Can you dig it? ..

Whoo! Up for air after a manic three days at the PR 'coal-face' where I've photographed the new James Martin restaurant, a brochure for a casino, a dressage display and two portraits for use as internet-dating profiles! I've also held the inaugural meeting for The Culcheth Collection - my 'One-stop' shop for Wedding services in Cheshire - so I'm going to use today to eat, shower and drink beer! (Actually, I'm not! I have to be at the studio by 10.30!) Really happy with the work I've done though, although this 'arty' shot of a conference room converted to its use as a disco might have gone a little too crazy to show the client!! (Hey, you gotta try, innit!..)

So, The Culcheth Collection. Well, it's coming along nicely, since you ask. We now have a hairdresser, a nail technician and a bridal dress shop on board, so I think we're all set to sail forth and start plugging our wares to the discerning brides of Cheshire (.. and Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire! Sorry to go on .. SEO keywords and all that!) All a new couple have to do is book just a minimum of two suppliers from The Collection and they'll receive either a discount or a little 'something extra' from each of the suppliers! It's win, win for newly engaged couples .. and hopefully it'll do us lot a bit of good, too!..

And now, back to the coal-face. I look so cool with a miner's helmet on...

Oh, my! ..

Two ladies walked past the studio yesterday. They'd obviously just met up after a long time. "Oh, my .." said one to the other "Sounds like you have a lot of things to tell me!"

Oh, my? When did you last hear someone say 'Oh, my'..? Mind you, 'Oh, my' is exactly what I was thinking after a chat with a lady at the corporate 'do' I was shooting on Tuesday. She told me that her grand-daughter had just graduated in photography after a three and half year degree course, and the only job she could get was as a Schools Photographer! Oh, my! I mean, no disrespect to Schools Photographers (!) but it's not exactly worth all that study now, is it?

And, oh my, I've just read that Nokia are bringing out a phone with a 41 meg camera in it! The theory is, it says here, that the resolution is so good that people basically only need to randomly aim their camera .. oops, sorry .. phone! .. at a subject, and be able to pull out the relevant, needed, part of the shot at a later date. A bit like the chap who stopped at my studio the other day who, on seeing that I did portraits, took out his phone and said "I'll show you a good photo, mate!.." It was a picture of his daughter, in a swimming pool, about 40 yards away! Sigh! One day soon it'll dawn on all the darling punters that technology doth not maketh a photographer. Oh me, oh my ..it doth not!

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