Dear Prospective Client
Thank you for considering my company to work for yours for free. We really need the work and will gladly assist. I have studied your proposal and thought I’d point out a few small problems with it before accepting. Please don’t view this as a criticism but as the start of negotiations.
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I received this email, my response is below
Today I had a call from a picture agency in the UK, needing images of the bus crashon the Bulembu road near Barberton that claimed the lives of two students from England. I was asked to go an get some photographs. I rushed out and took a few images. I submitted 12 to them.
George Snyman and two children were killed in a helicopter crash near the Msholozi informal settlement at Rocky’s drift between White River and Nelspruit yesterday. After much deliberation and some photoshopping I have decided to post the images.
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Wedding gown photos by Guy McLaren – Wedding Photographer for Wedding Collection magazine
Eve’s Bridal wear were one of the suppliers of wedding gowns for the Wedding Collection spring selection. Guy McLaren was chosen to do be the fashion photographer to bring you the images of the Eve’s Bridal gowns. I have attached a few of the gowns for your viewing pleasure. Read more…
Rejected blown and horizon
I was chosen as the photographer for the Wedding Collection fashion shoot at Thornybush Game Lodge near Hoedspruit. The Wedding Collection photographs will appear in the Spring edition of the magazine which will be published in September. Here are a few things I learned that will improve my wedding photography immensely.
Sparrow fart at Thornybush Game Lodge
It seems it’s just me and the birds that are awake. The electricity is off so I am working on the battery. There is no signal so this will be put up later. I think there may be enough signal on the runway, I’ll check later. I arrived at about 3:30 yesterday.
Photographers that devalue themselves are of no use to their clients, or themselves, I wrote about what photography costs the other day and this morning I read an article by John Harrington that horrifies me. Istock photo sold a cover photo to the TIME for $ 30.00.
Helicopter fighting fire at Bushveld lodge Nelspruit
This morning we and saw a veld fire raging, The 25 knot was driving the flames along the valley, I watched the fire nearing the buildings at Bushveld Lodge and decided a closer look was a neccessity. Got the bike and the cameras and rolled on down just in time to see the start of the conflagration. Photos.