Progress

Oops, as has been pointed out I introduced a sort of Spoonerism in my last post - it should have read Jeff Ascough and George Weir - oops

Well the day up in Manchester was very good with an audience of around 35. Quite a mixture of folk from those who have been earning their livings from wedding photography for years through to the likes of me standing on the outside looking in. There was even a chap who had flown in from Germany for the workshop.

So I learnt a lot of very useful stuff about the process and art of wedding photography but I'm still in the wrong place in terms of taking some sort of leap - and as the saying goes you cant cross a 20 foot chasm in a series of little steps.

We've also been on the lookout for 2nd shooting opportunities and I have one lined up in Luton on the 22nd (thanks to Steve Gardner) - anyone else out there looking for a free 2nd shooter ?

Education Education Education

One of the first tangible things I am doing to make Plan B spring into life is to get some education under my belt

So on Sunday I'm off to the frozen wastes of the North to attend a wedding photography workshop hosted by George Ascough and Jeff Weir who are both at the top of the pyramid that I am hoping to climb. In the meantime I will just wander around on the desert sands and look at the Sphinx

Well quite a few people have asked me what our Plan B is so here goes

It started out with the simple idea that I didnt know what I wanted to do but I did know that after cough cough years in the corporate world driving spreadsheets, siting through rather too much powerpoint and being subject to the best efforts of idiots to grind every last little bit of morale out of me that I wanted to do something else

Over the last few months this has evolved into wanting to do something more creative before it is too late and most recently this has been distilled into wanting to make a living out of photography.

Now the hard part, how do I get from here ----> to over there ---------------->

Well we are still working on that but slowly we are getting there

The start of plan B

Well here it is, my 1st proper blog posting

Here I plan to post about the development of our plans to leave the rat race and move towards our plan B. We've been working on the new plan for quite a few months but never seem to be getting any nearer to it as the list of things we need to tick off seems to get longer rather than shorter

Well it seems the answer will either be ticking things off more quickly or turning a bit more of a blind eye to some of the obstacles and just leaping in the deep end

This is where I shut my eyes and then look for a deep end - hey wait a minute how will I find a pool (let alone a deep end) with my eyes shut. Ok I will find the pool 1st and then jump in