Podcasts
Paul chats about life, the universe and anything portrait photography. You can listen to the podcasts here or you can subscribe on your favorite podcast player.
EP84 – Critiques, Competitions & Qualifications: How DO You Get Useful Feedback?
Another Land Rover based podcast I’m afraid (at one point it sounds like I am being shaken to pieces!) but this time I have a little help with the noise reduction and sound quality. Hopefully, it’ll take the ed...
EP83 Do You Have To Be An Extrovert To Be A Portrait Photographer?
You’ll be happy to hear that this episode is recorded in the peace and quiet of our studio – actually, I had intended to record it in the studio garden as the cool and the smells of late summer and early autumn ...
EP82 Understanding Stops (More Importantly – Why It’s Useful!)
Today’s podcast was recorded as I travelled to photograph a wedding. Given this is August 2020 (the year of Covid-19) that is not a particularly common occurrence, with most of our weddings being postponed to 2...
EP81 Death By Diary
Today I am musing (and, additionally, interrupting myself – not once but twice!) on being beholden to my diary. It is, of course, completely to be expected when you run a successful portrait photography busines...
EP80 You Don’t Get Something For Nothing
Along with thousands of other students, Jake, our son, has just had his ‘A’ level results. An interesting time to put it mildly. However, it did get me thinking about how incredibly hard he worked for his mock ...
EP79 Interview With Andy Blake, General Manager of Kaleidoscope Framing
Life as a photographer can feel like you’re working on your own – all those hours with the camera, lights, with Photoshop and the complexities of your own business. But, of course, the truth is a little more nu...
EP78 Coping With Covid As We Re-Boot The Business
This episode was recorded from the cab of my Land Rover Defender as I head to (and come back from) the wedding that held on in the diary despite of the risk of cancellation due to Covid-19 restrictions. You hav...
EP77 All About Joy And A Bag Of Cooking Apples
With everything going on at the moment it’s all too easy to lose sight of the joy that this job brings to so many. This podcast is about that. That and a bag of cooking apples. Running a photography business (...
EP76 Interview With Tom Catchesides From Light Blue Software
In this episode, I get to chat with the guy behind the software behind the business – Light Blue Software. We’ve used this software for over a decade and it is the one application that each of us here is guaran...
Ep.75 To Me, To You, Two Metres Or More
So, how are things with you? Still in lockdown? Well we are here – just trying to make the best of things. Anyway, good news (for me at least!): we’ve been listed as the top Portrait Photography Podcast on F...
Ep.74 Get Your Portfolio Sorted (Now Is A Good Time!)
Still here, still in lockdown, still working like crazy to make sure we’re ready for when things eventually open up again, as they must, inevitably do. Right now, things are busy: we’re re-designing our website ...
Ep.73 – Spread A Little Joy
How is everyone doing? I have to be honest, I am finding it all a little surreal – if it weren’t so catastrophic it would be fascinating: from the chaotic economy to the psychology of being interned in your own ...
Just found your podcast, and I really enjoyed the few episodes I have listened to so far. Truly, other than the History of Photography 101, it is the first photography podcast I have been able to make it through one whole episode, let alone multiple episodes….it resonates with me….have just had a cursory look at the website and I look forward to exploring it!
Thank you so much Teri! When I started the podcast it was just me an’ a microphone as a way of talking about the stresses of running a portrait photography business. Funnily enough it’s still just me an’ a microphone…
It’s still a surprise that people seem to enjoy it and I am so happy that it’s useful. Thank thank, thank you, thank you for your lovely feedback!
So it had to happen. After all, remember “Downton Abbey” and “Game of Thrones”? My strategy has always been to give a program/blog/podcast a few years to prove itself and then jump in and binge watch years of content. But then it comes to an end…I’m caught up and have to wait for the next episode like, well, “common people”. I’m 72 and I don’t wait really well. After months of having Paul Wilkinson accompany me on my morning walk, I miss the guy. It didn’t make any difference if it was just us with Paul musing on his… Read more »
Robert that is the nicest review of the podcast ever! Thank you! I am trying to keep the episodes coming, but, well, real life and dealing with the lockdown have slowed things a little. New episodes coming though! Hang on in there and thank you again!