Oh, and did I tell you...

My SECOND book is now published.

Sister to my first one, Don't Miss This...it's called.......Don't Miss That!!
A wonderful collection of imagery from Eccles, where I grew up, in good old Jubilee year 1977...
Check it out....

Big in Japan!!

Great news...Tokyo beckons...again!

A selection of my Joy Division photographs has been chosen to 'front' a new range of Exclusive T-shirts for hip Japanese designer label 'Lad Musician' ...

The clothing range aims to be launched in May,
and an exclusive set of prints will be on sale at the company's flagship store in Shinjuki, Tokyo.

The photos were taken at a gig in Bowdon Vale Youth Club in 1979.
Check 'em out here...!

JEEPERS!!!!

Aaaagh....!! My internet disappeared...and over two weeks later I'm (just) back with some temporary Dongle-thingy..but at least I'm Blog-capable again.

(Must admit it was quite amusing to have a young shop lady tell me she was just going to "get my Dongle"...what a sad old man I am ha ha!)

Anyway...busy at the Carole Nash NEC MotorBike show in Brum yesterday...involved lots of funky shots like the one above...and some daft stuff like that with the gorgeous twins that I had to spend the day with... Hi girls!..then just time for a nice arty shot of The Bullring before I hit the train....

Moanin' Minnie...

Well, it's taken me a while but I've finally uploaded some pictures from a fantastic world trip I did with a "model"...No, really...a model doll..Ha ha!...
Check out her....Minnie Adventure!

Oh, Mozzer...

He's off again..off-stage, that is....
Chill, Moz!!

Changed a bit since I shot him, hasn't he !!

Bonfire Night!

Off to Twiss Green School, Culcheth,
for their annual Firework Display, and it didn't disappoint!
(Hey, even the rain stayed off)
Glad it's not become a victim of the recession,
and the numbers of people there seemed to justify its going ahead as usual.
Well done, guys!

Good Stuff!

Had a great day yesterday at a Wedding Fayre at Manchester Town Hall.
Met lots of excited couples and hopefully picked up a couple of new wedding bookings for 2010/11...Thanks to everyone that turned out in pretty awful weather!

Boooooo!

That was me, being scary. Well, it IS Hallowe'en..and here's a fantastic photograph from Arthur F.Kales to illustrate it. Look at the composition...To Die For ha hahahaha......

Joe Bloggs..on my Blogg!

Or Kashif as he's usually known...head honcho at Juice Clothing, makers of said line...shot him today...Nice guy, and patient enough while I buggered about in the car-park!

Bag Ladies

Sorry about the title...but these two ladies sell designer bags from a depot near Stockport, and I'm sure they'll forgive me! I shot them for Crain's Manchester Business.

Bloody heck...all these strikes!

Anyone else noticed the two main strikers are ROYAL and BRITISH...
Alanis would have found it ironic !!

Oh heck...

Get well soon, Moz! Fancy collapsing in...Swindon !!

What a coincidence!

It's taken just 30 years..but in the space of a week I've seen all 3 remaining members of Joy Division.
Hooky I shot last week, see below, and this week I went to see Bad Lieutenant at The Ritz, in Manchester. I'll not talk about the band's music (I never was a New Order fan and this was just New Order sans Hooky)...but the thing that struck me was the distance from the bands we're all kept at these days...look at it...big railings, bouncers...no contact with the musicians...compared to Joy Division in a youth club...(I mean..I even walked onto the stage!)..Ah, the good old days.

Well.....

...that was a good day. Took a booking for next June and one for......Two Thousand and ELEVEN !
I've also had an email from a couple who met me at a fayre in August. They said they wanted me as their photographer..before they'd even booked their date !! Flattery indeed!

Wedding Fayre...

Off I go, to the swish Mere Court Hotel, see if I can drum up some wedding bookings for next year!

By the way...

I'm doing a Wedding Fayre (You have to spell it like that!) at Mere Court Hotel on Sunday 18th...see ya there?

And...this is a job I shot today. This guy runs a company that puts your own mush on greetings cards. I shot his face, he put it on his software, then emailed me the image of him (as a convict), which I then photoshopped onto a card I'd shot him holding...Got it?

I'm an Artist !

Yes...well now I'm getting the hang of this bloggin' malarky I thought I'd use it to tell you of my Big News this week.

I've self-published two books of photographs...called Don't Miss This..and Don't Miss That...and they've both been selected for a Photography Book Fair at the Impressions Gallery, Bradford, later this month. Here's hoping one or other will get picked up by a 'real' publisher...!!

The latest of the books, Don't Miss That, is a collection of pix from 1977...and an interesting thing I noticed working on this image is in the graffiti...check it out...it actually says Ant + Dek !! ..and that was in 1977...weird, eh?

Well...

..I liked that so much that I've just put a link to the blog on my website so that people can actually read this stuff...Jeez, I've got to find something interesting to write about now!

My first Blog...Painless, I hope!

I've got a blog..I'm on the bandwagon....Everybody's doin' it, doin' it.....

Hi, I'm Martin O'Neill, a professional photographer in Cheshire.

I had a trip back in time yesterday. In 1979 I photographed Joy Division, and Hooky famously told me to "F*ck Off" !! So, yesterday, I photographed him again. This time I wasn't creeping behind him onstage and getting in the way. This was a shoot for the North West Regional Development Agency..on the roof of the Radisson Hotel in Manchester..so he was very nice and well-behaved and we got a great set of shots done...as you can see. I love the "reality" shot, that shows you he was actually up a ladder, braving the height and looking every inch the pro..tho' my real fave is the b/w shot...somehow you just know it's Hooky, dontcha!

Right, there ya go...my first blog...and it WAS painless...so I might just do it again soon!

Say Cheese!

Martin