Fishy tales

Top tips for shooting fishing orientated stories at sea:

1. Seasickness tablets are for winners
2. Scoffing a whole double stack of custard creams will also help stave off the nausea, but is not advisable as you will probably look like a custard cream addicted muppet*
3. In choppy seas remember where the locations of things to hold on to (you WILL look like an idiot when you grab hold of something and fall over)
4. Wide angle lenses are a good idea on a 25" boat!
5. Keeping a straight horizon in the back of your images WILL go to pot
6. No matter what they say, crushed sea fauna does not come out of the knees of your jeans easily
7. Dogfish are rather angry when hauled to the surface
8. Fishermen also do not know where Peter Mandelson lives and enquiring as such will be met with a blank look

*You may actually be a custard cream addicted muppet, but you certainly don't want to give off that vibe

As those following me on Twitter will no doubt have noticed; Tuesday last week was a very enjoyable day for the unknown snapper.
After three months of gently cajoling someone into allowing me to shoot an essay, I recieved a call on the Monday from the subject offering me the chance to pop out with them the next day.







The essay will end up as a multi media slideshow with audio from an interview overlayed; hopefully sooner rather than later as I only have two weeks left before I leave Pantsville for pastures of a slightly greener variety.


Obviously I can't say too much about the project, as with other things it will probably end up being shunted out under my real name somewhere along the line (really must get the sodding website up and running properly!).




As a taster I've put a few images over onto flickr, which can be viewed on the mini slide-show below or by following this link to the album.