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.
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…
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…
On August 5 2014 I sent out an open call via Facebook , Twitter and Google+ for volunteer models that would like to take part in a new photography project called URBAN PORTRAITS DUMFRIES. The project aims to create collaborative portraits of Doonhamers in various Dumfries town centre locations where the…
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…
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 walked past the Primark window in Glasgow recently and noticed a lovely bronze frame with little pegs for mini Polaroids suggested as an item for high key bedroom or dining room decor. I thought decorating with retro prints was a great idea and started collecting pins leading to more…