Last Monday I took part in a most amazing event. In response to the collapse of Thomas Cook, some of the businesses here in Altrincham got together to put on a day of support activities to try to help the people who’d been left without jobs (being close to Manchester airport, there are a lot…
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Sometimes you want everything to look the same. You spend a lot of time, energy and money on getting your brand and its values across. One of the most important aspects, especially if you’re a big company, is that you’re a team, all pulling in the same direction. Unfortunately, making everything look the same –…
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Portraits and portrait photography seems such a simple thing doesn’t it? They’re just photos of people, after all. Of course, when you dig a little deeper, things become more complicated. I shot these images for a health company earlier this year. I was invited to visit them to shoot, principally, a magazine cover image; of…
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What’s a gazelle industry, I hear you ask? Well, there are actually a couple of definitions, but the one that I’m about to use is one I heard at a business event a few years. The speaker categorised two kinds of businesses – gazelles and elephants. Elephant businesses are large, powerful and slow moving. Gazelles…
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Imagine you’re at a networking event and you’re introduced to somebody you’ve never met before. You smile and say hello, stretch out your arm to shake hands … they look you in the eye, you shake hands firmly and you’ve both made a good first impression. The opposite’s true too, of course. The stranger who…
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