Taking a break from things is not the worst idea from time to time, even when you’re a workaholic like me! I was only talking to someone the other day about work-life balance or my lack thereof! I don’t really have that balance as if I’m honest I very rarely switch off. My job is also my passion and my creative brain runs wild most of the time with ideas and new ways to create or take my business forward. To most people that might sound like a nightmare, not being able to switch off that is, but because I love what I do I don’t really think about it too much until it’s brought to my attention by others!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Rise of Creativity
So I’ve done it! A year of blogging! 1 blog a week for 52 weeks! I’ve just gone back and re-read the very first blog post and I’m reflecting on the year of blogging and some of the things that I’ve learnt as a result!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Agent
Last year the lovely people over at RMG Models asked me to answer some questions for a blog post that they were doing. The other day Megan Pugh, Director at RMG Models, and I sat down for a bit of a chat via Zoom and I turned the tables and asked her some questions this time.
We discussed a little about Megan and her journey to becoming the Director of RMG, what makes a good model, social media influencers, cosmetic surgery and also what the agency is doing to try and support their models in these uncertain times…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Monkey Mind!
In my quest to stay productive I’ve used my time to create an email newsletter for Creative Nowhere Land using Mailchimp. Monkey Mind, Mailchimp, you see what I did there? Anyway, it’s been something on my list of things to do for a long time but something I’ve always put off. It only took a global pandemic to finally get me to do it!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Open for Business
I’ve tried to dig my heels in and carry on regardless but I’m starting to feel the effects of the Coronavirus!!
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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 - Pretty Polly
That’s right her name isn’t Polly it’s actually Maria, but Maria is wearing some beautiful Pretty Polly lingerie (https://www.prettypolly.co.uk/) in the shots so you can see how I got the title right? Look, it’s not as easy as you might think coming up with titles for the blogs every week you know haha!
Anyway, it’s been a busy couple of weeks with lots going on and this week has been no different. It seems to be the week for lingerie though as on Monday I was up at INDX Lingerie Show seeing some of my lovely clients and meeting some potential new clients (fingers crossed)…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - The Power of Art
Something awesome happened this week! If you keep track of the blog then you’ll know that over the last few months I’ve been exploring some other avenues of my creativity away from photography. Creative Nowhere Land has become a place where I feel freer to create outside of photography alone…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Don't give a f#ck
I’ve spoken about mindset before and that’s it! That’s what’s changed! I don’t give a f#ck what people think anymore! That’s not me saying I’m going to become some crazy, sociopathic monster, or at least I hope I won’t. But it’s me accepting that it doesn’t matter what other people think.
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Creative Evolution Part 2
So a while back I wrote a blog about my Creative Evolution. I spoke about how the blog was helping me evolve as a creative and also how I’d been thinking about expanding the blog into something more. Well, here we are in the few first weeks of January 2020 and I have done just that! Creative Nowhere Land will have its own website. There I’ve said it! It’s out in the world!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Merry Christmas
The blog lands on Christmas day this week so I’m sure you won’t mind me making this very short and sweet. Thank you to everyone who has read the blog over the last 8 months it means a lot and I will try and keep it up in the new year!
Merry Christmas you lovely people!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - And the winner is...
Earlier in the year, I was asked back, for a second time, by the team at the Midland Fashion Awards to judge their Emerging Fashion Photographer 2019 category. The competition level was extremely high and after selecting 3 finalists and some serious deliberation I chose Lee Leyland as the overall winner…
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Creative Nowhere Land - I Don't Have Time!
I don’t have time! It’s a classic excuse and one that we’ve all used at some point or other I’m sure. Sometimes maybe it’s true but maybe at other times, not so much! We all have those things that we put off or don’t do under the guise of not having enough time in our busy lives, don’t we?
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Supermodels
He was the man that took the photograph that ‘gave birth to the supermodels’ of the 90s, Peter Lindbergh. A simple shot that was taken in the Meat Packing District of New York in 1989, that did away with all of the relative excess and glamour of the 1980s and helped defined a more natural aesthetic for the coming 1990s. The image helped propel these 5 models to pop culture stardom and it became one of many images that helped define Lindbergh’s incredible creative career…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Iconic
You may not have heard of him if you aren’t a photography fan but you’ll have probably seen at least one of his photographs. Don’t worry if you haven’t, this isn’t a test but maybe you will recognise some of the famous faces that he’s photographed over the years. He has shot everyone from the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse and even the Queen. The list goes on! The images that Terry O’Neill created speak for themselves in terms of a photographic legacy.
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Pigeonholed
DON’T PIGEONHOLE YOURSELF! In your work life, personal life whatever it is! No one thing defines you! You are not just your job title or your gender or your race etc. We are all unique and complex human beings capable of all sorts of wonderful things so experience them and learn as much as you can. Know yourself and evolve with that. Be as many different things as you want to be because life is short!
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - From Bosnia to the Boardroom
Now, it might not look like it from this picture but this man was, and quite possibly still is, a lethal weapon. This is Andy Powell and Andy is an ex elite SAS soldier. I was asked to shoot some portraits of Andy for giffgaff a couple of months ago and I have been meaning to share a little more about the shoot. Andy is now a very successful businessman and was invited into giffgaff HQ to talk about his inspiring story to the company…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Make Another Person Aware
It’s still October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and these women and their stories are so inspiring that I wanted to share some more as a continuation from last weeks blog. It is such an important message for both women and men and I hope that this project has helped to ‘Make One Person Aware!’.
Read more inspiring stories from these awesome women below…
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Creative Nowhere Land - Make One Person Aware!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month so I thought I would share some of the stories of some of the incredible women who I was lucky enough to shoot for Anita Lingerie UK again a while back.
My wonderful client Jemma, from Anita, got in touch with me and told me that they had teamed up with the National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline. They wanted to showcase the stories of 12 incredible women who have faced hereditary breast cancer gene choices and create portraits of each one that would sit alongside their stories. The project aimed to help inspire other women who may be going through similar stories as well as raise some awareness at the same time…
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Creative Nowhere Land Blog - Podcasts
I’m going to be honest and say that I’m pretty behind the times and I’ve only just discovered podcasts. That’s not to say that I didn’t know that they existed, it’s just that I’d never really listened to many. 6 or 7 months ago I found a couple that were great and since then I’ve been consuming more and more podcasts and finding that they’re a great source of inspiration. I thought I would share a few of my favourites with you. Hopefully you can get some value from them just like I have…
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