So much to do, do I have the time to find some paying clients ?

I'm now a member of several photo industry trade bodies so I can now start to climb the slippery pole to becoming something like a Licentiate for a starter following that up with a Associateship as a main course leaving just a Fellowship for pudding. Not sure what I will do with the port

For the time being I will have to be content with my Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London ;-)

We have also booked ourselves into the big wedding photography conference in the new year and I'm off on a day long seminar on Thursday. The inbetween time is full of lots of little things which I sincerely hope are adding up to something but at the moment it all still looks like an odd jigsaw

Time for a walk and an excuse to open the curtains - oh dear it's 1pm and the curtains are still closed

More soon

Well here I am, out of the corporate world, just a one man band (and half of a 2 person band)

I should have written my daily to do list on a larger piece of paper or maybe not as A3 would be a little unwieldy about the house. The list contains a real mixture of things from joining a number of additional tradebodies to blogging some more about the Street performance & Circus event on Saturday and the model portfolio shoot I assisted at on Saturday evening.

I'd better get on, I cant spend all day blogging to all you lot and this tea wont drink itself now will it ?

Monday Mornings, don't you just love 'em

Well here it is my last Monday morning in the corporate world

No more will the alarm go off at exactly the same time every Monday for a day at the coalface of adding value for shareholders & generating hot air

What will the shareholders do with a teeny tiny little bit less value ?

and will the property department have to turn up the termostats to compensate for my waffle contribution ?

These questions will have to go unanswered I'm afraid

Well I've only got just over a week sitting here and then the cold light of day will suddenly be shining on my life but hey ambient light is always good right ? Maybe I will need to supplement it with some flash

At the moment I feel like there are a whole lot of strands to Plan B that need to come together but currently are still floating around as ideas in my head, maybe it will all feel a bit more real on Monday 21st or alternatively it will feel like I have just jumped firmly out of the sausage cooking utensil into the flames

Time will tell, until then I will continue to write lists, lots of lists

I've gone and done it (but in the wrong order)

Things had been getting worse in the corporate world, time and time again I found I was responsible for something (especially when something had gone wrong) but without the authority or power to control it or to fix it. At other times I was asked "why didnt you fill in form xyz, the sky is going to fall in" when the answer was that no one had told me about the form and the need to complete it in order to maintain the normal position of the fermanent. Things were becoming unworkable.

Three weeks ago I was on holiday for the week and I decided that I'd had enough and that seeking another similar (or possibly just as bad) role was not going to solve things in the long term so I decided almost of the spur of the moment to give my agency the required one months notice that I was going to terminate the contract.

Ah that felt so good

And so here I am with my last day in the corporate world being Friday 18th and from then on I will be able to devote all of my time to plan B and turning that from a dream into a reality and from there into a success.

Eeeekkkk what have I done ?

Gary & Laura

On Saturday 15th of August Gary & Laura got married in Stopsley just outside Luton and I was lucky enough to be invited along to act as Second shooter for Steve Gardner

I'm getting so far behind with my blogging, I shall say "without further ado" here are a selection of images I captured on the day

Going to stop at this point as this image uploading system is dreadful

More tomorrow when I have found a better way to show images in blogspot