Handy ..

Meet my new assistant! Ellie has just turned two and already fancies herself as a photographer! Blimey, and I thought I started young! I loved the fact she began to copy me with her toy as I was taking pictures over Easter, and it was beautiful to watch how everything is of interest to their growing, ever-curious brains..

On the subject of learning, this Saturday I'm running my first ever group Shoot'nTutor session, with a handful of keen snappers gathering in Culcheth for a two-hour hands-on workshop. It's a handy run-through of the basic controls of the camera. (Wow, that's a lot of hands!) I just hope no-one brings along one of them there SnailPix 25 digital .. er, cameras!..

Ps: Two places still available! 2pm Saturday -  £25 each

Get ahead, get a hat..

Right, it's time to hit the road! After three weekends of Shoot 'n Tutor, family portraits and an air show, it's time to roll up my sleeves and shoot another Wedding today. This time I'm off to the bijou hotel 'Eleven Didsbury Park' - a venue I've not worked at before - so I'm really keen to see what new shots will come my way. I won't mention the weather just in case I jinx it but, as I write this, there are hints of blue sky and a warm breeze coming in off the gas works!
Here's hoping...

Serious football blog...

Tonight, just like the England team, I'm going to be surrounded by Swedes. No, I've not been picked as full-back for England, but I'll be bouncing up and down on my Ikea Splamsplom sofa, spilling my beer over the Yecksdroogvoll coffee table and eating sandwiches off a plate from my lovely Jahlsbergsonsonson range of designer crockery. Do you think they're trying to send me subliminal messages?

Had a great meeting with another lovely couple last night - Hey, I even sacrificed the first half of the Ireland game to see 'em - and now I can't wait to shoot their Wedding next year with, wait for it, three hundred guests!! I don't even know 300 people, but thank God for wide-angles and bring on the challenge, that's what I say!

Quiet weekend on the cards for me! No Wedding, no Shoot'nTutor! Truth is, we were supposed to be going to Oxfordshire, where we were to have a stall selling my Florescence products at a friend's Village Fete, but the pesky rotten weather's put paid to that event, so we're staying home and eating meatballs instead. Meatballs? Where did that Ikea come from? Idea! I meant idea!!...