Saturday 31 January 2009

Quiet Time

....it is saturday night and I am waiting for loads of images to upload to the web so while I have a min or two I am doing a spot of blogging. Its very quiet here - having just listened to Springsteen's new album for about the sixth time today (very good it is too!) I am in peaceful mode. Everyone else is probably at the pub - who works on a saturday night? sadly I do all too often as it is a time I can get things done with little disturbance. Did a couple of nice shoots today - two very nice families, all of which seemed to enjoy the shoot and did lots of smiling.

Nearly done for tonight - little bit more editing and I will be off wom (that means home if you are from staffordshire!)
....sunday tomorrow and time out - bacon & eggs, sunday papers and much relaxing - absolutely no cameras or computers!
As I sit here trying to figure out a complicated series of photoshop actions for a commercial client, my ears are being bombarded by the sound of bagpipes right outside my window. Now I am very partial to the bagpipes and having lived in Scotia for several years am fond of all things Scottish but after a whole hour of 'Scotland the Brave', 'Flower of Scotland' and the like I am starting to despair - beautiful as the music is - it ain't half hard to concentrate. I am waiting now for Jean from Louis Q's sandwich bar to come out and start dancing.....

I have two sittings today and lots of editing - the sun is shining and it is deadline day for the tax man (I don't like him - one iota) I wonder how many small businesses are now feeling the strain after paying out their hard earned cash from last year when things were not too bad in a current crisis where every penny counts. I am lucky that I have no staff to support - thanks to my loyal clients I still have a bit of work coming in but it is getting really difficult to keep the wolf from the door now - I guess it is all about survival now eh!

Happy Saturday!!

Friday 30 January 2009

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog - here I will be ranting when I am having a bad day or just jotting down what I have been getting up to. I apologise now if I bore the pants off you but I will do my best not to.
Well I am in the middle of editing a shoot and have been distracted by setting this up so I had better get this sorted so I can carry on.
Hm, not sure whether I will get used to this but we will see - if it disappears pretty sharpish you will know that it is doing me head in.
have a good weekend.