Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: February 22, 2006

i will not run away...

(repeat after me).

another double hitter:
1st, at the perou factory, photographed a male model sitting behind a table, properly laid with very expensive cutlery and crockery.
(each item of cutlery was £300 a piece)
which goes back to binker's question asked of me yesterday.
i don't normally like to talk about money.
but to illustrate a point: this morning i got paid £1000 for 3hrs editorial work, shot on digital and my client walked out of the studio with a retouched image in her hand.
NOT a hard day at the office but everyone's happy.

2nd, i drove for an hour and a half to eel pie island, in the middle of the thames, near twickenham.
and photographed the very pleasant 'mystery jets' around and about.
it was so cold (out) my ears were hurting.
i got an immediate headache and frances was having trouble loading film, her fingers were so cold.
for this, i got paid £0 (zero pounds)
(the magazine i was shooting for don't pay a fee or ANY expenses but it's my favourite magazine and it's great to shoot for).
spent another hour and a half driving back to the east of london, stopping at the lab to drop in my films which i am paying to process out of my own money...

see?
job 1 pays for job 2.
without the first, the second couldn't happen.

i enjoyed photographing the 'mystery jets' more than photographing a male model with posh stuff but to be honest, but it's all good.
i love making pictures....and i'd still be doing it if no-one was paying me...i'm just lucky that people do.

unfortunately for those around me, photography's like a bad drug habit: i spend all i make from it, on it.
i take pictures everyday (as you've probably realised if you've been coming here for a while).
it's not so much a passion: sometimes it's more like a burden: if i see something, i HAVE to take pictures of it or beat myself up about not havig a camera with me (on rare occasions).

sometimes i get paid for jobs that are great fun and creative too.
double bonus.

stopped with frances at SOS for a late all day breakfast after the lab.
and back at the studio spent a few hours retouching.

no rest for the hackney wicked.