Have you ever wondered about how I created some of the beauty images in my portfolio? If you have then now’s your chance to find out some of the lighting techniques, equipment and tricks that I’ve learnt over the years to create my beauty portfolio. I’ve teamed up with The Flash Centre (https://www.theflashcentre.com/) to bring you ‘The Basics of Beauty - 8 simple lighting setups to get you started building your beauty photography portfolio.’
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Taking a Break!
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!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Rise of Creativity
So I’ve done it! A year of blogging! 1 blog a week for 52 weeks! I’ve just gone back and re-read the very first blog post and I’m reflecting on the year of blogging and some of the things that I’ve learnt as a result!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - My Morning Routine!
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Critical Impressions
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!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Can you pivot?
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Monkey Mind!
In my quest to stay productive I’ve used my time to create an email newsletter for Creative Nowhere Land using Mailchimp. Monkey Mind, Mailchimp, you see what I did there? Anyway, it’s been something on my list of things to do for a long time but something I’ve always put off. It only took a global pandemic to finally get me to do it!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Open for Business
I’ve tried to dig my heels in and carry on regardless but I’m starting to feel the effects of the Coronavirus!!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Wanderlust
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Have a Good Breakfast!
So today was the day! The Breakfast Club launched its first event at the amazing, Everyman Cinema in Birmingham. Nearly 70 people showed up, tucked into some breakfast and settled back into the comfy sofas to listen to a very inspiring keynote speaker and do some networking! Oh, and I was the sponsor!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Pretty Polly
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)…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Breakfast Club
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…
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