RESTART

Matt Wilson May 18, 2020

OK, so I guess I’m not having a break from blogging this week! In fact, I’m releasing a couple of blog posts this week because I’ve got some exciting news! I’ve had a slight rebrand of the blog here on my photography website. Creative Nowhere Land (https://www.creativenowhereland.com/) now has it’s very own shiny, new website, due to launch on the 1st June 2020 where all sorts of creative things will be happening in the future, so I can’t call it that anymore. So, I thought I would give the photography blog a bit of a new look as although I won’t be blogging every week, as I was before, I still think it’s something I’ll keep up and continue to share bits and bobs of interest with you all from time to time.

The other exciting news is that I’ve also teamed up with The Flash Centre, UK’s leading studio lighting specialists for over thirty years (https://www.theflashcentre.com/), on an exciting new project that you can read all about in the next blog post. It’s been a while in the making and it’s taken me a little out of my comfort zone but I’m really looking forward to sharing it with you so keep your eyes peeled in a couple of days time. We are launching it on the 20th of June 2020!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Taking a Break!

Matt Wilson May 13, 2020

Taking a break from things is not the worst idea from time to time, even when you’re a workaholic like me! I was only talking to someone the other day about work-life balance or my lack thereof! I don’t really have that balance as if I’m honest I very rarely switch off. My job is also my passion and my creative brain runs wild most of the time with ideas and new ways to create or take my business forward. To most people that might sound like a nightmare, not being able to switch off that is, but because I love what I do I don’t really think about it too much until it’s brought to my attention by others!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Waxing Lyrical

Matt Wilson May 4, 2020

I’ve postponed the blogging break as I thought some of you right be interested in this… someone let me on their podcast! I know what your thinking, they must be mad but yes, my good friend, Gurdas Singh invited me on to his new podcast, Brand is Strong a week or so ago and now it’s out there in the world I thought I would include the link for you lovely lot to have a listen if you’re interested!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - My Morning Routine!

Matt Wilson April 22, 2020

I turned to social media for some inspiration and asked my Instagram followers for some possible blog topics this week and this is what they wanted to find out a little more about, ‘My morning routine’. Find out how using the ‘5 Second Rule’ and Bobby Mcferrin and his 80s track ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ help me get up in the morning…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Critical Impressions

Matt Wilson April 8, 2020

So back in June of 2018, I decided I was going to revisit a project that I did back when I was at university. It was a classic university/college project and the first project of my second year, way back in 2003 (that’s a long time ago!). The self-portrait!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Can you pivot?

Matt Wilson April 1, 2020

Can you pivot? The answer is of course, Yes! Should you pivot? That’s up to you but sometimes you don’t have a choice.

At the time of writing this the UK, and most of the world is in ‘Lockdown’ due to the COVID-19 virus and everyone has to stay at home and obey strict rules on ‘social distancing’. That means no shoots and therefore no income…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Wanderlust

Matt Wilson March 11, 2020

Last week I spoke to Meites, a cool guy who has a YouTube Channel all about his travels and adventures around the world with his camera. It got me thinking about some of the interesting places that I’ve been lucky enough to go to. There’s been a lot of destinations over the years but in the last couple, I haven’t had much opportunity to travel for a whole number of reasons. I’m getting itchy feet now though so I thought I’d share some of my favourite places I’ve been and taken some shots…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - What's Your Story?

Matt Wilson March 4, 2020

So something completely different this week! A couple of weeks ago I was shooting a commercial job, on location in the centre of Birmingham, and I was approached by this guy to have a picture taken. Find out a little more about this guy, the picture and also some of his story as I get in front of the camera and out of my comfort zone, asking the questions!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Pretty Polly

Matt Wilson February 19, 2020

That’s right her name isn’t Polly it’s actually Maria, but Maria is wearing some beautiful Pretty Polly lingerie (https://www.prettypolly.co.uk/) in the shots so you can see how I got the title right? Look, it’s not as easy as you might think coming up with titles for the blogs every week you know haha!

Anyway, it’s been a busy couple of weeks with lots going on and this week has been no different. It seems to be the week for lingerie though as on Monday I was up at INDX Lingerie Show seeing some of my lovely clients and meeting some potential new clients (fingers crossed)…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Every little helps!

Matt Wilson February 5, 2020

For a couple of years now I’ve been volunteering for, Birmingham based charity, Let’s Feed Brum. Every Monday night I grab my volunteer lanyard and head out to Old Square in the city centre to help the rest of the ‘Monday Night Crew’ (Official Shout Out!) give out hot meals, supplies and, sometimes, more importantly, to be a friendly face and someone to talk to. It’s not something I shout a lot about for fear of being ‘that guy’, but it feels good to help even if it’s a just little. Also, since meeting and becoming friends with Bob, who you might have read about in a previous post I felt like I needed to do something more to help…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Don't give a f#ck

Matt Wilson January 29, 2020

I’ve spoken about mindset before and that’s it! That’s what’s changed! I don’t give a f#ck what people think anymore! That’s not me saying I’m going to become some crazy, sociopathic monster, or at least I hope I won’t. But it’s me accepting that it doesn’t matter what other people think.

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Breakfast Club

Matt Wilson January 22, 2020

For a few months now I’ve been working with a couple of guys who run a successful networking event in Birmingham called ‘The Breakfast Club’, Gurdas Singh and Omar Rashid. They wanted to raise the profile of their event so they got me in to start documenting their monthly gathering of the whos who of the Birmingham business world. We built a great working relationship straight away despite us all supporting rival football teams haha! ‘A Spurs fan, an Arsenal fan and a Chelsea fan walk into a networking event…’ I’m not sure how that joke is supposed to end but I digress…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Creative Evolution Part 2

Matt Wilson January 15, 2020

So a while back I wrote a blog about my Creative Evolution. I spoke about how the blog was helping me evolve as a creative and also how I’d been thinking about expanding the blog into something more. Well, here we are in the few first weeks of January 2020 and I have done just that! Creative Nowhere Land will have its own website. There I’ve said it! It’s out in the world!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Got the blues?

Matt Wilson January 8, 2020

Have you got the January blues? I hope not as it’s only really the first week back into it! If it’s that bad already then I would suggest some sort of career change maybe? And if it is that bad you will hate me haha, I’m that annoying guy and I’ve been itching to get back to work. This week I have a couple of shoots, with new clients, to start the year in a positive manner!

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Goals!

Matt Wilson January 1, 2020

Let’s face it, it’s that time of year where it’s almost impossible to avoid the topic of setting goals or resolutions! Maybe you’re reflecting on the past year and now looking forward to the things that you want to accomplish in the coming year…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - And the winner is...

Matt Wilson December 18, 2019

Earlier in the year, I was asked back, for a second time, by the team at the Midland Fashion Awards to judge their Emerging Fashion Photographer 2019 category. The competition level was extremely high and after selecting 3 finalists and some serious deliberation I chose Lee Leyland as the overall winner…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Make a GIF

Matt Wilson November 20, 2019

This week I was asked by a number of followers on social media, how I made this little GIF that I posted last week. This isn’t something that I plan on doing a lot of as there are tutorials aplenty all over the internet but in the spirit of new realms for the blog, I thought I would do a simple ‘How to…’ to answer the question…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - At the Movies!

Matt Wilson October 9, 2019

I was asked recently by one of the blog readers, to do a little bit more behind the scenes stuff and to also explain how some of the images are created. So I thought I would use these recent portraits and go into a little more detail about how they were done…

Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Evolution

Matt Wilson October 2, 2019

I set myself a target of one blog post a week for a year! I’m nearly halfway through and I’ll be honest, it’s quite a task. There are so many different elements to being a self-employed professional photographer that take priority and the blog can feel like a weight around the neck some weeks…