The right to marry..

February 5, 2013April 30, 2013 | SallyT

A few weeks ago I was in the pub with my husband and the crowd he goes to the football match with most weekends. All fine, and everyone was chatting away over pints and glasses of wine. We were all sitting around one table, and I noticed most of the group were laughing and sniggering towards a corner of the pub. I leaned in and asked “What’s going on?!” wanting to be in on the joke.. “Look!” they all said “Look it’s disgusting!”

I looked over and there were two girls kissing. I said: “Are you joking? You can’t be serious.”

“It’s disgusting! How can they just sit there and do that in front of everyone?!”

“So what? Why do you have a problem with it?”

“It’s two girls! Kissing! It’s not normal.”

It carried on, with me arguing with them as a group that.. come on.. it’s 2013.. and who are they to say a couple in love can’t kiss.. who are they to say that because they’re a same-sex couple they should do it in private.. and no I’m not a big fan of public displays of affection myself.. but that’s not why they were pointing (yes pointing) and sniggering at the young couple in the corner..

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One {personal work}

February 2, 2013May 8, 2013 | SallyT

..the first of many to come. I’ll do a full post about being mentored by Joanna Brown in the next week or so but I still need to digest a lot of what I learnt.. My head is spinning and running away with itself but in a really good way. I adore my couples and their weddings, and this year I’m going to be doing more personal work just for me than before. And challenging myself. I’m not good at having my photograph taken, and I find it very difficult to look at and like photographs of myself, I usually like to hide behind someone for a bit of security – self portraiture is something I’ve wanted to tackle in a project for a little while now.. (ok there’s still one hiding behind a camera..)

Spring clean..

January 24, 2013May 8, 2013 | SallyT

OK so it’s not quite spring, but I’ve been overhauling some things in the past few weeks with the aim of streamlining my admin, refreshing my packaging and generally sorting things out at this end. I’ve put all the blogs I love into googlereader (why didn’t I do it sooner?!), transferred my pile of diaries onto an online calendar, filed everything in my inbox and in the next few weeks I’m going to sort out my finances (headache). You may have noticed that my main site had a facelift at the end of last year and this blog has been perked up a little too.

I’m currently loving having excited enquiries popping into my inbox and hearing about people’s plans, and this year I’m going to make sure the processing (and working at home) side of things is smoother and hopefully less stressful than last year. Are you all hitting 2013 with a vengence? It took me a while to blow out the January blues and perk up but now I’m ready for the challenges of a new year. I’m also seeing Joanna Brown of Browns Photography next week for a mentoring session.. I. can’t. wait.

S x

Snow days..

January 18, 2013May 8, 2013 | SallyT

..today I was meant to be right down south meeting Joanna Brown (Browns Photography) for a mentoring session.. but the snow had other plans for me. Instead I’m compiling albums (including our own wedding album.. 18 months later), drinking mochas and doing the school run. Below is Albert Park pond, Middlesbrough.

S x