A New Direction

I've been asked by a hair stylist to shoot a model for a new line in hair care products. I've never done anything like this before so I thought 'Bonus! Something other than weddings!' it's coming up on Sunday (weather permitting) and the model in question is a former miss Scotland finalist. How it got to this point from the 'few head shots' I don't know...and don't really care. I like trying new things and it will be good to put my camera to other uses besides just weddings. If I could make money doing my own projects I would be happier of course, but these jobs help fund those projects in the first place.

In other news my IMI (Institute of Medical Illustrators) award submissions were posted the other week. Subjects (good ones) have been a bit thin on the ground the past couple of years so if I win anything it will be a bonus. Anyway here's hoping, I'll find out in a few weeks. Go have a look at previous winners www.imi.org.uk


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What's Best For Them...

What's Best For Them...
Originally uploaded by Max_Fax

This poor girl set up her nest on our bathroom windowsill. Kim wouldn't let me get rid of them. She said that we should leave the window open and they would make their way out when they hatched. Hmm. Interesting theory. Anyway, once they hatched she changed her mind about the subject but still wanted to spare their lives. I explained that they would die as a result of being moved anyway, and that the mother was due to die anyway. If you look at her abdomen it has collapsed as a result of her starving herself to protect her babies. Anyway I scooped them up as gently as I could and sat them in the pile of wood in the garden. Who knows, they might make it.

Sucioperro (Unscene)

Sucioperro
Originally uploaded by Max_Fax

Another one from the archives. This is one of my favourites, taken on my Centon DF-300. Small and basic SLR camera but I still love it.

Open Goal

Village Centre Car Park, Bourtreehill
Originally uploaded by Max_Fax

I've put together a wee project over on Flickr in honor of the World Cup. I hate football but even i must acknowledge it's omnipresent hold on the world.  Link here!

Busy is not the word.

I got back from a little family holiday last week. Nothing extravigant or anything just a few days away in the Lake District at a caravan park named The Beeches in a small village called Gilcrux. It was nice to get away despite our most exciting visit of the weekend being a trip to a pencil museum in Keswick. We went to a James Bond museum directly behind the main pencil factory afterwords and it was guff. How sad it was that 007 was shown up by a 2B.
Anyway, after our return life seems to have hit a fast ball at me. I've got so much work on at the moment that I might just colapse in a heap of panic and farts. The wedding on Saturday was a blast though. Hardly felt like work at all.


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Duffy dies

http://gu.com/p/2hff8/ip

Sad news indeed. I watched 'The Man Who Shot The 60s' on BBC 4 a few months back about his return to photography after a self imposed exile. An amazing talent and one third of the Cockney Trinity that dominated 60s fashion photography Bailey and Donovan being the others.


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Caught

Caught
Originally uploaded by Max_Fax

It's the start of summer which, for the small insignificant creatures around us, is time of reawakening and rebirth. Also it's a time when many such little 'uns meet untimely ends. Good news for my 'Windowsill Graveyard' series bad news for the arachnids, insects and other crawlies that creep!