So something completely different this week! A couple of weeks ago I was shooting a commercial job, on location in the centre of Birmingham, and I was approached by this guy to have a picture taken. Find out a little more about this guy, the picture and also some of his story as I get in front of the camera and out of my comfort zone, asking the questions!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Have a Good Breakfast!
So today was the day! The Breakfast Club launched its first event at the amazing, Everyman Cinema in Birmingham. Nearly 70 people showed up, tucked into some breakfast and settled back into the comfy sofas to listen to a very inspiring keynote speaker and do some networking! Oh, and I was the sponsor!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Every little helps!
For a couple of years now I’ve been volunteering for, Birmingham based charity, Let’s Feed Brum. Every Monday night I grab my volunteer lanyard and head out to Old Square in the city centre to help the rest of the ‘Monday Night Crew’ (Official Shout Out!) give out hot meals, supplies and, sometimes, more importantly, to be a friendly face and someone to talk to. It’s not something I shout a lot about for fear of being ‘that guy’, but it feels good to help even if it’s a just little. Also, since meeting and becoming friends with Bob, who you might have read about in a previous post I felt like I needed to do something more to help…
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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 - This is Bob...
If you have followed me for a while on social media you may already know the story of Bob and Skip. I met Bob in 2015 when I had a photography studio in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This is the story of how we met one another and the Facebook post that I shared in June of the same year (with Bobs permission of course)…
‘This is Bob…
Bob is not an alcoholic, Bob is not a drug addict but Bob does live on the streets!!
I met Bob a couple of weeks ago in Birmingham while he was sat, with his trusty sidekick, Skip, reading his book in the sunshine…
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