Pornographic Abbey
I think I should stop posting on CraigList you know. I keep getting calls asking if I do pornography. I don't but maybe I should it would be money spinning. Except it wouldn't be actually as the only "payment" I seem to be offered is to have my way with girlfriend/wife/husband/boyfriend after I have photographed them being ravaged or taken to "ecstacyland" (as one said) by friend/actor or whomever turns up. But then again I did get a booking for my services as a Boudoir photography.
This is becoming popular in the UK and I have hauled myself up on the bandwagon. Imported from America it is a tasteful nude/implied nude picture taken as a gift for that somebody special. It's not as easy as it sounds for either photographer or client. The subjects usually have no model experience and despite what you may have heard elsewhere the UK still flinch when somebody takes their clothes off. But it is becoming one of the booming outlets for photographers. Indeed more important now as people are now less inclined to get married where a photographer can make quite a bit of money and an area I am moving into more seriously next year. I have taken my first booking today for 2009. Let's hope the credit crunch is over by then otherwise less people will get married.
Funny thing the credit crunch and the financial meltdown. I wonder where the government found the billions to bail the banks out. And does it mean that bank managers are now public servants or that I am a share holder as no doubt the money has come from my taxes. Maybe I should now pop into a bank and ask for some office space seeing I am officially one of its owners. Pity Abbey was not in the mix as I am still having problems with them. I am refusing to pay off the amount I am above my overdraft (about £200) as this is purely from charges for going over my overdraft limit because they paid out money to a company from a card that I cancelled 18 months ago (see previous entries). Do they listen though? Apparently not because the request to pay for the excess comes from a different office and I have to explain it to them that it is their fault and..... well it just goes on and on. Which maybe colours my thinking in terms of the bail out of the banks: Frankly, I would have let them go out of business like they did in Sweden or like any other business that got into financial trouble. Or have the government set a precedent now and if green grocers suddenly start having financial trouble will the government take the taxes of its people to bail them out? Capitalism eh? Just can't trust it can you? Bit like Abbey!
This is becoming popular in the UK and I have hauled myself up on the bandwagon. Imported from America it is a tasteful nude/implied nude picture taken as a gift for that somebody special. It's not as easy as it sounds for either photographer or client. The subjects usually have no model experience and despite what you may have heard elsewhere the UK still flinch when somebody takes their clothes off. But it is becoming one of the booming outlets for photographers. Indeed more important now as people are now less inclined to get married where a photographer can make quite a bit of money and an area I am moving into more seriously next year. I have taken my first booking today for 2009. Let's hope the credit crunch is over by then otherwise less people will get married.
Funny thing the credit crunch and the financial meltdown. I wonder where the government found the billions to bail the banks out. And does it mean that bank managers are now public servants or that I am a share holder as no doubt the money has come from my taxes. Maybe I should now pop into a bank and ask for some office space seeing I am officially one of its owners. Pity Abbey was not in the mix as I am still having problems with them. I am refusing to pay off the amount I am above my overdraft (about £200) as this is purely from charges for going over my overdraft limit because they paid out money to a company from a card that I cancelled 18 months ago (see previous entries). Do they listen though? Apparently not because the request to pay for the excess comes from a different office and I have to explain it to them that it is their fault and..... well it just goes on and on. Which maybe colours my thinking in terms of the bail out of the banks: Frankly, I would have let them go out of business like they did in Sweden or like any other business that got into financial trouble. Or have the government set a precedent now and if green grocers suddenly start having financial trouble will the government take the taxes of its people to bail them out? Capitalism eh? Just can't trust it can you? Bit like Abbey!