Things are rolling

Well the website has really taken off. We have had 82,000 page views in 27 days!! I like those figures but I am looking for that stats to hit 200,000 a month within the next 6 months!!

We have signed up some advertising, just waiting for the final adjustments on the site and invoicing goes out.
I need an office now. Its a costly expense but I cant function any more working from Jemmas house.

There spare room and my old room at home is taking up WAY to much space and I becoming disorganised.

I was hoping to get a office/studio space in town but that has followed through and I have been offered space in Altens (industrial section of Aberdeen) and I know it would be nice but it is a good 45 minutes walk away.

But in Aberdeen Office space is about £7.35 per square meter!! that is mental…
Oh well the hunt goes on.

Peace out

James
www.modern-image.co.uk
www.jameskellyphotography.com

To Loud!!

As I walk through the streets of Aberdeen at 4am I notice how loud it is. Cars flying past. Police sirens in the background and people talking loud.

I’m not designed for places like this. Every now and then I hear the slight sound of a bird or look up and see the full moon. I need to be in the country where the only sound I hear is my foot steps and the occasional cow mooning in the background. Oh how I long for isolation.

Sleepy

Really need sleep. 8am wake up’s and 3am bed time is not going down well.

Photographed a Badminton event today, went well but four hours felt like 10!

Just up loading photographs to our new website and then heading in to the bars/clubs to photograph.
can’t wait for the lie in tomorrow.

Need Sleep

I really need sleep. I feel I have not stopped in weeks!!. On an upside, We are launching our website tomorrow and have also signed an advertising deal!

It was tough work. Our client was a real business man, ruthless is the word! We ended up making a deal but taking a large percentage off the price.

We now have to sell more advertising to make things up.

I’m glad Blair is working hard. He has done an amazing job on the new sight but it has been a struggle.

Its 12.30am and I have taken a break from mounting and envolping prints that customers bought at the Talisman event on Saturday.

The printers I use did a really crap job on my prints so I had to go out and get them printed in a shop that I was not to keep on dealing with but they did a great job and a fast turn around. Now I have to try and get my money back from the internet printers..

Really feel sorry for Jemma today, she has been working so hard this week and tonight she is on call and getting called out a lot. If she gets called out after 3pm she gets the day off.

Lucky

I am rubish

I am so rubbish at keeping my blog.

Thinks have been going well. I finished with Starbucks and working on being self employed.

Our new nightlife website goes live later this week. On one hand I can’t wait, the site is 3months overdue but on the other hand it is now up to me to bring in ££££.

Have meetings as soon as the site is live, fingers crossed.

Had a real busy two weeks.

I had 3 interior, 2portrait, 1 band, 1 wedding reception, 2 balls!! And to top it off, my computer has died on me!

Oh well.

Real pissed with Flick. We have been loading our nightlife images on and reached 4,000. They e-mails saying we can not use Flick for commercial use. So what does every photographer do when they link their sites to their photos??

They deleted my account. Bugger.

So I am re-loading all my portfolio images.

Think tonight I am going to chill and eat popcorn and watch a movie. Might attempt to fix the computer after.

Fun.

I New Birth

 

A new birth but what will happen to this little twig?

A. Council will cut it,

B. Some little brat of a kid will pull it off or

C. It just dies…

 

Random I know but been in that mood all day, been up since 6pm and its now just before 9pm.

Work went by fast as the silly buggers were working again. Had a stand in manager from Dundee, she was a great laugh and turns out she know a lot of people I know. That is how small Aberdeen is.

Met my dad after work and had a coffee and just chilled, was feeling sleepy. Booked tickets to go see Tropic Thunder, Great film, funny as hell. Now heading off to bed, up early tomorrow and late night photographing ball room dancing. FUN!!!

Better Day

Been such a long day, Went out last night for the first time in months and it was good. Stayed sober and took the car.

It is amazing how much fun you can have with the right people. First night in a year where I have enjoyed myself and felt relaxed.

 

Spent most of the day in Starbucks reading my book which I have almost finished, thank god because it is starting to mess with my head.

 

Putting together a little project involving myself and tattoo studio, Can’t wait.

Strange Feelings

Been a strange day, I woke refreshed and ready for the week. Jemma gave me a lift down to work, she was off for the Aberdeen holiday but I had to work. Sat and read my book for 45miniets before work and I think that is were it went down hill.
I don’t read that much, I enjoy it but find very little books I enjoy. Some one recommends a book by Don Mcullen. He is war photographer covering the likes of the Vietnam War, Berlin wall and many struggles in Africa

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These books have an affect on me. They are very contractual and uncensored. The descriptions of death and horrible situation take my mind in to a dark and scary place.After starting work at Starbucks my position was on the bar which is good because this is my strong area. I love the fastness and the work flow. All was going good until my supervisor started criticising my coffee skills. Now come on so what if the caramel drizzles has seeped in to the coffee. STOP BEING SO ANAL AND GET A LIFE!! I normally let these thing slides and think these people take thing to seriously. Well it didn’t and I was pissed which led me to spilling a whole jug of milk on the floor and on myself. Doesn’t help there’s only two staff on and other staff wasting time in the office. Then customers started pickling up the wrong drinks, even after I told them what it is. I see how you can get mixed up with a caramel macchiato and a latte, the do sound the same!! Tits.
Then the relief staff came on till. This person who will remain nameless is an idiot.  She worked for another coffee company for three years and then joined SB. She has been there a month longer than me. She takes the coffee order but does not pass the order to me. So I have 6 customers and no drink orders. I mean come on. Then she is like “woops, not got my brain switched on today”. YOU NEVER HAVE YOUR BRAIN SWITCHED ON!!! It was like this all day. Jemma picked me up and then started to have a go at me for not spending time with my so called friends, which I want nothing to do with. She had a right go at me for not socialising, don’t want to, can’t be arsed which than.
Gave 2ky a txt to see if he is heading out, which he was. Love going out with these guys. So laid back and are care free. Had a great night. They had been out at for diner for a friends birthday and I was meeting them at Tonik. 15 of them all came out of Tonik on space hoppers. Never seen any thing like it. Here are 15 20 something people bounding down union street on space hoppers. Love it

Town was good. 
 
Being out with 2ky, Robin a Blair really cheered me up.

 

 

 

Had a great chat with Blair and he really wants to help start the nightclub photography. Really pushing me to do it and I really want to. A lot of hard work is needed from both our ends. Fingers crossed. Any way, time for bed. Been a long long day.

Day of Nothing

Been so long since I have written here. Really bad. I have a load of e-mails that I write on my phone and e-mail to myself so I can add here but never had the chance. I will get around to it some day.

Been working a lot, I have been putting some extra time in to Starbucks this last couple of weeks. Need the extra cash and really not been in the mood for photography. My poor camera has been zipped away in my backpack..

 

Had it out today.

 

Me and Jemma were both off this weekend and Jemma asked to make plans to do some thing, So I thought why not take a little road trip on Sunday??

Little journey to Pitlochery and over to Loch Rannoch, Have a little picnic then pick up some fresh food and head home where I will make tea…

 

As soon as I got up plans were changed. Jemma’s mum wanted to do a car boot sale on Sunday. so plans turned round, Jemma was to sort through all her clothes (Which is a lot) and head off early Sunday to thainstone market.

I was actually a little happy at this. I got dressed and headed in to town, Took my camera out and photographed some of the goings on. the weather was crazy hot. Looks like our summer arrived in September!! I really do love the randomness off Scottish weather.

Had a good walk round town and put a photograph in to get printed on to canvas but as Jessops does, Will probable fuck it up.

Went to work to find out my hours and grabbed a Iced Latte which was bliss cause I was over heating.

 

Headed home and much to my delight the computer was free, much to my disliking I had filled both my hard drives, 1250GB in 9 months.. Head out to my local PC supermarket (PC World) and picked up a nice 1TB hard drive for £99.99

Got home again and decided to sort out all my photographs and move every thing about. What a stupid mistake, took 11 hours to move three folders.

 

Had to head out at 7pm, my make 2ky offered to pose for me while I tried out some lighting for a little project of mine. We headed down to the beach and waited for the sun to go down, Managed to get a few great shot of him Plus a dramatic background. Just about to start work on the photos now.

Well better get back to it.

 

 

Airtime

Airtime, originally uploaded by catchlightsa.

It is not often I blog some one else’s photos but this one touched me. Every now and then I find a photograph that moves me and takes me to another world. I close my eyes and try to imagine what that photographer is going through as they took this photo. This is one of my all time favourite photographs.

 

Inspiring

 

Thank you,

 

Guys from Catchlightsa

 

http://www.catchlightsa.com/index.php

 

http://www.flickr.com/people/catchlightsa/