You make your own luck..

Brrr! First ice of winter this morning, and a nice early e-mail asking if I'd shot a cover photograph for our local Village Magazine. Ooops! My busy weekend meant I never got time to do it, but two minutes in my garden got me this! Now I admit there was a bit of Photographer's luck involved, but wasn't it great that this little flock of Canadian Geese just happened to fly past whilst I was standing there in my dressing gown? The thing is, I guess you make your own luck in photography. If you're looking and, more importantly, seeing - and you're also technically capable - then you're going to come up with the goods. I just wish that would sink in with the amateurs who brag to me at Weddings that they "once" got a great shot when they caught the bride and groom unawares. "Oh, that's so cool.." I drool.. "And here's me only doing that 500 times every weekend!"

Dear Jim..

Now then, dear old Jimmy Savile hung up his running shoes yesterday, and we'll never see his like again! I photographed him in Manchester years ago, at the beginning of one of his marathon runs for charity. What a character he was! I never wrote in to Jim'll fix it, but I used to watch it avidly every week, squirming with envy at the things some of the kids got up to. God bless ya, Jimmy!

As it 'appens, I met another great couple yesterday morning, and they've booked me for their Wedding next May at the lovely Belle Epoque restaurant in Knutsford. It's been a year or more since I was last there, so I'm really looking forward to shooting there again!

I'm trying to ignore the fact that the clocks have gone back and summer is now officially over, but I can't wait to shoot my forthcoming winter Weddings, all frost and snow and tinsel.

Dear Jim, please can you fix it for me to get some great shots in the next couple of months...