A Day in the Life of a Photographer

A.M.

Got up at 8.00am thinking about how I’m going to organise my paperwork and generate some work!
Powered up desktop and laptop which are networked via a router along with an external hard drive for backing up everything that’s important.

• Printed out 3 months of online Vodafone bills for my accounts.
• Wrote cheque to cover tax bill to send to accountant.
• Wrote cheque for £80.00 parking permit which needs to be taken to the council office.
• Arranged online payment for credit card to go out 1st February otherwise I could forget. I had applied for a balance transfer to an Abbey National credit card. They gave me the card but refused to accept the transfer! The bank manager who filled in the forms didn’t show any remorse when I told him they didn’t transfer the balance but he was happy to cancel the card for me. Perhaps he made his bonus!
• Bookkeeping, tidying receipts and invoices. If you leave it long enough it gets real messy, ask every other photographer!

Photoshopped the 360 degree shots of a powerkaddy and a pair of football boots. The Wacom tablet really saves a lot of time. Then dropped a plastic bottle of fine oil which carefully splashed onto an 80mm Mamiya lens! Was going to the camera shop but decided to clean it myself. Hot air and shammy cloth did the trick! Will keep an eye on it in case it turns into an oil slick! Heading to post office next.

P.M.

Feel like buying a book on Louis Khan the architect. I like his work, and that something sinister and secretive man. Also, the risks in running an architectural practice appear awesome… as they are pitching for commissions which appear to be open races, spending lots of money on designing and building models and preparing presentations…

Will go down to Borders bookshop to check out some architecture books. Better to look at the architecture books rather than the books about architectural photography! Same for fashion, music, portraits…

Spent some time looking at photography blobs. Some of the photographs are so good I think I might give up. This guy has a cool structure to his blog, I need to find out how these blogs are made. The ones that stand out the most are the ones which are minimalist and have luminosity. This guy has some good pix of Montreal www.j-roumagnac.net

And this guy is always in the right place at the right time: www.open-eyes.net

~ by bip mistry on January 28, 2008.