Moving On

A bit of an update since my last post. I left Wolverhampton in September and I moved a bit further south, near the Welsh border where I am once again working as an assistant for a commercial photographer. I have been doing this now for the past few months and I have had a couple of exciting jobs out of it. I went to Cyprus at the end of September to help out on some lifestyle shoots and I just got back last week from Kenya where I was out on safari.

However, I am a five hour drive from North Yorkshire and I have itchy feet again! I enjoy assisting, but I am not sure how much more I am going to get from it unless I move to London and assist the big fashion photographers, I just don't know if this is what I want to do.

I am getting some work as a press photographer and think that it is time to pursue this a bit further and so I am thinking of moving back up North and furthering my skills in this capacity.

I have been shooting a few concerts these past few weeks. Music is a huge passion of mine, so to combine music with photography is a dream for me. I shot at a decent venue a couple of weeks ago in Birmingham, the Asylum. A local band called Hanging Doll were playing, supporting Spit Like This who were having an album launch party. This is my favourite shot from their set.

Jim

Which Path ?

Ok, So I know I have not updated this in a long time, a very long time, and I have no excuse apart from the fact that I have been very busy.

For the past 7 months I have been concentrating on my NVQ course work and working for a commercial photographer in the West Midlands as an assistant. This has been great for me as I have learnt a lot. However this position has come to an end now and it is time to move on.

I am not sure that I am ready to go at it on my own though and I am thinking about assisting for a while longer. I can move back to Yorkshire and work at it on my own, or I can take another assisting job for 6 months to a year and see how I go from there.

I would like to do some photojournalism and possibly go abroad for a bit. The easy option just now would be to go back home and concentrate on the wedding/portrait/event route. But I did not acquire the name Nomad for nothing!

I have a couple of things in the pipe line but I am not sure what to do or where to go.

Watch this space!

Jim Nomad