no 3 of 100

This is Craig, he takes the no.3 spot in my very slow building 100 strangers project. Craig and his Partner happened to wander past a bench we were using for a photo shoot on Sunday morning. It turns out the bench we were using was actually placed in memory of his Grandparents who had passed away a few years before. He was visiting all the way from Australia and wanted to come and visit it. I stepped in to get a picture of them sat on the bench and then cheekily asked If I could get a shot of him for my project. It was a touching story so happy for it to be included in my project.

I’ve also included a picture of the plaque that is on the bench below, If Craig you do end up reading this and want a copy of either picture at print quality just drop me an email and I’ll happily send you some copies.

In Loving Memory

wet and not so wild?

Well SAP is finally live and kicking (in some fashion) at work and as expected with it’s launch my workload has risen ten-fold. The week leading up to go-live was manic and I worked a stupid amount of hours both in the office and from home. Things don’t seem much better yet but I’m now at a point where I’m just doing as much as I can in the working day and resisting the urge to work from home unless it’s a last resort. Everyone needs downtime and I don’t like seeing Robyn and Chloe struggle on without me about so I’m trying to get things back into balance. This issue of balance is something I also need to re-dress as far as my photography  is concerned. I’ve been so busy with everything else my camera has really been neglected over the last few weeks. Tonight I decided I’d try and fix that by recreating a self portrait I took back in January 2008. You can go and see the original here if you want to compare them. They are by no means identical and were shot with very different equipment and in many ways I think I prefer the older shot but it was still fun to shoot and blow the cobwebs off the camera. Anyhoo that’s about it for the moment…..I’m still alive and kicking and hopefully I’ll be around a little bit more as we get closer to Christmas. JINGLE BELLS!!

oooh p.s. Robyn totally ROCKED her School production last night. She landed lead role of Babushka and was an absolute star. #very proud parents#