well almost..
with the Christmas editions of magazines being shot over the next few weeks, it is almost time for the january magazines, so the New Year starts early for editorial photographers; last week I had a shoot for the Sunday Telegraph magazine which isn’t being printed until summer next year, the reason being that they wanted blue skies for the feature, but sadly it was a very gray day, so perhaps I’ll have to go back out to the countryside again.. I’m very happy with the images and have to stop myself from publishing them on the website as I don’t think that would go down so well. I did take my studio camera into the ‘field’ and enjoyed not using 35mm at all, so perhaps that could spell the end of it altogether? I did resist the temptation to shoot some film though, but won’t be retiring the Rollei any time soon.
the new season has also started for the Professional Squash Association, with the Australian Open kicking it all off in Canberra. As I write I have just learnt that Tom (my brother) has just beaten Daryl Selby, the World Number 9, which he is very happy about, although as Daryl is his mate it must be a slightly bitter-sweet pill somehow. But I’m very happy for Tom, he was, as he was quoted as saying, ‘pushing the top 10 guys last season’ and has trained very hard all summer, so this is his biggest win of his career so far. It would be good to see Tom in the top 20 this year. A bit of a shame then that the article written on the match couldn’t include a decent photo of him! He looks like he’s exhausted in the back left of the image.. something squash is missing out on, good photography, combined with objective journalism. Tom did say that the match was brutal, but I expect a long ice-bath sorted him out after.
over the weekend I was in the west country with Meli and her family.. the valley of rocks and the coastal path in Exmoor was stunning; we were very lucky with the weather. The sea was pretty warm too, relatively and we were also lucky enough to find two great places to eat, surprisingly so; the Vanilla Pod in Lynton was excellent, whilst the decor and atmosphere was a little lacking, the food was very tasty indeed, especially when compared to some of the over-priced, pretentious tripe you get served in ‘gastro-pubs’ in London (Mall Tavern, very disappointing), and then the Fox and Goose in Parracombe was also excellent, with a great local-pub atmosphere, no pretensions, but great, great food and good local ale too. Combined with a beautiful drive along the coastal path from Lynton, with cliff-edge roads and views, who would choose to eat in a loud bar again? The coastal path from Lynton to the Hunters Inn has also got to be some of the best coastline in the UK too – just don’t eat at the Hunters Inn.. it’s shite!
this week it’s as busy as ever, today being a much-needed paperwork day, but we’re getting closer to september 1st, so a tweaked and updated website will be making it’s new appearance.
