So much for weekly updates... Oh well.
Got talked into doing an extra day a couple of weeks ago, as it seems we ran out of freelancers on a Sunday (I should correct this to "ran out of freelancers who could do the job"!) when the new season of paper-sponsored youth football league kicked off.
What it did mean is that I had the rare privilege of being tasked to get a pic of TV presenter, actor and ex-Python Michael Palin. There was a weekend of local history, heritage and art presentations going on on Sheppey, called "Promenade". I'd spent Saturday at some of these, and on Sunday Michael Palin was to give a talk at Sheppey Little Theatre about the countries and, especially, buildings that had caught his eye on his world-wide travels. I should point out that Michael's son Will lives in Sheerness, so he had obviously been charmed on his visits by some of the architecture that still exists around the town.
As you would expect, he was very in demand by fans and the local journalists after his talk, but he had agreed to do a joint interview with the two papers and the local radio station and me and colleague Rob Canis, working for the "rival" paper, hoped we'd be allowed a window to get a picture. It was supposed to happen, but reporters sometimes think our job is just "point and click"...
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| Fellow photographer Rob Canis, early on in the pre-production set-up we both did as Michael Palin talked to the reporters. I prefer the theatre without the striplights switched on, but that's the joys of D3 usage... Smile, Rob! |
