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 - Goals!
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Merry Christmas
The blog lands on Christmas day this week so I’m sure you won’t mind me making this very short and sweet. Thank you to everyone who has read the blog over the last 8 months it means a lot and I will try and keep it up in the new year!
Merry Christmas you lovely people!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - And the winner is...
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Live for the Look
With a title like ‘Live for the Look’ I bet you’re wondering what this week’s blog is all about…
I’m going to do a little bit of cheating this week. A little while ago I was asked by the lovely team at RMG Models (https://www.rmg-models.co.uk/) to answer some questions for their blog, about being a photographer. The title for my blog post this week came from the RMG agency hashtag…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Newspeak
‘Newspeak is the language of a totalitarian state. The ruling Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of thought — personal identity, self-expression, free will — that threatens the ideology of the régime of the Party, who have criminalized such concepts into thoughtcrimes.’
Does this sound a little familiar to anyone else?
OK, I didn’t make this word up or the explanation of its meaning. Newspeak is a word that comes from the George Orwell novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Personalities
So I promised myself that when I started the blog that I would use it to share all of my creative work, not just my photography. With that in mind and with a little trepidation, this is a simple poem that I created with a little imagination and some marker pens!
This is something I do from time to time to stay creative and to occasionally spark some new ideas or inspiration that might translate into an image of some sort later down the line. It’s a simple but effective technique…
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