Dave Fairclough - Art & Photography

So Wednesday / Thursday I was supposed to be getting trained a bit in the First Aid / Fire Safety processes I need to do at coke. But the guy was coming down from Scotland, and with how the weather was with the strong winds and baby tornadoes, it really wasn’t going to happen what with the motorways closing.. Apparently the Thelwall Viaduct was closed from like 4am..

Brother went out and bought some backgrounds for our portable Studio background stand today.. got us a white one and a blue one. They really need a good ironing, but they fit well and they look damn good, no complaints from me anyway. He also got the same kinda lens that I got, 70-300m, but his has Image Stabilizer on the lens.. whereas mine has it on the camera itself, so it’s all good. Both look pretty damn sweet though, should be good.

Legs are aching right now. Spent this morning at the gym before work. 5 miles on the cross trainer is great.. I feel awesome after it, but it aches now. I feel the most physically fit I’ve ever been in my life. I just want to get in better shape for June when I go to America. I want to lose this belly. My moobs are already almost gone.. just the belly left, and getting my arms up a bit, looking stronger. I’m a lot more confident though.

I love Erica

Well, the weather was awful today. Roads were closed everywhere. If it wasn’t for me living so close I would have been sat in traffic for hours like everyone else. It took one person over 4 hours to get into work.. he was supposed to start at about 6am, strolled in at around 10.15am.. Safe to say, he did a different job today rather than attempt to go out on the road again to fill venders.

My mum and dad fly home today, too.. Through the awful weather which, thankfully, appears to be letting up a bit right now.. shouldn’t be too bad for their flight home, but it’s only wind, I know pilots are trained to deal with that kinda thing.

So I’m kinda bored and have nothing to do at the moment.. Me and Erica had a bit of a tiff last night so we’re not talking much at the moment.. I think we both just need some time to forget it.. Meh. It sucks when we argue. Anyway, this thing’s technically public so I’m not going into it here..

Tomorrow, I start my First Aid & Safety At Work job role. My pay probably won’t change, and I’ll still be expected to do everything else I currently do, but hey! The First Aid area interests me far more than the Vending area does.

So I’m currently a First Aider and a Fire Marshal, and tomorrow I’m going to get told the jobs I need to do, the posters, signs and documents I need to update and the training I’ll need to go on in order to carry out this aspect of my job safely and effectively. If I lose some of my current jobs to someone else in the office, then it’ll be good.. If I’m expected to do everything I currently do, help out in the warehouse which I’ve been doing more of lately, and this new job role, then I’m going to be a busy boy.At least I shouldn’t be in this job for the rest of my life.

The new business is sparking off and advertisement on Yell seems to have sparked major interest in the photography. Not to mention my brother went out and talked to the head teacher at our old school and we could end up with a great contract binding us to many aspects of photography for the school, including the group form photos, photos for sports day and all sorts of general photography. Apparently, they’ll prefer spending money on former students, than spending it on the photographer from the Warrington Guardian.

I can’t wait until this career kicks off and I can focus solely on that. It absolutely sucks working 8 hours every weekday, then coming home and spending the rest of the day working on my own business. And to make it worse, it’s my own business that suffers because of it. I’m forced to spend time at work, whereas for my own business I’m at home, and I can sway into laziness and watch TV instead. I’m trying to keep both up, but it’s difficult.. For a period of time I was actually taking my business work into Coke and working on it during my lunch.

At least I finally sorted the studio lighting flashes for my E-3.. Just gotta sort it out for my brothers EOS 5D now, but I think we might need a trigger for his, as mine works wirelessly, where his doesn’t. It should be easily sorted if we can get our hands on a trigger.. we would have had one at Focus on Imaging, down in the NEC, but due to problems we couldn’t get our hands on it at the time, so finding a place that sells it could be a bit of a hassle, but I’m sure we’ll get our hands on one.I need to go out and take some more pictures.. My trigger finger’s itching.