Hi all, I hope your Christmas was good, New Year is next and with that comes New Year’s resolutions. What are yours? I know what mine will be: 1) I am going to edit my City of London street photography based project to see how far I have got with it. 2) I am going to spend more time marketing this year. As I want to meet more interesting people. A photographer friend of mine once said to me he had problems trying to get appointments because he felt weird contacting people who where to him strangers, my response was …

Photography Print Portfolio Thoughts. I am in the process of geting myself sorted out with new print portfolios for my photography, and am busy researching what is available out there now. I have had portfolios in the past, that are print books with acetate sleeves. This time, when I get new print portfolios, I want to do away with the acetate sleeves and make something that is not the traditional black leather portfolio, that I have had in the past. My old portfolios came from: Brewer and Cantelmo: My first professional portfolio and it really got a battering as it got …

Twitter and I how I use it. Twitter is one social media platform that I use a lot. I like it brevity, the shortness of the message. I also like that I can use it as a way of making a list of web pages to refer to, with a note. I have for a while now used Twitter to tweet pages from various websites, that I want to be able to refer to later. It is something that I learnt, while studying at University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. It can be a good format to create as a resource. So that when I go to …

Creating an audience for your photography. How do you as a photographer distribute information and get it out to a wider audience. You have a project, a body of work or just a single image that you want seen. How do you promote it and get it out there into the wider world for people to see your work. You can use social media, which is what everyone is talking about these days. Or you can think of this as marketing and all good marketing uses a variety of channels to promote and build a brand. If you think of …