Freelance for a decade!
Hurrah!! It’s my 10th anniversary of being in business. I have just had my busiest month ever and I’m feeling really quite happy about things. It does not seem 10 years ago that I took the jump and went freelance. Fresh to London, I rented a tatty room in Ealing, spent literally every penny on camera equipment and sat waiting for the phone to ring. There were a few anxious months but eventually things started to happen.
Over the last decade photography has been very good to me. You might actually say that photography has been the biggest factor in my life, It’s taken me all over the world on numerous occasions, its introduced me to amazing people from all walks of life as well as world leaders and A list celebrities. Its shown me moments of incredible beauty, compassion and kindness whilst in the next breath making me ashamed to be human with the witnessing of our planets horrors. It’s taken me up mountains and sailing across oceans, through business districts and off into the dark side of the underworld. Its taken me to events and occasions that most could only dream of attending. It has me still, 10 years on, waiting by the phone and checking my e-mail - eager for the next assignment.
Photography has a hold on me like nothing else. The big thing is though, I still utterly love it! I'm still trying my very best to make the best pictures possible from every job, I come home from a long, gruelling shoot and am still keen to get my cameras out to shoot images of my little girl or the sun setting at the beach near where I live. I don’t tire of it, it has kept me connected, stopped me falling off, Photography has looked after me, been my front seat ticket to the best, decade long, roller coaster ride ever.
So I want to dedicate this blog to photography and all my lovely clients who keep commissioning me. If you are out and about this weekend and happen to have a drink in front of you. Think of this message and raise a glass to photography – an often seen hero...
Roy Riley 2008
Over the last decade photography has been very good to me. You might actually say that photography has been the biggest factor in my life, It’s taken me all over the world on numerous occasions, its introduced me to amazing people from all walks of life as well as world leaders and A list celebrities. Its shown me moments of incredible beauty, compassion and kindness whilst in the next breath making me ashamed to be human with the witnessing of our planets horrors. It’s taken me up mountains and sailing across oceans, through business districts and off into the dark side of the underworld. Its taken me to events and occasions that most could only dream of attending. It has me still, 10 years on, waiting by the phone and checking my e-mail - eager for the next assignment.
Photography has a hold on me like nothing else. The big thing is though, I still utterly love it! I'm still trying my very best to make the best pictures possible from every job, I come home from a long, gruelling shoot and am still keen to get my cameras out to shoot images of my little girl or the sun setting at the beach near where I live. I don’t tire of it, it has kept me connected, stopped me falling off, Photography has looked after me, been my front seat ticket to the best, decade long, roller coaster ride ever.
So I want to dedicate this blog to photography and all my lovely clients who keep commissioning me. If you are out and about this weekend and happen to have a drink in front of you. Think of this message and raise a glass to photography – an often seen hero...
Roy Riley 2008