Know What I Mean Harry

I was asked to go along to a charity event at the Hilton in Glasgow, to film a sportsman's dinner in aid of Erskine Hospital. The guest of honour being none other than the great Frank Bruno, This giant of a man was such a gentleman and very amusing indeed, for all day I had been saying to myself, "Maria, do not say the words, Know what I mean Harry". Over and over, so I had it in my head not to utter the words that this man has probably hears a million times before.
So there I was all ready to rock and roll, I decided to go back into the little room where mine and my fellow photographer Robert's gear was located, and as I neared the door I heard those rich bassy tones of Frank's voice, I went in and he was sitting at the end of the table signing boxing gloves, I picked up my batteries, turned to Frank and asked if he minded me filming him, he was happy to let me do so, he asked my name and I told him, he grinned and said he would like to call me Miss Bailey, we laughed and I said that's cool I want to call you Dave, he chortled and said you can call me Harry if you like, did he know my little secret chant of not mentioning Harry, who knows, probably not, but the moment was there and it made me giggle.
So that's me and Frank sharing a great big cuddle, it was a pleasure to meet him, real nice guy.

Tom Miles Spent The Day With Us At College

Today at college, photographer Tom Miles came in to spend the day with us, The morning session was very useful, with Tom telling us about what he believes are the four key points that make a good and successful photographer, it was all very interesting and he kept us engaged with his upbeat demeanor. I am sure it was not only myself who took at least a little of what he said away with them.

In the afternoon we had a choice of watching Tom going through how he lights certain scenarios, what he carries etc, etc, or to take the mighty challenge of an assignment to be conceived, shot, polished and handed in by 3pm. Well I do like a wee challenge now and then, that and I left my trusted wee Kodak Playsport behind to film the lighting demo.

So we had the choice of "The Suit", "Vodka" or "The Church". As you can see from the image below I went for Vodka, probably an odd choice for someone who doesn't drink very much, but I had already been turned down by our head lecturer "Robert" to allow me to photograph him in his natty suit.

Fellow student, Leah and I shuffled on down to the closest garage and bought some Smirnoff Ice and headed back to college to set up the studio, shots in the bag for me I headed onto editing, although the image below is not how I had intended things to go it ended up looking way better than my original idea, but I don't mind things changing at the flip of a coin, so all was well.

The main point of the exercise was to produce not only the image, but an invoice to go with it, and I think I did that to the best of my ability on the day, but I so should have added in way more things to be listed under expenses, lesson learned.

So please do enjoy the image and thank you to Tom for sharing his knowledge with us.