Hot Shoe Diaries.... finally pre ordered mine.

I couldn't hold off any longer and Amazon have a very good pre order price.

There's a sample chapter here if you want to have a look. You can even order it here if you like.
The Hot Shoe Diaries: Creative Applications of Small Flashes (Voices That Matter)

The one way to ge the creative juices flow is not to shoot anything.

Use the time to reflect and review what you have done. I have and the results are quite a shock but you can see a progression over the last three years since I started doing all this seriously.

The problem I find with press/editorial work is that it's very very easy to get stuck in a basic groove of flash on camera, get the shot, get the names and get out. Towards the end of my freelance time at the Constitution I would hang around a little longer to get something different.

Rosemary Wright was a good example of this. The job didn't take more than 10 minutes but I came out with two very different shots. There was the "play it safe for the paper" shot and then the more creative one. Which one did the editor pick.... yup the one that looked different.

So I haven't taken a picture in two weeks now and I'm starting to get very itchy fingers.

The January that never was.....

Too many things happened.... so no photography that month.

Back on track. The good news is that Maranna McCloskey's album is due out this month. Northern Ireland newspaper, "Local Women", ran a small bit on Maranna. The shots of her from October 2007 (it was a cold afternoon shoot) still run and still get comments.

Ah well, here's another one from the shoot.