As an independent supplier, facing the public out there, it’s normal to get some weird enquiries every now and then. Here’s one that appeared yesterday… Hi, We were wondering if you have an event photographer for tomorrow September 6th for…

When I’m going through photo examples with a prospective client, and they ask that killer question: “So what’s different about your approach?”, I often show this one.

I was copied into a request for help a few days ago. Someone I didn’t know had only a few family photos still in existence, from their parents’ wedding in 1965.

It’s 5.30. This will all be over in 40 minutes, whatever. Nothing I can do about it.

My friend Michael took, and posted, this lovely picture. It’s a lovely picture. [Photo: © Michael Hobson, used with permission]

I was puzzling last week about how best to use Favourites lists to select RAW files to edit (Mac) – if you *don’t* use Lightroom.

A friend sent me this story to have a look at today:

[You can find part one here if you missed it]

A lean and strange year. Weird in so many ways. The first three months saw almost no client work, then a trickle for the next three, followed by a flood as many delayed projects cranked into action.

[You can find part one here if you missed it]

The year everything changed.