Met a photographer who will be taking some studio shots of me welding and weaving!
Recently during a creative coffee networking event a man sat next to me, over coffee we chatted and did the usual networking thing, hi, what do you do? what’s your name? etc. We chatted for some time about various aspects of our creative businesses and we seemed to get on well, so I asked if he would be interested in taking some shots of me welding and weaving.
It turned out that he had experience taking photos of dangerous work places and had uptodate knowledge of health and safety, but most importantly he responded very well to my brief and put forward some very interesting ideas.
This is one of the things that I love about networking, at first I did not enjoy it, I felt nervous about approaching strangers and asking them about their work. But now it feels easier, having been doing it for about 3 years. It pays off too! it is always too tempting to say ‘I’m far too busy to drop everything and got to a networking event’, but it does work. What is the odds of needing a photographer that has an industrial background that is happy to take images of you using dangerous tools and machines, and then one sits next to you for a coffee and a chat!