I didn’t send you a Christmas Card. Because all of this that I want to say to you wouldn’t fit in a Christmas Card…… I wanted to tell you how special it is to be a photographer. YOUR photographer. You don’t just ‘give me a job’ and expect me to turn up with a camera……it…
Continue ReadingThe Ram Run
This was just too good an opportunity to miss! All the lads on the farm – now suddenly calling themselves Team Burbage – running in the Ram Run at Stoneleigh Park! Cameras thrown in the back of the car and off to offer some light heckling…..sorry…. support. It has to be said that there was…
Continue ReadingThe Girl With the Green Eyes
What feels like a hundred years ago a portrait of a girl stopped me in my tracks. It was the summer of 1985 – and it was on the front cover of the National Geographic Magazine. And a very much younger Annie (not-even-Burbage) stood transfixed on a busy railway platform in London – oblivious to…
Continue ReadingThe Art of the Everyday – The Photographers Eye
Photographers see the world differently to other people. My sister-in-law said exactly this last night as we were watching my two year old nephew hurl his balance bike from one end of the yard to the other. She was wondering whether he would live long enough to see bath-time…… I was wondering if I’d got…
Continue ReadingDo You Believe In Magic (An Aunties Tale – Part II)
(For the story behind this post go to An Aunties Tale) Do you believe in magic?? Do you believe that you can tell your friends, colleagues, neighbours that you are thinking of holding a charity auction for Birmingham Childrens Hospital and they will get behind you 110%? Do you believe that, on a…
Continue ReadingFor Everything There Is A Season
I am lucky enough to get to travel all over the place as an event photographer. Some big events. Some small events. Sometimes I photograph BIG events in small places! Eardisley would definitely NOT be a big place. If you Google it you will be told that it is in the Wye Valley, close to…
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