Enjoy!

Enjoy!

So, a huge ‘thank you’ to Graphistudio for asking us along (it’s a huge honour to be working with these guys – and their albums are simply stunning!) and to everyone who came and sat through our musings. We’ve had loads of really lovely comments so I hope everyone found it useful/amusing/entertaining/a good place to sleep*

For everyone who was there (and for anyone else who’s interested) we’re posting the two AV’s we used yesterday. I know the plasma wasn’t brilliant but hopefully it didn’t prove too much of a distraction.

I should point out that we have now licensed this website with the music guys at PRS/MCPS (I think they’re now called the Music Alliance) so that we can use and show our slideshows online. This is something that we couldn’t really do before so watch this space and hopefully we’ll get more of our slideshow content up here.

Cheers
P.

*delete as applicable (I’m joking about anyone falling asleep – though I did keep a look out!)

I had absolutely no idea what to expect when I arrived at New Scotland Yard to present to the society. I’d had a couple of phone calls and emails in the months leading up to me going over there and both Steve (who had initially approached me out of the blue) and Chanon (their ents coordinator) seemed really really nice. But still. The Metropolitan Police Photographic Society? What would they make of a portrait photographer?

Shouldn’t have worried. You could not have asked for a nicer crowd. As it turns out, they’re a mix of police and ‘civilian’ enthusiasts and pros with a hugely wideranging interest in photography. You couldn’t ask for a nicer crowd to present to and, as usual, I enjoyed every second of it!

Now, I do have a slight admission to make here. And that is, I rather enjoy showing my work to people. Can’t help it. I’m immensely proud of what we do and, based on the feedback we get, we make a lot of people happy doing it. I have the best job in the world and I am always happy to talk about it. Possibly a little too happy given the glazed-over look that people who’ve been around me for any period of time develop.

Still, in this particular instance I had been asked to go and talk about our work so I hope it wasn’t a great surprise to the audience that I bounced, laughed and generally chatted my way through two hours of photography and stories. Some of which were actually on-topic!

So, a huge thank you to a group of really nice photographers who took the time to listen to me drone on in their auditorium and then (as if that weren’t enough) bought me a beer or two – which is never a good idea given my ability to wax lyrical about all things photography!

I can only hope they enjoyed it as much as I did!

All the best
Cheers
P.

We’ve been asked to do quite a few talks and presentations this year and I have to admit I love doing them! Can’t help myself: a room full of interested or, at least, captive photographers is always going to bring out the worst in me!

So, I talked through everything we do, showed some slideshows, described what we do, tried to antagonise traditionalists and generally laughed my way through two hours of experiences and anecdotes.

These things are always just a little daunting as the collective knowledge in any good photographic society (and these guys are good – they’ve just won the Chiltern Camera Clubs print competition and having seen their prints I can absolutely see why!) dwarfs what any one person can know but, I am happy to say, they were pretty gentle with me (even the Canon users) and I think – or at least hope – everyone enjoyed it!

So a HUGE thank you to everyone who came to hear my idle musings – I had an absolute ball and loved every minute of it and I really hope it was at least a little useful

I am now thoroughly looking forward to the next presentation for the Metropolitan Police Photographic Society!

Cheers
P.