and Pimms!

Keep smiling, everybody!

Here comes the commercial break...

Right! Down to the nitty-gritty!
Today, folks, I am offering you - yes, you! - the chance to own one of the last original copies of my first ever self-published book 'Don't Miss This'. First published in 2008, it is a hard-back collection of 83 of the black and white shots I took in the 80's using my old Olympus XA 35mm camera, and is full of humour, quirky observation and, after over 25 years, plain old nostalgia!
It features a foreword by Laura Noble, of the Diemar/Noble gallery in London (who says it's dead, dead good, so there!) and was stocked at The Photographers' Gallery until its closure for refurbishment.
Anyway, folks, there are only TEN copies of this book left, and one can be all yours for a mere twenty squids plus postage. Why wouldn't ya?

You're fired!....

Talk about breaking it to me gently!! I shot a couple of dinners recently for a company in Manchester. They called me yesterday to ask if they'd booked me for any more work, and I told them no, they hadn't. This guy's exact word then was "Good!", as it seems they've decided to go "in-house" with their photography. (By the way, they don't actually employ a photographer, so you can see where that one's going!) Anyway, all is not lost for little old me, because, as this dimwit then went on to say, if they 'cock up' with this idea they might always come back to me in the future!
Erm, no, you can't! Up yours, as we say in the trade!

Nice day for a White Wedding...

I thought a lot about the definitive photograph for today's blog - it being Royal Wedding Day and all that - when lo and behold, this appeared in my seed tray yesterday!

                               A little heart!

It says everything, really, so all I need to add is my best wishes for the happy couple, and let's crack open the bubbly!