I am a web designer and a photographer, this is my personal online portfolio and blog

I just finished reading ‘The Moneyless Man’, great read! It made me realise that I’ve been trying to avoid money and trade skills instead for years.

Between my trade-for-cd photography, and the various web sites I made for non-profit organisations that then recommended me to paying companies.. I have to say most of the work I have done for free, has led to something coming back to me, whether through a recommendation, or an actual trade. Some work I have done for nothing in return, but I still feel even if it didn’t come back to me through that person/organisation, it’s a worthwhile thing to donate your time to a non-profit that deserves it and that you believe in.

The best trade I ever did, was a web site in exchange for a hand-crafted wooden item of my choice. At the time, my room was littered with little portable mirrors, the stands of which were all broken due to cheap fittings. So I asked for a sturdy portable mirror in exchange for my web design services. I got the most AMAZING hand-made mirror on it’s own wooden stand, it can swivel up and down, it’s so solid I can pick it up and move it around without fear of it breaking, and the wood is salvaged sycamore with stunning knots and grains throughout. As it turned out, the guy that made me the mirror, didn’t keep the web site going in the end, so I felt I did better in that trade because I treasure my mirror, I feel I’m going to have it for life it’s so solid and so beautiful.

To sum up, if anyone would like to pitch me a trade in exchange for web design services, photography services or even office and photography studio space, please just contact me with details!

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I’m coming up with a price list and some packages for those of you needing professional headshots for your career..

I really want to make a basic package that is a lot more affordable than the current industry standard out there so stay tuned!

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7 days to go to open studio sessions, email me now if you would like to book in advance or pop in for a coffee!!

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Well, I’m now on my second modem from o2, same brand of HUAWEI. The first modem was quite obviously causing the blue screen of death (Window’s XP) because when you plugged it out, the computer crashed, but the new one isn’t so blatant. If it goes to sleep, I get blue screen in the morning when I come in, it’s only because the blue screen stopped happening when I immediately replaced the modem (and was without it for a while) that I know it’s the modem itself rather than some other problem.

Honestly most customers won’t be able to pinpoint that it’s their modem causing this!! It seems to be something to do with the fact that the modem installs itself as a cd-rom drive, I don’t know of any cure, just wanted to post it here in case other people are googling it, I would recommend upgrading the modem entirely, they must know of this particular problem in the tech department, as ‘broken’ modems would have been crashing their computers too, so hopefully they have fixed it with newer models..

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