Broke wrist at the weekend. Can't drive. Can't hold a camera. Had to cancel shoots.(Sorry Bink) Can't slice bread so am reduced to eating sliced stuff. Good for sobriety - try drinking with the wrong hand - you wear the first inch. The left hand typing's a nightmare - so anyone that has sent me a note recently I'm very slow at the moment and it could be a while for replies. (This by the way I'm dictating)

Personal plus point - as I'm stuck in I've been looking back at the raw files of the last couple of years. There are shoots that I haven't edited more than a couple of pictures from, pictures in semi-edited states etc. It'll give me a chance to go through them although the left hand editing in itself is a bit of a job. Can't get the cursor over the sliders half the time.

Sort of got me thinking a bit though. Photographers a shoot - how long do you normally work for? How many shots per hour? How many of those would you use. Me, its about 6 hours a shoot. Probably average around 80 shots an hour although they'll be in short bursts in between playing with lights and backgrounds. Probably only around a dozen shots from any shoot ever see the light of day. Sort of feel like I do a shoot edit up some pictures...do the next shoot and the last one is sort of history. Now I'm sort of wondering if that is a bit of an odd approach.

Anyone got any idea of how long it might be before I am physically able to wield a camera for a few hours?

Surprised and pleased me this morning to find that I had received a Daily Deviation for this picture:



Although I uploaded it in July it had actually lived in a semi-edited state on my desktop since I took it in October, not an uncommon state of affairs for me. I loved the pose but the background paper was a bit messed up - and if anyone knows a way to keep paper in a usable state I'd love to know - but eventually I sorted it. There's a lot end up in the bin because I'm not happy with the paper. I find that a bit depressing but pleased I took the effort on this one.

Thanks to for nominating and for featuring it.

Oh and the model the wonderful you should all check out her gallery on here. She's cool

My first proper no show in well over a year.

Left waiting at the station - she doesn't answer calls or responds to texts. I mean how hard is it to text that you aren't coming.

She quotes a plethora of references from established photographers in her profile on a modeling site.

I just don't get it sometimes.

A bloody wet Sunday in bloody Wiltshire.

I'd rather be sitting in the pub but having managed to delete the entirety of two shoots from my computer in recent days I thought I could spend it more productively editing up some of the hundreds of half finished pictures that are filling up my hard drive.

Is it more of a challenge to continue shooting with the same models and try and find new diections to work with them or is it more challenging to work with new models?

My gut feeling is that I'll achieve better pictures with limiting myself to shooting with a small cohort of good models. Probably pretty obvious who at least a couple of them are. To that end I am actively rebooking models that I have previously shot that I feel I can work in conjunction with to produce good pictures.

What I like are models who turn up and put an active artistic imput in to the shoot - those that inspire me - these are the models that I want to shoot - the ones who want to see what the images on the back of the camera are like to see if they can improve them. The good pictures that I take are the results of teamwork. These are the models I want't to work with on a repeated basis.

This doesn't mean that I'm not going to shoot models I haven't worked with before but if I just primarilly concentrate on working with a few individuals is that a constructive way forward?

There are models out there that I would like to shoot that I haven't - but there are normally good reasons - such as distance - why I can't. Still have a few on my wish list but I'm not naming names.

Interested on any views on this.

Oh and if anyone knows any inspirational models that can get themselves down to Wiltshire....