The lights in my life

Having a rebrand and website update has thrown up all sorts of wonderful thoughts and changes. It all started in March 2023 when I first properly met Pippa Mackenzie my new business coach who would spend every waking minute for the entire year inside my already busy head. There is no wonder that I am still recovering from one of the most instrumental years to date! Finally my website is live, showcasing some of my favourite images and my message is finally clear: I put people at ease and get the best out of them. This message has been with me for years now, staring at my in the face, but I just didn’t recognise it. It took a small army of great people and lots of trawling through testimonials to find the common denominator. It’s a simple message but I think a powerful one. Free your smile.

And so finally there is light where before there was just a big dark muddle. My reason for coaching was to find clarity and I have found that. It took an entire year, almost to the day, but we got there and with Pippa’s help and support we found it.

Along with this light I am now able to see that it isn’t hard. I am true to myself. I am now able to say ‘no’ to the things I actually don’t want to shoot. I am on the search for the people who I want to work with and so far so good. It is totally amazing that manifestation actually works!

One of the exercises was to look at all of my favourite images and look for the common features. That was tricky to start with not least because I have 17 hard drives which date back to 2005, but also because I couldn’t see it for months. And then once I realised that it was the beautiful light, I saw it on all of them. Especially when something is backlit, that is what I am after. Always. This won’t be a surprise to any photographers out there and might even be quite obvious but for me a flat image of a shopping trolley against a stormy sky in an emtpy parking lot just isn’t my cup of tea. I need light, in spades. I need it in my work, I need it in my bathroom (a bathroom with no window makes me feel claustrophobic!) and I need it in my head. My life is all about light.

My new logo is light. The colour, the font, the weight of that font. It is all light.