I love interior design and pretty things, but sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. Enter…..The Inspire Guide! This guide has 25 creative ideas for displaying photographs in your home (or office, or shop, or shed). With reportage photography, it makes much more sense to display a series of portraits or wedding photographs that tell a story rather than just one image.

All of my wedding and portrait clients will receive one of these guides from now on, and there is also an Online Version! To view it go to the client area of the website. Please email me for the password.

All of the displays can be made up of framed prints or canvasses. I will soon be incorporating the displays into some of the wedding packages so that you not only end up with a fabulous album, but a fantastic collection of framed prints or canvasses as well.

Tomorrow I shall be jetting off (oh OK, I admit it, driving) to the Isle of Harris for a spot of relaxation and landscape photography. Don’t know where Harris is? Get the map out, you should be ashamed of yourself! (Clue: West of Scotland).

Happy Bank Holiday!

The Storytellers and I have a lot in common. We both tell stories with our work: their job is to tell corporate stories to and about the staff of large companies, mine is usually to tell the story of a person, a family or a couple at a certain point in their lives. I was asked to play a part in the story of the NHS County Durham last week, by documenting around 200 of their staff as they worked at telling their own unique story.

Using some of The Storytellers stationary printed especially for the day:

Discussing the stories:

These brightly coloured leads caught my eye!

At the end of the day, everyone is asked to sign the ’storymap’, a huge printed banner telling the companies story. By signing it the staff show their commitment to the story and continuing to tell it as it evolves: