Hi I went into work last night to surprise a colleague as it was her birthday, we had the proverbial collection and managed to raise enough for a new printer. Her face was a picture when she opened the gift, badly needing a new printer she appeared over the moon and it was such a good feeling...

Hi Had a quiet day and was looking forward greatly to watching my football team live on the box, specially with the excitment of the last 24 hours and all the new faces at Celtic. The game almost ready to kick off and the telephone goes .... oh no ! Oh yes a new client and a possible wedding ,...

Hi Well off work on holiday, and yet had to go in for a short time, it gave me the excuse to get out after that and have a wander along Hythe seafront and back via the Royal Military Canal. So many opportunities to capture some fine shots. The sun slowly sinking gave some amazing colour to the sk...

Hi An eventful couple of days. Busy with editing the footy images am grateful to a few folks for help and advice of shooting such a thing. Will return again to hopefully catch even more and better images. The next job was to clean the gear and have it ready for the sunshine. Then struck down ...

Hi Not a lot of time today to sit about, got the gear cleaned down and made sure batterries were fully charge. Off to Dover and what turned out to be a massive learning curve for us both. Indoor harsh overheard lights and speed of play, I tried various settings and have yet to find one am...

Hi A day editing yesterday's portrait sitting, images loaded to disc and memory stick and delivered this afternoon, job done. Client happy , and so was I to be honest. Have another shoot tomorrow afternoon and another first for me sports, football to be exact for a local team as they train. ...

Hi The nightshift is over the day been a restful and relaxing one. Two days ago I uploaded an image To date this has received 86 votes and numerous of those voting also commented. The views expressed by one person about the above derides the comment of another member. That is wrong...

Hi Until we started the market stall on a Sunday, the weather had no real effect on our plans, if we had planned for a day out and about and the weather changed the plans , no problem we could always rearrange it , but now we look at the forecast and make a decision based part on it. Well at ...

Hi An image uploaded today and part of a set got me thinking of childhood and things I now miss about Scotland. that thing you click to see the image Now although Big Dan, Gnasher and Dennis were not exclusive to Scotland, the publisher is a Dundee firm, DC Thompson & Sons. They also did ...

Hi Had a grand day at work, it was so deadly quiet and that allowed me time to peruse the galleries, forums and blogs of fellow epz'ers. A lot of interesting and informative stuff in the forums well worth a visit now and again. Cleaned all the gear from yesterday and got batteries charged et...

Hi Well we did manage out, it was cold and grey and eventually rain came down. We headed off to Brockhill Country Park near Sandling. The park is superb for a variety of reasons. It has an abundance of local flora and fauna, loads of different birds and insects ( in season ) lol ... The little la...

Hi Not a lot to do today , a relaxing sort of day and plenty of time to edit and "play" in both lightroom and photoshop. At times it is almost as much fun as capturing images .... almost ! Pleased that a new friend here on EPZ managed to succeed with processing RAW images after some ...

Hi A lot better today and raring to go .... anywhere ! The grey skies back and the cold seeping through. I do hope we can get a warm and sunny spring. One of those nice folks did a wee mod today for me, the level of that mod was superb albeit it doen so quickly. However the description of wha...

Hi Had a horrible Sunday as the head hurts ! I did however manage to feel a bit better later in the afternoon. After a couple of emails and a trawl through the epz galleries, I had a visit from a client. Some images for print and a discussion for a future project. All good and positive stuff. ...

Hi Apologies this being the 100th entry I should have something grand to discuss and ramble about, but alas between nightshift last night and tonight, I have developed a nasty migraine and am heading home and to bed ! I might make the market stall in the morn, we will wait and see. To all...