I was supposed to be up in Macclesfield today for a shoot in a new office block but my client called at 8.30am and postponed the shoot for a week. That's given me a chance to really catch up so I've been post processing the yacht race pictures and a civil ceremony that I shot last week.
I'm working in London tomorrow with two jobs - one a fabric shop in SW London and one at Kings College. In between jobs I'm going to visit the Camera Cafe in Museum St which is my favourite shop of all time. The guys that run the shop - Richard and Patrick - know loads about used kit and they specialise in Leica and Hassleblad gear which is fab. They also have a cafe in the shop and do great toasties and cappuccino and to top it all off the have 2 computers and charge 50p for 30 mins on the internet.
I'm very tempted to part exchange all my Leica M kit against a Hasselblad medium format set up as I don't use the Leica's as much as I should and I could eventually get a digital back for the Hasselblad and use it in my studio. It's a real dilemma as I love my M6 and M4 but I hate seeing them gathering dust and I don't have time to use them properly. I've also got a mint Mamiya RB67 kit and a Mamiya C33 which I don't use and I want to cut down on the amount of stuff in the studio.
I'm putting a link to their shop on my studio website www.redshift-studio.co.uk as I like them all so much!.
I had another new job in today - to photograph a BP garage in Kent for the lighting design awards so I'm guessing it's a super dooper new one with lots of feature lighting.
I'm going to finish off the civil partnership pictures now then batch up some more model portfolio shots to run overnight.