A Tie a Day
Martyn Lee, a friend of mine who works in the City of London, has decided to wear a different tie to work every day throughout 2012. He has an extraordinary amount of ties in his collection, I’ve never seen so many! We got together last week to take a few shots in the studio after doing some corporate headshots. Follow his progress at atideaday.co.uk
New Year Resolutions
I’m not very good at New Year Resolutions. At the end of every year I look back on the last 12 months and wonder how I got through so much time and achieved so little. The older I get the more important that becomes! As it happens I’ve just finished reading the Steve Jobs Biography, so my thinking about 2012 is very much affected by what I’ve read, particularly Steve’s zen-influenced principle of living simply, getting rid of distractions and focusing on a few things and doing them really well. By contrast this past year I’ve felt burdened by distractions, apathy and lack…
Don’t underestimate what the public like
As a semi-pro photographer I have the luxury of using my spare time to create images for fun without the fear of making a loss. One of those times was almost 2 years ago when I had the concept of a couple of ducks at the end of a bath time, heading home after another job well done. I was a bit embarrassed to post it to Flickr and wasn’t overly happy with how it was processed, it’s predominantly a white image and I have real thing about artifacting and overblown highlights so it just wasn’t good enough for me….
Why it’s important to have your own website
Or more accurately “Why it’s more important to have your own website if you’re serious about photography”… 6 months ago I decided to host my website content via a relatively unknown site called 500px. It’s a great looking site for high-end and fine art photography, slightly out of my league but I loved the idea that someone else had put all the work in to designing and building a platform for me to use. They even promised to have blogging up and running soon (to individual ‘sites’ to be precise as they already have blogging within the 500px site). That…
Hello world!
Welcome to the official neildavidsonphotography.com website. What better way to kick things off than introduce myself with a self portrait!
