Portraits

Having lived in my town for nearly a quarter of a century (gulp) I do know quite a lot of the local people. And there’s some interesting characters – as there are in every community. Thinking about who I might ask next to be a portrait volunteer I thought of James. He regularly walks past […]

My day job, or at least the freelance work that I do the most, is training school students to develop their public speaking skills with a charity called Speakers Trust. Over the last six months or so I’ve been part of a team of trainers running workshops across Yorkshire and a couple of nights ago,

I was in Hull today working as a Simulated Patient for Hull York Medical School – Year 2 exams. However, I was a reserve, so the possibility of sitting around all day provided the opportunity to take some pictures of whoever was around. As most SPs are actors there’s always a good chance they won’t

I asked my friend Debs if she would kindly allow me to take her portrait with, if possible, daughter Bella too. They agreed and so I popped along to their house. We spent a lovely hour or so both outside in their courtyard garden and inside the front room as there was some interesting shadows

It was lovely to have a family volunteer to have their portraits taken last week. Caroline is the daughter of John whose wife Jean runs the town blog. That’s how the heard about the opportunity. She came with husband Marco and his daughters, Eleanor and Sonia. They were great and I hope they liked the

Just a few from the four days spent down in Leamington doing role plays as part of the VDS training for newly graduated vets.