You should be a model

Who says ‘never work with children or animals’? I like working with both. They are unpredictable and curious but they are also thoroughly untroubled by a man with a camera, which makes them good photography subjects. This is a whole lot more than can be said for the client, who keeps trying to catch her own reflection in my lens, which makes her look shifty.

To tell the truth, this blog post is pure work avoidance. I have been doing some last minute media promotion for my forthcoming photography exhibition all day and felt that the impact that I was making was less than adequate. I have a strange relationship with journalists and other media people: I do not know how to get them excited and they immediately spot my shortcomings in this area and ignore me. As I was beginning to feel increasingly unloved, I turned my attention to something more rewarding, a portrait of two cows.

If you are a media or advertising student, call me – there’s a work experience job waiting for you.

I met this group of lovely girls on a recent walk at Overton Hill near Avebury under a beautifully expressive sky. Met? Yes, met, it is one of my unplanned portraits. As I was walking away, I could swear that I heard the cow on the right saying to her darker-skinned friend “look at you, you are really playing up to the camera. You should be a model.”

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