I am in love – with my new business cards for my Birmingham Street Style project that have arrived from MOO today. They are printed on matte laminate paper sourced from sustainable forests. The fronts featuring my new logo are all the same – but there is a selection of ten(!) different images on the back.
My congratulations to Lincluden community, whose beautiful heritage of Lincluden Collegiate Church has been voted one of six Hidden Gems of Scotland! It was a result of two months of online Facebook voting organised by Dig It! 2017 that worked with partners across Scotland to unearth special places that are…
WE HAVE MOVED – from Birmingham to Dumfries in Scotland! John, my husband, has accepted a research post offer from the University of Glasgow, with the synthetic biology project based at the University’s research park in Dumfries. Like an army spouse, I have to relocate too! I feel overwhelmed and…
My big thanks to Myra Smith, Morrisons Community Champion, who alerted me that my photo of Morrisons Foundation donating £17,000 to Nith Inshore Revenue was published in D&G Life Magazine! And here’s the photo:
I had a lump in my throat when I watched Sue Bryce, a portrait photographer and educator, encouraging people to #existinphotos during her CreativeLive workshop. Everyone deserves a beautiful portrait of themselves, especially women – wives, mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers. I heard Germain Greer speak in Birmingham about this phenomenon of the…
Announcing Birmingham Street Style Project – to capture awesome photographs of people with great personal style and taste encountered on the streets of Birmingham. While there are some great street blogs around, many of them suffer from the same straight head on approach, quite repetitive and not particularly flattering to…
What does a photographer do on a quiet Saturday night? Testing coloured gels portrait lighting setup on my favourite model, Helen, in our living room. Helen is a hairdressers mannequin we bought to stand in for John when he got tired of his onerous modelling duties (you know the kind, “Please-please-please, just…