Back to business ..

That's Christmas done, and I hope you had a good one. I'd like to imagine lots of happy folk, delighted to have been given one of my portraits as a gift. I've had some lovely pre-Christmas shoots at my little 'pop-up' studio but this one of these twins is one of my personal favourites. The sweet expressions belie the fact that they were little devils during the session ..

Anyway, it's onwards and upwards now to 2017. I still have a few quiet days to enjoy, then it's back into the Wedding season in the first week of January. I've devised a new offer too, with £200 off the price of a full day's Wedding photography. If you've got engaged over the Christmas season, then many congratulations and I hope you'll have a look at my tempting discount.
Blimey, doesn't take long 'til it's back to business, does it?.. 

Where it's @ ..

I've taken to tweeting, with a vengeance! I'll admit I've not given Twitter the attention it's needed in the past, bogged down as I am with SEO and Flickr, Tumblr and Pinterest (..and to think, I used to be a photographer!) but now I'm hitting the keyboards hard and 'following' as many relevant people as I can find! Unfortunately, that means I'm also now being 'followed' by quite a few irrelevant people, too .. many of whom seem to need me to know from their profiles how many cats/kids/snowboards they've got, and one who urges me to "Close my eyes and see.."! (Doesn't work for me, that one!)

So, for the first time ever I've had new business cards made with my Twitter details on, and now no longer can I sit and watch tv or eat a meal in peace! Oh no, now I'm constantly, feverishly, checking my phone as it bleeps and twinkles and oinks at me when I get new followers or retweets. I can only hope - as many people tell me - that it does actually work as a way to increase business or her indoors'll have me out on my ear at this rate!

PS: Sorry about the seagull picture! Not being a bird-spotter I don't exactly have many images of our feathery friends, so that'll have to do! Jeez, seagulls don't even tweet! Unlike me, ho ho ..

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