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.
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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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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Creative Evolution Part 2
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!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Got the blues?
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!
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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 - I Don't Have Time!
I don’t have time! It’s a classic excuse and one that we’ve all used at some point or other I’m sure. Sometimes maybe it’s true but maybe at other times, not so much! We all have those things that we put off or don’t do under the guise of not having enough time in our busy lives, don’t we?
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Supermodels
He was the man that took the photograph that ‘gave birth to the supermodels’ of the 90s, Peter Lindbergh. A simple shot that was taken in the Meat Packing District of New York in 1989, that did away with all of the relative excess and glamour of the 1980s and helped defined a more natural aesthetic for the coming 1990s. The image helped propel these 5 models to pop culture stardom and it became one of many images that helped define Lindbergh’s incredible creative career…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Iconic
You may not have heard of him if you aren’t a photography fan but you’ll have probably seen at least one of his photographs. Don’t worry if you haven’t, this isn’t a test but maybe you will recognise some of the famous faces that he’s photographed over the years. He has shot everyone from the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse and even the Queen. The list goes on! The images that Terry O’Neill created speak for themselves in terms of a photographic legacy.
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Make a GIF
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Pigeonholed
DON’T PIGEONHOLE YOURSELF! In your work life, personal life whatever it is! No one thing defines you! You are not just your job title or your gender or your race etc. We are all unique and complex human beings capable of all sorts of wonderful things so experience them and learn as much as you can. Know yourself and evolve with that. Be as many different things as you want to be because life is short!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - From Bosnia to the Boardroom
Now, it might not look like it from this picture but this man was, and quite possibly still is, a lethal weapon. This is Andy Powell and Andy is an ex elite SAS soldier. I was asked to shoot some portraits of Andy for giffgaff a couple of months ago and I have been meaning to share a little more about the shoot. Andy is now a very successful businessman and was invited into giffgaff HQ to talk about his inspiring story to the company…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Make Another Person Aware
It’s still October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and these women and their stories are so inspiring that I wanted to share some more as a continuation from last weeks blog. It is such an important message for both women and men and I hope that this project has helped to ‘Make One Person Aware!’.
Read more inspiring stories from these awesome women below…
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Creative Nowhere Land - Make One Person Aware!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month so I thought I would share some of the stories of some of the incredible women who I was lucky enough to shoot for Anita Lingerie UK again a while back.
My wonderful client Jemma, from Anita, got in touch with me and told me that they had teamed up with the National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline. They wanted to showcase the stories of 12 incredible women who have faced hereditary breast cancer gene choices and create portraits of each one that would sit alongside their stories. The project aimed to help inspire other women who may be going through similar stories as well as raise some awareness at the same time…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Podcasts
I’m going to be honest and say that I’m pretty behind the times and I’ve only just discovered podcasts. That’s not to say that I didn’t know that they existed, it’s just that I’d never really listened to many. 6 or 7 months ago I found a couple that were great and since then I’ve been consuming more and more podcasts and finding that they’re a great source of inspiration. I thought I would share a few of my favourites with you. Hopefully you can get some value from them just like I have…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - At the Movies!
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Evolution
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…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - World in Union
The Rugby World Cup 2019, in Japan, has kicked off! As I write this, it’s a rainy Sunday morning in the UK and I’m sat in front of the TV watching England play their opening game against Tonga. How’s that for multi-tasking? Blogging while enjoying my Sunday…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Tearing us apart
It’s 2019 and mental illness, depression, stress and anxiety are all on the increase. There’s been a whole heap of studies done that have linked high levels of social media use with these higher levels of depression, stress and anxiety. High levels of social media use? That’s most people these days isn’t it? I read recently that a ‘normal’ person will spend, on average, at least 2 hours a day on social media! That seems high to me but then again I’m not ‘normal’ and I know that some people spend even longer on it all. So have we got a problem? Is the way we live our modern lives affecting how we see ourselves and our self-worth and is social media tearing us apart?
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