
Whenever theres a prolonged wet period I tend to take advantage by catching up in the office.
Today has been one of those days!!!
I had a large submission to send off to my agent, and managed to get them all onto the server by lunchtime and felt suitably smug......however I then had a call to say that one of the images was no good due to "dirt on the filter"........I was taken aback as this is something Im fanatical about (and another reason why I hate digital!) so went to have another closer look at the photo. I had a certain amount of pleasure in calling him back to tell him it wasnt dirt.....it was a pheasant! it turned out hed done a quick automatedQC on one of the images which was of a large pheasant shoot in Somerset.....the so-clled "dust" was in fact a group of tiny pheasants crossing the sky in the background, but the automative programming couldnt spot this. I suggested a bit more human input and less computerisation might pay off!
Yesterday was one of those bizarre jobs that saw me stood on top of a tractor cab, trying to photograph a satellite dish for one of the agricultural magazines I work for.......not so easy on top of a windswept hill in strong winds....but the brief of "make the dish look interesting" was a challenge I couldnt resist......and how often do you get comissioned to photograph an alpaca and a satellite dish in the same frame?!!
My final job today was to organise some equine photos for a client. This was my favourite of the batch. Tomorrows forecast is rain again so......if you owe me money and have ignored all my reminders....BEWARE because tomorrow is my day for recovering bad debts!!