I won't say that the pressure is on but it's been less than 6 hours since I sat at this keyboard ... There's only a few days left to go until the Gallery of Stories and as is always the case it's the last little bits that take up most of the time. In the last day or two I've got the goodie bags in order; completed the edit and review of a few of the stories; had headshots; written, rewritten and rewritten again my little On the night speech; ordered a few last minute prints

Back in what seems the dark ages, before Simon Cowell gave us HearSay and Girls Aloud we had the Spice Girls ... if you are too young to remember what Victoria Beckham did before fashion, look them up. Here's hoping some of my readers are that young. Anyway their first hit proclaimed us to tell the girls what we want, what we really really want. They each, the told us, really wanted a Zigga Zig Ah ... I can't say I've spent too long wanting to know what one is but I hope th

When I started The Way You Are ... way back when I had a vision in mind a way of shooting and providing an experience far and away from that you would normally experience in a photo shoot. Many years ago, before I was a photographer my family and I went for a photoshoot. You know the kind of thing. Come for a free shoot, have a complimentary 6x4 and go home. I swore I wasn't going to be mugged but still ended up spending hundreds of pounds on a wall hanging. 10 or more ye